Word: vernon
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...have failed in their attempt to dismiss the case against Bill Clinton, but in that vote and four others, Democrats held together (well, except for the free-spirited Russ Feingold), making it virtually certain that the G.O.P. will never get the 67 votes needed to convict. Though Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and White House aide Sidney Blumenthal will be deposed this week, even stalwart Republicans privately admit that the trial is basically dead. It's just that the body won't stop twitching...
WASHINGTON: The House managers were right -- the tapes helped. Carefully chosen extracts from Monica and Bill, Vernon Jordan and Sidney Blumenthal allowed Reps. James Rogan and Asa Hutchinson to finally present a digestible version of their case: Bill Clinton lied to everyone he knew, about anything he could, and he lied not just to deceive but to survive. Did the President, as one of Hutchinson's charts asked pointedly, "take care that the laws were faithfully executed"? It certainly wasn't a priority, and Lewinsky -- believable, often charming, and definitely wised-up -- told us so. But what Rogan called Clinton...
...effective than anything they managed in the House. The idea was to alternate sober, numbing presentations of exculpatory evidence with passionate appeals to common sense and American ideals. Ruff opened the defense with a grave dissection of the House managers' conspiracy theory. He argued that the chronology broke down--Vernon Jordan was already on a plane to Europe when Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that the Paula Jones team could question other women--so the ruling could not have triggered his meeting earlier that day to help Monica find a job. And Ruff offered the first of the week...
Hutchinson also cast doubt on the White House contention that the help Vernon Jordan and others gave Monica Lewinsky in finding a new job had nothing to do with her involvement in Jones' case. The Congressman laid out evidence that the help came in earnest only after Clinton learned that Lewinsky's name was on the witness list. "The question here," he said, "is not, Why did the President do a favor for an ex-intern, but, Why did he use the influence of his office to make sure it happened?" Hutchinson's answer: "To obstruct [and] impede justice...
...testimony to Kenneth Starr's grand jury and then knowingly lied under oath in order to maintain the deception. Hutchinson fashioned a compelling narrative from this too familiar tale. The obstruction, he alleged, began when Clinton learned that Lewinsky was to be subpoenaed in the Jones case; he drafted Vernon Jordan to help find her a job and get her back on Clinton's side; once that was under way, he approached Lewinsky with his plan to have her sign a false affidavit in the Jones case. As Hutchinson explained it, Jordan was recruited once more to find...