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To: Enigma who wrote (27348)	1/30/1999 1:13:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116753

RE:" 'A lot of pain'?? Get serious. dd What do you mean? another 1000-2000 off the DOW from 7400 wouldn't have been painful?

To: Enigma who wrote (27348)	1/31/1999 9:02:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116753

Moynihan Cites 'Absence Of Character' In Clinton 04:24 p.m Jan 31, 1999 Eastern NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Clinton's policies, not only his personal behavior, display an ''absence of character,'' Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan said in an interview with The New Yorker magazine released Sunday. ''There is a sort of absence of character that has been the quality of this administration,'' said the 71-year-old Moynihan, who plans to retire in 2000. The senior senator from New York, who has played key roles in drafting social and economic legislation since his election to the Senate in 1977, said that Clinton had done ''little things'' to win reelection and was unrealistic about larger problems facing the nation. ''We've had this miniaturization of the presidency -- doing this little thing and that little thing,'' said Moynihan, whose relationship with Clinton has never been warm, particularly since they disagreed over Clinton's approach to health-care reform in 1993. In the interview appearing in the Feb. 8 issue of The New Yorker that goes on sale Monday, Moynihan cited Clinton's education initiatives as an example. ''He continues to suggest that in a few short years we can be first in the world in science and math,'' Moynihan said, referring to Clinton's education proposals in his Jan. 19 State of the Union address. ''Something like that would take about three generations,'' Moynihan said. ''The idea that he could say that with a straight face is extraordinary. We are in a disastrous state with regard to this most important part of American life, and what we get is this attitude of 'wishing will make it so.''' Moynihan has declined to say how he would vote at the end of the Clinton's impeachment trial on charges stemming from his affair with Monica Lewinsky. But Moynihan described ''a budding triumphalism'' among Democrats over the outcome. Senate votes last week made clear that there was not the two-thirds majority required to convict Clinton and remove him from office. ''And it's true that we thwarted a coup, and that's a good thing. But you have to say they (the Republicans) didn't start this. The president did,'' Moynihan said. But he said that removing Clinton from office would destabilize the presidency. ''There are problems with the personal behavior. We had the right to expect that he could have held off until ... 2002.'' The Senator offered a terse ''welcome'' to the possibility that Hillary Rodham Clinton might succeed him when he leaves office in 2000, The New Yorker said. Public opinion polls have shown that if she ran, Hillary Clinton would win the Democratic nomination for Moynihan's Senate seat and defeat potential Republican rivals such as New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. As for Giuliani, the senator was more pointed in discussing his potential Senate career. He said of Giuliani, who has a reputation for being strong-willed but sensitive to criticism: ''You can't come to the Senate for group therapy. You need to learn how to work in groups before you arrive.'' Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.