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...Starr's few smart soundbites has been to insist that his investigation -- from Whitewater to Monica -- has been about conspiracy, buying silence, and fighting the investigation itself at every turn. And he's not without leads. "Clinton's problems are, with the possible retrieval of gifts, whether he told Monica to lie" and whether he told Betty Currie to lie, says TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf. "But he may have been able to skirt the line between suggesting something be kept quiet and actually suborning perjury...
...swift end, however, may not come. Ken Starr's office is still weighing whether today's testimony was too vague. The long national nightmare may have a few reels left...
WASHINGTON: President Clinton told Ken Starr all he was willing to tell him -- and, reportedly, no more. Now he's done the same for us: An admission or two, an explanation, but no details (not that we wanted any). Is it enough to square him with Congress...
...Right now, the political will to impeach is still very limited among Republicans," says TIME congressional correspondent James Carney. "So if the President concedes some sort of sexual relationship with Monica -- and if Ken Starr doesn't have too strong a case on obstruction of justice, Clinton will be fine." But that's going to mean admitting to perjury as well, says Carney, or it just won't fly. If Bill confesses, "then tries to thread the needle on the definition of sex, a lot of Democrats will abandon him. He's got to give his party something redeeming...
...terse speech of less than five minutes, Clinton admitted a great many things -- a "not appropriate" relationship with Lewinsky, something close to perjury in the Jones case -- but he drew the line at details, and he drew the line at the issue of suborning perjury. Then he dared Ken Starr to come...