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...notion that Clinton had to offer some more textured explanation for the growing pile of evidence was coming even from old White House hands. "He owes it to the American people to tell them," said former chief of staff Leon Panetta. "This is not one you do in an interview. This is not one you do in a press conference. This one, you have to look straight in the eye of the American people and tell them...
...always gone against Clinton's basic nature; which instincts usually had him looking for the third way, and if that doesn't work, the fourth, fifth and sixth. At this moment of simmering scandal, it also works against Clinton's survival instincts. As his former chief of staff Leon Panetta put it, the President is feeling particularly cautious now because "he's got to maintain a good relationship with the Congress that could ultimately be his judge" if Starr ends up handing it the whole Lewinsky investigation...
Thus the parade of witnesses: Nelvis the steward, who is in the White House day and night; and Currie the personal secretary, who works long hours; and George Stephanopoulos, who was Clinton's alter ego; and Leon Panetta, the former chief of staff; and then Kris Engskov, the body man who carries Clinton's coat. Starr has subpoenaed the phone logs and entrance logs and sought the testimony of Secret Service agents. And he has done all this in the same 10-day period during which he was searching Monica's apartment, questioning relatives, pursuing leads from her proffer...
...political calculation among Republicans could be that a wounded Clinton who serves out his term is better than an incumbent President Gore who has put all this ugliness behind him. It was a measure of the President's free fall that his own former chief of staff Leon Panetta told the San Jose Mercury News that if the allegations are true, it might be better "if Gore became President and you had a new message and a new individual up there. The worst scenario is if there's substance to it and it drags out." For their part, other leading...
Lewinsky started out in the office of the President's then chief of staff, Leon Panetta. In carrying out the duties of internship, she was attentive verging on ingratiating. She reportedly had a habit of bringing coffee to staff members who had not asked for any. "She was more interested in schmoozing with staffers than with other interns," says a former intern who worked with Lewinsky in the fall of 1995. She was particularly taken with the President. Aides last week described her as starstruck. "She was drawn to the power of the White House and knowing the President," says...