Word: spokes
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...story of betrayed aides' being treated to one-on-one apologies continued to circulate through the weekend and all day Monday. But within the White House there was a strange echo chamber. The more the TV reporters spoke of his private contrition to colleagues, the more bemused aides were rankled about being out of the apology loop--until they called around and found that there was no loop. It was hard to find anyone who had talked to Clinton for more than about 30 seconds, and that time was usually used, pre-emptively, to say, "Mr. President...
...carriage house said last week that she suspected something rotten "from the second day I lived here," and that not all the chaps who mistakenly came to her door looking for afternoon delights were well scrubbed. "One guy got out of a pickup truck," she said. As the woman spoke, Dempsey, who was released on her own recognizance, happened to pull up in her Jaguar. "You've got something to say?" Dempsey yelled at the tenant. "You'll have plenty to say on the 15th!" As Dempsey drove off, the trembling woman said, "You heard her. I'm getting evicted...
Even if the word-wiggle keeps Clinton out of the perjury trap, it won't help him politically because it doesn't account for his Jan. 26 televised insistence that he "did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." When he spoke before the cameras, the lawyerly definition of sex wasn't in force. And in a recent TIME/CNN poll, 87% of those questioned said that oral sex was, well, sex. Hiding behind the ultimate tortuous legalism could help the President get through his testimony, but it won't pass the laugh test with the American people--which...
...without reason. The list of presidential statements that are, as the euphemism goes, "at variance with the facts" is a long one, and those of us with a professional interest in such things have our favorites. There was the morning in 1995 when the President spoke to a group of Iowa farmers. "I am the only President who knew something about agriculture when I got there," he said, briefly forgetting his many predecessors--beginning with George Washington--who actually grew crops. A few months later he was in Selma, Calif., the "raisin capital of the world." What a coincidence...
...rats desert a sinking ship, mice teem over this one. There are mouse ears on the walls, lamps and smokestacks. A life-size Mickey strolls the decks, waving a cheery hi. Minnie is also aboard, flirting shamelessly; if she spoke, she would be saying, "Hello, sailor!" A huge Goofy adorns the stern. And when the Magic leaves port, the ship's horn blasts seven ominous notes: "When...you...wish...up...on...a...star...