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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: John Lacelle who wrote (3890)9/19/1998 8:45:00 PM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
Hyde Offered to Quit Post
After Affair Was Publicized

Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 19, 1998; Page A10

Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde
(R-Ill.) offered to resign from the committee last
week after public disclosure that he had had a
five-year extramarital affair during the 1960s,
Republican sources said yesterday. The offer was
tendered to House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.),
who rejected it.

Disclosure of Hyde's liaison provoked a storm of
controversy in the House, with some Republican
members accusing the White House of trying to
smear Hyde -- who is overseeing an investigation of
President Clinton's affair with Monica S. Lewinsky
-- as part of a "scorched earth" policy against
Clinton's accusers.

The White House categorically denied being the
source of the article, which first was published by
Salon, a left-leaning Internet magazine, and said
anyone involved in disseminating such information
would be fired. Gingrich and other House GOP
leaders sent a letter to FBI director Louis J. Freeh on Thursday asking
him to investigate any personal attacks on members of Congress, including
Hyde, that are aimed at intimidating them.

"It is a sign of the depth of Chairman Hyde's integrity that he would
automatically offer a resignation over a 30-year-old story," said Gingrich
spokeswoman Christina Martin. "The speaker did not consider the
resignation because he can think of no one who has earned more respect
or affection from the House. Henry Hyde is a man of dignity who has
handled the situation well."
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