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...Lewinsky's claims about the gifts contradict Clinton's and Currie's testimony. Neither remembered the President's telling Currie to pick up gifts, some of which Lewinsky kept. Lawyer David Kendall says Clinton never told Lewinsky to lie and that Starr fails to prove Clinton intended to obstruct justice. He says Currie initiated Jordan's involvement in the job search and that "there was no connection" between the affidavit and job offers. He says Currie and Lewinsky were friends, so the cover stories weren't covers...
...second instance, with which we are all more familiar, concerned President Nixon. During the course of the Watergate investigation, it became clear that Nixon had been using one government agency to obstruct the investigations of another, and that his subordinates, with his tacit approval, had committed a remarkable litany of felonies...
...with the President's remarks. His job approval rating remained steady at 62 percent. Straw polls from the terrestrial networks offered similar figures. As always with Clinton, however, there were contradictions: An ABC poll had 68 percent saying he should not resign, even though 52 percent believed he did obstruct justice -- the only offense for which he could reasonably be impeached...
Wednesday, 12:15 p.m., Kosovo. An armored van carrying Holbrooke stops along a one-lane dirt road just south of the hamlet of Istinic. Rusted farm implements obstruct traffic, one of many barricades K.L.A. insurgents have set up. U.S. security agents scan the surrounding forest, fearing that the halted convoy may become a target for stray gunfire. Holbrooke orders the vehicles to head back to the town of Decane, which Serb forces burned last month. Coming through the town earlier, the convoy passed deserted buildings, but in the town's center, two dozen people sat at an open-air cafe...
...latest from the battle over executive privilege in the Lewinsky case. Judge Norma Holloway Johnson declared Clinton aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal are required to spill the beans on chats with their boss about the former White House intern. "If there were instructions from the President to obstruct justice or efforts to suborn perjury," Johnson wrote, "such actions likely took the form of conversations involving the President's closest advisers." Flush with that success, Ken Starr is doing an end-run round a Clinton appeal -- by taking the entire executive privilege case to the Supreme Court...