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...believe he harassed [former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey]? Of course not. I mean in the true sense of the world, the word, of course not. Do I think he kissed her? Yeah ... It's hard to fake beard burn...
...President responded that the harassment allegation was ludicrous, because he would never approach a small-breasted woman like Ms. Willey...
Assume that Ken Starr had not amassed a mountain of conflicting testimony and circumstantial evidence, up to and including the famous dress. Assume that the Lewinsky question, like the Jones and Flowers and Kathleen Willey questions, remained an issue of he-said she-said. Does anyone doubt that Clinton would still today be sticking to his original story...
...along this story has been less about crime than punishment. From the nails in Kathleen Willey's tires to the jokes about Linda Tripp's chins to the around-the-clock evisceration of Monica Lewinsky, the story has nourished a culture of cruelty that sacrifices empathy for entertainment. If Clinton has been more mercilessly ridiculed than past Presidents, we can excuse it as partly a response to his own decisions--beginning with his decision to run for office. But the other civilians caught up in the story never ran for anything. They may have done something foolish or wrong...
This unending "search for truth" has been conducted under the assumption that the exposure of private lives is always a purely destructive, if entertaining, exercise. But a small, recent incident proved otherwise. It happened around the time of the "Was he aroused?" TV interview of Kathleen Willey, and was so fleeting (and tasteful) one could easily have missed...