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To: yard_man who wrote (6778)	9/22/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: Joseph G.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

<<ATLANTA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday he believed President Bill Clinton had ''not been truthful'' to a grand jury over his affair with a White House intern. ''As one of the very few leaders who have served in the White House, I have deplored and been deeply embarrassed by what has occurred there,'' Carter told Emory University students in his first public comment on Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. Carter, who like Clinton is a Democrat, had maintained a strict silence on the Clinton scandal until Tuesday night. He said he had read only excerpts of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's report to Congress and seen only excerpts of Clinton's testimony to a federal grand jury investigating, among other things, whether Clinton lied about the Lewinsky affair in a deposition given in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. ''My own opinion is that the president has not been truthful in the deposition given in the Paula Jones case or in the interrogation by the grand jury,'' Carter said. Clinton's grand jury testimony was released by Congress and broadcast on television on Monday. Carter, who left the White House in 1981, said he believed Clinton would likely be the first president since Andrew Johnson in 1868 to be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. But he added that he believed Clinton, like Johnson, would survive trial before the Senate. ''My own belief, not based on any inside information, is that the House Judiciary Committee will recommend to the entire House of Representatives that impeachment proceedings be held, that a hearing be held, and because of the highly partisan alignment within the House of Representatives and because Republicans have a majority, I think it is likely -- more than a 50-50 chance -- that the House will vote impeachment,'' Carter said. He explained to the students that impeachment was a form of indictment which did not automatically mean removal from office, and said he did not believe the Senate would vote to remove Clinton. Impeachment requires a simple majority in the House, but removal from office needs a two-thirds majority in the Senate. >>