Word: subpoenaed
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...Kenneth Starr, but his thoughts that night at the White House were of rebellion--against Starr, against the advice of his own lawyer, David Kendall, against the expectations building on all sides. He had agreed to testify because he felt he had no choice in the face of a subpoena and the warnings from Democrats that he had better not fight it. But no decisions are forever these days, and so on the eve of Monica's testimony, one of Clinton's closest advisers slipped into the White House late that night, so as not to upset Kendall, and spent...
...Clinton chose to stick with his plan to testify next Monday. Apart from the political costs of refusing, the courts have long ruled that you can sue a sitting President, you can subpoena his tapes, and you can get his papers. If Clinton challenged the call to testify, Kendall had warned, he would lose, and perhaps quickly. "It doesn't make sense for the presidency, for Bill Clinton, for the next 2 1/2 years, for him to be silent," says an adviser...
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...
...meaning no personal questions. Though his homosexuality was an open secret, he never discussed it in public, going so far in 1951 as to become engaged to the ballerina Nora Kaye. (They never married. Interestingly, he cast her as the novice man killer in The Cage.) It took a subpoena to get him to talk about his private life: he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 about his involvement with a communist group of the '40s, naming eight other party members. "I feel I'm doing the right thing as an American," he explained. But many...
BILL CLINTON Avoiding subpoena, agrees to talk on closed circuit TV. Should've held out for pay-per-view...