Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kendall was toying with the idea of quashing the subpoena, White House aides could have been on the Hill shopping the idea around. But when Democrats first heard about the subpoena from press reports over the weekend, all the people who counted went public in favor of the safest option: testifying. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch declared that defying a subpoena would be grounds for impeachment, and various congressional Democrats were adamant that Clinton had to talk. By Monday, with only a day left, with everyone on the record calling for Clinton to testify and no room left...
Aware that the top witness was about to spill her guts, Kendall and Seligman turned up at the federal courthouse, asking for an extension on the Starr subpoena. Protective of the 23 citizens who have already spent a half-year in a closed, dark room, Judge Norma Holloway Johnson refused the lawyers' request, saying if Clinton can take vacation, he can talk to the grand jury. And at the end of the day, there were widespread leaks throughout the city that Monica had offered Starr examples of hypothetical statements in which Clinton had tried to guide her comments...
...press needed "fresh meat," Kendall stood before the cameras and announced that Clinton would appear voluntarily on Aug. 17 to give testimony in front of a TV camera in the White House, with his lawyers present, as he has on two other occasions. Starr agreed to withdraw the subpoena, removing several constitutional precedents from the playing field...
...shared her Watergate apartment with her daughter, and is her most trusted friend. Investigators have evidence that Lewis encouraged Lewinsky to lie to Paula Jones' attorneys about her involvement with the President. When Monica told her mother that Linda Tripp planned to fake an ankle injury to avoid a subpoena in the Jones case, Lewis called the ruse "brilliant." Lewis also kept Monica's blue dress--the one that may be stained with Clinton's semen--from Jones' lawyers. Starr's team grilled Lewis in grand jury hearings, but they were halted after Lewis nearly suffered a breakdown. Starr granted...
This close to an election, Democrats have little choice but to stick by their President, no matter what they may think privately. Relieved at Clinton's decision not to fight Starr's subpoena, they are crossing their fingers that the President's high poll numbers can withstand any new revelations. In a private meeting last week House minority leader Dick Gephardt advised fellow Democrats to "remain calm" and "try to avoid getting drawn into answering hypothetical questions" about things like Monica's stained dress. "We'll get through this and move on to the next thing," he said optimistically...