Clinton to Torricelli: “You are a filthy liar!”
Clinton's 'apology'
Sen. Robert G. Torricelli, a close ally of President Clinton's, includes in a new book the text of an apology-laced speech that he says Mr. Clinton considered but rejected before addressing the nation last year on his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
That draft begins, "No one who is not in my position can understand the remorse I feel today," and it includes an acknowledgment of responsibility "for hurting my wife and daughter, for hurting Monica
Lewinsky and her family, for hurting friends and staff, and for hurting the country I love."
It also contains the line, "I never should have had any sexual contact with Monica Lewinsky, but I did."
In the speech he delivered, Mr. Clinton did not mention "sexual contact," admitting only to "a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate."
The speech Mr. Clinton ultimately delivered to the nation on Aug. 17, 1998, hours after testifying to a grand jury, was more critical than contrite, the Associated Press notes.
The White House and Clinton adviser Paul Begala denied yesterday that Mr. Clinton ever actually reviewed the apologetic speech that Mr. Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat, presents in his book "In Our
Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century."
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