Word: stain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lack of opposition from the White House -- which had originally been expected wage a protracted court battle for presidential DNA privilege -- speaks volumes about how unimportant the dress is, now that Clinton has finally owned up to an "improper" relationship with the former intern. No matter where the alleged stain resides, it would simply be physical evidence of what Clinton has already admitted. Its testing days will soon be done, and the blue dress can join the Zegna tie in the closet of Clinton curiosities...
...soon have no choice but to confess all--and insiders to suspect essentially the opposite: that he would admit not a single thing, deny any romance, dismiss Lewinsky as a fantasizing stalker and even consider refusing to turn over a blood sample that could match his DNA to the stain on the dress. Fight it out, all the way, without looking back...
...Just hours after setting the date to talk, the White House saw on the news that when Monica appeared at Starr's office that morning, she brought in her duffel bag not only her tapes of answering-machine messages from Clinton but also the dress with the stain...
...President isn't the only one bedeviled by references to Monica Lewinsky's besmirched dress. How were news organizations handling the sticky issue of the stain? While some were plain--ABC News, the New York Post and the Los Angeles Times used the word "semen"--others were more circumspect. "Physical evidence" was the phrase favored at NPR, CNN and the Wall Street Journal, while "bodily fluids" prevailed at CBS News. NBC News and MSNBC went with "DNA evidence," the Washington Post liked "DNA material," and the Christian Science Monitor said "forensic evidence that might suggest sexual contact." The Russian news...
...stain is indeed what Starr hopes it is, he will then have to match the President to the DNA. Of course he would hope that Clinton volunteers the necessary blood or saliva, but more likely he'd have to serve a subpoena of sorts at Bethesda Naval Hospital, where the leader of the free world gets his physicals. Past behavior hardly suggests that the presidential genetic blueprint will be offered up without a fight. Get ready for the next big legal battle: Bodily-fluid privilege...