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...least get a Marcia Clark or a Leslie Abramson? The President's inner circle has mostly been an all-male preserve (just ask Dee Dee Myers). Ken Starr's deputies are swaggering cowboys, and the attorneys for the witnesses are all pinstripes and red meat. Marcia Lewis, Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky have become household names, but would you want your daughter to grow up to be any one of them? Even Hillary Clinton, fresh from her Heritage Tour, is more like Lady Bird Johnson than Eleanor Roosevelt...
Then there's Linda Tripp, whose voice we heard for the first time this week. Addressing an ungrateful nation from the courthouse beach, as the grand-jury stakeout is known, and shaking like a leaf, Tripp made a desperate effort to humanize herself as a truth-seeking patriot, a "suburban mom" protecting her kids. "Who am I?" she began. "I'm you," she answered, "an average American." I shouted back at the TV, "No, you're NOT! Take that back...
...much for Monica's day in court. Now, what did she reveal? Exactly what was expected of her -- and, as TIME Daily reported back in January, exactly what she told Linda Tripp -- according to legal sources quoted across the board Friday: That she and President Clinton had sexual relations more than a dozen times in his small private study down the hallway from the Oval Office. That Clinton did not consider what they were doing to be sex, allowing for deniability. That, in the normal manner of an affair, they discussed concealing the relationship -- but that Clinton never told Lewinsky...
...Paula Jones has got herself a new nose, I hope it turns out to be, as my mother would have put it, cute as a button. Self-improvement is the American way. I was not among those who made snide remarks about Linda Tripp's makeover. Just because your behavior calls to mind Victor McLaglen in The Informer, there is no law that says you have to look like him as well...
...forget that picture of him smiling insipidly in his driveway while holding a black plastic bag of garbage. The President hopes that pictures of him toasting world leaders will replace the picture of him chewing his lower lip while being evasive about Lewinsky. And why did Linda Tripp show up at the grand jury with not only a makeover but also her two children? She wants the picture in our minds to be of a mom. Gypo Nolan, the character Victor McLaglen played, may have been, all in all, more admirable than Tripp; at least he had pangs of remorse...