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...investigation's fresh start is certain to distract the already embattled Clinton Administration for another six months and to push the probe's conclusion into the middle of Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign. The official White House reaction to Starr's arrival was a polite, two-sentence statement of welcome. The real reaction was different. "This is awful," said a Clinton adviser...
...Starr's arrival could also mean that the White House officials whom Fiske cleared of criminal wrongdoing in June may find themselves under fresh scrutiny. More time may have to be spent preparing for depositions. More money may have to be raised for legal fees. Contact between officials in different departments will remain out of bounds. "Jesus," said one of last week's key witnesses, "a new prosecutor means I might have to go all through this again." Another witness said simply, "It's Kafkaesque...
What can the White House expect from the new Whitewater independent counsel? As a Baptist minister's son growing up in San Antonio, Texas, Kenneth Starr admired Richard Nixon. "I really identified with Nixon because of his rather humble roots," Starr has said. Today, as a 48-year-old lawyer and veteran of the Reagan and Bush Administrations, he speaks wishfully of Dan Quayle's political future. "If President Quayle asked me to become the solicitor general again, I'd do it," he told TIME in a recent interview. His appointment has Republicans cheering and Democrats worried. Republican Congressman...
...they're both right -- Starr's credentials as a partisan are impeccable. Ronald Reagan appointed him to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where one of his major rulings was to strike down an affirmative-action hiring plan for fire fighters. George Bush named him U.S. Solicitor General, the government's lawyer in Supreme Court cases, a role in which he argued in favor of a flag-burning ban. In 1990 Starr was on Bush's short list for the Supreme Court. Starr has argued against President Clinton's request for temporary immunity...
...Starr set aside his partisanship and conduct a fair investigation? Starr sees himself, above all else, as a public servant ready and willing to tackle the task at hand. "My job is to chop the wood that is before me to chop," he said in 1991. "I have a very keen sense that I am to do what I am called upon to do." Starr has been entrusted in the past with sensitive tasks such as reviewing the diaries of Bob Packwood for the Senate Ethics Committee. While Starr has never before worked as a prosecutor, colleagues expect...