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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: pezz who wrote (118)8/2/1998 11:16:00 AM
From: Les H  Read Replies (2) of 13994
 
The Jones case was supposed to be about sexual harrassment. Kathleen Willey, Monica Lewinsky, and others were supposed to indicate a pattern of behavior. Unlike most sexual harrassment cases, the governor/pres. was using rewards such as better jobs to elicit their not cooperating with investigations.

The political reality was that Clinton could have confessed to the affair and admitted to his weak character earlier, and he would have been forgiven. He had already innoculated the public against this part of his personality in the 1992 election. He also benefitted from Gary Hart having pioneered the field in 1988. He underestimated the willingness of the public to forgive him. It would have innoculated himself from further attacks on this front. His wife wanted him to fight the Jones lawsuit believing that more lawsuits would be coming out of the woodwork if he confessed and settled.

As for your comments about the Lewinsky case, you still don't get it. Sex in the office is not permissible in workplaces. The Oval Office is public property, not his bedroom. If he wanted to boink Monica, he should've used the personal quarters that he and Hillary occupy in the White House. That would be make it a personal matter not a workplace matter.
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