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To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (18111)	9/16/1998 9:54:00 PM
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OT>Republican lawmaker admits ''youthful indiscretions'' By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Powerful Republican Henry Hyde, who would oversee impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky, on Wednesday admitted his own "youthful indiscretions. Hyde, chairman of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, issued a brief statement about his ''friendship'' with a Chicago woman named Cherie Snodgrass during the 1960s that began when Hyde was 41 and ended after the woman's husband confronted Hyde's wife Jeanne. The Illinois Republican angrily denounced a report on the affair, first published on Wednesday by Internet magazine Salon, as a political attempt to influence the work of the Judiciary Committee. ''The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions,'' Hyde said of the several-year relationship. ''The only purpose for this being dredged up now is an obvious attempt to intimidate me, and it won't work.'' Jeanne Hyde died of cancer in 1992 after a 45-year marriage. Hyde vowed to fulfill his ''constitutional duty and deal judiciously with the serious felony allegations presented to Congress in the Starr report.'' Majority Whip Tom DeLay also blasted the report, saying ''this attack says more about the character of the Clinton attack dogs than it does about the character of Henry Hyde.'' ''The latest attack ... launched by Salon -- a close ally of the Clinton White House -- is the most despicable, most disgraceful, most disgusting piece of rumormongering that I have ever seen,'' DeLay said in a statement. The White House denied any responsibility for the leak about Hyde. ''We have a zero tolerance policy on this kind of behavior at the White House,'' said White House spokesman Joe Lockhart, vowing to take actions against any White House staffer that was involved. ''If any news organization can reveal who was responsible for this behavior, that person will be fired immediately,'' he said. Hyde is the latest U.S. politician who has been forced to disclose his infidelity, following similar admissions last week by Idaho Republican Helen Chenoweth, and earlier this month by Indiana Republican Dan Burton. Salon's report was sourced to the husband of Cherie Snodgrass, Fred Snodgrass, now 76 and a Florida retiree. Salon quoted him as saying he viewed Hyde as a hypocrite and blamed him for breaking up his family. ''These politicians were going on about how (Hyde) should have been on the Supreme Court, what a great man he is, how we're lucky to have him in Congress in charge of the impeachment case. And all I can think of is, here is this man, this hypocrite who broke up my family.'' Salon said it first learned of the story two weeks ago from Norm Sommer, a friend of Snodgrass', and confirmed the story with one of Snodgrass' grown children, an old family friend and Snodgrass himself. Cherie Snodgrass also confirmed the story through her daughter, Salon said. In an editorial, Salon, often rapped for being too supportive of the White House, said it decided to publish the report after ''hours of often-heated discussion'' and denied that the White House had anything to do with it. It said Sommer also denied any connection with the White House, and said several major news organizations, including the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and the Miami Herald, had all turned down an opportunity to do the story. Salon said it decided to publish the story despite its repeated assertion that the private lives of Americans should remain private, because ''Clinton's enemies have changed the rules'' and ''ugly times call for ugly tactics.'' ''We hope by publishing today's article to bring this entire sordid conflict to a head and expose its utter absurdity,'' the magazine's editors wrote. ''Does the fact that Henry Hyde engaged in an adulterous affair, and tried to keep it hidden from his family and constituents, mean he is not fit to hold public office? Absolutely not. And the same is true of President Clinton.''< Reap as ye sow.