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...Democrats shot back that even if he did, this did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense. But the real struggle was going on outside the debate. Republicans, including DeLay and Henry Hyde, had begun calling on Clinton to resign. At a press briefing, presidential spokesman Joe Lockhart complained bitterly that House leaders like DeLay, who had promoted impeachment to wavering moderates as nothing more serious than a kind of Super Censure, were now using it to demand that Clinton step aside...
From the White House, Clinton himself picked up the narrative of this fevered impeachment day and twisted it again. He took the extraordinary step, by way of an announcement made by his press secretary, Lockhart, of urging Livingston not to resign. On the House floor, some Democrats did the same, hoping their words would somehow be taken as a white flag: We forgive you, forgive us. Livingston's resignation, after all, had suddenly become the best evidence that this whole Washington mess wasn't about lying after all--it was about...
...weeks since Bill Clinton got his homework assignment from Henry Hyde -- 81 questions on what exactly happened with his pals Vernon and Monica -- and the President is only now getting round to completing it. "We are close to the end of this process," said White House press spokesman Joe Lockhart, adding that Clinton would hand in the assignment either Thursday or Friday. Whether he would answer Hyde's questions in full, or merely refer him to answers previously given in the Paula Jones and grand jury depositions -- earning the President a big fat F from committee Republicans ? was still unknown...
...because we have other things to do, and I'll try to call the rest of them today," which was sort of like arguing that they were having sex with him but he wasn't having sex with them. A few hours later, his hapless new press secretary, Joe Lockhart, was forced to concede that indeed the President was making calls as well and that the ratio between calls he was making and calls he was returning was "kind of fifty-fifty." By midday the number of likely Democratic defectors seemed to be ballooning rather than shrinking. "The White House...
...worse before it gets better. The very man who put Democrats in this tight spot -- President Clinton -- was speed-dialing the Hill late Tuesday looking for support. New press spokesman Joe Lockhart denied the White House was issuing "instructions," but plenty of loyal party members look on a Clinton call as the kiss of death. Luckily for them, the First Lady is working the phones, too. Could Hillary help prevent an embarrassingly large GOP victory -- and bail her husband out of trouble one more time...