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DRUDGE REPORT
By Matt Drudge
Tue Sep 08 1998 21:16:40 ET
HILLARY MAY ASK NATION TO FORGIVE HUSBAND; STARR EXPECTED TO SUBMIT REPORT TO CONGRESS IN NEXT FEW DAYS
Hillary Clinton may soon ask the nation to forgive her husband, according to a published report on Wednesday. She would say that she has forgiven her husband for his relationship with Lewinsky...
The report will hit The Hill on Friday, NBC NEWS is reporting. The NEW YORK TIMES, in Wednesday editions, reveals that Starr's grand jury will continue its criminal inquiry even after a report is sent to the House of Representatives...
The pace turns bitch for White House staffers. "Close advisers of Clinton had not expected Starr to deliver his report so soon, and some of them are concerned that the White House is not
prepared to respond to it," according to the TIMES...
The LOS ANGELES TIMES reports in fresh editions that Hillary Rodham Clinton may soon speak out to defend her husband.
Washington was also hit with reports of impending staff changes at the White House, with former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell close to accepting the post of White House chief of staff [or a new position as the White House's liaison with Congress in all matters Starr.]
Clinton may offer another public apology later this week, perhaps at a prayer breakfast at the White House on Friday morning...
Among Clinton strategists, reports WASHINGTON POST's Peter Baker, "there is no consensus on how to proceed, with some advocating a plea-bargain-style approach in which he seeks to cut a deal
with Congress for some form of censure while others suggest preparing for a long, drawn-out fight. One idea that has been suggested... would be for Clinton to demand that Congress stay in town to deal with the Starr report rather than go home to campaign for the November elections."
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CLINTON SUPPORTER IS PHILOSOPHICAL
She was one of the last ones to turn.
Supersyndicated columnist Ellen Goodman, BOSTON GLOBE, releases an essay on Wednesday that now reveals her deep sadness over the State of Clinton.
"The sunflower in my garden has chosen this morning to finally bloom," Goodman begins. "The sole survivor of a planting lost to birds, rain and wind, it stands alone like a punctuation mark at the end of the summer sentence."
[Violins up]
"This has been a scattered, uneasy summer. It was hard to get to that open, quiet space in life, that piece of peace of mind. The world has been too much with us... the relentless static
of The Scandal that we feel collectively, all too personally... Fuming anger at the president who would risk everything..."
Goodman's summer-end sober is a far cry from her initial reaction to the Lewinsky mess.
When the story first broke on the Internet earlier this year, Pulitzer Prize-winning Goodman was everywhere but reality.
"Indeed if Kenneth Starr with his ruthless vacuum cleaner cannot find a lethal dust ball," Goodman laughed.
"If this scandal has done anything besides keeping the Internet chat rooms full of sex jokes..." Goodman smarted.
"Monica Lewinsky may yet prove to be a stalker with a fertile imagination," Goodman declared.
[Well, at least the lines weren't plagiarized.] |
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