Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...starters, the dress had nothing to do with Monica's getting immunity. When Ken Starr's lawyers first asked Lewinsky about the dress last month, her lawyers refused to let her answer. Don't even go there, they warned Starr's deputies. The prosecutors dropped the matter, and contrary to other published hints, Lewinsky got full immunity for herself and her parents without any mention of the dress that day or the next, when the immunity deal was inked. So much for that rumor...
...memory of his relationship with Lewinsky. When she showed up at the courthouse on July 29, she had a surprise in her duffel bag. Suddenly, prosecutors had probable physical evidence of the affair. But did they? The main reason Lewinsky's lawyers did not offer the dress to Starr earlier is that no one really knew what was on it. It might be semen, they told TIME last week, but even they have never been sure. Before turning the dress over, they declined to test it, and they didn't want to oversell it in negotiations. So once Lewinsky...
...HOUSECLEANING FORMULA The idea here is to set a new tone as quickly as possible. Clinton might announce that he will immediately drop all appeals of the various legal privileges and answer any questions Kenneth Starr cares to ask. Clinton could also release his grand jury testimony. He might even ask for the resignation of anyone who tried to help Monica Lewinsky find work, such as Energy Secretary Bill Richardson or deputy chief of staff John Podesta, no matter who asked them to do so. Problem: that could leave people wondering why Clinton is still there...
...more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday. For the most part, those Democrats who said anything at all in public stuck to White House-inspired spin, expressing "disappointment" in the President, but satisfaction that he had taken responsibility for his actions, and a strong desire to see Starr's investigation come to an end. In private, however, Democrats were saying that the President's hold on his party has never been so fragile. "We stood by this guy for seven months while he lied to us," complained one bitter House Democrat. "Now we're supposed to happily keep defending...
...opportunity to bash the President, Gingrich maintained the uncharacteristic reserve he's been exercising in recent weeks. "It's premature for anyone to make any judgment," the House Speaker lectured reporters from his district in Georgia. "I think that everyone would be best served if they waited for Judge Starr's report and found out what all the facts were." Senate Republican leader Trent Lott purposely avoided the cameras, instead issuing a written statement from his home in Pascagoula, Miss. He blamed the President for causing pain to his family and "the American people," but called on the independent counsel...