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President Clinton bought time in dealing with this issue by allowing Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) to hold Senate hearings before the ban is formally rescinded. But it would be a perilous mistake for Clinton to ignore the issue until his six-month grace period expires and then to attempt an immediate reversal of policy...
While he waits for Nunn's Senate panel to "study" the issue, Clinton needs to maintain a public dialogue on the question of gays in the military...
...being drawn up, though, the White House faces intense opposition from Pentagon brass, who deeply fear disrupting the closely knit culture of the armed services, and constituents who have been deluging Congress with mail and phone calls. The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold extensive hearings; chairman Sam Nunn helped negotiate the interim compromise but announced that he still favors keeping the ban. On Thursday Los Angeles Federal District Judge Terry Hatter ruled that excluding homosexuals from military service "in the absence of sexual conduct which interferes with the military mission" is unconstitutional. So even if Congress eventually reverses...
Clinton temporarily quelled the crisis by reaching an agreement with his principal antagonist on the issue, Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, to halt the practice of asking military recruits about their sexual orientation, while postponing an official lifting of the ban until July 15. With Nunn's support, Clinton had enough swing votes in the Senate to block a Republican attempt -- expected this week -- to write the existing ban into law. And he earned six months to concentrate on more pressing matters while aides worked out the details of a permanent repeal. "I am looking forward to getting on with this...
Clinton might yet have avoided the worst of the crisis had he sought the advice and support of Nunn, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Nunn, who is a close confidant of General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, often seems to believe that all military matters are best disposed by him and that anything else is an attempt to railroad the Pentagon bureaucracy. But Clinton tapped Aspin to deal with Nunn in part because relations between the Senator and the President have never been great. The ( White House has not forgotten Nunn's lukewarm effort...