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...Clinton takes the Starr assault well beyond the facts of the case and fits it into a witting effort by radical conservatives to keep power--the "vast right-wing conspiracy," a formulation he clearly supports but is careful not to use. For years Clinton has professed that fighting against impeachment was one of the triumphs of his Administration. He seems to have a dual purpose now: not just to discredit Starr but also to make the war against the ultraconservatives a significant part of his presidential legacy. He wants to be remembered for the Starr investigation...
...night before, Clinton had made a remarkable appearance onstage at New York University after the screening of his friend Harry Thomason's new documentary, The Hunting of the President--an unabashedly partisan account of the Whitewater prosecution (or "persecution," as Clinton called it, perhaps not inadvertently). "Starr was the instrument of a grand design," the President said, launching a 30-minute disquisition into the historical roots of the rabid partisanship that marked his time in office. "He did what he was hired to do ... Hillary was hooted and derided for calling it a vast right-wing conspiracy. I joked with...
...cover-up, Clinton argued at the movie screening, it was perpetrated by the media, which didn't report the essential flimsiness of the charges and downplayed the exoneration of the Clintons in 1995 by the government agency investigating Whitewater. "The mainstream press was in the tank to Starr until the Starr report came out, and then they turned against him," Clinton said. "For years and years and years he had been crushing these innocent people" like Susan McDougal, who did 18 months in jail for refusing to cooperate with Starr and who was in the audience that night. Clinton told...
...presidency, he says, was an unconscious return to the self-destructive patterns of his childhood--private anger over the Starr investigation, public optimism about the work of state. (The notion of nursing shameful secrets is also an inferential acknowledgment of his amorous reputation, although he offers no new information about any of the famous "bimbo eruptions.") The case he builds against Starr in My Life is a lawyer's case, careful and powerful. In retrospect, it is clear that there was no substance to the Whitewater allegations and the other White House scandalettes--the travel-office firings, the FBI files...
...presidential candidate to admit that his marriage had not "been perfect"--that he has gone the extra mile, established a new level of candor in presidential memoirs and not received any credit for it. Of course, the sum of Clinton's presidency and memoirs is not the struggle against Starr. But the intensity of his feelings on that subject tends to put everything else--the substantive achievements and the embarrassments like the pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich--on the back burner. He spends very little time in the book discussing the intricacies of domestic issues like health care, welfare...