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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (9056)	3/2/1998 8:48:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

G'morn Christine! >>However, I think a president who is guided by a movie from, when was it, 1936 about star wars, and continues unflinchingly to pursue that as a goal is again fortunate that the madness stopped before we bled our economy dry or there was a final conflagration. Come now, do you actually think that he believed that? That was an amusing license by the editors. Funny how the really smart people believed in it, like Teller and Gorby. Why didn't Gorby laugh it off? Seems like Reagan had to show he believed it so others would too. And the fact that they did believe is all that matters. All in all a brilliant ploy that brought the Soviets to their knees when few thought that was possible. Easily one of the greatest in modern history. The madness did not just stop, RR stopped it and now those once military resources have balanced the budget. History repeating as farce: We now have an almost-President that devotes his time to bringing others to their knees.

To: Grainne who wrote (9056)	3/2/1998 9:57:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

>>Oh, my reference to the little kissing editorial comment actually was on Face the Nation, not Meet the Press. Sorry. Did you see it? Clinton 'not changing Lewinsky line' By Hugh Davies in Washington External Links A Guide to the Monica Lewinsky story - Coffee Shop Times Clinton Accused - Washington Post Special Report The White House A-Z Guide to Clinton Scandals - CJ Burke Bill Clinton's Skeleton Closet A SENIOR White House official appeared on CBS TV yesterday in an attempt to stifle a report by the network that President Clinton was preparing to alter his explanation about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. CBS said Mr Clinton would admit he kissed the White House trainee, but claim that she exaggerated the depth of the relationship. The network quoted "well-placed sources" in Washington as saying that the President had been "shaken to the core by the scandal". As a result, his aides had developed an "alternative" strategy to his original denial of "sexual relations" with "that woman", as he called her. The new plan was for Mr Clinton to concede they had a physical relationship, but it involved "only kissing". Asked about the report, Rahm Emmanuel, a White House aide, said: "That is inaccurate, in the sense that there's a new communications strategy in the White House." He called the question about where or not Mr Clinton kissed the woman "a hypothetical", saying that the "last thing I am going to do" was to answer. A few days ago, Mike McCurry, the White House press spokesman, told reporters that the scandal was going to "end up being a very complicated story, as most human relationships are". The feeling in Washington is that aides are floating various tactics to gauge public reaction. The "only kissing" notion met with derision on political talk shows yesterday, amid a new threat to the White House. A woman who claims that Mr Clinton fondled her in the Oval Office was subpoenaed by the special prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, to testify before a Washington grand jury. He is to question Kathleen Willey, a Virginia socialite who was a volunteer in the White House in 1993, about whether a Democratic fund-raiser, Nathan Landow, encouraged her to keep quiet about the encounter. Mrs Willey is expected to give evidence this week, after Mr Clinton's confidant, Vernon Jordan, appears before the jury tomorrow to be asked if the president enlisted his help in a cover-up of the Lewinsky episode. There are suggestions that Mr Jordan feels that the president may have deceived him about his link to the woman. The appearance of Mrs Willey, with the undertone that she, too, was pressured to change her story, could be ominous for Mr Clinton. A Newsweek account yesterday of her encounter with the president disclosed graphic details of his alleged actions. Distressed about her marriage falling apart and her need for money, Mrs Willey said that she went to the Oval Office on Nov 29, 1993, to ask for a paid job. Mr Clinton poured her coffee in the galley off the Oval Office and led her across the narrow hallway into his private study. This was where Miss Lewinsky claims that she had sexual contact with him. He showed her his collection of old campaign buttons and was extremely solicitous, listening sympathetically as she tearfully explained her plight. But as she turned to open the door to the Oval Office, Mr Clinton allegedly hugged her and, despite her attempts to push him away, touched her indecently. The account, Newsweek explained, was based on a sworn statement given by Mrs Willey to lawyers in the Paula Jones harassment case on Jan 10. She later amended the statement to say that she had talked to Nathan Landow about her testimony. Mr Landow told Newsweek that Mrs Willey was a "distant acquaintance" and that he had never discussed her testimony in the Jones case. telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000114153517164&rtmo=qtRxKde9&atmo=99999999&P4%5FFOLLOW%5FON=%2F98%2F3%2F2%2Fwclin02%2Ehtml&pg=/et/98/3/2/wclin02.html