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

To: Scrapps who wrote (5442)	9/13/1998 2:44:00 PM
From: Rick Slemmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Still approve of the president's job performance? Seems that Mr Bill wouldn't take a call from South African President Nelson Mandela regarding sanctions against a Nigerian military junta. Why? Read on.... When the line was otherwise engaged By James Langton in Washington THE telephone operators at the White House were polite but firm. Yes, the President of the United States was aware that the President of South Africa wished to speak to him. No, they could not tell Mr Mandela when or if he would be returning his call. November 16, 1995, was a typically hectic day in Washington. The Federal Budget show down with Congress had already closed the Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon. More than a third of the government employees at the White House had been sent home because there was no money to pay their wages. One who remained was Monica Lewinsky, an unpaid intern, who, as the records now show, was as much on the President's agenda as his problems with the Republicans and Nelson Mandela. News reports show that Mr Mandela had already spoken to John Major in London to call for oil sanctions against the Nigerian junta. But attempts to speak to Mr Clinton failed. In the White House, Miss Lewinsky was flirtatiously lifting her blouse to reveal the top of her skimpy underwear. Africa was the last thing on the President's mind. There are few clues but many ironies in studying the official version of life in the White House on each of the 10 occasions when the President and Miss Lewinsky met for their sexual encounters. Thus, on New Year's Day 1996, the President was officially taking a day off from three days of protracted and ultimately fruitless negotiations with Bob Dole and other Republican leaders to resolve the Budget crisis. Unofficially, he had entertained Miss Lewinsky the night before, in her words, lifting her sweater and exposing her breasts. Media attention during January was increasingly focused on Hillary Clinton, with speculation on the state of her marriage and her role in other White House scandals. On January 7, 1996, the young intern remembers that the President "unzipped his pants and sort of exposed himself". On the same day, Mrs Clinton, in an interview with Barbara Walters, was denying earlier reports that she once threw a table lamp at her husband and that she had lied over the controversial sacking of the White House travel staff. On February 4, the President briefly broke off the relationship after another sex session. His attention was increasingly taken by problems with Whitewater. The following morning a judge ordered the President to testify in the forthcoming trial of Susan McDougal, an Arkansas friend accused of defrauding a savings bank. On March 31, Mr Clinton was finding novel uses for a cigar in the couple's sex games. Reports last month that in the process he kept Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat waiting for an appointment have proved inaccurate. However, an article in the then latest edition of the magazine Cigar Aficionado published that week makes timely reading. It calls on the President to make public his affection for cigars, noting that officially Mr Clinton never lights up, but prefers to "only chew" the end. A week later, the President was officially in mourning, after the death of Ron Brown, the Trade Secretary, in a plane crash while flying to the former Yugoslavia. After consoling himself in the arms of Miss Lewinsky, the President spent much of the day vetoing a Congressional ban on partial birth abortion. A year later the affair was nearing its end. On February 20, the world was riveted by the news that a Scottish scientific team had successfully cloned Dolly the sheep. The President devoted part of his day to the "serious ethical questions" raised by cloning. This was also the evening when Miss Lewinsky went home with stains on her dress. Inadvertently, the President had provided another example of the ethical implications raised by the study of DNA. The end came on March 29. The President was on crutches, the result of a fall at the home of Greg Norman, the golfer. He had called Miss Lewinsky saying he had something important to tell her. Outside the White House, it was the eve of the Oklahoma bomb trial. Inside, the President and his lover "touched genitals lightly". Then Miss Lewinsky performed her own particular detonation for the last time. telegraph.co.uk

To: Scrapps who wrote (5442)	9/13/1998 10:37:00 PM
From: Goldbug23	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Scrapps - Yes they have their agenda. As they say, polls will be polls (pun intended ;-) Related item: Fox News is the only objective news TV, and our monopoly cable company (Cox) refuses to carry them so far. All we get are the four lib channels. I used to think CNN was a little more objective, but since the arrival of Jane that too has changed. Well, got to get back to the work the people elected me to do as the saying goes, ad nauseum. And I am sorry, so sorry, ad nauseum.