To: one_less who wrote (30250 ) 1/27/1999 2:36:00 PM From: Daniel Schuh Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Who's TP? As to "conspiracy", again, the Jones suit seems more like a set up, a political dirty trick in the Watergate- Nixon plumbers style. The Marcus- Porter- Rosenzweig story is another piece of the puzzle, more concrete and specific than what I'd previously read about. All the Jane Does, there's no doubt that Clinton has a past, he never denied it. But you've heard of "Roshomon", haven't you? A bit you may have, er, missed, from another story I posted: But more significant than what the impeachment episode says about Clinton's character may be what it tells us about national mores at century's end. Contrary to the prediction of many reporters, myself included, the scandal not only did not end his Presidency; it actually made a President re-elected on a "values" agenda more popular. When the scandal first broke a year ago, Washington reporters were still dealing with the issue of whether to protect the public from information they assumed it was too unsophisticated to handle. Few suspected how much the rest of the country had changed in the previous decade. The America of today is no longer the America of 1987, the year that Gary Hart was driven from a Presidential race by the Donna Rice scandal and that Clinton decided not to go for the nomination after his aide Betsey Wright presented him with a list of ex-lovers capable of sabotaging his candidacy. nytimes.com
