Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to pick holes in the President's sincerity, the core constituency -- those millions of folks who just want to get this over with -- have just about enough of an admission to go on. "This speech was keyed towards the people," says Branegan, "not the political spectrum, not Starr, not Congress...
...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...