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...Clinton is re-elected, Perot warned, his second term will be a nightmare of legal problems that will compare with Watergate. That's a stretch. There are no signs now that Clinton faces anything like the obstruction-of-justice scandal that brought down Richard Nixon. But special prosecutor Kenneth Starr keeps nipping at the heels of people around him. And around the First Lady...
According to lawyers familiar with Starr's activities, last summer FBI agents armed with a search warrant scoured the home of Patsy Thomasson, deputy director of presidential personnel. They were looking for documents related to the 1993 firings in the White House travel office. It was Thomasson's files that contained a memo portraying Mrs. Clinton as a central figure in the firings, a role the First Lady has denied...
Clinton aides see the incident as a harbinger of a no-holds-barred effort to attack Mrs. Clinton after the election. Last week a federal appeals court gave Starr permission to investigate whether former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum lied to Congress about Mrs. Clinton's involvement in hiring Craig Livingstone, the aide who obtained hundreds of FBI personnel files, including many on former G.O.P. White House figures. At a congressional hearing in June, Nussbaum denied talking about Livingstone with Mrs. Clinton. But the committee found an FBI report in which Nussbaum is quoted as saying she "highly recommended" Livingstone...
...commissioner without his wife. In Primary Colors, the Hillary-character calls the Bill-character an "unorganized, undisciplined, thoughtless, faithless shit." She can say this because she is more organized, more disciplined, more thoughtful, and more faithful than he is, among other things. Leaving the world of fiction, John R. Starr, an Arkansas pundit, was no Clinton supporter until 1983, the year he met Hillary. After that, he cut Clinton some slack because "no husband of hers could be that bad." There could not be a more apposite instance for the phrase "Behind every good man lies a better woman...
...President was asked about possible pardons for Jim and Susan McDougal, onetime owners of Madison Guaranty and co-investors with the Clintons in Whitewater, and Jim Guy Tucker, Bill Clinton's successor as Governor of Arkansas. All three have been convicted of fraud in cases brought by Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater special prosecutor. Clinton replied, "I've given no consideration" to pardons; then he described in some detail the procedure he would follow if he did. That struck some columnists as dangling the prospect of a pardon in front of Susan McDougal, who has been jailed for contempt because...