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To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (2247)	11/22/1998 6:01:00 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81023

That's fine. In the UK it's the tabloids that do it and to the chagrin of very many. And please don't forget Diana and the paperazzi. And the pleading that followed for legislation to protect state dignitaries from such harassment. In the US, however, it has been an officially sanctioned investigation. The sex scandal aspect was just fortuitous but it helped to justify the enormous expenditure involved. What I'm saying is that the stink should have and could have been avoided. There should have been other procedures to deal with the matter. Slick is history --- whatever happens to him. But the Presidency, and the nation, should have been spared the stigma. That, to me, is more of a lesson for one's children than the possibility that Bill Clinton lied under oath (which, in fact, he may not have done). Everyone lies --- it's no big deal --- but to have the most powerful man in the world hung out as a slut, for all to see, is something else entirely. The shame is for the American people.