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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Las Vegas Lou who wrote (877)	8/9/1998 4:27:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 13994

Hillary opposed to any apology August 9, 1998 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Hillary Rodham Clinton is vigorously opposed to President Clinton throwing himself on the mercy of the country by saying he misrepresented his relationship with Monica Lewinsky to protect his wife and daughter, according to sources close to the president's legal defense. These sources say the first lady takes the position that an admission of error by her husband would cripple his presidency. Mrs. Clinton is reported to be actively engaged in legal strategy talks with the president and his personal attorney, David Kendall. A footnote: Assuming Kendall knows all the details of the Clinton-Lewinsky relationship, he will be in jeopardy under legal ethics if the president deviates from the truth in testifying before the grand jury Aug. 17. Hoffa's green light After blocking federal funds to finance a new Teamsters election for months, Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire quietly has agreed to a process that may make James P. Hoffa the new president of the nation's largest labor union. As chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the Justice Department, Gregg refused to approve $4 million in federal funds to supervise a new Teamsters election. Republican leaders, arguing that Hoffa's election would give the GOP a potential friend in the AFL-CIO upper ranks, pleaded with Gregg. He responded that Hoffa, favored in the new election, would be no better than the other Teamster bosses. Gregg did not back down until Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, the Appropriations Committee chairman, announced his intention to poll Gregg's subcommittee to reverse him. Gregg insisted he could still get a majority on the subcommittee but decided to authorize the green light for Hoffa. Bush (Sr.) beats Clinton Despite surveys that show President Clinton's popularity holding up, John Zogby's national poll reveals that, if they could, voters today would reverse the results of the 1992, but not the 1996, presidential election. Interviews conducted July 29 through Aug. 2 as the latest Monica Lewinsky firestorm began showed former President George Bush defeating Clinton by 48.9 percent to 41.3 percent in a 1992 rerun. As for reversing 1996, voters said they still would prefer Clinton over former Sen. Robert J. Dole, 43.1 percent to 30.9 percent. When Zogby matched Clinton against Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the result was a virtual dead heat: Clinton, 42.7 percent; Bush, 40.2 percent. Holbrooke on the spot Former Republican Rep. Joe DioGuardi of New York is seeking somebody on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to use confirmation hearings on Richard Holbrooke's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to grill the diplomatic troubleshooter about his efforts to negotiate a Kosovo peace settlement. Questions drafted by DioGuardi, an Albanian American, challenge Holbrooke's fairness to ethnic Albanians in Kosovo who are opposing their Serbian rulers. Chairman Jesse Helms of North Carolina would be the first choice to ask the questions. If he declines, DioGuardi will seek out Senators Paul Coverdell of Georgia, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and John Ashcroft of Missouri. A footnote: DioGuardi is making his regular attempt to return to Congress by running as the Right to Life Party candidate against Republican Rep. Sue Kelly in her Westchester County suburban district. If the New York Board of Elections throws Kelly off the ballot because pages containing the necessary voter signatures were unnumbered, DioGuardi would be the leading opponent of Democrat Dick Collins. Back to Richmond? Virginia Republican politicians report that former Gov. George Allen's close associates are talking him into forgoing a 2000 campaign for the Senate to return instead to the governorship in 2001 as a better launching pad for the presidency. A race to unseat Democratic Sen. Charles Robb in 2000 had been considered Allen's next political move, but no sitting Republican senator since Warren Harding in 1920 has been elected president. Although Virginia does not permit its governors to succeed themselves, Allen can return to Richmond after a four-year hiatus. He still would be only 56 years old if he had to wait until 2008 for a presidential run. If Allen forgoes a Senate race, Oliver North might attempt a comeback after narrowly losing to Robb in 1994. State party leaders consider Allen a sure Senate winner but fear North would win the nomination and then again fail in the general election.