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...case, it worked. By week's end, by a slight 44-to-41 vote, more Americans believed Clinton's version of events than Willey's, according to a TIME/CNN poll. No group was more persuaded by the avalanche of anti-Willey evidence than the very audience the White House worried about most: middle-class women. The strategy was so successful, it briefly allowed the White House to focus more on Clinton's legal troubles than his political ones, and consider introducing, under seal, evidence of Jones' sexual behavior to counter her new claims of suffering "sexual aversion." But within hours...
There was another audience--for Willey, for the White House, for the polls--and that was over on Capitol Hill, where the members are so distracted that there was little legislative action this year--the most prominent was renaming National Airport for Ronald Reagan. Newt Gingrich has had to arbitrate between conservatives who can't wait to sink their teeth into Clinton's soft underbelly and the moderates who are awed by the President's popularity and fear a backlash at the polls. So last week Gingrich floated the idea of a special select committee to look into whether Starr...
...Democratic Party in 1996 landed him in the sights of congressional investigators. A House committee is probing any role he may have played in a suspected scheme to buy the silence of disgraced Clinton pal Webster Hubbell in the Whitewater affair. In the most provocative charge yet, Kathleen Willey fingered him on 60 Minutes as the man who tried to get her to deny an alleged sexual advance by Clinton. But was Nate Landow a secret Clinton operative or an easy mark for a calculating gold digger...
...mystery, which had most of Washington in thrall last week, seems only to deepen. Landow, a Maryland real estate developer, has told friends that Willey called him a number of times in recent months seeking favors. In fact, Landow claims to have saved voice mail from Willey, a source told TIME. In one message, she asked him to buy a $1,500 table at a USO dinner (Clinton had appointed her to the USO board) and escort her. In another, she described herself as "all stressed out" and asked if he had a Florida retreat she could...
...might ask, however, why Landow would keep old voice mail. The shrewd millionaire and old political hand may have had his reasons. If, as some lawyers in the case speculate, Landow was attempting to keep Willey quiet by wooing her, the old messages might serve as convenient cover. White House aides protest loudly that Landow is the last man they would enlist as a presidential cutout. Though an old supporter of Vice President Gore, Landow was a latecomer to the 1992 Clinton campaign, after backing Democratic rivals. He is also not known for having a soft touch, which...