Word: starr
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...President will find out just how good Kendall is in the next few weeks as independent counsel Kenneth Starr presses Clinton harder than ever to testify. Starr has invited the President's cooperation at least half a dozen times in recent months, and now the courtship between the two men has taken a more coercive turn: last week he took the unprecedented step of serving a sitting President with a subpoena in a criminal matter in which the President himself is in jeopardy. The White House said virtually nothing about the showdown except to acknowledge for the first time that...
...degree of cynicism: Was it a good-faith effort by Clinton to cut through the thicket of circumstantial evidence, Secret Service recollections and secondhand testimony by offering a firsthand account? Or was it a feint to give the appearance of cooperation and compliance that will ensure that Starr gets the blame when the President ultimately refuses to talk...
...long as Kendall is in charge, it may be a while before anyone knows the answer. Kendall operates so far below the radar that when the President's lawyer dealt Starr his most significant setback, it took nearly a month before word got out of the judge's chambers. Even Clinton's own strategists had no inkling that something serious had happened until last Tuesday morning, when White House counsel Charles Ruff warned them that the reporters covering the comings and goings of grand-jury witnesses were likely to notice some extra activity that day on the fifth floor...
What happened a few hours later was the legal all-star game of the Lewinsky scandal. Kendall, Starr and Lewinsky's lawyers gathered for the first time in one room for a hearing so private the court clerk would not confirm it happened. The issue at hand was Starr's appeal of a sealed order last month by the lower-court judge Norma Holloway Johnson, who not only admonished Starr for his team's alleged leaks but also ordered him to turn over records of its contacts with the media. The President's lawyer, who had lodged the almost forgotten...
While former White House intern Monica Lewinsky makes headlines for her immunity deal with investigator Kenneth Starr, President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton are planning to be guests at Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw's estate in the Hamptons this weekend. On their datebook: three Democratic fund-raisers that could net $1 million. On Friday it's a $25,000-a-couple dinner at the home of investment banker Bruce Wasserstein. On Saturday: First, it's a $5,000-a-plate event hosted by composer Jonathan Sheffer and Dr. Christopher Barley, followed by a bash hosted by Alec...