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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorrie coey who wrote (36787)	3/4/1999 1:55:00 AM
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This one needs no comment. Clinton Sings 'I Will Survive' As Monica Tells All**REUTERS REUTERS 1.22 a.m. ET (625 GMT) March 4, 1999 Clinton Sings 'I Will Survive' As Monica Tells All 1.22 a.m. ET (625 GMT) March 4, 1999 NEWARK, N.J. — President Clinton studiously ignored Monica Lewinsky's prime-time interview Wednesday and instead sang along to the song "I Will Survive'' at a fund-raiser that netted over $2 million for a staunch ally. Clinton flew to Newark to drum up campaign money for Sen. Bob Torricelli, the New Jersey Democrat who fiercely defended him during his Senate impeachment trial, rather than tune in to Lewinsky's two-hour ABC television interview with Barbara Walters. Before Clinton came on stage, Gloria Gaynor sang her signature song, the disco anthem "I Will Survive,'' as well as the Motown hit "Never Can Say Goodbye,'' bringing the 1,500 donors to their feet clapping along. "When she was singing her song, you know, we were all back there, singing off stage,'' Clinton said. "I was trying to decide whether it was more appropriate for me to sing 'I Will Survive,''' he said, prompting a wave of laughter and cheers. "Actually, I sort of like 'I'm never going to say goodbye,' better'' he added, saying he stood well back from the stage so no one could take an embarrassing photograph of him singing along. Torricelli raked in $2.15 million from the $1000-a-plate dinner, which officials called the largest sum ever raised for a member of Congress in one night and a remarkable amount for a politician who does not even face reelection until 2002. Clinton made no direct reference in his speech to the scandal that consumed 13 months of his presidency and brought him to the brink of being thrown out of the White House, but he had warm words for Torricelli. "He has been my friend in good times and bad and I will never forget it,'' he told the audience. In turn, Torricelli used the occasion to champion a possible Senate bid from New York by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, an idea that he floated in early January that has launched a tidal wave of speculation. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am the man who created and am managing the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign for the U.S. Senate,'' he told the crowd at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, which included actors Joe Pesci and Kevin Spacey. Mrs. Clinton visited New York Wednesday and was enthusiastically received, but she did not tip her hand about a possible run for the Senate. "There were some who thought I'd have an announcement to make,'' she said with a dramatic pause at the start of her speech. "But I don't.'' Clinton's fleeting visit to New Jersey kept him out of Washington for most of the evening and aides said he did not watch Lewinsky's interview, which began at 9 p.m. (0200 GMT). After returning to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington at 10:10 p.m., Clinton stayed on Air Force One for 34 minutes after it landed, chatting with Spacey and several congressmen who flew back with him. In the interview, Lewinsky for the first time aired her feeling of having been used by the president after their White House affair became public. In one segment, the former White House intern was shown Clinton's six-month-old admission of their affair and then asked how she felt. "I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed,'' Lewinsky said. When reports of the affair between the president and the intern less than half his age first surfaced in January 1998, Clinton initially lied to deny it before admitting to it under questioning from independent counsel Kenneth Starr in August. In the interview, Lewinsky was asked if she thought Clinton felt remorse for the affair and its aftermath. "When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse,'' Lewinsky said. "When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.'' Lewinsky's interview, for which she was not paid, was the first salvo in a campaign to tell her side of the story and to make some money to pay her huge legal debts. Thursday, the book "Monica's Story,'' written by British author Andrew Morton, reaches bookstores.