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...annals of Clintonian scandal, March 1998 may be remembered as a month of sideshows: the rise and fall of Kathleen Willey; a putative White House plot to smear Ken Starr's deputies; a wave of supposed Clinton paramours rising from the files of the Paula Jones case; a campaign-plane flight attendant named Cristy Zercher who says she was groped by Clinton but came so late to the party that her tabloid story fetched only about $50,000. But now, 11 weeks after the independent counsel began his search for misbehavior and cover-up, the scandal is finally circling back...
...Coke cans end to end, each with a pubic hair on top, sufficient to encircle the Capitol, his behavior would not have been as offensive as the Governor of Arkansas inviting a state employee to his room, dropping his trousers and asking her to kiss it. And if Kathleen Willey is to be believed, then the classic Hollywood casting couch has been moved into the Oval Office--and if that is not a sexual quid pro quo, what...
Thomas should not have been slammed for pointing out that Hill followed him to another job and invited him to speak where she was teaching, just as it is legitimate for Clinton to point out Willey's affectionate notes, her book proposal, her publicity hunt via 60 Minutes. By the same token, it was just as wrong for Thomas' critics to get hold of his video-rental records as it was for Kenneth Starr to subpoena a bookstore last week to pry into Monica Lewinsky's reading habits...
...facts emerging in the Jones case, most legal experts say, cut against her. Willey? The public is tilting toward he-said, away from she-said. Lewinsky? Starr will have a hard time convincing a poll-driven Congress that lying about consensual sex means you lie about everything; it is the only thing many people lie about. An impeachment for lying looks like an impeachment for sex, too much of a punishment in either event, and a huge ordeal for the country...
Although her claim of harassment may have been found to be groundless, neither the court of Judge Wright nor public opinion has exonerated Clinton from claims of extramarital wandering. The stories of Jones, Lewinsky and Katherine Willey are still out there--buttressed by the President's own admission of an affair with Gennifer Flowers in his deposition for the Jones case. It is unlikely that Clinton's standing and legacy will ever be able to rise above these indelible stains on his past. Although his approval ratings are high, it is unlikely that we will ever be able to look...