Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just because Starr has sent 36 boxes of evidence to Capitol Hill, but because he'll lie to us again. At the heart of the Lewinsky matter is the simple fact that time and again Clinton has put himself and his desires ahead of the country and its needs. And that is the worst thing a president...
WASHINGTON: If there was ever a time for healing, this was it. President Clinton seized his final opportunity to express sorrow before the release of Ken Starr's report Friday at a widely televised White House prayer breakfast. The stony mask he wore during the August 17 speech to the nation was gone; in its place, glistening eyes and a cracking voice. "It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow that I feel is genuine -- first and most important my family, also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family...
...enthused Rabbi Edward Cohn of Los Angeles. And as if to complete his portrayal of a perfectly penitent sinner, Clinton promised to seek "pastoral support and help from others." What could be missing from the apology this time round? Only the timing. With House members voting to release the Starr report just hours after the prayer breakfast, it wasn't too little, but it may have come too late...
WASHINGTON: They say a gentleman never tells -- and although that bit about the cigar raises questions about whether Bill Clinton is a gentleman, the legal impact of the Ken Starr's 445-page introductory report may hinge on whether Congress interprets the President's non-sexual behavior as manly discretion or what Ken Starr calls, over and over, obstruction...
...from that legal standpoint, obstruction may be the weakest link in Starr's case. The independent counsel has accepted Monica's assertion that she, not Bruce Lindsey, wrote the "talking points." And the discrepancies between Betty Currie's testimony and Monica's -- which Starr seizes on as evidence of Presidential influence -- certainly cut the other way too. "Starr has relied on Lewinsky's version of events as accurate and has reported Currie's contradictory evidence dismissively," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "But any good defense lawyer would assert that Currie's credibility is greater than that of Lewinsky...