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To: Ish who wrote (38490)	3/15/1999 12:40:00 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 67261

Sunday March 14 12:31 AM ET Clinton Gives Emotional Salute To Senate Defender By Donna Smith LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - President Clinton Saturday saluted former Sen. Dale Bumpers, who defended him during his Senate impeachment trial with soaring rhetoric and folksy tales of shared times in Arkansas. Clinton ended a nostalgic weekend trip to his home state with the Arkansas Democratic Party tribute to Bumpers, a longtime friend of Clinton who served as state governor and four terms in the U.S. Senate. Clinton told the audience of 1,350 people, who were asked to contribute $100 each, that Bumpers ''never forgot the lessons of the past, beginning with the Constitution of the United States. He never stopped dreaming of the future and he never lost his essential humanity.'' During Clinton's impeachment trial, Bumpers gave eloquent closing arguments on Jan. 21, saying Clinton's ''terrible moral lapse'' in the Monica Lewinsky scandal did not reach the level of an impeachable offense. Bumpers warned that a vote to convict could destabilize the presidency and said that on a personal basis Clinton had already suffered enough for what he called ''a breach of his marriage vows.'' The Senate acquitted Clinton last month. Saturday, Clinton praised Bumpers' skills as an orator. ''I've watched Dale Bumpers in a way that the whole world got to watch him when he spoke in the Senate,'' Clinton said. ''But when you strip it all away, it comes down to that -- to humility, humanity, a sense of one's own mortality and one's own capacity for incredible dignity and glory.'' Clinton urged more generosity of spirit in public life. ''All the complexities of all the problems I face, and all the battles I see come before me, 90 percent of them would go away tomorrow if people could just understand they do not have to define their lives in terms of putting someone else down, defeating someone else, thinking they're better than someone else, ignoring their common humanity,'' the president said. He also spoke nostalgically of his home state. The president's stroll down memory lane began Friday when he dedicated as a historic site his boyhood home in Hope. With a cold rain soaking the crowd, he reflected on the lessons he learned in the modest two-story wood frame house where he lived with his mother until he was 4. He stopped to visit his mother's grave and spent Friday night in Wamba, Texas, and stayed at the home of Truman Arnold, a businessman who owns a chain of convenience stores. Clinton, who had just returned from a trip to Central America, cut short his trip to Arkansas and planned to return to Washington Saturday night. He originally had been scheduled to return Sunday.