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PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION A Hillary : : I R COPY ABLE OF PR ATION ONTENTS: m the Editor Page 2 A's Names all Business Winners Page 4 men on the Job GELEBRATE ard of Directors Program Page 6 man Care Summit Page 8 98 ebook Page 11 g Island Center tallation of Officers Page 12 Seneca Falls DLI Installation NEW YORK Officers Page 14 stra Family Business BRACHT FIELD ference Page 17 1 The Cover: lary Rodham Clinton & vernor George Pataki at leca Falls Page 16 rd Melville Heritage Gala nors Damianos Page 22 ird Family of Quogue Hosts mily Counseling Benefit Page 25 sthampton Beach :forming Arts Center Opens Page 26 eanfront Designer owhouse Opens in Quogue Page 28 History, GOP fight favor Hinchey bid By KEVIN HARLIN the national party to support this Journal Staff year until after September's pri- ITHACA - Although the mary - Hinchey could be as visit of first lady Hillary Rodham secure as any incumbent this Clinton in support of incumbent time around. Last time, although Rep. Maurice Hinchey ups the no residents of the White House ante for Republicans in the 26th wandered into the district, Congressional District, the race Hinchey did get a visit and sup- in 1998 likely will not be the hot port from Donald Fowler, then contest to watch that it was in head of the Democratic National 1996. Two years ago, Republicans Committee. poured resources and big-name On the Republican side, support, such as former Vice Quayle talked to journalists from President Dan Quayle, into the across the district in a conference district in an attempt to unseat call in 1996, touting the the liberal Democrat, whose Republican, Conservative and many pollsters said held a precar- Right-to-Life candidate Wittig, a ious seat in Congress. Kingston businesswoman. The fourth-ranking But after defeating Republican in the House of Republican challenger Suzanne Representatives - Ohio's John Wittig that year - and without a clear Republican candidate for See HINCHEY, 4A PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Hinchey (Continued from Page 1A) the support the liberal Democrat has Boehner - also stumped for her, urg- given in Congress to a sometimes ing voters to retire his liberal House beleaguered president. Although he has bucked the president on such colleague. And both the Democratic and major issues as the North American Republican national committees Free Trade Agreement and the pumped the maximum amount assault weapons ban, a Congressional allowed under federal campaign Quarterly analysis showed that he finance laws -$61,000 - into their voted with the Democratic Party line respective candidate's race that year. 97 percent of the time in 1997. But this year, three men -Clinton- But despite the incumbent advan- dale radio entrepreneur William tage, this is no district that any Demo- "Bud" Walker, anti-abortion activist crat should take for granted, said Matt Randall Terry and Binghamton attor- McHugh, the Democrat who repre- sented it from 1975 to 1992. ney Douglas Walter Drazen -are vying for the nomination. Republicans outnumber Democ- And state and federal Republican rats 127,719 to 121,333 as of April 1. committee spokesmen say they will And Hinchey barely won his first two races in 1992 and 1994 - both time not endorse any of them until after the voters make their choice in Sep- squeaking in by about 1,000 votes. tember's primary. Also, independent voters play an That means that even though important role in the oddly drawn Walker has the endorsements of the 26th District, which runs from Ithaca county Republican committees in the through Binghamton to the Hudson River. district - including Tompkins Coun- ty - he or another primary winner For example, in Ulster County - would likely limp out of a brutal elec- the only county completely encom- tion on Sept. 15 with only seven weeks passed in the district - there are to focus his and the party's energy on 33,921 independent voters, slightly Hinchey. more than either registered Democ- In that same time, the incumbent rats or Republicans. CLINTON IN CRISIS CAN HE STILLEAD? News eek ® August 31, 1998 : $2.95 TERROR Striking THE Back at the Embassy UNITED Killers THE ES SCANDAL More Trouble From Monica's Testimony 35 Thursday 0 706288 9 August 20, 1998 01134 PHOTOCOPY OBESERVATION CLINTON IN CRISIS CAN HE STILLEAD? News eek ® August 31, 1998 : $2.95 TERROR Striking THE Back at the Embassy UNITED Killers SEAL SCANDAL ES More Trouble From Monica's Testimony 35 3 Thursday 0 706288 August 20, 1998 01134 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION TOP OF THE WEEK SPECIAL REPORT The Cover: Clinton in Crisis 16 The President's Collateral Damage by Howard Fineman 18 Striking Back at Terrorists by Russell Watson and John Barry 24 America on Guard 29 Extracting a Confession by Evan Thomas and Matthew Cooper 30 Gore's 'Problematic' Future 33 Starr Under Investigation 37 Why Hillary Holds On by Jonathan Alter 38 Keeping Faith in a Storm by Rev. Jesse Jackson 41 A Sense of Betrayal by George Stephanopoulos 44 NEWS OF THE WEEK Ireland: After a Bombing, 'People Are Disgusted' 48 'Capital Gains': Investors and Y2K by Jane Bryant Quinn 48B SOCIETY & THE ARTS Movies: What's Coming Next Summer by Jeff Giles and Kendall Hamilton 50 Music: Courtney Love on the Inoffensive 54 Lauryn Hill's Solo Turn 55 Media: A New Owner for The Racing Form 56 The Globe's Barnicle Resigns 56 Education: The Small-Class Solution 57 FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY Music: Learning an Instrument, With Software 58 Consuming: Online Incentives for Shoppers 60 AFP DEPARTMENTS SPECIAL REPORT: It was a week of extraordinary political drama. The president launched an attack on terrorism just days after publicly admitting a Periscope 4 Transition 49 long-denied infidelity. How Kenneth Starr backed Bill Clinton into a corner, Cyberscope 10 Newsmakers 61 and how the president is struggling to show that he can still lead. Page 16 Millennium 12 'The Last Word' by Letters 13 George F. Will 62 COVER: Photograph by Pete Souza Chicago Tribune. Perspectives 15 Newsweek Letters to the Editor should be sent to NEWSWEEK, 251 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-1894. In the U.S. send subscription inquiries to NEWSWEEK, P.O. Box 59967, Boulder, CO 80322-9967. NEWSWEEK (ISSN 0028-9604), August 31, 1998, Volume CXXXII, No. 9. In Canada send subscription inquiries to NEWSWEEK, Inc., P.O.Box 4012, Postal Station A. Toronto, Ontario M5W2K1. Canada Post International Publications Mail (Canadian Distribution) Sales Agreement No. 546593. Canadian GST No. 123-321-309. For all changes of address call 1-800-634-6850. For all other inquiries call 1-800-631-1040. Unless otherwise indicated by source or currency designation, all terms and prices are applicable in the U.S. only and may not apply in Canada. NEWSWEEK is published weekly, except for 2 issues combined into one at year-end, for US $41.08 a year and Canadian $61.88 a year, by NEWSWEEK, Inc., 251 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-1894. Richard M. Smith, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief: Stephen Fuzesi Chief Counsel and Secretary. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY, and at additional mailing offices. To order reprints (minimum order required: 500 copies) or request permission to publish a NEWSWEEK article, please call 212-445-4870 or fax 212-445-4929. POSTMASTERS: send address changes to NEWSWEEK, P.O. Box 59968, Boulder, CO 80328-9968. Printed in U.S.A. c 1998 NEWSWEEK, INC: 251 WEST 57th STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10019-1894. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 3 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION PERISCOPE FIRST LADY Northern Ireland's new legisla- Hillary's ture. In October, she'll go to Цени Uruguay for a Vital Voices con- 'Vital Voices' ference on economic issues. One White House aide calls the meetings "sort of a Renaissance ER HUSBAND'S LEGACY IN Weekend of the world." doubt, Hillary Clinton is quietly building a separate port- BOSTON FAX folio that should keep her in the public eye long past his presi- Frat Row dency. "She's never deviated from her goal, which is creating B oston University cracked down on its own fraternities a post-presidency platform," years ago. Now BU is cracking says a White House adviser. down on MIT frats, too. Last month With her international celebrity a BU police officer was seriously as an advocate for women, one injured by a beer bottle tossed promising vehicle is a series of from the roof of an MIT frat adja- "Vital Voices" conferences be- cent to the BU admissions office. gun by Secretary of State Made- The frat says summer boarders, Yeltsin with the crew of the Peter the Great, a missile cruiser leine Albright. While visiting not frat members, were to blame. RUSSIA Belfast next month, Mrs. Clin- MIT, still reeling from the drinking ton will keynote a Vital Voices death of a frat pledge last year, Yeltsin's Ruble Trouble conference attended by Protes- expressed outrage, and its Inter- tant and Catholic women, in- fraternity Council fined the frat cluding 14 who won seats in and banned alcohol at the house. USSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN VOWED NOT TO DE- R A city housing panel ordered a value the ruble to prop up the ailing economy. Last similar ban. That's not enough for week he effectively did just that by letting the ruble BU. A BU lawyer says the school find its own value on the currency markets. In an in- plans to pursue a civil suit against terview with the Russian magazine Itogi (published in associ- the frat to compensate the uni- ation with NEWSWEEK) last week, Prime Minister Sergei versity and the injured officer. Kiriyenko defended the turnaround, saying any other course Says an MIT official, "We want "would have risked a total collapse of the political and eco- to be good neighbors and expect nomic system." So far, the gamble has paid off, at least on the our students to be good neigh- economic side of the ledger. "We are only fighting the finan- bors as well." cial crisis," Kiriyenko told Itogi. "We are not fighting each Hillary on the Vineyard other." But days after Kiriyenko's comments, the Duma, the communist-controlled lower house of Parliament, passed a CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WATCH nonbinding resolution that Yeltsin should resign. Compartments of Bill Edition Great things, cruise missiles. Not only do they moderately JONBENET sible to hear Burke, then 9, damage terrorist bases, they completely obliterate impeach- Voice From the speaking in the background. ment talk-at least for a few days. Not that we're saying Burke's presence would con- Past-Maybe tradict the Ramseys' claim- Roles Conventional Wisdom and the boy's own statement to police, NEWSWEEK Apologizer Utter disaster: Too angry, too lawyerly, and DI's B OULDER POLICE has learned-that he he never apologized. CW sez: Try again. DEATH have long focused slept through the or- Husband Not only did he lie and cheat. he made her on the whereabouts ENQUIRER deal. A prosecution look bad on the "Today" show. of JonBenet Ramsey's CALL.NAILS source tells NEWS- brother, Burke, as a WEEK that the tape is Boyfriend Downside: "Selfish" lover. Upside: Remem- key to reconstructing inconclusive: "Some bered to wear that special tie. How sweet. MURDER events the morning COVER-UP people believe they Witness "I'll testify completely and truthfully." his sister was killed. hear [a voice] and Except when he doesn't like the question. Last week a tabloid some don't, even af- reported that an en- The Enquirer story ter listening 10 or 15 Boss Hung loyal aides, cabinet out to dry. hanced version of times." Getting the Buck up, staffers-he lied to everybody. Patsy Ramsey's 911 call, made tape admitted as evidence, Commander This compartment still watertight. The CW by a California lab at the cops' the sources say, would be an even believes he's not Wagging the Dog. request last year, makes it pos- uphill fight. 4 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: VIKTOR KOROTAYEV-REUTERS. RUTH FREMSON AP. NO CREDIT PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION WASHINGTON WHISPERS Joe Lockhart, king of hearts Plus the surrogate first lady, our man in Rangoon, and more W hy was Joe Lockhart policy suggestion): Thou shalt the Senate attached $3 mil- who was romantically linked tapped to fill the job of enforce gun laws already on lion to an appropriations bill to a Republican Senate staffer. White House press sec- the books. Specifically, he forcing the Justice Depart- retary being vacated by Mike called on the Clinton adminis- ment to try the Richmond McCurry? A big reason, Whis- tration to replicate Project Ex- idea elsewhere. The House is Bucks for the GOP pers hears, is the aggressive ile, an intense effort by federal likely to agree. Chicago, the "city on the way Lockhart, as deputy press prosecutors in Richmond, Va., make," has the inside track to secretary, laid into the editors to enforce federal firearms host the 2000 Republican Par- of the Dallas Morning News in laws, which has helped cut the Transferred to Mongolia ty convention over San Anto- late January. The clash was city's murder rate in half. The Sen. Jesse Helms won't com- nio and New York. Party lead- over a potentially devastating White House, normally eager ment on the rumor that his de- ers were impressed with the rumor that a Secret Service to promote promising govern- cision to delay the nomination amount of private money that agent was prepared to testify ment initiatives, has adamant- of Kent Wiedemann to be U.S. local Republicans promised to that he saw President Clinton ly resisted Heston's idea. The ambassador to Cambodia has raise. You'll recall that Chicago and Monica Lewinsky in a com- official reason is that federal to do with the claim that Wie- businessmen kicked in $14.3 promising situation at the prosecutors should set their demann, when he was chargé million when the Democrats White House. Partly because own priorities. Unofficially, d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy came to town in 1996, money Lockhart was able to cast doubt Clinton partisans haven't in Burma, arranged an invol- that covered everything from on the story, the Morning News wanted to let the NRA appear untary transfer to Mongolia fresh flowers on Michigan Av- retracted the piece from its to dictate government policy. of a man then working for the enue to shuttle bus service to Web site and pulled the story But that might happen any- International Republican In- the convention site. Last week, after it appeared in an early way. Last week, NRA allies in stitute in Rangoon-a man San Antonio tried to one-up edition. His dogged advocacy RICHARD THOMPSON FOR USN&WR Chicago, guaranteeing each impressed the first couple. An- GOP delegate a car and driver other Lockhart advantage: He during the convention. plays hearts, one of the presi- dent's favorite card games. Shilling for AI No, Hillary Rodham Clinton will Squeezing Tommy not play a formal role as a President Clinton is for expand- strategist in Al Gore's presi- ing health care coverage, dential campaign in 2000, right? So why is his adminis- EXISTING ENFORCE THOUSALT contrary to impressions left tration refusing requests by with some participants at a several governors-including mid-July political forum that Republicans such as Wiscon- she hosted at the White sin's Tommy Thompson-for House. But she probably will waivers that would allow them serve as a surrogate, rallying to use a new children's health key Democratic constituencies care block grant to also pro- for Gore, including women vide coverage for uninsured and social activists. low-income adults? Because by doing so, the administra- tion hopes to force the gover- Is it dead yet? nors to pressure their allies in Sign number 37,258 that the Congress to fund a bigger pro- cold war is really, really over: gram aimed explicitly at unin- Israeli cabinet minister Natan sured adults. Sharansky recently hosted a dinner for Nikolai Kovalyov, head of the Russian intelli- Thus spake Chuck gence agency formerly known After being elected president as the KGB. The dinner took of the National Rifle Associa- place at the Jerusalem Hilton tion, Charlton Heston uttered on July 16-almost 20 years to his first commandment (er, NRA leader Charlton Heston makes headway with his "policy idea." the day after Soviet courts, U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 3, 1998 7 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION WASHINGTON WHISPERS "There's rattlers big enough up there to puke up a buck deer." Clay Hardin, sheriff, Andrews, N.C., on the mountains where bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph may be hiding TOM "Mr. Kendall will work with Mr. Starr's office to July, 2018. try to ensure that the The ethical grand jury gets the information that it debate, part needs." 2,473,561 Mike McCurry, White House spokesman, confirming negotiations for the president possibly to testify in the Monica Lewinsky investigation "We're prepared to act alone if necessary." Walter Slocombe, defense under secretary, on U.S. military options to end violence in Kosovo "She's had 101/2 years to Should employees be allowed to use the come and tell somebody office cloning machine for personal business under oath her story." TOLES S. Barrett Hickman, Dutchess County, N.Y., judge, on rape OUR ETHICAL DEBATE, AS USUAL, DIATE. FOR us NEWS WORLD REPORT A SMITCH BEHIND THE TECHNOLOGY accuser Tawana Brawley's final failure to appear in court with KGB assistance, sent Congress to spend some of the nied up $500,000. They ex- agents will work together in the Sharansky to prison for 13 projected federal budget sur- pect a minimum of $100,000 safe houses to try to bring years for "espionage." (Sharan- plus, which-Democrats insist from each committee chair- down the infamous Mexican sky was eventually released and Republicans deny-means man and $50,000 from every drug cartels. But the traffickers and emigrated to Israel in continued raiding of the trust subcommittee chairman. seem already to have found out 1986.) Sharansky, Israel's fund. Persuasive or not, that's Their goal: an $8 million war where the safe houses are, and, point man in dealing with an argument Hill Republicans chest by the end of August, to says a U.S. government official, Russia, hopes to gain Ko al- will start deploying this week. fund an election eve blitz "I'm assuming they know who you's cooperation in stemming of issue ads to counter a simi- our agents are." Another prob- the flow of ballistic missile lar blitz expected from the lem: The Mexican government technology to Iran. Club dues Democrats. won't let U.S. drug agents in House Republican leaders last Mexico carry firearms. week demanded that senior For argument's sake members kick in hefty cam- Naked in Guadalajara By Paul Glastris with Kenneth Does this argument work for paign contributions to the Na- There's only one word to de- T. Walsh, Ronald Brownstein, you? When Democrats ran tional Republican Congres- scribe the agents who have Ted Gest, Jonah Blank, Gary Congress they raided the So- sional Committee. The leaders been assigned to the new "safe Cohen, Major Garrett, David cial Security trust fund to pay themselves-including Speak- houses" set up in various Mexi- Makovsky, and Linda Robinson for welfare and other wasteful er Newt Gingrich, Majority can cities by the U.S. Drug En- social programs. Therefore, it's Leader Dick Armey, and Major- forcement Administration: E-mail address: only fair for the Republican ity Whip Tom Delay-each po- brave. American and Mexican [email protected] 8 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT. AUGUST 3. 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION PERSPECTIVES "He's pleased that things are working out for her." White House spokesman Mike McCurry, on President Clinton's reaction to news that Monica Lewinsky reached an immunity deal with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr "Why sell drugs and risk a huge sentence, when you can make all COSMOP kinds of money in telemarketing with less risk and a kiss if you get caught?" Barry F. Elliot, head of the Ontario Provincial Police's Operation Phonebusters, on the growth of telemarketing scams AUGUST HOW TO "In a world-title fight, if I hit an opponent and his eye fell out of his head, I'd eat it before he could pick it up and put it back in." TV GET THE boxing analyst Bobby Czyz, explaining to New Jersey's State Athletic MAN YOU Control Board how the "performance blackout" that sometimes affects fighters led former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson to bite WANT Evander Holyfield's ear during a 1997 bout AND THE IMMUNITY "Jesus would puke." Rev. Nancy Jo Kemper of the Kentucky Council of DEAL YOU Churches, on the state legislature's decision after lobbying by some NEED MONICA pastors to lift a ban on concealed weapons in houses of worship LEWINSKY MS HILLARY RODHAM CLINION 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE WASHINGTON D.C. 20500 BIG CREEP OH, PLEASE. 1998 DARCY PLAIN DEALER "She kept it as a souvenir. How sick is that?" Book agent LINDA Lucianne Goldberg, who advised Linda Tripp to record phone TRIPP conversations with Lewinsky, on the dress the former intern claims bears physical evidence of a sexual encounter with President Clinton "There'll be the Pinto with the exploding gas tank, flammable pajamas, asbestos and breast implants, the whole history of medical malpractice." Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, on the Museum of American Tort Law he hopes to open in Winsted, Conn., his hometown © 1998 ANDERSON-LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL "It's not my house, and I could care less." O.J. Simpson, on hearing BEFORE I that his former home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, from GIVE FULL which he was evicted last year after defaulting on the mortgage, had AND TRUTHFUL been demolished by its new owner TESTIMONY, I'DLIKE TRANSACTIONAL "This is the best thing for the Republican Party here since they IMMUNITY. won the Civil War." Roger Morris, a political writer in Santa Fe, N.M., on the growing popularity of the state's Green Party, whose candidates tend to attract Democratic voters "I wouldn't feel right just sitting back and saying, 'I want a new stadium'." New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who for years has demanded a new Yankee Stadium, indicating publicly for the first time last week his team's willingness to help pay for one c 1998 BREEN. ASBURY PARK Quotations are compiled from press, TV and wire-service reports as well as from PHOTOCOPY AUGUST 10, 1998 NEWSWEEK 21 PRESERVATION NATIONAL AFFAIRS With Monica talking, the president must decide how, at long last, to explain himself BY HOWARD FINEMAN AND KAREN BRESLAU RON HAVIV-SABA T WAS THE KIND OF WHITE HOUSE party Monica Lewinsky would have wanted to attend: soft drinks in the East Room, the best and brightest on hand, Bill Clinton there to talk of lofty things. The president himself seemed upbeat, glad to be among War Room alumni at the early-evening event, a farewell party for an idealistic staffer named Sylvia Mathews. At 33, she was a soldier in the Clintonian meritocracy, a policy wonk from West Virginia who won a Rhodes scholarship and a pivotal White House job, deputy chief of staff. Now she was moving to the budget office. She and Clinton exchanged toasts. He thanked her for her work; she praised him for making her one of "the first members of my genera- tion to help balance the budget." But there were other voices in other Turning up the heat: White House rooms that day last week- Lewinsky arrives at and other books to balance. Before the par- her lawyers' offices to ty, the president huddled with his private seal the deal with lawyer, David Kendall. A day earlier, Le- Starr: meanwhile, winsky had agreed to cooperate with Inde- Clinton agreed to testi- pendent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and to say fy before the grand jury that she and Clinton had had a sexual rela- tionship. Faced with that, and a subpoena from Starr, Clinton made his own deal. He would "voluntarily" testify to a grand jury on Aug. 17 in a live link from the White House. After Kendall announced the bar- gain, and Clinton went to the East Room, White House lawyers in the counsel's office were channel-surfing for news. To their chagrin, they found it: Lewinsky had SHAWN THE THEW-THE WASHINGTON POST What turned over a cocktail dress with a visible stain. It was, she claimed, Clinton's semen. PHOTOCOPY 22 NEWSWEEK PRESERVATIO He Say? PRESERVATION NATIONAL AFFAIRS "Here we go again," groaned one of the ble president uttered only a few carefully counsel's office lawyers. vetted sentences. "I am looking forward to Yes, here we go again. What does the the opportunity in the next few days of tes- president say now, and to whom, and then tifying," he said with an overly casual smile, what? Bill Clinton's future may not be surrounded by a stone-faced choir of cabi- found in the budgets Sylvia Mathews net officials. "I will do so completely and writes, but on the cocktail dress Monica honestly." Then he jetted off for a weekend Lewinsky once wore. If there's solid proof of fund-raising and star-schmoozing in the the president lied under oath, even a Hamptons. His spinners noted how re- squeamish Congress-hardly eager to ex- laxed he seemed. But listen again to the plore the sex life of a fellow politician- words: he didn't use the occasion to once may have no choice but to start impeach- again deny that he had had a sexual rela- ment proceedings. And even if the dress tionship with Lewinsky. fails to produce damning evidence, the So far, and without all the facts, a scan- master politician's final exam is at hand. dal-weary public is withholding judgment. The task: to salvage his dignity and shore But the trends for Clinton aren't positive. up his credibility for his last two years- In the new NEWSWEEK Poll, only 23 per- and, inevitably, for history. cent now believe his past denials, down If Clinton has not told the truth so far, his from 32 percent in January. The presi- options are stark, none of them pleasant, dent's approval rating has fallen 10 points and all involve the tricky interplay between from his personal best of 70 percent. If what he says to the grand jury and to voters: there is "strong evidence" that Clinton lied Does he stick to the story he told in the under oath, or that he encouraged others Paula Jones case last January, and risk be- to lie, substantial numbers of those polled ing accused of committing perjury if he isn't think the Hill should boot him from office. telling the whole truth? Even if he comes clean, the yuck factor is Does he "amend" his story, and there- strong. Most voters think his "effective- by admit he perjured himself the last time ness" would be limited if he now-six he was under oath? months after the story emerged-admits If he doesn't change his story, should that he had sex with Lewinsky or told her he give the public an explanation of his rela- to lie. Voters remain ambivalent about some of the president's most intimate long- tionship with Lewinsky, since "sources whether Clinton owes them an explana- time advisers think he might have to-if it close to the investigation" almost certainly tion: 47 percent answered yes, but 49 per- becomes clear that he will change his tes- will once they hear the details of what she cent said no. timony. "It's something you'd want to has to say? The challenge now is to keep those num- avoid," one of them told NEWSWEEK. If the president does change his story, bers from deteriorating further. The urgent "What about Hillary and Chelsea? That won't he then have to explain why he did so tactical question is whether Clinton will would make you pause. But he may have to to the public and the grand jury? Would it be say anything publicly between now and do a mea culpa in hopes that the grand jury better to do that before or after he testifies? Aug. 17. In the Rose Garden, he said he would cut him some slack." Or the Ameri- It's a difficult needle to thread. In a care- wouldn't. For the record, aides insisted can people. fully staged appearance in the Rose Garden that he wouldn't. Rumors that the president It's somewhat more likely that the presi- last Friday, the would give a mea culpa speech sometime dent will say something after he testifies. usually volu- this week were vehemently denied. But "Do we really want to let Ken Starr be the Tough words: Clin- Roll Tape: JANUARY 17 ton's finger-wagging THE PRESIDENT'S DEPOSITION IN PAULA January denial JONES'S SEXUAL-HARASSMENT LAWSUIT His Story Q: Did you have an extra- marital affair with Monica Thus Far Lewinsky? A: No. Since the scandal broke in January, the president has Q: If she told someone that she publicly repeated the denial had a sexual affair with you be- he made under oath in private ginning in November of 1995, during the Paula Jones case. would that be a lie? Now that he faces grand-jury A: It's certainly not the truth. testimony, will he stand by his It would not be the truth. story? A review of Clinton's key JANUARY 21 statements NPR "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED" INTERVIEW about the I don't know any more about it Monica matter: than I've told you, and any more about it, really, than you INSIDENT OF THE UNIT PHOTOS BY RON HAVIV-SABA A small loop: Because of Starr's subpoena pow- er, the president can safely speak to just two peo- ple: his lawyer, David Kendall (left), and Hillary producer of the Bill Clinton story?" asked lored for the cameras on the South Lawn. Clinton must figure out how to respond to one White House aide. Meanwhile, Clinton For now, the White House predicament questions, under oath, about what he may will do more fund-raising trips and political is a spinner's nightmare. Clinton's standing have said into Lewinsky's answering ma- events-designed to attack the GOP as the is in the hands of his private lawyers and in chine, what she told Linda Tripp and what "do-nothing" Congress-and then hunker the state of the evidence. If investigators the Secret Service may have seen. down with Kendall to prepare for his testi- find DNA on the dress, Starr will surely The spinners are also hampered by the mony. White House aides have convinced seek a blood or other body sample from the fact that they are out of the loop. Before the themselves that the timing is good: the week president. That could produce a constitu- subpoena was issued, Kendall would regu- that American TV viewership is usually at tional confrontation all too characteristic of larly brief White House counsel Charles F. its yearly low. Hillary isn't expected to be the post-O.J. age. Even if the dress fails to C. Ruff, who would in turn pass along what- near the White House when Clinton is being deliver the goods for prosecutors, Lewin- ever he could to the political types. Now deposed, but then the family will depart to- sky is spending hours telling her side of the everyone's shut out except Bill, Hillary and gether for Martha's Vineyard, a tableau tai- story to the independent counsel-and Kendall. A sometime member of the circle is JANUARY 22 the truth. That is false I'd AT THE WHITE HOUSE WITH PALESTINIAN like for you to have more LEADER YASIR ARAFAT rather than less, sooner rather The allegations are false, and I than later. So we will work could never ask anybody to do through it as quickly as we can anything other than tell the and get all those questions truth. Let's get to the big issues out there to you. CNN there-about the nature of the relationship and whether I JANUARY 26 do. But I will cooperate. The suggested anybody not tell WHITE HOUSE EDUCATION NEWS CONFERENCE except maybe all the rest of the charges are not true. And I I'm going to say this again: American people. I am looking haven't asked anyone to lie. I did not have sexual relations forward to the opportunity in with that woman, Miss the next few days of testifying. JANUARY 21 Lewinsky. I never told any- I will do so completely and PBS "NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER" body to lie, not a single time. truthfully. I am anxious to do it. It means that there is not a But I hope you can understand sexual relationship, an JULY 31 why, in the interim, I can and improper sexual relationship, WHITE HOUSE ROSE GARDEN APPEARANCE should have no further or any other kind of improper No one wants to get this matter comment on these matters. relationship. behind us more than I do- Thank you very much. LEFT TO RIGHT: GREG GIBSON- AP. NEWSHOUR WITH IIM LEHRER PHOTOCOPY AUGUST 10, 1998 NEWSWEEK 25 VIA CNN AP.1. SCOTT APPLEWHITE- AP. KHUE PRESERVATION NATIONAL AFFAIRS Mickey Kantor, a Washington trade lawyer who goes back with the Clintons for decades, and who materializes whenever there is a legal-political crisis. Everyone else is freelancing, prepared to argue in favor of whatever legal move the First Firm chooses to make. White House aides, NEWSWEEK has learned, drew up a long list of arguments to make if the presi- dent had decided to ignore the Starr sub- poena. In fact, NEWSWEEK has learned, Kendall and Ruff declined to acknowledge the existence of the subpoena because nei- ther considered it constitutionally valid- and both wanted to reserve the right to pro- voke a constitutional confrontation over it. But Democrats on Capitol Hill, led by House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, privately advised otherwise. Most are law- yers, believers in the sanctity of the legal process-and jealous guardians of their own subpoena power. Among the White House staff, sources tell NEWSWEEK, chief of staff Erskine Bowles has always favored "disclosing more, sooner rather than later," as one of his friends put it. Then again, Bowles has long been way out of the loop- and he's thinking of running for governor of North Carolina. In Congress the idea is to stay cool. The deeper the scandal, the calmer the Demo- crats try to behave. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has admonished his troops to tout their legislatively "massive accomplish- The dealmakers: ments," and not the "I word." No one Cacheris (left), Stein knows the timing of the report. GOP lead- (center) and Martin ers say they are hoping for a week's ad- vance notice so they can enact rules to limit members' access to it. With Congress gone next week for the summer, and back for only one month after Labor Day, it would be hard to hold serious hearings before the election. In the interim, Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the House Judiciary Commit- Lewinsky VS tee, counseled calm. "Be judicious," he told members. "Don't speculate. Maintain the dignity of the institution." ATE LAST FALL, MONICA LEWIN- Lewinsky's apartment, Tripp could lift the Clinton is doing what he can to maintain sky had something she wanted to dress, throw her overcoat over it and walk the dignity of his institution, and his own show her friend Linda Tripp. She out. Goldberg wondered if there was a way standing in history. On the day that Le- opened up the closet in her Water- to test the garment to see if the stain was re- winsky cut her deal with Starr, the presi- gate apartment and pointed to a ally the president's semen. So she called dent was in the Capitol Rotunda. He gave blue cocktail dress. It bore the her client and close friend, former Los An- a spare and moving eulogy in memory of stain of President Clinton's semen, Lewin- geles homicide detective Mark Fuhrman, the two officers who had been slain there sky told Tripp. The former White House in- of O.J. Simpson fame. Is there any way to in the line of duty. The aim of a good life, tern claimed that she would never wear the get a DNA sample from such a garment? he said, was to love justice and do mercy. dress again-or have it cleaned. A few she asked. Sure, said Fuhrman. Get a Q- That evening he attended a private, no- nights later, Tripp told her pal, literary Tip, some sterile water and a plastic baggie. press dinner in Georgetown given by agent Lucianne Goldberg, about what she Run the Q-Tip over the stain, throw it into Irish-American Democrats. Peace negotia- had seen at Monica's apartment. Goldberg the baggie and take it to a private lab. tor George Mitchell praised the president, had encouraged Tripp to tape her phone Tripp and Goldberg may have cooked up portraying him as a heroic figure who had conversations with Lewinsky, as self-pro- an even more elaborate ruse to get at the given the Irish the chance to live in peace tection against White House attack and as dress. According to a source familiar with and unity. According to eyewitnesses, proof of Clinton's scandalous behavior. the investigation, Lewinsky remembered Clinton looked very tired, and at least Now, according to Goldberg, the two getting a call from Tripp in November or once seemed near tears. Everyone put it women discussed purloining Lewinsky's December. Tripp told Lewinsky that she down to his love of Ireland. dress to obtain irrefutable evidence. was so broke that she was selling her own With MATTHEW COOPER But how? Perhaps, on a return visit to clothes. Would it be possible, Tripp asked, 26 PHOTOCOPY NEWSWEEK AUGUST 10, 1998 LEFT TO RIGHT RON RAVIV ROBERT GIROUX PRESERVATION Genial but direct: Starr cut out his own hawkish deputies From a cocktail dress to phone tapes, Clinton Starr, with Monica's help, charts an alleged relationship. Behind the deal. BY MICHAEL ISIKOFF AND EVAN THOMAS to borrow some of Monica's? When? asked mine whether the stain is semen and, if so, Lewinsky, who has been spending sever- Monica, who was not at home at the time. whether it matches the president's DNA, it al hours a day talking to prosecutors, may Right away, said Tripp. She suggested that looms as a threat to the Clinton presidency. begin testifying as early as this week. In- Lewinsky tell the doorman to let her in the The case against Bill Clinton may finally formed sources say her account of a sexual apartment. When Lewinsky hesitated, be coming together. It is in many ways the relationship with the president is essentially Tripp asked, "What, you don't trust me?" same case that Americans first learned the same one she first offered to tell Kenneth Nothing came of these plots. "We were about when the scandal became public last Starr-in exchange for a promise of immu- just two girls having a Nancy Drew fanta- January. What's changed is that Monica Le- nity from prosecution-last January. Why sy," says Goldberg. But the dress acquired winsky is now willing to tell her story to the did it take Starr so long to strike a deal? a life of its own when the Lewinsky story grand jury under oath, and Bill Clinton has Part of the problem was trust. Starr's broke in late January. At first, tabloids volunteered, however reluctantly, to submit team thought that Lewinsky's first lawyer, screamed about the "Love Dress." When to the prosecutor's questioning. The presi- William Ginsburg, was unreliable and a lit- the garment failed to materialize, press crit- dent is undoubtedly in a tight spot, caught in tle flaky. By contrast, Starr has known and ics began to write about the "phantom se- his still-unexplained relationship with liked one of Lewinsky's new lawyers-Jake men stained dress." Now that the dress sits Monica Lewinsky and enmeshed in a web Stein, a respected Washington lawyer and in an FBI lab, undergoing tests to deter- spun by Tripp and Goldberg. himself a onetime special prosecutor-for In the NEWSWEEK Poll, 59% do not tend to believe Clinton's denials that he had a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinskyr23% do tend to take his word FOR THIS NEWSWEEK POLL, PRINCETON SURVEY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INTERVIEWED PRESERVATION 609 ADULTS RV EPHONE IIII.V 90-91 THE MARGIN OF ERROR IS +/- 4 PERCENTAGE AUGUST 10, 1998 NEWSWEEK 27 PHOTOCOPY NATIONAL AFFAIRS PRESERVATION many years. Talks be- tween the two sides had come to a halt two weeks ago when Starr called Close encounters: Stein directly. In order to An Oct. 23. 1996, remove any bad blood between the prosecution fund-raiser at the Sheraton Washington UNITY FUND and Lewinsky's defend- ers, Starr cut his more hawkish deputies out of the negotiations. In their place he substituted Sam Dash, an old Washington hand (he had been the chief counsel of the Senate Wa- tergate Committee) who had an easy relationship with Stein and his co-coun- sel, Plato Cacheris. Meeting at Dash's home over bagels, the two sides worked out an arrangement that would al- low Lewinsky to give prose- cutors a preview of what she would be willing to say under oath. Early last week Lewin- sky flew from her home in Los Angeles to a secret meeting with prosecutors in New York City, far from the Washington Office. She was wearing a blue cocktail dress. media stakeouts. Questioned first by a the reported stain on the dress turns out turned over tapes of several voice-mail friendly lawyer from Cacheris's office, then to be the president's semen (the lab tests messages allegedly left by Clinton. The by the prosecutors, Lewinsky talked for may take several weeks), Clinton has an im- president's words did not seem sexually four and a half hours. By the next morning, mediate perjury problem. Last January he the two sides had a deal. suggestive-"Hey, it's me," he reportedly denied under oath in his Jones deposition said. "Sorry I missed you." But the famil- Starr's team had some extra leverage to that he had ever had "sexual relations" with iarity between the chief executive and for- make sure Lewinsky was willing to tell the Lewinsky. Lying about a sexual relationship mer intern was embarrassing. "There's whole truth. Sometime last winter, Lewin- in a deposition in a civil case may not be per- always been an assumption that the presi- sky had given the dress to her mother, Mar- ceived as a serious offense. Lying before the dent wouldn't be stupid enough to leave cia Lewis, for safekeeping. That made Lew- grand jury in a criminal investigation is his voice on an answering machine," said is a possible target of Starr's probe, a reality more grave. It would surely be an indictable one disheartened White House aide. More that was brought home to her when she was offense in a normal criminal probe. Less cer- dangerous are the gifts that Lewinsky summoned before the grand jury last Febru- tain is whether it is an impeachable offense turned over to the president's secretary ary-and collapsed under questioning. Un- in Congress, which will probably serve as rather than comply with a subpoena in the der last week's deal, Lewis is also immune Clinton's judge and jury. Paula Jones case. from prosecution. The ultimate focus of Starr's case is not In the tape recording of a conversation The hard-liners on Starr's team had sex, but obstruction of justice. Under the between Lewinsky and Tripp last Decem- been hesitant to offer promises of immuni- immunity deal worked out between Starr ber that NEWSWEEK was permitted to hear, ty to Lewinsky without very specific and Lewinsky's lawyers, described to Lewinsky was eager to get rid of any incrim- promises of testimony in return. They felt NEWSWEEK by a knowledgeable source, inating presents. She referred to an official badly burned by former associate attorney Lewinsky will testify that she and the presi- White House photograph and worried that general Webster Hubbell, who promised dent discussed cover stories designed to the inscription from Clinton was so person- to give testimony in the Whitewater inves- keep their alleged relationship private. al that lawyers for Jones would use it against tigation in return for Starr's help in secur- Lewinsky reportedly will say that at a her. She told Tripp that she had tried to call meeting at the White House in late Decem- ing a lighter sentence after Hubbell plead- Betty Currie, the president's secretary, to ed guilty to overbilling his law clients in ber, she told the president her worries ask for a clean copy of the picture so that she 1994. The prosecutors believe that Hubbell about the subpoenaed gifts, which included might have one to give Jones's lawyers. But basically pulled a bait-and-switch, refusing a brooch and a book of poetry. The presi- on the tape, she complains that Currie was to say much of anything once he had a dent did not directly tell her to lie, she says. unavailable. There may also be another pho- deal. Starr's team was determined not to Rather, he spoke hypothetically. If you to of interest to the prosecutors. According make the same mistake with Lewinsky. don't have the gifts, he allegedly said, you to Goldberg, Lewinsky was photographed In addition to the dress, Lewinsky can't turn them over. Such a veiled sugges- standing beside the president in the Oval tion would hardly be the kind of evidence a Regardless of what happens in the courts or Congress, 47% think the president owes the country an explanation of the Monica matter; 49% say he doesn't 28 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 10, 1998 PRESERVATION МЕГЗОИ Family matters: Monica The gatekeeper: The presi- gave her mother, Marcia, dent's secretary, Betty Cur- the dress for safekeeping rie, allegedly collected his sometime last winter gifts to Lewinsky prosecutor needs to win a conviction for naled that she would reject any such argu- volunteer, in November 1993. obstruction of justice. But physical evi- ment. In return for the president's "volun- Willey had described the encounter to dence makes the case far stronger. teering" to appear before the grand jury on Tripp, but now, the talking points suggest- Much depends on the testimony of Betty Aug. 17, Johnson ruled that the president ed to Tripp, "you do not believe that what Currie, who allegedly took back the gifts, could testify via camera from the White she claimed happened really happened." and who has by now been thoroughly grilled House. Jurors will be able to submit ques- Back in January, Starr's deputies thought by prosecutors. Clinton cannot afford to tions through the prosecutor, who will be in the talking points could be the "smoking contradict her. It is more than likely Clinton the room with the president. Unlike most gun" in an obstruction-of-justice investiga- knows what she told the grand jury-under grand-jury witnesses, Clinton will be al- tion, and strongly suspected that Lewinsky a "joint defense agreement," lawyers for lowed to have his lawyers by his side. knew more than she was willing to reveal witnesses like Currie, other aides and vari- Starr may have some problems with his in her lawyer's initial negotiations with the ous Secret Service men routinely share in- own case, including sparring between his special prosecutor. Convinced that Lewin- formation with Clinton's lawyers. But the two main witnesses, Lewinsky and Tripp. sky could not have written the talking president can't be sure he knows everything They disagree on a number of points. For points, Starr's men believed that she must Starr knows, and one false step before the instance, Lewinsky says that Tripp urged have had help from the White House, pos- grand jury puts him at risk. her to keep the stained dress, while Tripp sibly from Clinton or Bruce Lindsey, his Normally, a grand jury "target" like Clin- says it was Lewinsky's idea. Tripp insists close personal adviser. ton would simply invoke his Fifth Amend- that she repeatedly urged Lewinsky to But last week Lewinsky told investiga- ment privilege against self-incrimination. break off her relationship with the presi- tors that she did write the talking points her- But a president cannot afford to be seen hid- dent. The two former friends also tell dif- self-and that her only help came from Lin- ing behind the Fifth. Likewise, the White ferent stories about the so-called talking da Tripp. Tripp has acknowledged talking to House decided it was too politically risky to points. Last Jan. 14, just before the scandal Lewinsky about what to say when testifying argue that, under the Constitution's separa- broke, Lewinsky handed Linda Tripp a about the Willey incident, but she hotly de- tion of powers, the chief executive cannot be three-page document advising her on how nied any role in writing the talking points. forced to testify by the judicial branch. Last to testify in the Paula Jones case about an She has told conservative columnists that week the tough-minded judge on the Clin- alleged sexual encounter between the pres- she received veiled threats from Lindsey to ton case, Norma Holloway Johnson, sig- ident and Kathleen Willey, a White House modify her version of events about the Wil- If the situation boils down to Monica's word against Clinton's, 39% are more likely to believe Lewinsky's version; 36% lean toward the president's; 25% don't know LEFT TO RIGHT: NO CREDIT (2), THE WHITE HOUSE K.C. STAB AUGUST 10, 1998 NEWSWEEK 29 NATIONAL AFFAIRS ley incident as she first described it to NEWSWEEK in August 1997. According to were real. Lindsey denies making any threats. Tripp, when Lewinsky handed Tripp the Starr's team had also been eager to in- talking points, she warned, "The president vestigate whether Clinton tried to buy expects you to be a team player. He feels you screwed him in the NEWSWEEK article." Le- ROBERT GIROUX LIAISON Lewinsky's silence by helping her get a job. Presidential pal Vernon Jordan has ac- winsky told Tripp that she and her children knowledged arranging for her to see several would be "in danger" if she failed to potential employers, including Revlon. But change her story, according to Tripp. It is this part of Starr's probe appears to have not known if Starr's investigators have flagged, possibly for want of solid evidence turned up any evidence that these alleged about Clinton's role or motives. threats The White House does not want to openly antagonize Lewinsky before she testifies. Last week presidential Tripp Speaks Out spokesman Michael McCurry rather unconvincingly stated that the presi- dent was pleased that "things are After her eighth grand-jury session, Tripp working out" for Lewinsky. But be- (right) publicly defended herself on the court- hind the scenes, Clinton's lawyers are house steps. Her statement: collecting dossiers on the former in- Good afternoon. going to have to refer to my notes. Please bear with me. I've just imagine, completed a my tern turned witness for the prosecu- tion. Through leaks to the press, they testimony relieved that the testimony has come hope-that all remain- legal I'm not a before public the speaker. federal I grand am jury. This has been a lengthy process to an and, end, as I am I'm glad sure to you have can fulfilled my will likely depict her as a flighty very difficult the one. While jury I am by testifying truthfully and completely. I hope-I sincerely that Monica [Lewinsky] has young woman who has told so many stories about her relationship with obligation witnesses to will grand do the same. I am encouraged that it appears will from show press that reports time after time, I urged her to tell Clinton that none can be believed. ing decided to cooperate with the independent counsel. The facts David Kendall, the president's pri- I understand that there has been a great like I'm an average American who found herself government in a employ- of truth right up until the end. deal of speculation about just who I am and how I got situation here. Well. not vate lawyer, has been reaching out the to lawyers for other witnesses to the answer is simple. I'm a I'm suburban you. I'm mom, just who you. was a military wife for 20 years, I am and a like faithful you, I ask you to imagine learn more about Lewinsky. "There is a mountain of evidence that un- her own making. asked to be placed in this position. Because just felony that could jeopardize dermines [Lewinsky's] credibility," ee how for you 18 years. would I feel never, if someone ever you in jail you and thought endanger was a the friend well-being urged you of your to commit children. a if Imagine that boss how was you the president would feel of if says one lawyer who is familiar your job, boss' potentially attorney called put you a liar in front of the whole country. And imagine released your confidential records to with Lewinsky's version of events. your would feel if your employer illegally would feel to see According to this source, some of the United States. demoted Imagine you how and you cast you aside for daring to tell the truth. of Imagine lies about how their it mother, a mother the Lewinsky's secretly recorded the pain media, in your then children's eyes when they hear a seemingly endless barrage statements to Tripp, as well as some of her later recollections, can who not out to is going defend herself. living, I became aware between 1993 and 1997 of actions things by high I witnessed gov- be documented as untrue. "She As a result of simply that may trying have to been earn against a the law. For that period of this nearly information five years, was the dangerous, very puts him in places where he ernment officials several different subjects made me increasingly fearful that This concerning investigation has never been, quote, 'just about sex' " can't be and has him doing things dangerous, to possess. On Jan. 12. 1998, the day I approached the Office of the Independent Counsel, I decided that couldn't have been done," says this lawyer. that fear would no longer be my master. quote, "just about sex." It has been about telling the nothing, truth. The let truth repeat, mat- Kendall's firm, Williams & This investigation has never been, know that I have testified to the fact that I had contributed to me assist- Connolly, is known for its ters. For example, it matters that so-called you talking now points. Allegations to the effect that I have been or vilified scorched-earth defense of cor- nothing to do with with preparing the creation the of the talking points are as illogical as chosen they are not patently to tell the false. truth, I and who know porate executives and public of- ed in any way maligned by people who have villain, they have ficials accused of crimes. A for taking the path telling of truth. the I've truth. been That's a pretty frightening thing. To entertainment cast me in the industry role of the have chosen to I standard tactic is to accuse the that they are not prevaricators. Not surprisingly, many in the and cruel that prosecutor of misconduct. enlisted legions as well, of paid going so far as to even make fun of my appearance malice in a manner toward so anyone mean in this so case. I have Kendall has already persuaded ridicule me subjected to it. Despite all of that, I bear no both parties. Judge Johnson to question pray none of you is ever agenda. I still don't. I have been honored to serve presidents this ordeal. in I don't never had any political a word about the people who've supported me throughout But they have made a believe noticeable they' effort Starr about illegal leaking of grand-jury secrets by the inde- I want to say insiders. I don't think that they're the politically connected. a deal to us. So for all of that, I pendent counsel's team, and Washington voice heard and to support me and my family. It has meant to thank great the men standing with me to have their also like to take this opportunity Coughter. I certain- today Kendall is sure to develop other lines of attack. In a nor- thank each and every one of and them. superb I'd counsel. Anthony Zaccagnini, Joe Murtha and Philip and Allison, who are mal criminal case, these de- for their not unfailing have gotten support through this without the love and support of our my country. children, As Ryan I said, I'm no different than fense countermoves some- ly could and a very strong extended family. I believe in believe have the right to do so times succeed in getting the here with me I believe today, you have the right to tell the truth under oath, and revealed, I you'll you understand that it is whole case thrown out. any without of you. fear of retribution or worse. I hope that when all the facts are a Clinton's problem is that right all of us should be fighting for. Thank you. he is not just any target. The PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION NATIONAL AFFAIRS Constitution does give the president a meas- wrongdoing to the House of Representa- der the special-prosecutor act. And at some ure of protection. Under the separation of tives, where, under the Constitution, the point, though probably not until after the powers, the chief executive probably cannot president can be impeached for "high November elections, the House is likely to be tried and convicted by the judicial branch crimes and misdemeanors." begin hearings. At that time, Lewinsky while serving in office. Starr's team, NEWS- Impeachment hearings are inevitably po- could be called as a witness, and the public WEEK has learned, has discussed indicting litical as well as legal. Is lying under oath will finally be able to hear her story. The the president for obstruction while he is still about sex a "high crime"? Is obstruction of question now is whether the president in office, but holding off on the trial until he justice? For the moment, Congress appears wants to explain himself first. is a private citizen. More likely, however, to be loath to decide. But Starr will eventually With DANIEL KLAIDMAN and Starr will send any evidence of criminal submit his report, as he is required to do un- MARK HOSENBALL drive the financial markets up- Confounding the Right ward, and they're nervous about any development that might distract the nation's true leaders: Robert Rubin and To a wary and divided GOP, Clinton can seem both Alan Greenspan. For the bot- contemptible and charming. BY DAVID BROOKS tom-liners, Clinton is just part of the furniture: he may not be a great man, but the good times aren't going to get better if he's VERY FEW DAYS AN driven from office. E e-mail message goes out The True Believers. For to Republican insiders these conviction conserva- from Rich Galen, the di- tives, Clinton is the issue. rector of GOPAC, Newt They are intellectual activists, Gingrich's favorite political- social conservatives and Rush action committee. After Mon- Limbaugh adherents who be- ica Lewinsky was granted im- lieve the president has cor- munity last week, Galen roded America's values. He wrote, "The notion of twisting has, in their "Book of Virtues" slowly, slowly in the wind has view, inured people to eva- popped back into my mind." sions, deceptions and unfaith- The comment is symptomatic fulness. He has defined the of the way Republicans are presidency down and invert- now talking about Bill Clin- ed morals to the point that so- ton: they would like to see phisticates wink at adultery him as a lame duck caught in a and bearing false witness- trap of his making. But in two of the Ten Command- their secret thoughts, Beltway RON ments-while smoking or tap- conservatives are nervous. Grudging admiration: Pros like Newt envy Clinton's skills ing Monica Lewinsky are Clinton is forever on the reviled. But this is the small- verge of destruction-until he this, you have to realize that initiatives like tobacco legisla- est faction within the party. somehow saves himself. They there are three, not one, Re- tion. The pros are now confi- The upshot: even if the remember, for example, that publican parties at the mo- dent they will pick up seats in president admits he hasn't Gingrich declared a revolu- ment. The factions: the fall, and they don't want to been truthful, his opponents' tion to roll back Clintonism- The Pros. These are the pro- overplay their hand on the cultural calculus is good for and then found himself fessional politicians, the con- scandal. So Gingrich has back- him. The most powerful "melting" in the president's gressmen and the consultants. tracked again. On July 14 the group, the pros, and the most beguiling company. They regard Clinton a bit like speaker told GOP House numerous faction, the every- Bill Clinton could talk him- the way Salieri viewed Mozart members to adopt a "calm po- day Republicans, both want self out of trouble again-and in "Amadeus." They know he sition" on Lewinsky. to avoid an impeachment that drives conservatives lacks character, but they envy The Bottom-Liners. These confrontation. The conviction crazy. In fact, the role the his inner feel for politics. Be- are the regular Republicans, conservatives may fill the air president plays in conserva- cause they can't understand the moneymakers from Wall with calls for justice, but tive psychology is one of the him (who can?), the pros are Street and Main Street. They don't look for a frontal as- great underdescribed topics always shifting gears. In April, don't admire Clinton, but they sault on Clinton unless the in the capital. To the right, he Gingrich accused Clinton of view him and the whole mess Starr report is far worse than is an enigmatic, contemptible orchestrating "the most sys- as if from a great distance. anything we see now. He's and, to some, even charming tematic, deliberate obstruc- They watch the CNBC busi- slipped away before, and figure. This fractured view of tion of justice in American his- ness programming, not may again. Clinton helps explain why Re- tory" and vowed to mention MSNBC's "NewsChat." "They publicans may be reluctant to the scandal in every speech. fear that political turmoil BROOKS, a senior editor of The stage passionate impeach- But since then, the Republi- might scare away the foreign Weekly Standard, is a NEWS- ment hearings. To understand cans have defeated Clinton investors who have helped WEEK contributing editor. 32 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 10, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION NATIONAL AFFAIRS OPINION cursion casts light on the Hamptons' newer affluent families, who, whatever their back- Hanging in the Hamptons ground, seem to make virtues of conspicu- ous consumption, personal publicity, VIP treatment and the apparent conviction that one's wealth and celebrity cancel out one's An old-line Long Island observer on an enclave obligation to live by the rules. Despite public that's going Hollywood and hosting the president outcry, for example, Sony Music CEO Tom- my Mottola has hired an army of lawyers to overwhelm local objections to his building a 200-foot dock at his new Sag Harbor house. By MICHAEL M. THOMAS before local markets started selling cherries (If you've ever had a zoning battle, you know T WASN'T ALWAYS HELICOPTERS AND at $10 a pound, before 60,000-square-foot how it goes: the well-off and the connected Hollywood. Until the mid-1980s, the houses rose from rural fields and reserva- usually win.) Hamptons-a few hundred square tions for Saturday-night dinner had to be To be fair, this sort of thing started long miles on Long Island's South Fork, a made six months in advance. This Holly- before the Clinton years. Beginning around two-hour drive from New York City-were wood-Wall Street Hamptons is the one the 1982-83, when the Great Bull Market took fairly quiet. Sandwiched between Peconic Clintons came to visit last week. For most of off and the Newhouses handed Vanity Fair Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, the area's ac- the country, the occasion must have seemed to Tina Brown, the Hollywood-Wall Street cessible rusticity, wide, sandy beaches, ex- impossibly glamorous: the First Couple nexus of money, power and celebrity came cellent golf and tennis and spacious turn- overnighting at the Steven Spielbergs' and howling into the Hamptons. You knew of-the-century "cottages" attracted affluent hanging out at the home of Alec Baldwin and there was a sea change when Saul Stein- families who, whatever their background, Kim Basinger. But the Hamptons the presi- took on an unassuming, low-key coloration dent circulated in is a Hamptons that people that seemed to go with the place. like me, who put down roots here 30 years That was before glitz trumped gentility; ago and more, scarcely recognize. His ex- The President's Weekend Power Trip The Hamptons, where lobster salad goes for $42 a pound at gourmet shops and the initia- tion fee at the Atlantic Golf Club is $250,000, hosted the Clintons last week. They schmoozed with stars and raised plenty of political cash. Some highlights of the visit: An eclectic mix in East Hampton A sampling of the Hamp- N.Y. CONN. tons' rich and famous: Three M Chevy Chase LONG Harbor ISLAND Sean (Puffy) Combs New Nora Ephron York City Atlantic Ocean LONG ISLAND Robert D.L. Gardiner Carl Icahn 1 From the airport the Baldwin Clintons traveled to the home Bianca Jagger 114 Spielbergs' home 7 Firehouse Billy Joel Atlantic East Hampton LIRR Calvin Klein 3 Golf Club airport Amagansett Henry Kravis 5 East Hampton Peter Matthiessen Montauk Hwy. 2 Wasserstein Lorne Michaels Georgian home Ronald Perelman Bridgehampton Pond 6 Sheffer 1 home George Plimpton 0 IMILE Lee Radziwill Spielberg home George Soros 2 Later they dined with Martha Stewart Mecox SOURCE: STEVEN GAINES, "PHILISTINES mogul Bruce Wasserstein Bay Atlantic Ocean AT THE HEDGEROW: PASSION AND Jann Wenner and his wife, Claude PROPERTY IN THE HAMPTONS" Kurt Vonnegut AMACANSETT FIRE ORGANIZED 1914 DEPART 3 Clinton gave his radio 4 Taking time out from 5 The president played a 6 Jonathan Sheffer 7 Kim and Alec Bald- address at the Amagan- the glitz, the First Lady round at the Atlantic Golf hosted a cocktail party win held a fund-raiser at sett Fire Department chatted with local kids Club in Bridgehampton for the Clintons their Amagansett home 34 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 10, 1998 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: RICK MAIMAN - SYGMA GORDON GRANT IPOL, DAVID ALLEN, GORDON GRANT IPOL. RUTH FREMSON-AP (2), JOAN JEDELL-SYGMA, DAVID ALLEN-CORBIS PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Why the President Should Tell All A former adviser makes the case for full disclosure-even if Clinton has to admit he's shaded the truth SO far. BY GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS WO DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS 1991, ABOUT 20 OF US ON THE T and maybe longer, Mrs. Clinton, Kendall and his associates are the Clinton team met for a strategy session in the basement of functional equivalent of the White House staff. They have the presi- the governor's mansion in Little Rock. As we reviewed po- dent's best interests at heart, but their first responsibility is his legal tential 1992 problems, I mentioned the candidate's draft defense and his personal well-being. To survive, Clinton needs to record. "We're going to need some tighter answers," I said. "It's take the broad view and pursue a three-pronged strategy: going to come back." The governor launched into a passionate First, the president ought to tell the whole truth to the grand tirade against the Vietnam War and declared that he'd rather lose jury. That may require him to contradict statements he has al- the election than say it was right. ready made; but if necessary, it's worth the legal and political That wasn't my point, of course. But raising such a sensitive sub- risk. As a practical matter, perjury before a federal grand jury is a ject in a big meeting was a rookie's mistake. I had painted Clinton far more serious offense than false statements of questionable into a corner, and he responded by resenting the question and re- materiality in a civil lawsuit that's been dismissed. Even a Con- pressing the answers. Later, a couple of us approached the gover- gress reluctant to pursue impeachment will have no choice but to nor alone. "We're not saying go forward if Starr can build a you have to apologize,"Iex- credible case that the presi- plained. "But we need the same dent lied to the grand jury. information our opponents Second, upon completing his have." He nodded and ap- testimony, Clinton should make proved our plan to investigate a statement to the country fully his record. But it was too late; describing his relationship with our opponents and the press Lewinsky. If the facts warrant were way ahead of us. it, he should apologize. It may Now President Clinton is on be a difficult speech; he would the threshold of grand-jury have to reveal more of his true scrutiny that will make the in- self than he ever has before. quiry into his draft history There is a standard political seem like a pleasant episode of apology-the Reaganesque "This Is Your Life." Whether "mistakes were made" ap- the Lewinsky crisis comes proach. Clinton's would have to down to a question of physical be more like the one Jesse Jack- evidence or he said, she said, son gave in 1984 when, under with a raft of damaging circum- RON HAVIV-SABA fire for allegedly anti-Semitic stantial detail, the president remarks, he asked the Demo- needs to explain himself to the Moment of truth: The next few weeks are about the verdict no cratic National Convention to country. If he's shaded the president, even Bill Clinton, can escape: the judgment of history "be patient-God is not fin- truth, it's time to amend the ished with me yet." record. If he's lied, he should tell all, apologize and hope for the Not everyone will accept such a dramatic reversal, and the juxta- best. If he doesn't step forward now, the rest of his term will be posed clips of the president's "that woman" January denial and an consumed by prosecutorial fallout and the risk that he will have ultimate apology would be the most searing political imagery since little credibility with the public. This is the most important politi- Nixon. But polls suggest what common sense dictates: the country cal decision of his life, and it's about more than the next news cycle will likely forgive the president human failings, and they don't think or the next election. It's about the verdict no president can escape: he should lose his job even if he lied about a sexual relationship. there's no sliding by the judgment of history. Barring a bombshell, Congress would probably be reluctant to act I don't envy my former colleagues. Making decisions in the on a Starr report in the face of a presidential mea culpa. White House is never easy, and the circle around the president is Third, he should VOW never to discuss the matter again, and im- smaller than ever. Clinton can only confide in the First Lady and in mediately return to running the country. With 29 months remaining David Kendall's legal team. Because of Kenneth Starr's subpoena in the White House, Clinton can still build on his accomplishments. power, no one on the White House staff-not even Vice President But dragging this into 1999 will paralyze him for the rest of his term. Gore-can safely ask the president for a full accounting of his rela- How Clinton handles the weeks ahead will determine whether tionship with Lewinsky. This cone of silence puts Clinton at a terri- he can serve out his term with honor. For his sake, and for the sake ble disadvantage. My draft gaffe aside, the president makes his best of the country, he should remember words he spoke at his first In- decisions when several strong-willed people are gathered around augural: "We know we have to face hard truths and take strong the couches in the Oval or the cabinet table to debate the options. steps. But we have not done so." It's not too late. The president hears everyone out, then synthesizes the advice into a single course of action. But without the facts, it's nearly impossi- STEPHANOPOULOS, former senior adviser to the president, is a ble for staffers to give useful counsel. Until the president testifies, contributor to NEWSWEEK and ABC News. PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION AUGUST 10, 1998 NEWSWEEK 33 U.S. NEWS PHOTOCOPY M Moment of truth Monica Lewinsky agrees to testify, creating a crisis for the president BY KENNETH T. WALSH, MAJOR GARRETT, MARIANNE LAVELLE, AND JULIAN E. BARNES 0 it has come to this: The president who S came to office suggesting that his achieve- ments would be comparable to Franklin Roosevelt's, who initially lifted America's hopes for a new era of healing and altruism, who promised the most ethical administration in history, is being forced to give testimony to a grand jury investigating whether he had sex with a young White House aide. Faced with a subpoena from In- dependent Counsel Kenneth Starr and a potential loss of support among congressional Democrats, Bill Clinton reluctantly agreed to be questioned on closed-circuit television at the White House on Au- gust 17. It will, finally, be his day of reckoning. Under an agreement reached with Starr, Clinton will have his own lawyers in the room to advise him. Precisely what he will be asked and how he will respond are not known, since both sides want to preserve the element of surprise. The central question is whether the president will repeat his testimony in the now-dismissed Paula Jones sexu- al-harassment case and his now-famous public statement that he never had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. An- other key question is whether he will once again deny telling anyone to lie about their relationship. Given that his comments will be closely scruti- nized for perjury and possible evidence of other crimes, the possibility of impeachment proceed- ings is no longer a mere abstraction. Whatever the outcome, Clinton will be the first sitting president to testify before a grand jury as the target of a crimi- nal inquiry. He will have to endure the humiliation of answering detailed questions about the most inti- mate aspect of his private life-his sexual activities. His advisers expect that Lewinsky, now that she has (LEFT) PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD ELLIS-SYGMA FOR USN&WR; (TOP) JEFFREY MACMILLAN FOR USN&WR 15 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION TIME TO TALK. Lawyer David Kendall announces that Clinton will testify "in an effort to achieve a prompt resolution of this entire matter." obtained immunity from prosecution, struction. But it seems unlikely that Starr ing between Lewinsky and the prosecu- will reverse her earlier testimony and tell will do this, since these investigations tors in New York on Monday, July 27. the grand jury that she had sex of some seem to have fallen short of developing The next day, Stein and Cacheris received sort with the president. hard evidence of wrongdoing. At this the draft of an agreement outlining what She also gave prosecutors a dress they point, his prosecutors appear to believe testimony Starr wanted from Lewinsky. suspect may contain physical evidence of that the Lewinsky case offers the best Two sources close to Lewinsky's law- sexual activity with Clinton as well as voice chance of obtaining "substantial and yers say that Starr had been insisting that mail messages the president left at her credible information that may consti- she plead guilty to some lesser offense in home. Starr promptly sent the dress to the tute grounds for an impeachment." Those exchange for immunity on other admis- FBI lab for DNA testing. Perhaps most im- words, under the independent-counsel sions she would make. But, they say, portant, Lewinsky will say that she and law, are the trigger for a report to the Stein and Cacheris would not budge. Clinton discussed ways to conceal their re- House of Representatives. Starr finally relented and gave Lewinsky lationship, a source reports. That could and her mother, Marcia Lewis, "transac- become evidence for the obstruction-of- justice and witness-tampering charges Lewinsky's story tional immunity," protecting them both from prosecution for crimes either may that Starr has been pursuing for so long. F or six months, Lewinsky's position on have committed, as long as Lewinsky tes- Some congressional Republicans be- what she was willing to tell a grand tifies truthfully. It is the broadest form of lieve Starr may deliver a report to Con- jury had changed little, if any. Even immunity under the law. gress that extends well beyond Lewinsky with her new, savvy Washington lawyers, What Starr got in return was crucial. matters. Under this theory, the report Plato Cacheris and Jacob Stein, she re- Lewinsky apparently is willing to say would encompass all the Clinton-related mained at loggerheads with Starr's office. that she and Clinton had sex and that matters Starr has looked into over the Then, on Lewinsky's 25th birthday- Clinton suggested ways to hide their re- past four years-including the so-called Thursday, July 23-Starr placed a call to lationship from Jones's lawyers. Most Whitewater, Travelgate, and Filegate in- her lawyers. He apparently told Stein that important, Lewinsky delivered the dress vestigations-using details from all of he was nearing the end of his witness list, and phone message tapes. Theoretically, them to argue that Clinton engaged in a and the time had arrived to make a deal. that evidence would make it harder for pattern of deception, obfuscation, and ob- That conversation led to a five-hour meet- the president to continue to deny that 16 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 10. 1998 PHOTOCOPY RON HAVIV-SABA/POOL PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS CHARLIE ARCHAMBAULT FOR USN&WR White House's West Lobby. There did not tell the truth last January were two reasons for the turnaround. when deposed in the Jones case, in re- First, with Starr's inquiry accelerating, sponse to the question about "sexual the president, the first lady, and Ken- relations" with Lewinsky, he faces two dall believed Starr would use every le- problematic options. Either he admits gal maneuver to force Clinton to testify to committing perjury then, or he risks on Starr's terms. Kendall also feared committing perjury again by repeating that Judge Norma Holloway Johnson his Jones testimony-this time before would require Clinton to personally go a federal grand jury. A second perjury before a grand jury-a humbling of the would mean that Clinton's defenders presidency that Thomas Jefferson in could no longer argue that Starr was 1807 rejected as "preposterous." Clin- building a case out of an essentially ton, imagining his place in the history trivial matter-a sex lie in a civil case books, told aides, "I'm not going to be that a judge had dismissed for lack of the first president to appear before a evidence. grand jury." And the only way to avoid For Clinton to continue to deny a that, and extract favorable conditions, sexual relationship with Lewinsky and Kendall believed, was to negotiate im- a cover-up, he and his advisers must mediately. Clinton insisted on testify- make the calculation that Starr has ing at the White House and having at not compiled enough evidence to least one of his lawyers present-some- TRIPP. Her tape recorder was running. prove otherwise. "He could hope that thing rarely done in grand jury appear- in a two-sided story, his side will be ances. Starr agreed on condition that in their fall re-election campaigns. the one that ends up being believed, or Clinton be questioned under oath on vid- Among those whose concerns impressed that it is a close enough call that nobody eotape and closed-circuit TV. White House officials were House Demo- is really sure which one is telling the The second reason behind Clinton's de- cratic leader Dick Gephardt and a num- truth, and a toss-up goes to the target," cision to testify was a message from Capi- ber of political consultants and pollsters. says E. Lawrence Barcella, a former pros- tol Hill. If he refused, Democrats said, In deciding to testify, Clinton has ecutor and criminal defense lawyer in they would find it difficult to defend him placed himself at considerable risk. If he Washington. But it may not be exactly a EVOLUTION OF A SCANDAL promises new information- saw and heard. Starr subpoe- more rather than less, soon- nas Clinton. Sex, secrets, and subpoenas er rather than later." JULY 27: An appeals court says E vents since Monica DEC. 28, 1997: Lewinsky visits JANUARY 26: "I did not have lawyer Bruce Lindsey, a Clin- Lewinsky arrived in Clinton in the White House. sexual relations with that ton confidant, must testify. Washington three years ago: woman, Miss Lewinsky," JAN. 7, 1998: In a Jones case af- Clinton tells reporters. "I nev- JULY 28: Lewinsky and her JUNE 1995: Lewinsky RICK WILKING-REUTERS fidavit, Lewinsky de- er told anybody to lie, not a mother agree to testify in ex- starts work as an un- nies having sex with single time-never." change for full immunity. paid White House Clinton. Prosecutors expect Lewinsky intern; six months APRIL 1: A federal judge dis- to say she and Clinton were later, she becomes a JANUARY 12: Tripp tells misses the Paula Jones suit. intimate. paid employee. Kenneth Starr's of- fice she has the Lew- JULY 17: Starr's team asks Se- JULY 29: Clinton agrees to pro- APRIL 1996: Repri- insky tapes. cret Service agents what they vide testimony on August 17. manded for linger- Paula Jones CHICK HARRITY FOR USN&WR ing around the Oval JANUARY 16: Tripp Office, Lewinsky is trans- lures Lewinsky to lunch. ferred to the Pentagon, where Prosecutors show up and she meets Linda Tripp. seek her cooperation. FALL 1997: Tripp begins secret- JANUARY 17: Clinton, deposed ly taping phone talks in which in the Jones case, denies hav- Lewinsky says she had an af- ing an affair with Lewinsky. fair with President Clinton. JANUARY 21: Media report Clin- DEC. 5, 1997: Clinton learns ton and Lewinsky allegedly that Lewinsky will be sub- had a sexual relationship. poenaed in Paula Jones's sexual harassment case JANUARY 22: Clinton tells press against him. "the allegations are false" and JANUARY. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." 18 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 10, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION they had an intimate relationship. reviewed what he knew about Lewinsky The biggest concession that Starr made with his personal secretary Betty Currie, a in accepting the Lewinsky deal, political conversation that could be interpreted as and legal observers believe, is what they Starr's score card coaching his aide to align her recollections once considered a key piece of evidence: a with his in case she was called to testify in Four years ago this week, three-page document labeled "points to the Jones case, prosecutors believe they Kenneth Starr took over the make in affidavit." Linda Tripp, Lewin- have the foundation of an obstruction sky's onetime friend, said the so-called case. The public, too, may be primed to be- Whitewater investigation. talking points were instructions that lieve that Clinton could have encouraged The results so far: Lewinsky handed her on how to lie in the Lewinsky to deny their affair. Still, new Jones case-instructions that seemed to polls show the president retaining his high Indictments: 19; convictions: 12; be written by someone with a fairly exten- approval ratings (story, Page 21). acquittals or mistrials: 2; indict- sive knowledge of the law. But Lewinsky ments thrown out by courts: 7; in- plans to testify that she wrote the docu- ment herself, based on comments made Clinton's calculations dictments reinstated by higher by Tripp. courts: 3. "Starr's people must have become con- C linton didn't agree to testify because he saw advantage in it. The months Highest-ranking official forced vinced through their dealings with Stein of stonewalling by David Kendall, and Cacheris that the talking points were one of his private lawyers, ended because from office: Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy not what they appeared to be," says Brad- Starr had subpoenaed the president and a Tucker; highest-ranking official ford Berenson, a Washington criminal judge was threatening to set a date for the named by Starr as an unindicted lawyer who has been supportive of Starr. testimony if Clinton did not comply. co-conspirator and allowed to re- "But in exchange, Lewinsky came for- Within 24 hours of that threat, on July main in office: Deputy White House ward and gave quite a bit more evidence 28, Kendall and Clinton decided to coop- of subornation of perjury and obstruction erate "voluntarily." The next day, Kendall Counsel Bruce Lindsey; lowest-rank- than they had before." met with the president at his residence. ing official named as an unindict- For prosecutors, the obstruction case The lawyer already had a date he had ed co-conspirator and forced from has always been the most substantive. worked out with Starr, and Clinton as- office: Bill Watt, a Little Rock traffic Lewinsky has offered to testify that Clin- sented. "Let's get it done," he told an aide judge. ton described to her hypothetical lan- minutes later. guage that could be used to conceal their Kendall then called White House Press Longest prison sentence: 3 relationship. Such evidence is not defini- Secretary Mike McCurry to work out the tive proof of obstruction of justice. But years, to Jim McDougal, who died in language of a terse statement that Kendall combined with the allegation that Clinton read to a snarl of reporters outside the prison after serving less than a year; most time served: 21 months, by Su- san McDougal, including 18 months for contempt of court and 3 months for a Whitewater conviction. Money spent on investigations through last September: $35 mil- lion; number of lawyers on Starr's staff before the Lewinsky investi- gation: 18; lawyers added since then: 10. Witnesses who have appeared before grand juries in the Lewin- sky investigation: at least 59; wit- ness with most grand jury appear- ances: Linda Tripp (8). Number of times Starr ques- tioned Bill Clinton about Whitewater and related matters: 3; times he questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton: 3. Number of reports issued: 1 (a finding that White House lawyer Vincent Foster committed suicide). ENDGAME. In two days, Starr secures the testimony of the scandal's two central figures. RICHARD ELLIS-SYGMA FOR USN&WR U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 10, 1998 17 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION BREAKTHROUGH. Attorney Plato Cacheris, left, announces that Lewinsky will testify in exchange for full immunity from prosecution. he-said, she-said case. The president will him. Starr's supporters agree that the to care.) Clinton's problem is his five- face a massive amount of potential cor- leaking harms his strategy. "They'd like hour deposition in the Jones case, in roboration collected by Starr over six the president to submit to an interroga- which he declared, "I have never had months, including Secret Service testimo- tion in as close to a state of ignorance as sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky." ny, sightings by White House staffers, possible," says defense attorney Beren- If Starr can show that to be a lie, through White House logs of visits, 20 hours of son. The more Clinton knows, the more Lewinsky's testimony and possibly Tripp-Lewinsky telephone tapes, and the he can shape his testimony. through physical evidence, the presi- recording made of Lewinsky when Tripp dent's statement would appear to be per- was wired by the FBI. Lies and legalities jury in that civil case. It is not clear Whether the dress Lewinsky turned whether the grand jury would charge over will cause problems is not at all W hite House advisers expect Starr's him with a criminal offense for that, or clear. First, it must be found to contain team to quiz Clinton in detail even whether it would be permissible to evidence of sex. Second, Starr must then about his alleged sexual relation- do so under the Constitution, which sug- obtain a DNA sample, such as blood or sa- ship with Lewinsky. Prosecutors are like- gests that "high crimes and misdemean- liva, from the president. Some believe ly to ask about the precise types of sexual ors" by the president are the province of that Clinton would have to comply with a encounters they may have had, whether congressional impeachment proceedings. request for a DNA sample, just as he re- there was sexual climax, and where the But Starr could cite the lie as evidence of lented to Starr's request to testify after be- encounters occurred. an impeachable offense in a report to ing subpoenaed. Other constitutional ex- Still, even if Clinton did have sex with Congress. perts maintain that because it is not clear Lewinsky, he committed no crime when Nonetheless, while the nation and most a sitting president can be indicted, he he told the American people that he lawmakers have yet to decide if commit- can't be forced to give a DNA sample as a didn't. (Polls for months have indicated ting perjury in the Jones case qualifies as prelude to a possible indictment. Clinton that even if he did, the public seemed not an impeachable crime, several Republi- may try to hinge his defense on an inter- cans on the House Judiciary Committee CHARLIE ARCHAMBAULT FOR USN&WR pretation of "sexual relations." But the have already decided it does. "To commit highly specific definition used in the an act of perjury is unacceptable," says Jones case leaves him virtually no wig- Rep. Charles Canady of Florida. "It's not a gle room. matter we can simply wink at." Even the leaking to the media of the de- The other issues involve the broad tails of Lewinsky's planned testimony is themes of witness tampering and ob- viewed as part of a high-stakes strategic struction of justice. Did Clinton obstruct game. Some friends of the president see justice by allegedly suggesting ways Lew- the leaks as part of a deliberate effort by insky could conceal their affair? Paul Lewinsky's allies to give the White House Rothstein, a law professor at Georgetown advance warning of the questions Clinton University, says that depends on whom might face from Starr's prosecutors. Al- and what the cover stories were for-for though her lawyer-negotiated testimony friends and associates, for a court affida- itself is a blow to Clinton, their view is vit, or for a deposition. "If they were actu- that she personally still wants to protect HOUSE'S HYDE. Awaiting Starr's report ally discussing her testimony in the Paula PHOTOCOPY 20 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 10, 1998 JAY MALLIN VISUALS FOR USN&WR PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS Jones case, that would definitely be ille- gal," Rothstein says. "It would definitely THE MOOD IN MIDDLE AMERICA be suborning perjury, possibly obstruc- tion of justice. It's witness tampering." But even then, Rothstein adds, Clinton It's time to move on, the people say may have an out, because the lie must in- volve something material to the case. "It BY WARREN COHEN coffeehouse after working 25 years at has to be capable of influencing the judi- the local General Motors assembly J ANESVILLE, WIS.-The lunch cial proceedings in which it is given." And plant, says, "Maybe if he got entangled a federal judge in Arkansas ruled that evi- crowd at the Looking Glass Bar with a spy from another country, it dence regarding Clinton's relationship and Restaurant is finally finding would be critical. But a private affair is with Lewinsky was not essential to the something it likes about the Monica a private thing." Jones case. Lewinsky story: Maybe, just maybe, Views become mixed, however, Experts also have mixed views on the diners are hoping, the sordid saga when the issue of adultery is blended is about to reach its end. whether Starr could build an obstruction with the question of lying. Some resi- case if Clinton told Lewinsky that she "I am so sick of this story," moans dents think Clinton would be justified could avoid a subpoena on his gifts to her Becky Malone, 25, a juvenile proba- in covering up an affair. "Any man in by returning them to his secretary Betty tion officer. "You try and watch the his right mind would lie, especially a Currie. "If, as some of the reports say, news and you're bombarded with it," married man," says Mike Islami, 28, Betty Currie gave them to her, and that's adds Robert Penn, 41, a physician. operator of the Riverside Family Res- sort of the way they reward people in the "I've got more important things to do," taurant. "People figure that politicians office, that may fuzz it up," Rothstein LCIS BERNSTEIN FOR USN&WR don't speak the truth says. "But that still comes close to ob- anyway," says Chris struction of justice if, at the time he Ryan, 37, a chemical knows they are seeking these gifts from company worker. Yet a number of Monica and he tells her the way to avoid that is to give them back to Betty Currie. other people in That Janesville refuse to may well be over the line." On the "talking points" memo, Clinton look the other way. "I don't care about sex- and his advisers appear, for now, to be off the hook. The memo appears to suggest ual peccadilloes, but that Tripp should shade the truth in her it's important if he affidavit in the Jones case. Its authorship lied under oath," says was important to Starr, because it could Ray Holderman, 58, be used as hard, documentary evidence a family practitioner. regarding witness tampering or obstruc- "I could forgive tion of justice. someone if they had Last week it became clear that Lewin- MCCULLOUGH. "A private affair is a private thing." said they've made sky will testify that she wrote the reports mistakes," says Neal herself, based on conversations with says Kim Demrow, 31, a hardware Forsman, 48, a culinary arts student, Tripp. That admission would seem to re- store employee, "like worry about my "but if they weren't truthful when giv- own life." move suspicion from Clinton's confi- en a chance to confess, then I have a dants, though Starr aide Charles Bakaly Sentiment in downtown Janesville, problem." would not confirm that the issue is no a farm-and-factory community of Judi Kohl, 34, a teacher and long- 58,000 that went for Clinton in 1992 longer important. Those who say it is di- time Clinton backer, agrees. "If he ad- minished, he said, "are merely speculat- and 1996, roughly mirrors the views mits it now, he should step down," she that for months have dominated na- ing or trying to promote a certain view." says. In fact, a new Wall Street Jour- Tripp reacted angrily. "I had nothing, let tional polls. People questioned on the nal/NBC News poll found 45 percent of street tend to believe that Clinton had me repeat, nothing to do," she said, "with the country believing that perjury preparing the so-called talking points." a sexual relationship with Lewinsky- would warrant impeachment hearings. but most still approve of his job as But Janesville is no hotbed of im- president. peachment talk. Much of the chatter in White House strategy What's important. "His personal life town focuses instead on the recent source very close to the president has no bearing on his work perform- walkout at the GM plant and the open- A told U.S. News that Clinton realizes ance," says Vicki Pederson, 48, a sales- ing of a health club. Nor is the Janes- he must tell the truth to the grand clerk. "The story is sleazy and bother- ville Gazette fixated on Washington's jury or Starr will make a convincing case some," says Frederic Hoesly, 58, a scandal. The Lewinsky dress that of perjury-and Congress will then begin retired high school English teacher, stirred headlines in big-city tabloids impeachment hearings. Clinton is said to "but it's not as important as the good managed to make the Gazette's front understand that even if those hearings job he's done as president." page last week-but with only a bit didn't lead to actual impeachment, they "The only thing that matters," adds more prominence than was given a re- would put the country through a lengthy Jacen Heideman, 42, a bank manager, port on the prizewinning hogs that trauma and would paralyze him and his "is whether Hillary is happy with him." some local schoolgirls have entered in administration. Cynthia McCullough, who opened a the Rock County Fair. Growing numbers of Clinton friends PHOTOCOPY U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 10, 1998 21 PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS and advisers, including former aides that Starr will deliver his report just be- public hearings are warranted. Sequester- George Stephanopoulos and David Ger- fore the midterm elections-as a bomb- ing the report will require a change in gen (now editor at large for U.S. News), shell designed to hurt the Democrats in House rules that currently permit any along with congressional Democrats such November. Then, according to this think- member to request a copy. House Demo- as Gephardt are publicly urging the presi- ing, which assumes continued GOP con- crats are expected to comply. "We want to dent to explain his relationship with Lew- trol of Congress, House Judiciary Com- keep it under lock and key," says Hyde. insky more fully. The problem is that no mittee Chairman Henry Hyde will give "We don't want people just piling on like it one except the president and presumably Starr two or three days to present his was a sale at J. C. Penney." the first lady and Kendall know what findings on national TV in January or Hyde and other senior Republicans went on. Several prominent Clinton allies February, with no questions allowed until worry that the Starr report will arrive in are prepared to counsel him that the later. Democrats worry that Starr will ef- late September, forcing them to decide the American people do not expect question of impeachment in the JAY MALLIN-IMPACT FOR USN&WR salacious details but would for- heat of the midterm elections. give him if he admitted making "It might arrive so close to the a mistake. In one suggested sce- election," Hyde says, "that we nario, he would say he misled would have to think long and people about his relationship hard about whether to hold it with Lewinsky to protect the over until after the election." For honor of his wife, his daughter, now, Hyde downplays the possi- and the country. bility of conducting impeach- Still, sources say that both ment hearings before Novem- Mrs. Clinton and Kendall ada- ber. "I'm not thinking in those mantly want him to stick to his terms," he says. earlier denial. And there are no Unlike some senior Republi- plans at the White House for cans, Hyde sees no reason to the president to make any mea conduct hearings on the report culpa speech at this time. If it unless the goal is to draft, de- happens, Clinton strategists bate, and vote on articles of im- say, it would not be before he peachment. Some Republicans gives his August 17 testimony. have privately suggested letting Starr's questions will help his Starr testify about the contents legal team to determine exactly of his report-thereby giving what evidence the independent people time to consider the sig- counsel has-knowledge that nificance of his conclusions. Re- could be vital in crafting a mea publicans who favor this ap- culpa that would win public proach see it as a way to sympathy and blunt any coun- measure public sentiment with- terattack by Starr's office. out appearing to take partisan If Clinton did confess to mis- advantage, but Hyde says he statements, however, the Lew- does not want to hold hearings insky matter would lose much for PR purposes. of its significance. Some believe "We want to do this in as that Starr would then deliver to much of a bipartisan way as Congress a broad report dealing possible," he says. "Whatever with his other investigations of we do will be criticized for its Clinton-Whitewater, Travel- partisanship. When this begins, gate, Filegate. I am going to paint myself with The broader-report option TESTIMONY AHEAD. Lewinsky heads for her lawyers' offices. shark repellent every morning." may account for the fact that House Republicans remain Starr has kept Little Rock FBI agents de- fectively present a mini-soap opera detail- uneasy about dealing with a Starr report tailed to him even after the Little Rock ing Lewinsky's time at the White House, in the heat of the campaign season. They grand jury ended its work. Those agents with spicy riffs on her romantic entangle- know some Democrats will accuse them have been gathering documents for pros- ments with the president, and this will of partisanship no matter what they do, ecutors who are writing a narrative re- cause the country to turn on Clinton. and they know the public's reaction could port-although it is not known how much tip the balance in several key open seat of the report is completed, one source Congress's endgame races in November. Indeed, the notion of said. Complicating things for Starr is the holding impeachment hearings makes matter of Clinton's confidant and top aide epublicans have already agreed on even Clinton's critics uncomfortable. Says Bruce Lindsey, whose testimony Starr also is seeking. Lindsey entered a hospital R how to proceed once the report ar- Rep. Jennifer Dunn of Washington State, rives. First, they will try to sequester a member of the House GOP leadership: last week for back surgery and is unlikely the report. Despite the media feeding fren- "You would have to be crazy to be excited to be able to testify until late August. This zy they know will ensue, Republicans about doing this." could delay Starr's report if Lindsey's tes- want to keep it closely held until a handful timony is deemed critical. of lawmakers can review its contents and Elise Ackerman and Marci McDonald also White House advisers are concerned recommend to the full House whether contributed to this story 24 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 10, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION TIME What happened a few hours later was MEDIA SHY one. Although the move put both sides into the legal all-star game of the Lewinsky David Kendall, the President's personal uncharted legal territory, it seems fairly cer- scandal. Kendall, Starr and Lewinsky's attorney and old friend, operates with a low tain that a sitting President-unlike White- lawyers gathered for the first time in one profile but is a formidable negotiator water defendant Susan McDougal or any room for a hearing so private the court clerk other ordinary citizen-cannot be sent to jail would not confirm it happened. The issue at following the closed-door session, but the for contempt. One response Clinton can hand was Starr's appeal of a sealed order episode had clearly escalated the hostilities make to the subpoena is to move to quash it. last month by the lower-court judge Norma between Starr and Kendall. Failing that, if he refuses to testify, the ques- Holloway Johnson, who not only admon- Kendall has proved a striking antagonist tion of whether he must comply immediate- ished Starr for his team's alleged leaks but to Starr. He is a Quaker to Starr's more evan- ly goes to Congress. It is Congress that would LIAISON FOR TIME also ordered him to turn over records of its gelical brand of Christian; a liberal to Starr's then decide whether to hold hearings to de- contacts with the media. The President's Federalist Society conservative; a man who termine if his defiance merits impeachment lawyer, who had lodged the almost forgot- does his pro bono work for the NAACP Legal proceedings. Those hearings would in- ten complaint about leaks last February, Defense and Educational Fund, while Starr evitably give Starr an opportunity to make a had obviously hit pay dirt with Johnson. His moonlighted as counsel for a conservative broader case of widespread corruption at the motion had all his legal trademarks: it was Wisconsin foundation's fight for school White House. And while airing his case in a litigated in secret, was designed to keep choice. Their interplay became all the more political setting might seem to play to Clin- Starr quiet, and is a subject about which intriguing last week when the heretofore ton's strength, last week the President's po- Kendall will say nothing. Sources tell TIME academic question of whether the President litical strategists told his lawyers bluntly the appeals court put the matter on hold can be subpoenaed became a very, very real that Clinton will jeopardize his support TIME, AUGUST 3, 1998 39 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION among House Democrats if he refuses to testify. Kendall's preferred op- tion will always be silence. It was Kendall who moved most forcefully in the 48 hours after the scandal broke to shut down Clinton's own plan to explain himself and go public with, as the Presi- TYLER dent put it, more rather than less; sooner rather than later. THE THREAT Even as the White House Lewinsky is the only person spin operation was weighing besides Clinton and Kendall options on how and when who knows what happened Clinton would tell his story- whether it was to be in an in- SILENT FOR NOW terview or a news confer- The Clintons and Buddy ence, on television or in head to Camp David while his lawyer talks with Starr print-"the lawyers went through chapter and verse with [Clinton] come clean, although he admits the ques- ly intelligent, but he's also just a decent, RUTH and decided it was in his best interest not to tion is a close one. "Most people think grounded person from head to toe, and he say anything," White House press secretary we've probably done the right thing," he always impressed me-from the time that I Mike McCurry recalled last week. says. "But we've now spent day and night met him until today-as someone that I No other decision is likely to have such for six months engulfed in this mess." could count on and trust implicitly." a profound impact on how history will view No one can know for sure, however, It was not their old law-school ties but the second half of the Clinton presidency. without knowing Clinton's entire story, a budding controversy over a land deal in In purely legal terms, the strategy was in- and Kendall may be the only person other Arkansas that brought Kendall to the Clin- arguably a sound one, the surest way to en- than the President himself who does. Says tons' defense five years ago. And typically, sure Clinton's survival against what his de- a former White House strategist: "If the he was on the case for months before his fenders view as a perjury trap on Starr's facts are bad, it's absolutely the right strat- representation of the world's most famous part. But for the sake of his presidency, egy." What appears certain by all accounts client became public. As the Whitewater many in and out of the White House still is that Kendall enjoys the unwavering con- scandal grew, so did the questions about believe Clinton should have drawn upon fidence of his clients, particularly the First Kendall. Could a media-shy lawyer known his skills as the most powerful communica- Lady, who first got to know the 54-year-old mainly for his work in the genteel arena of tor of his generation to put forward an ex- lawyer as a fellow Yale law student, and First Amendment law (his eclectic client planation, take his chances with the conse- who shares his near obsession with secre- list also includes the National Enquirer quences and try to get the scandal behind cy. "He's an extraordinary human being," and Mohammed al Fayed, whose son Dodi him. McCurry still wishes that Clinton had Hillary Clinton told TIME. "He is extreme- died in the car crash that killed the PRESIDENTS WHO TESTIFY Clinton wouldn't be the first, but the OES INDEPENDENT COUNSEL KENNETH STARR HAVE THE POWER TO D subpoena President Clinton to appear before a grand jury? Now that he has tried, lawyers will be debating legal precedents dating back to the early days of the Republic. It's true, as the Supreme Court said last year in Clinton v. Jones, that Presidents have been responding to court orders often enough that "such interactions can scarcely be thought a COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG SOCIETY novelty." But until now no sitting President has been subpoenaed in a criminal investigation of which he was the focus. They've always given evidence against others. Clinton supporters say the Constitution permits criminal charges to be brought against Presidents by Congress only through the impeachment process. If a court cannot try a President, they argue, it cannot make him answer a subpoena either. If Clinton responds to 1807 THOMAS JEFFERSON Starr's subpoena by refusing to appear, he may provide the legal case that Jefferson agreed to provide information to the court presiding over the treason trial of settles the question once and for all. former Vice President Aaron Burr 40 PHOTOCOPY TIME, AUGUST 3, 1998 PRESERVATION NATION Princess of Wales) handle a case that pitted tious objector, he surrendered that status to have been able to discern of Starr's strategy. him not only against an extraordinarily ag- go 1-A and joined the ROTC in 1967, only to From what he has learned so far, it must gressive independent counsel but also two end up serving in a desk job close to home, give Kendall pause to realize that if Clinton intensely partisan congressional commit- at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana. testifies willingly or under court order, the tees? Within the White House, there were President may not have much room to ma- monumental battles over how much to dis- ENDALL ALSO BRINGS TO CLIN- neuver. Starr will want to explore every de- close, with Kendall almost always arguing ton's defense a criminal-law tail, pressing Clinton far harder than Paula for nothing. Some still fault him for allow- ing what they insist is a groundless investi- to spawn controversies over mysteriously K background that includes the Jones' attorneys did last January about the only type of cases whose conse- details of his alleged relationship with gation into an ill-starred real estate venture quences can make impeach- Lewinsky. If they didn't have sex, as Clinton ment seem trivial: death-penal- insisted last January, what did they do ex- reappearing billing records, arcane battles ty appeals. He made that his actly? And Clinton has never been asked in with Congress over White House lawyers' specialty during the 1970s as an detail about the steps taken by Vernon Jor- notes, and the first-ever testimony of a N.A.A.C.P. lawyer. To build a relationship dan and secretary Betty Currie to find a job First Lady before a grand jury. with his condemned clients, he would play for Lewinsky after she was subpoenaed in Whatever questions remain about chess with them by postcard, with as many the Paula Jones case last December. Kendall's political instincts, no one doubts as nine miniature boards of partly played Kendall will almost certainly try in his any longer his stomach for battle. Says games cluttering his cramped office at any negotiations with Starr to circumscribe the Kendall's good friend and law partner Bob given time. And Kendall once had to be re- questions: he might insist, for example, on an Barnett, who preceded Kendall as the strained from throwing a punch at a burly arrangement under which Clinton would be Clintons' attorney and is again represent- warden who refused to allow his doomed required to answer questions about only the ing the First Couple as they ponder their client John Spenkelink to see a clergyman. period in which Lewinsky worked at the options after the presidency: "He knows In 1978 Kendall found his way into the White House, thereby avoiding any discus- how to fight trench warfare, and he's good heart of the Washington establishment sion of the period in which a cover-up might at it." There is little that intimidates about when he moved to the city's most storied have occurred. But it is difficult to imagine this slightly built Rhodes scholar, who has criminal-law firm, Williams & Connolly, how Starr, who has subpoenaed Lewinsky's an altar boy's face, a 30-year marriage and founded by the quintessential insider, Ed- bookstore receipts, would accept such limits. a taste that runs to highbrow books, ward Bennett Williams. The firm and its And it is hard to imagine that Kendall would lowbrow movies and stylish suits (at least connections into virtually every corner of agree to allow Clinton to testify without them. by the standards of Washington, where a Washington's criminal bar account for If Clinton is flirting with the idea of double-breasted jacket is still considered much of theleverage Kendall holds; many of breaking his silence, Kendall can be count- fashion forward). But on the wall of his of- the figures in Starr's case hired lawyers rec- ed on to stay wedded to his. For this article, fice hangs a receipt for $35.50 that got him ommended by Kendall, Barnett and others he refused to be interviewed, except to out of a Mississippi jail after three days on at their firm, and Kendall has long-standing confirm basic biographical data. Asked for charges of operating his VW Beetle without ties to Lewinsky's lawyers as well. As one anything further, Kendall offered the an- an inspection sticker-one of at least a witness after another parades before the swer he has practiced so often it has be- dozen times he was arrested while regis- grand jury, it is perfectly legal for everyone come a reflex: "I don't have any comment tering blacks to vote in the summer of 1964. in this network to share what has been said at all." -With reporting by Michael Duffy and At one time a third-generation conscien- in the secret proceedings and what they Michael Weisskopf/Washington thers weren't called in criminal cases in which they might be a target BOB GAL DIANA WALKER-GAMMA LIAISON 1975 GERALD FORD 1980 JIMMY CARTER 1990 RONALD REAGAN Ford testified by videotaped deposition in Carter provided videotaped testimony in Reagan, his presidency over, gave videotaped Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme's trial for connection with the bribery trial of fugitive testimony in the Iran-contra trial of his former attempting to assassinate him financier Robert Vesco National Security Adviser John Poindexter PHOTOCOPY TIME, AUGUST 3, 1998 41 PRESERVATION LETTERS If Truth Be Told SELDOM HAVE I SEEN THE PROBLEM WITH DO THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS REALLY MAIL CALL education in the United States so well de- care about President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky ("What Will He Say Now?" NA- The Clinton Show fined as it was by Robert Samuelson. As a teacher with 30 years' experience in one of TIONAL AFFAIRS, Aug. 10)? Taxpayers have When our Aug. 10 issue appeared three the worst school districts in the country, I already spent millions of dollars on an is- sue that doesn't affect us personally or eco- weeks ago with a cover story speculat- am glad to see much of the blame for the nomically. How many hungry people could ing on what President Clinton and Mon- ills of education laid where it belongs: on ica Lewinsky would say to the grand fuzzy thinking by the people in charge. Un- be fed, homeless people housed and chil- jury, a number of readers responded til incompetent teachers can be fired and dren immunized for that cost? Instead, effective teachers can be rewarded, edu- with a resounding: INVESTING Kenneth Starr gets to spend the tax money from our hard-earned paychecks to search So what? "Spare Ne week cation in America shows little promise of for the history behind the president's zip- us, please," begged improvement. one. "Get on with REBA D. DUNCAN per. The president's only judge should be the hurricane sea- TALLULAH, LA. Hillary Clinton. son or something JEFFREY B. CARMACK What A King for Our Time anything." A 12- LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Will YOUR PIECE ON KING HUSSEIN OF JORDAN'S year-old girl com- HeSay pared the inces- illness accurately characterized his charis- IF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO COMMITTED Now? sant coverage of ma and stability in a notoriously unstable work-related adultery and lied about it were forced out of their jobs, it would dec- the president's private life to "The Tru- region (" The Day After'," INTERNATION- imate the American work force. There man Show," asking, "Who really AL, Aug. 10). While I am no expert in the cares?" But as the tremendous interest area's complex politics, I have worked as should be legislation protecting a presi- in the president's admission last week an archeologist in Jordan for nearly 20 dent while he is in office, since having to of an improper relationship showed, the years, and it has often seemed that the king testify must be crippling his ability to con- centrate on running the country. With re- story, which seemed merely tawdry one is the only leader in the region with a gen- gard to Monica Lewinsky, I can under- day and history-making the next, is cer- uine and enduring concern for peace. We stand a woman's having an interest in tain to be with us for a long time. can all hope that modern medicine will al- low him to continue this heartfelt quest. saving an outfit she has worn for a notable ALAN H. SIMMONS event, but I fail to understand why she LAS VEGAS, NEV. would want to preserve it with alleged se- don't just leave. The fact is that victims of- men stains intact unless she was planning ten don't know where to go because society Correction to cause trouble for the alleged ejaculator. doesn't offer them enough options. And IN OUR MAY 25 ISSUE, A CAPTION FOR THE As it happens, I am in my 50s and feel that when they do try to leave the relationship, satellite photograph of India's nuclear-test- Bill Clinton is the best president this coun- the abusers often threaten to kill them. This ing facility was in error ("Ground Zero," try has had in my lifetime. epidemic will not go away until we address SPECIAL REPORT). The image shows only a ELLEN R. GUION the real problem. We have to stop asking, portion of the weapons-testing complex, NORWALK, CONN. "Why doesn't she just leave?" and start ask- not the main facility, and was not recorded ing, "Why does he keep hurting her?" the week before the blasts, but seven years MANY IN THE MEDIA REPORT THAT THE ANN L. DAVIS ago. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. public is not interested in the Lewinsky- PHILADELPHIA, PA. Clinton scandal and just want it to go away. In my opinion, the public should be vitally Raising the Bar Newsweek interested in this matter. The president ROBERT J. SAMUELSON'S ESSAY "THE WAST- should be a person we can look up to with age in Education" makes some excellent At Your Service pride and with confidence that he is an hon- points about the poor level of scholarship orable individual. If we say we do not care among public-school teachers (JUDGMENT Subscription inquiries can be made by calling toll-free 800-631-1040 or writing us about any purported sexual misconduct or CALLS, Aug. 10). However, I must take is- at NEWSWEEK Customer Service, P.O. Box unlawful actions by the president, what sue with his implication that the shamefully 59967, Boulder, CO 80322-9967. Please kind of message are we giving the young low salary of teachers is not a real problem. remember to provide your complete address, minds who will inherit this nation? I be- Most teachers receive pay far below that of including ZIP code. lieve Mr. Clinton's misbehavior is unac- other professionals. There are a staggering ceptable and he should be impeached. number of us who are qualified, competent, Letters to the Editor must include the Roy R. TORCASO highly motivated teachers with multiple writer's name, address and daytime phone WHEATON, MD. college degrees who will never earn number and should be sent to Letters Editor. enough money to buy a house or to take NEWSWEEK. 251 West 57th St., New York, NY Turn the Question Around 10019-1894. or faxed to 212-445-4120 or on more than one small car payment per e-mailed to [email protected]. Letters THANK YOU FOR RUNNING IM JUNG month. Journalist Rick Bragg said it best may be edited for space and clarity and may Kwuon's essay on the prevention of domes- when he wrote that teaching is an occupa- appear in electronic versions of NEWSWEEK. tic violence ("Facing Down Abusers," MY tion "where you can climb and climb and TURN, Aug. 10). I've done volunteer and pile up honors to the moon, and still be My Turn submissions should be sent to consulting work for some time in this field, poor as field dirt." My Turn Editor, NEWSWEEK, 251 West 57th and I am still surprised at how many people MICHAEL P. MCCLUNG St., New York, NY 10019-1894. ask why women in abusive relationships HAMILTON, ALA. PHOTOCOPY AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 13 PRESERVATION PERSPECTIVES "In fact, it was wrong." President Clinton, acknowledging in a nationally televised address that he had a relationship that "was not appropriate" with the then 21-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky "The Constitution doesn't give us the option of docking a president without pay for two months." Former White House spokesman I THINK HIS Jody Powell, on the all-or-nothing option facing Congress in an TIES SENDING impeachment process A SIGNAL "It's hard to know which to do first: scream, cry or take a shower." A Philadelphia Daily News editorial on Clinton's admission "I didn't elect him to be my husband. I only elected him to lead." Ann DeLaney, former chair of the Indiana Democratic Party, on why she can disregard Clinton's moral failings "According to the polls, 12 percent of the American public thinks I'm that oral sex isn't sex. I'm sure they're just doing it wrong." A a popular Israeli joke, according to Tel Aviv's Ma'ariv newspaper jerk 1998 LUCKOVICH-ATLANTA CONSTITUTION "When I see you wearing this tie I'll know that I am close to your DEATH TO THE GREAT NEVER MESS heart." Monica Lewinsky, when giving Clinton a necktie he then wore WITH A GUY on her first day of testimony before Independent Counsel Kenneth WITH SERIOUS Starr's grand jury, according to a friend SATAN! GIRL PROBLEMS "It's fair to say this is not the best day of her life." Marsha Berry, spokesman for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking the day after the president's admission of infidelity "I am proud of him because he is a great president." Vice President AI Gore, in a statement delivered from Hawaii, where he is vacationing with his family, after Clinton's address LADEN THIS WILL BE YOUR HOME ON MARTHA'S 1998 DARCY-PLAIN DEALER VINEYARD. BUDDY, YOU COME "Today, we have struck back." Clinton, announcing the missile WITH ME. attack on two alleged terrorist installations- training camp in Afghanistan and a factory in Sudan said to produce chemical weapons- response to the recent bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania "I especially want to know the reason for doing it now. I want to know what the evidence was." Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, a Republican, questioning whether Clinton ordered the attack in an effort to distract attention from his domestic troubles "I don't think he's that much of a dimwit." Lina Fetter, an accountant from Morris Plains, N.J., suggesting that he did not 1998 KELLY-SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE Quotations are compiled from press, TV and wire-service reports as well as from NEWSWEEK correspondents. AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 15 Newsweek " Let our actions today send this message loud and clear: There are no expendable American targets. There will be no sanctuary for terrorists. We will defend our people, our interests and our values. We will help people of all faiths in all parts of the world who want to live free of fear and violence. We will persist and we will prevail. " - PRESIDENT CLINTON THURSDAY, Aug. 20, 1998 NR bann D OBABA VISA 2U 5141 215 ni n't hns M GHE Individual 120 me TO " in mes B holls PRESERVATION 00 oad... Inside the White House after Clinton's uncompromising speech on terrorism, the president conferred with his national-security team. On the outside, skeptics were already beginning to ques- tion the timing of the attack. THE WHITE HOUSE TODOPY URVATION ...And At " I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part...I know that my public comments and my silence about this matter gave a false impression. I misled people, including even my wife. I deeply regret that. " — PRESIDENT CLINTON MONDAY, AUG. 17, 1998 Home PHOTOCOPY In his address Monday night, Clinton emphasized his need to put things right with his family and put the Lewinsky matter behind them. With Chelsea linking her parents together, the First Family left for vacation the next day. KEN CEDENO - SIPA (LEFT). BRAD MARKEL-GAMMA LIAISON PHOTOCOPY SPECIAL REPORT Firing range: In an extraordinary week of high stakes and low moments, Bill Clinton battled both Kenneth Starr and foreign terror. The furious reaction to his sex-scandal speech raised new questions about his ability to lead. BY HOWARD FINEMAN Collateral Damage ITH A SINGLE WORD, bassies in Africa. Now it was launch W the president of the time, Berger said. But the president still United States can had the option to call it off. Clinton's re- command the furies. ply: "Go." By morning, they went: 80 But can he com- cruise missiles, fired from warships, ex- mand personal respect? Bill Clinton ploding in the heart of Khartoum and gave the word at 3 a.m., in his borrowed the hills of Afghanistan. vacation home on Martha's Vineyard. There were cheers in Washington Sandy Berger, his national-security ad- and throughout the world. But there viser, was on the line. For a week, in also were instant questions about deep secrecy, Clinton and his inner- a movie. In the Pentagon briefing most circle had planned retaliatory room, only minutes after the president airstrikes against Osama bin Laden, the announced the strike, Defense Secre- wealthy Saudi terrorist they blamed for tary William Cohen got the query. the bombing of two American em- Had he seen the film "Wag the Dog"? Commander in chief or philanderer in chief? As Bill Clinton struggles to save his presidency, the whole world is watching. 18 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 WIN MCNAMEE-REUTERS PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Rd 350W emeed or JOB 100 merror Lassbell 4A EIS sarru OF mea M and not 4we8 noths OF DATE In sill not bein adval Y KW SPECIAL REPORT BOMBS AWAY Just hours after the strike, Defense Secretary William Cohen and Joint Chiefs Chairman Hugh Shelton delivered a report on the damage to terrorist bases. U.S. Toma- hawk missiles destroyed a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum (right) thought to be the site of a chemical-weapons factory. It's the one about a fictional president who to admit, in essence, that he'd lied because approval rating rose slightly-from 59 per- creates a made-for-TV war to divert atten- it was too painful and politically damaging cent to 62 percent. Few (22 percent) are tion from a sex scandal. Was our real presi- to tell the truth. willing to believe anything he now says dent striking just at terrorism-or also at And that was just Monday. Clinton, it about his personal life, yet most (63 per- Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and turns out, was in the midst of a dizzying cent) find him credible on national issues. his superstar witness, Monica Lewinsky? split-screen war, publicly fighting his legal Still, voters don't much trust him. A majori- "The only motivation," said Cohen with and political battles with Starr while meet- ty (54 percent) think he is lying about practiced cool, "was our absolute obliga- ing secretly with aides to plan the antiterror- whether he obstructed Starr's probe; 40 tion to protect the American people." ist airstrike. The two stories collided, final- percent think that political diversion had Solemn and surreal, combining high ly, on Thursday. In her second appearance at least something to do with the antiterror- stakes and low moments, the extraordinary before the grand jury, Lewinsky discussed ist strike. And voters now fret about Clin- events of last week tested everyone's confi- obstruction charges and a flurry of details ton's effectiveness, believing that the Moni- dence in the president. In Washington, the about the affair. The Leader of the Free ca story has eroded-either seriously or ferocious cynics of politics thought they World, she reportedly testified, had repeat- somewhat-his ability to lead the country were beyond shock-but weren't. Outside edly received oral sex from an intern half (60 percent) or the world (63 percent). the Beltway, the reaction was far less apoc- his age. Yet at the very moment she was If the public reaction was calm and meas- alyptic, but Americans were transfixed by talking, the president was unveiling his mis- ured, the first reaction of the pundit class the spectacle. On Monday Clinton became sion: attacking the high-tech, stateless ter- was near hysteria. In the corridors of the first president to testify before a federal rorism that poses a grave threat to democra- Washington and the editorial pages of the criminal grand jury investigating his own cy in the 21st century. country, Clinton wasn't commander in behavior. That night, before a Super Bowl- Can Clinton still lead the nation, or the chief but philanderer in chief, the object of size audience, he became the first to admit world? The public is supportive but wor- derision and distrust-a politically crip- he'd been unfaithful to the First Lady-and ried. In the NEWSWEEK Poll, Clinton's job- pled character, trapped by his own crude In a new Newsweek Poll, 62% of Americans approve of Clinton's performance as president; 73% support his decision to bomb terrorist targets overseas 20 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: MARIO TAMA AFP. BAOUF- AP. JOHN MCCUTCHEN SAN DIEGO UNION PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION TAKING CHARGE Just two days after leaving Washington for Martha's Vineyard, Clinton climbed back aboard Air Force One and returned to the capital-working intently on the speech he would deliver from the Oval Office, confer- ring with military advisers like Maj. Gen. Donald Kerrick (above right) behavior. In his angry, hair-splitting ad- ings are inevitable, probably early next ers paraded through the streets with signs dress to the nation, Clinton confessed to a year. "And if the gavel falls, all bets are off," of Monica and Bill. Europeans scolded. In relationship with Lewinsky that was "not a senior Clinton official told NEWSWEEK. London The Economist called Clinton a appropriate," but not exactly sexual. Most "The process at that point takes on a life "proven liar." In Paris the newspaper Le of America thought the speech went far of its own." Monde declared: "The American president enough and that the press has been too Other ifs are outside politics per se. If the is too diminished by his domestic saga for quick to judge Clinton. And yet the speech stock market tanks, if China devalues the his credibility not to be called into ques- loosed a torrent of vituperation from yuan, if American civilians become victims tion" by the attack. pundits unlike any seen since the last days in an undeclared war of controversial ori- But there's another dimension to Clin- of Richard Nixon. "There is a tidal feeling gin (as opposed to merely launching cruise ton's character: he's a fighter and a sur- of betrayal and embarrassment running missiles from a safe distance), if Alan vivor. He knows that voters liked the across the country today," The New York Greenspan raises interest rates-if any strikes, dislike the press and Starr, and like Times thundered. Suddenly, the air inside such scenarios occur, Clinton could start to the status quo above all. White House the Beltway was full of talk of censure or sink beneath the waves. In any case, he no strategists, accordingly, were playing for impeachment, which didn't fully subside longer controls his own fate. "There's a risk time. Emerging from their bunkers by the even after the airstrike that the public ap- of political collapse," said historian Robert weekend, they began searching for a way to proved by an overwhelming (73 percent) Dallek, who has written major studies of repair damage. Aides passed the word that majority. LBJ and Nixon. "That happens when peo- Clinton had come to realize his speech was Whatever the public now thinks, the like- ple simply lose all trust in a president. At "incomplete," and that he wanted to amend lihood of a congressional "censure" or the that point, they assume his only concern is it, perhaps in answer to a question, by say- onset of impeachment hearings depends on his own survival-not their welfare. And ing the crucial words "I am sorry." But such something else entirely: Starr's report, now the reaction can be severe." talk may be wishful thinking, and many being written and expected to arrive on We're not there-yet. Clinton remains Democrats were dubious. "It's way too Capitol Hill next month. If it contains clear- widely respected abroad. But as the per- late," said one skeptical member of the in- cut evidence that the president tried to ille- sonification of American democracy, his ner circle. "His credibility is shot." gally thwart the investigation-specifically moral character as a leader is part of the As they worked to recover their bal- by seeing to it that evidence of the relation- equation. So Arab propagandists had their ance, White House staff and cabinet mem- ship eluded prosecutors-the consensus on predictable field day with the double helix bers were numb and obviously angry. For Capitol Hill and in the cabinet is that hear- of last week's events. In Khartoum, protest- a host of reasons-legal and psychologi- LEFT TO RIGHT: BARBARA KINNEY THE AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 21 WHITE HOUSE, THE WHITE HOUSE PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION SPECIAL REPORT 'IT AIN'T EVER OVER' Not everyone was distracted by the fireworks in Afghanistan and Sudan; the independent counsel never stopped tightening the net around the president. With Clinton on the record at last, Starr immediately recalled Monica Lewinsky before the grand jury (left) to see how the president's version of their affair held up. cal-Clinton didn't confide in them before quite supportive of his goals," said one vote. The Democrats had only a vague the speech, and the few conversations he longtime friend of the president's from hope of regaining control of Congress in had afterward were awkward and brief. Renaissance Weekend days. "And you any case, and it seemed to be fading even Longtime friends were left in the dark. want to be supportive of him. But let's be before Clinton misfired in the Map Room One was Education Secretary Richard Ri- frank. What kind of a-hole jeopardizes last week. But in culturally conservative ley, who once enjoyed a somewhat father- everything this way?" districts where Democrats have a narrow ly relationship with the president. He Democrats on the Hill weren't shocked edge, a difference of two or three points is hadn't heard from Clinton-until he was by the truth. Some who had been lied to critical. Republicans went on the air with invited to Martha's Vineyard last week- face to face, notably Sen. Dianne Feinstein anti-Clinton ads in North Carolina last end. Perhaps the president was about to of California, reacted angrily. ("I wish she'd week, and others are expected elsewhere. start his next campaign: selling himself get a grip," said one White House political "This certainly doesn't help us at all," said (again) to his old friends. loyalist. "This is an affair we're talking Democratic consultant Alan Secrest. "It's Among Clintonites, there was a wide- about.") But few Democrats had ever be- going to hurt us in places like Alabama or spread sense of betrayal. It had little to do lieved his denials. Rather, as students of central Pennsylvania. We're going to lose with being lied to; the president had never political disaster, they were furious at him some races because of this." spoken to most of them about the issue in for bungling his own resurrection. "I As for Clinton, his political fate is now any case. Spinners were enraged at Clinton thought his speech Monday was incredi- encrypted-as yet uncompleted and un- for undermining them. "Last dogs" such as ble," fumed Rep. Tim Roemer, a moderate readable-in Starr's report. There is no political aide Paul Begala had insisted that from Indiana. "The American people have longer any doubt that it will be sensational they believed the president-and that they given him the benefit of the doubt, and I am and explosive. But will it blast the presi- wouldn't champion him if they knew other- extremely distressed by his inability to tell dent into impeachment hearings, or a cen- wise. What do they do now? Clintonites in the truth, perhaps even under oath. The sure vote, or even amplify calls for his res- and out of the White House also had to con- president is in serious trouble-even with ignation? Running to at least 300 pages, the front the reality of the boss's selfishness, by Democrats out in the country." report's overarching theme will be the which he imperiled what they viewed as It's not clear yet how much collateral president's disregard for the truth and the their cause-a sensible, compassionate lib- damage Democrats will suffer in the fall. operation of the law, using Clinton's at- eral centrism-for a series of cheap thrills In the NEWSWEEK Poll, most voters say tempts to cover up his secret sex life as the next door to the Oval Office. "We're still their view of Clinton won't affect their example. The challenge for Starr is to show 22 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 CLOCKWISE FROM LOWER LEFT: DEREK ROBERTS CHRIS JOHNSON-ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, RUTH PREMSON AP. ROBERT GIROUX-GAMMA-LIAISON PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION RESTING AND RECOUPING With friends like Carly Simon, real-estate magnate Richard Friedman and Vernon Jordan around them (left, with Hillary), the Clintons will make a go of their once keenly anticipated Vineyard vacation. Priority one: time with Chelsea (above) before she heads back to Stanford. any acts of obstruction clearly enough to one designed to tie up the committee in forts against terrorism cannot and will not justify the titillating sexual details. "How- knots. No one expects any hearings before end with this strike," he vowed, urging ever gross the sex, that's not going to mat- Congress recesses at the end of next month, Americans to "close ranks against interna- ter," said a lawyer who is advising Demo- regardless of what the report contains. If tional threats." crats in Congress. "Neither will lying about there are hearings-and it is now quite likely And then it was off to the other battlefield. sex. Let's see what they've got. Until we that there will be some "preliminary" version As they do every August, investment banker know, you can't predict." of them-they won't take place until next Steven Rattner and his wife, Maureen In anticipation of the report, the staff of the year. If the Democrats are back in the minori- White, were hosting a party. The elite of House Judiciary Committee has comman- ty again, they will be in a foul mood, said summer people would be there-the media deered portions of a ramshackle old congres- one administration insider. "They're going to types, politicos and literati who make up this sional office building below Capitol Hill. blame the president, and they' not going to beachside corner of the chattering class. Locked and monitored rooms have been set lift a finger to help him." Clinton had no choice but to go: to duck the aside, and GOP leaders plan to pass a resolu- Back on Martha's Vineyard, the presi- event would have been tantamount to a so- tion restricting access to members of the dent had more immediate business to at- cial resignation speech. And he knew that committee. The report surely will leak any- tend to. Having declared war on Osama bin the crowd would greet him warmly. They way. The Democrats' strategy is to demand Laden, he was returning to the role of com- would avoid any mention of That Other not only the report itself but all the raw mander in chief. In his regular radio ad- Problem. And of course they would praise grand-jury transcripts that went into writing dress, Clinton pronounced last week's him for his courageous missile strike. He it. The idea is to see if Starr shaped his report raids a success. He announced an executive was, after all, still Leader of the Free World. fairly or in the manner of a political vendetta. order aimed at crippling Bin Laden's finan- "It's standard operating procedure in a case cial network. And Clinton warned somber- With KAREN BRESLAU, MATTHEW COOPER, DEBRA ROSENBERG, MARK HOSENBALL and like this," said one Democratic lawyer-but ly that "all Americans are targets." "Our ef- MICHAEL HIRSH 40% of those surveyed believed the Lewinsky scandal was a major or minor factor in the timing of the missile strikes; 53% thought it was not a consideration FOR THIS NEWSWEEK POLL, PRINCETON SURVEY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INTERVIEWED 751 ADULTS AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 23 BY TELEPHONE AUG. 20-21. THE MARGIN OF ERROR IS +/- 4 PERCENTAGE POINTS. THE NEWSWEEK POLL © 1008 BY NEWSWEEK INC. PHOTOCOPY SPECIAL REPORT Striking back: Risking a wider struggle with Islamic radicals, Clinton hits targets in Afghanistan and Sudan. U.S. intelligence is unusually strong, but will the attacks do any good? BY RUSSELL WATSON AND JOHN BARRY 'Our Target Was Terror' HEY CALLED IT OPERATION INFINITE Clinton said the United States had "con- vincing information" that Bin Laden was 1 Reach. To keep it a secret, the planning was behind the embassy bombings and many done by a group of top officials so small that it other atrocities. He said there was "com- pelling evidence" that the Saudi-born mul- code-named itself the Small Group-"SG," to timillionaire's terror network was planning further attacks on Americans. "You cannot those few in the know. Membership was lim- overstate the imminence of what was about to happen," a White House official told ited, in bureaucratic parlance, to "principals NEWSWEEK. A day after the bombardment only." Later, Defense Secretary William Cohen mused that the president's national-security adviser, Sandy Berger, reported "moderate to he was the only person in his own office who knew about heavy damage at each of the targets" and said the terror network's operations had the operation. The planners knew what they were looking been significantly impaired. But Bin Laden managed to be else- for thanks in part to intercepted telephone calls, and by ear- where in Afghanistan when his training ly last Thursday the intended targets appeared to be right camps were hit, despite Clinton's claim that "a gathering of key terrorist leaders" in Washington's cross hairs. At 1:30 in the morning, was supposed to be taking place at one of the target sites. "By the grace of Allah, I Bill Clinton called CIA Director George to be making an ingredient for the deadly VX am alive," Bin Laden said in a radio mes- Tenet from Martha's Vineyard to ask if nerve agent. The operation went off perfect- sage. His spokesman released a statement "there was any new intel," a source told ly, the missiles slamming into their Afghan warning: "The battle has not started yet. NEWSWEEK. Tenet assured him nothing and Sudanese targets at almost the same Our answer will be deeds, not words." had changed. At 3 a.m., Clinton gave the moment. "Our target was terror," Clinton Privately, administration officials ac- order to go ahead. declared on television, suddenly looking knowledged that another terrorist attack, Later, in the Arabian Sea, five U.S. war- presidential again. He said the attacks were somewhere in the world, was a near cer- ships-four surface vessels and a subma- aimed at Osama bin Laden, the alleged mas- tainty. "The networks are out there," said rine-fired a barrage of 60 Tomahawk termind of the U.S. Embassy bombings in one official. "They can choose their own cruise missiles at suspected terrorist camps Kenya and Tanzania. But questions re- time and place." in Afghanistan. In the Red Sea, two other mained. Were the cruise-missile attacks jus- Just before the cruise-missile attacks, Bin warships fired 20 cruise missiles at a phar- tified? And would they do any good in the Laden told a Pakistani journalist he had maceutical plant in Sudan that was thought war on terrorism? "nothing to do" with the U.S. Embassy 24 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY SYGMA bine 110 connect OUR PRESERV PHOTOG TOR Alleged mastermind: 'By the grace of Allah, I am alive,' Bin Laden said after the missile strikes. And he warned that the war with America is just beginning. PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION SPECIAL REPORT bombings in Africa. His host, Mullah Mo- hammad Omar, leader of Afghanistan's Taliban movement, insisted Bin Laden had clean hands. "There is no camp of Osama In the Cross Hairs bin Laden in Afghanistan," he said. "We have already closed his camps." He added: Last Thursday, U.S. warships fired about 80 Tomahawk cruise missiles at facilities "We can never hand over Osama to Ameri- linked to Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind behind the Aug. 7 embassy bomb- ca." Sudanese President Omar Hassan al- ings in East Africa. The retaliation was aimed at a paramilitary camp in Afghanistan Bashir said the U.S. attack was designed to and a pharmaceutical plant in north Khartoum, Sudan. overshadow the Monica Lewinsky scandal; he called Clinton "morally decrepit." Anti- American demonstrations in many Islamic THE TOMAHAWK III MISSILE countries echoed the same "Wag the Dog" theme; a Turkish newspaper headlined its The Tomahawk is a U.S. Navy favorite when it comes to land attacks. story THE MONICA MISSILES. Why? Fired from a submarine or surface ship, it can avoid radar de- But U.S. intelligence, and its helpers in tection and thus hide the location from which the missile was launched. other countries, had assembled an impres- sive dossier of evidence against Bin Laden. Engine Length: 20 ft. 6 in. TURKEY A key piece came from Muhammad Sadiq Diameter: 1 ft. 8.4 in. Fuel tank Howaida, a 33-year-old Palestinian who Wingspan: 8 ft. 9 in. was arrested by Pakistani officials on Aug. 7, Guidance Range: 1,000 miles the day of the embassy bombings, as he at- system Booster Cruise alt.: 50-100 ft. tempted to slip into Afghanistan on a fake Speed: 381-571 mph passport. The details of Howaida's confes- Guidance system: Satel- Warhead sion to the Pakistanis were obtained by lite-based GPS IRAQ NEWSWEEK'S Zahid Hussain. His report: Forward fuel tank Cost: $1 million (approx.) "I did it all for the cause of Islam," Ho- waida said of the embassy bombings. He confessed to working for Bin Laden. "He is 7:30 p.m. (local time): my leader, and I obey his orders," Howaida LIBYA 15-20 missiles, fired said. He told investigators he built a bomb for the embassy in Tanzania on orders from EGYPT from two ships, land on a plant. Ali Saleh, an Egyptian extremist long U.S. off cials say it makes linked to Bin Laden. THE SUDAN ATTACK nerve ingredients. Howaida (who has also used the surname Odeh) was born in the Saudi Arabian town of Tabuk to Palestinian Red parents. He was educated in Jordan, Nile River Khartoum Sea where he joined the Palestine Libera- North Shifa tion Organization, and in the Philip- complex pines, where he made contact with Khartoum radical Muslim groups. In 1990 he KHARTOUM Blue Nile River went to Afghanistan to help fight the ERITREA Soviet invaders. There he met Bin Khartoum SUDAN Downtown Laden-and learned how to build International Khartoum bombs. In 1994, he said, Bin Laden Airport sent him to join a terrorist network in Kenya. Howaida settled in a small ETHIOPIA town called Witu, married a Kenyan woman of Arab extraction and opened a furniture shop. After his arrest in Karachi, Howai- da initially refused to talk. Then he UGANDA SOMALIA was handed over to the Army's Inter- Services Intelligence Directorate CONGO KENYA (ISI), in whose hands he finally broke down. He told ISI investigators that Nairobi the leader of Bin Laden's group in Aug. 7:-Vehicle bombs Kenya was another Egyptian named explode simultaneously Salah Abdullah. He said the attack on Aerial photo of the Shifa Pharmaceutical outside two U.S. em- the embassy in Nairobi was organized Plant in north Khartoum. A nearby candy bassies, killing 263 by Ali Saleh and four other men: an factory was damaged, too. people, including 12 Dar es Salaan Egyptian named Abdur Rehman, a Americans man from the Comoros named Ha- roon and two Kenyans of Yemeni extrac- TANZANIA tion named Fahd and Sheikh Bahamand. Howaida said his team in Tanzania includ- PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION ed three other men: an Egyptian named Mustafa and two Tanzanians of THE AFGHANISTAN ATTACK Omani origin named Ahmad Khalfan and Abdullah Ahmed. The bombs were actually driven to the embassies by locally hired Tanzanians and Ken- yans, he said. And all of the plotters except Saleh and Haroon were told to KAZAKHSTAN get out of town by Aug. 7. The investigation of the bombings Caspian Sea was moving far more rapidly than such things usually do. In a meeting of the Small Group on Aug. 12, Clinton had set a tough standard of proof. He UZBEKISTAN didn't demand evidence that could be presented in a court of law; the need to Base camp includes administration, storing, protect sources and methods would al- TURKMENISTAN housing and training facilities. A support most certainly preclude anything like TAJIKISTAN camp was damaged as well. that. What Clinton said he needed, be- fore he could authorize military action, 0 5 MILES was evidence that Berger and other Khvolah Kabul members of the Small Group (includ- AFGHANISTAN ing Cohen, a Republican, and Gen. AFGHANISTAN Wazay Khowst Hugh Shelton, the hard-nosed chair- man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) would IRAN Tani regard as conclusive. Howaida's con- Support Training camps fession was one building block. At al- PAKISTAN camp Base camp most the same time, sources said, U.S. intelligence came up with another: an PAKISTAN intercepted mobile-phone conversa- Persian Miram Shah tion between two of Bin Laden's lieu- Gulf tenants that clearly implicated them in U.A.E. INDIA the embassy bombings. The pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, SAUDI known as El Shifa, was a late addition ARABIA to the U.S. target list. The factory's 10 p.m. (local time): lawyer said it had no connection to Bin Laden. And Sudanese officials insist- OMAN The Zhawar Kili Al-Badr camp is hit by missiles ed the plant made innocent medicines from four Navy ships for both humans and animals. But YEMEN and a submarine in the sources said that when U.S. intelli- Arabian Sea gence obtained samples of products made by El Shifa, one of them turned out to be a "precursor" to the VX nerve Four training camps used to practice ter- agent. It was "barely a step away from Arabian rorist tactics, weapons and explosive de- VX itself," said a U.S. official. Another Sea vices. The site includes firing ranges. source identified the substance as "an ethyl-methyl-phosphorus compound unique to VX," adding: "There's no way in hell you'd ever use that in pharma- U.S. NAVAL POWER ceutical manufacturing." Senior U.S. offi- cials also assert that Bin Laden has been The military hasn't detailed the ships used in the attacks, but seven warships-cruisers, destroyers and a submarine-were in striking talking about using chemical weapons Indian distance. Like the Milius, they may have fired missiles. against U.S. targets. Ocean The intelligence breakthrough on El Shi- Destroyers: USS Mil- fa also benefited from the defection, around USS Millus guided-missile ius, USS Elliot, USS the first of the year, of Bin Laden's top destroyer Vertical-launch Briscoe, USS Hayler money manager, Muhammad bin Moisalih. missile system Cruisers: USS Shiloh, Sources said the Saudi government lured USS Cowpens, USS him away from Bin Laden with a large sum SOURCES: RAYTHEON SYS- TEMS COMPANY, "COMBAT Valley Forge* of money. Since then Moisalih has provid- FLEETS OF THE WORLD." U.S. NAVY, NAVY OFFICE Sub: USS Columbia ed what one expert describes as "priceless" OF INFORMATION, USNI Carrier: USS Abraham information on Bin Laden's tangled and MILITARY DATABASE. RE- SEARCH BY BRET BEGUN. Lineoln* mysterious finances. That included compa- ILLUSTRATIONS BY STAN- FORD KAY AND SILVIO DA "NO CRUISE MISSILES nies in which he had invested money, one SILVA-NEWSWEEK of which was El Shifa. Last week Clinton signed an executive order barring U.S. SPECIAL REPORT RESERVATION Bin Laden's Terror Network Osama bin Laden has funded Islamie terrorism and militant groups from Algeria to Tajikistan. Much of this shadowy world is a mystery, but some of his activities have been more conspieuous: 9 4 Saudi Arabia: Birthplace-and 2 source of B multimillion-dollar 5 8 4 inheritance, Stripped of pass- 6 port, has vowed to topple the rul- 1 ing dynasty. 7 5 3 Pakistan: Led meeting of Is- lamie extremist groups in Pesh- awar in June. Decision made to "hit American interests." 6 Yemen: Father's homeland. Son formed alliances with tribal chiefs, set up training camps. 1 Sudan: Expelled in 1996 under 7 Somalla: Supplied troops to U.S. pressure. May still own fight U.S. forces in 1993 "We in- numerous businesses there, flieted big losses on the Ameri- including share of drug plant. cans," he later boasted. 2 Afghanistan: Fought in U.S.- 8 Egypt: Funded Egyptian ex backed war against Soviets in tremists and is suspected of 1980s; set up training camps and backing attempt on President helps bankroll the Taliban. Hosni Mubarak's life in 1995. 3 Kenya and Tanzania: Clinton 9 Britain: Allegedly financed SYGMA cited "convincing information" London-based Algerian group that Bin Laden plotted the Aug. 7 suspected of numerous bomb- Moments after the U.S. Embassy bombing in Nairobi bombings that killed 263 people. ings in France. companies or individuals from doing busi- tenants, including some coming in from to the streets-blaming America, not Bin ness with any concern linked to Bin Laden. Pakistan, planned to meet there last Laden. Amid the rubble, a visitor to the fac- Most of his financial connections are Islam- Thursday. But Bin Laden's own where- tory found a metal label, apparently from a is, and a senior U.S. Treasury official con- abouts weren't known. "Truth was, we eruise missile, It said the device had been cedes the freeze is partly symbolic. didn't know who was in the camps," said inspected in 1993 by "Tammie" and added: After the embassy bombings on Aug. 7, one official who was in on the planning. MADE IN THE U.S.A. WITH PRIDE. Clinton authorized his national-security Over that weekend, the Sudanese factory A U.S. spy satellite spotted the flashes as team to explore the military options for re- was added to the list. Clinton had con- cruise missiles exploded at Zhawar. At least taliation. From then on, Berger deliberate- cerns about both targets. He had to he re- 21 people were killed in the Afghan camps, ly worked outside the usual retinue of assured that the attack on the factory according to the Taliban government, but Clinton's political aides. "We all knew wouldn't spread a plume of poison gas Washington could not confirm the number there would be cries of Wag the Dog'," over Khartoum. Planners decided that or identity of the casualties. Although Bin said one senior official. Even the president burning the plant to the ground would in- Laden survived, Cohen said afterward that himself was insulated from the planning cinerate any toxie materials; extra cruise killing him was "not our design." U.S. affi- process until a meeting on Aug. 12, when missiles were added to the mission to en- cials said the raids may have deterred an- Shelton ran through the options he had sure total destruction. The president also other terrorist attack. Secretary of State considered and discarded an attack by stipulated that if the Zhawar meeting was Madeleine Albright told reporters: "It is ground troops and raids by manned air- canceled or postponed, there might be very likely something would have happened crait. Clinton concurred in the choice of other, better targets to hit in Afghanistan. had we not done this." cruise missiles-less painful, both militari- When nothing had changed in the intelli- Something grim could still happen. ly and diplomatically. gence picture by 3 a.m. Thursday, he gave American officials said that before the raids, Clinton approved the strike plan in the green light. attacks were imminent on U.S. embassies principle on Aug. 14, three days before his The results were mixed. The plant in in Albania and Pakistan, "We think we grand-jury testimony on the Lewinsky Khartoum was razed, along with a candy stopped one in Albania," said a senior White matter, The Zhawar Kili complex in Af- factory nearby. Casualties were mercifully House official. Threats were reported to ghanistan was chosen because of intelli- light: about 10 injuries and possibly one other embassies in Malaysia, Yemen, Egypt gence reports that top Bin Laden lieu- death. Angry Sudanese demonstrators took and Uganda, among others, and new pre- 37% of those surveyed think the distraction of the Lewinsky matter has left President Clinton less able to deal effectively with terrorism 00 cautions were taken everywhere overseas, against the United States across the Mus- roshima or a Nagasaki, but they cannot as they were back in the United States. lim world, though Clinton insisted in his fight this kind of fight." Outside the administration, some ex- TV speech that the cruise-missile strikes "I think it's important for the American perts doubted the official rationale. "The "were not aimed against Islam." Only a few people to understand that we are involved timing was a little suspect," said Vince Can- Muslims support the random violence ad- in a long-term struggle," Albright said last nistraro, a former CIA expert on counter- vocated by Bin Laden and his ilk. But many week. "This is, unfortunately, the war of the terrorism. "If an operation were imminent, share a sense that Muslims are under at- future." It will be a messy war, with poten- it's pretty clear that the resources would al- tack by the United States, which supports tially a great many casualties. Americans ready be on the ground." He concluded that Israel, maintains military forces on the holy don't like close, bloody conflict, under- the cruise-missile strikes did very little to soil of Saudi Arabia and seems more will- standably preferring the safe standoff war- hurt Bin Laden and probably initiated a ing to bomb or boycott Islamic wrongdoers fare that can be waged with cruise missiles. new round of violence." The surest way to than those of other religions. The radicals But it won't be long before some terrorists stop the violence is to kill the terrorists who hope to capitalize on this anger. "This is a gain access (if they haven't already) to nu- perpetrate it, but that is hard to do at long holy war," says Adel Abdel Bary, an oppo- clear, chemical or biological weapons. The range. "A cruise missile isn't an instrument sition Egyptian lawyer now exiled to Brit- war of the future is one Americans will of assassination," said Richard Murphy, a ain who has ties to some of the militant Is- have to learn how to win. former assistant secretary of State and an lamic groups. "We are poor. We are weak With GREGORY L. VISTICA and MICHAEL HIRSH expert on the Arab world. "Smart bombs now. But we are not stupid. We can use any in Washington, CHRISTOPHER DICKEY in Paris, MARK DENNIS in Khartoum, STEVE LEVINE are never quite as smart as you think." technology. We can do anything." He also in Peshawar, GREGORY BEALS in New York Last week's attacks aroused anger maintains: "Americans can destroy a Hi- and bureau reports The home front: The threat of terrorism is real. But the the FBI had penetrated the circle of radical Muslim cleric country is far from defenseless. BY TOM MASLAND Omar Abdel Rahman. A close associate of Bin Laden is re- ported to be cooperating with America Goes on Guard investigators in New York. In a new move that troubles civil libertarians, immigration offi- cials are trying to deport sev- HE AMERICAN PEO- eral Arabs on the basis of se- T ple need to know cret intelligence. The FBI's we will be targeted," DEPARTMENT unclassified budget for coun- declared national- ni terterrorism has risen from security adviser Sandy Berger DEFENSE $80 million in 1994 to nearly last week. But cops across the $400 million last year; the land already were on war agency has joint terrorism footing. In Washington, ar- task forces with 16 police mored SWAT teams stood departments. outside the Pentagon. Sport More preparations are utility vehicles parked nose- needed. Quietly, local police to-nose blocked the main and public-health agencies driveway at the State Depart- have been grappling with the ment and U.S. Park Police possibility of "grand terror- laid on extra patrols at nation- ism" chemical, biological or al memorials. In New York, even nuclear attacks. Chicago barriers went up around city is spending $450,000 on spe- hall. Bomb-sniffing dogs cialized training and decon- prowled major airports as tow trucks mercilessly whisked KHUE tamination equipment to use during such emergencies, its away unattended cars. U.S. Security team mans an entrance to the Pentagon part of a congressional grant Border Patrol agents went on to 120 municipalities after the high alert, and military police planes buzzed the Loop last Laden and his ilk. The battle 1995 Oklahoma City bombing randomly checked soldiers' week in the annual prelude to has been raging secretly for carried out by homegrown IDs under a defense plan the Chicago Air and Water years, and the FBI's record in terrorists. "I think our citizens called Threat Con Alpha. Show, a radio talk show's containing Mideast terrorism would be comfortable with Although experts agree phone lines lit up. "I'm sur- is the envy of Western law- what we've been doing, but that Americans abroad are prised at how afraid they enforcement agencies. The we just can't talk about it," more at risk after last week's are," said the host, Roe Conn first successful attack was the said Chief Francis Moriarty of strikes, ordinary folks won- of WLS. "We've always been World Trade Center bombing the department's emergency- der just how jittery they told it's just a matter of time, in 1993, two decades after Eu- preparedness program. The should be. A CNN poll found and people are really taking rope first confronted Mideast- threat of terrorism is real, but 10 percent of those ques- that to heart." related hijackings and bomb- America's guardians aren't tioned "very worried" about a But America is far from de- ings. Even then, a subsequent napping. terrorist attack. When war- fenseless against Osama bin conspiracy trial revealed that With bureau reports PHOTOCOPY AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 29 PRESERVATION Some Clinton aides objected to his harsh words toward Starr, but the president couldn'tcon- tain his anger at his pursuer Miss 500 OF Inio Ess and 4 W in 5 00 MAI to M Do & shall R 91g Telling details: The inside story of how Starr's subpoena and the semen-stained dress cornered the president and forced him to admit-sort of-his sexual misadventures BY EVAN THOMAS AND MATTHEW COOPER Extracting A Confession of of LINTON HAD PUT IT OFF AS LONG AS POSSI- Hillary really had not known about Clin- ton's sexual relationship with Lewinsky, at C ble, but with the grand jury awaiting his least the full extent of it. More rude shocks await. Mrs. Clinton, testimony and the independent counsel re- the U.S. Congress and, ultimately, the questing a sample of his DNA, the moment American people may learn the details of the sexual relationship between the presi- had come to confess to his wife. On the dent and the former intern-more, per- haps, than anyone really wants to know. night of Thursday, Aug. 13, Clinton re- The 300-plus-page report now being writ- turned from Andrews Air Force Base, where he had wept ten by the office of the independent coun- sel-expected for delivery to Congress by over the coffins of 10 Americans killed in the embassy late September-will include graphic vi- gnettes of sexual encounters in the presi- bombings, to the private residence in the White House. dent's small study off the Oval Office. (The principal staffer assigned to write the re- There, for the first time, according to knowledgeable port, a nonpracticing lawyer named sources, he told Hillary the truth about his relationship Stephen Bates, is the author of one earlier book-a study of the press entitled "If No with Monica Lewinsky. The president spared her News, Send Rumors.") Starr is known to believe that the public will be deeply of- the details, but he said the involvement had cretion, or that he had failed to tell her fended by some of the kinkier details. been long-running, and it had been sexual. when the scandal first erupted last Janu- "When people read his report, they'll want The First Lady felt wounded and betrayed, ary. In the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, four out to throw up," said a knowledgeable source. these sources say. She was also furious at five Americans say that the First Lady Starr's interest in Clinton's sex life may his foolishness. The First Couple had must have known "for some time" about strike voters and congressmen as excessive. weathered years of investigations-the re- her husband's extramarital relationship The straitlaced son of a west Texas minister, lentless probing and quizzing about the with Lewinsky. The common assumption Starr is slightly reminiscent of William death of Vince Foster, old Arkansas land around Washington last week was that Gladstone, the 19th-century British prime deals, Travelgate, Filegate and all the rest. Hillary was posing as a victim so she minister who roamed the streets of London Now, Hillary stormed at her husband, he wouldn't look like a liar. She had, after all, at night, saving prostitutes from moral had handed their nemesis, Ken Starr, a firmly denied the reports of her husband's perdition. Perhaps more threatening to the weapon that could ruin his presidency. extramarital affair on the "Today" show president is Starr's investigation into possi- It seems hard to imagine that Hillary and blamed a "vast right-wing conspiracy." ble obstruction of justice. Starr wants to was truly surprised by her husband's indis- But sources close to the Clintons insist that know more about those gifts that the presi- CHRIS JOHNSON ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 31 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION SPECIAL REPORT BRAD After the extraordinary spectacle of a sitting president testifying about his sex life via closed-circuit TV, Clinton lawyer David Ken- SKETCHES BY WILLIAM HENNESSY JR. dall hoped the case would achieve 'closure' dent admittedly gave Lewinsky. Did Clin- The turning point, unreported at the for you on that," said Ruff. The politicos ton somehow suggest that Lewinsky return time, came on July 17, when Starr quietly erupted. "If you're going to defy this thing, the gifts, rather than turn them over to subpoenaed Clinton to testify before the you better be aware of the political conse- lawyers who had subpoenaed them in the grand jury. Clinton's lawyer, David quences," warned deputy chief of staff John Paula Jones sexual-harassment case? Clin- Kendall, had been gently rebuffing infor- Podesta. The aides had no idea that the sub- ton and Lewinsky told different stories, un- mal requests from Starr to voluntarily poena was a week old and that Kendall had der oath, to the grand jury last week. Clinton make the president available for question- already agreed to comply. claims he never told Lewinsky to lie about ing. Kendall had clung to a faint hope that Kendall, it seems, was also in the dark- the affair once she was under subpoena in Starr would conclude that he lacked the le- about a deal that Starr was about to strike the Jones case. Lewinsky insists that Clin- gal authority to compel the president's tes- with Monica Lewinsky. At a secret meeting ton did-not in so many words, perhaps, but timony. The subpoena showed that Starr in New York on Monday, July 27, Lewinsky by clearly signaling that Lewinsky should was determined to provoke a constitutional agreed to tell all to the grand jury in ex- hide any incriminating evidence. NEWS- crisis, if necessary. Normally, the lawyer change for immunity from prosecution. WEEK has learned that Starr's team believes for a criminal suspect would tell his client Two days later Kendall announced that the that Clinton's testimony further entangled to invoke his constitutional right to remain president had "volunteered" to testify. him in a web of lies. If other witnesses-no- silent. But Clinton seemed to understand Only two hours after that, ABC News de- tably, the president's secretary, Betty Cur- that a president can't hide behind the Fifth livered a bombshell: Lewinsky had turned rie-fail to support Clinton's side of the sto- Amendment. Polls show that the public over to Starr a navy blue cocktail dress with ry, the president could find himself facing wouldn't stand for it. By the same token, in- a telltale stain. The dress was sent to the impeachment. voking executive privilege would look FBI lab for testing, but Clinton, in all likeli- For a time this summer, it appeared that Nixonian (and probably lose in the courts). hood, could guess at the results. Clinton, through stonewalling and clever On Thursday, July 23, Kendall told Starr The dress limited the president's leeway, lawyering, might slip out of Starr's clumsy that Clinton would testify "voluntarily" if if he were so inclined, to fudge or dissemble grasp. In retrospect, however-given the Starr agreed to withdraw the subpoena. before the grand jury. With physical evi- legal machinery at Starr's disposal, Clin- No one told the White House staff, how- dence, sex would no longer be a matter of he ton's misbehavior and political reality-the ever. The political aides have been effec- said, she said. Clinton would have to admit president's current predicament seems in- tively frozen out of the legal councils for to at least one intimate encounter. That evitable. A reconstruction of the maneuver- months. On Friday morning, Clinton's aides raised the awkward question of how to rec- ing between Clinton and Starr and their read an item in The Wall Street Journal stat- oncile his testimony with his earlier state- minions over the last few weeks reads like ing that they were "bracing" for a subpoena. ments, both public and under oath. In Janu- a cross between the National Enquirer and At a morning meeting in the office of White ary, during his deposition in the Paula Jones "The Guns of August," a tale of secrets, House counsel Chuck Ruff, the aides asked case, he had denied having "sexual rela- blunders and evasions on the eve of war. if the item was true. "I don't have anything tions" with Lewinsky. Now, working with Although 57% of Americans believe Clinton said enough about his relations with Monica in his speech, 59% think he should have used the words T'm sorry' 32 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Kendall, the president was able to come up cal adviser Dick Morris, or so Morris mand Clinton's impeachment if he had lied with a classically Clintonian dodge. As de- claims. Morris had quit in disgrace when his under oath or told Lewinsky to lie. Clinton, fined by the judge in the Paula Jones case, own affair with a call girl had been exposed according to Morris, decided to take a pass sexual relations included touching her geni- during the 1996 Democratic convention. on the plea for forgiveness. tals with intent to arouse. As interpreted by "You poor s.o.b., I know what you're going But that was in January. Sometime dur- Clinton, however, sexual relations meant through," Morris says he told Clinton. Clin- ing the week of Aug. 10-the White intercourse, not oral sex or masturbation. ton supposedly confessed to Morris that House won't say exactly when-Starr re- Thus, in Clinton legalspeak, he had not per- "something had happened" with Lewinsky. quested that Clinton provide a fresh sam- jured himself in the Jones case. Morris says that he advised Clinton to make ple of his DNA. That almost certainly Some lawyers might buy that argument. a plea for forgiveness to the American peo- meant that the FBI had detected semen But would the American people? It was be- ple. "Do you think it will work?" asked Clin- on the dress, and that Starr was looking coming increasingly clear that Clinton ton. Morris says that he agreed to take a for a match. For Clinton, the time had would have to tell them something. Back in quickie poll. That night he called Clinton: come to start explaining. January, on the morning that the Lewinsky the results showed that while Americans On Friday, Aug. 14, the morning after story broke, Clinton called his former politi- would tolerate adultery, they would de- Clinton's uncomfortable confession to Gore's future: The vice president has to contend with they include the phrase "65% soft/35% hard.' The notes also Clinton's weaknesses, and his own. BY BILL TURQUE reinforce Gore's image as a gung-ho "solicitor-in-chief," ready to grub for cash. One A Pileup of Problems says: "VP: 'Is it possible to do a reallocation for me to take more of the events and the calls?' A Gore spokesman OST AMERICANS Even if Clin- said the probe will show he M would not want to ton's approval rat- did nothing improper. be held responsi- ings remain ro- Dodging an independent ble for the sexual bust, Gore faces counsel will not end questions misconduct of their bosses, other potentially about Gore's probity. Voters and luckily for Al Gore, they serious threats to weary of evasive Clinton- don't seem inclined to hold his candidacy in speak are certain to be re- the vice president accountable 2000. Attorney minded by opponents in 2000 either. But Gore also under- General Janet that he crouched behind the stands that he is still ultimate- Reno, under pres- farcical "no controlling legal ly lashed to the mast of Bill sure from Repub- authority" in defense of his Clinton's presidency. If Clin- licans, has re- fund-raising calls. Then ton's numbers tumble, erod- opened the there's the 1996 luncheon ing his ability to govern, Gore's presidential prospects DENNIS GARDEN possibility of an Gore attended at the Hsi Lai independent Buddhist temple, where become, as one close adviser counsel to investi- Democrats raised $140,000 gently put it, "problematic." gate whether through straw donors to dis- These are difficult, even be- fund-raising calls guise the origin of the money. wildering, days for the vice he made in 1995 His descriptions of the event president. While he and Clin- Expressing his support for the president in and 1996, some migrated from "community ton remain close friends, their Hawaii last week, Gore was carefully loyal from his White outreach" to "finance related" bond has always been a pas- House office, vio- to "donor maintenance." sion for policy and govern- of a subpoena has kept him lated election laws. Gore But Gore's biggest challenge ance, not the locker-room in- out of the tight loop main- maintains that he never raised may be to establish a sustained formality the president enjoys tained by the legal team. And cash for the Clinton re-elec- emotional connection with vot- with golfing buddies like Ver- early Clintonites like Harry tion campaign-so-called ers. He is a better campaigner non Jordan. And as a father Thomason and James Car- hard money that officials are than he is often given credit for. with three attractive daugh- ville, never terribly fond of barred from soliciting in pub- But his natural reserve and ters close to Monica Lewin- the vice president, are back to lic buildings-only less-regu- consuming interest in the envi- sky's age, a husband happily help their old friend through lated "soft" funds for the Dem- ronment and high technology married to a woman he met the crisis. It means, one for- ocratic Party. But notes by leave even some admirers when he was 17 and a politi- mer Clinton aide said, that former Gore aide David wondering about his feel for cian with everything invested Gore is at times "made to feel Strauss on a newly discovered the more mundane concerns of in this administration, Gore like an outsider." Even in the copy of a 1995 memo suggest ordinary citizens-especially finds Clinton's recklessness best of times, Gore is jealous that the vice president may the suburban soccer moms difficult to absorb. of his prerogatives and a little have known that some of what who helped elect Bill Clinton. Perhaps just as vexing for paranoid about being behind he raised would go to hard- Clinton's problems may yet Gore is the atmosphere that the curve. "This is tailor-made money accounts. Written at a be his ruination, but right now the Monica era has brought to for making him crazy," the meeting of party officials at- Al Gore's biggest obstacle is the White House. The danger aide said. tended by Clinton and Gore, still Al Gore. PHOTOCOPY AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 33 SPECIAL REPORT Hillary, a story appeared in The New York Said to be disappointed that Clinton failed to Times headlined CLINTON WEIGHS ADMIT- apologize-and livid at reports suggesting TING HE HAD SEXUAL CONTACTS. The arti- she 'serviced' him-Lewinsky returned for cle, which quoted a member of the presi- a second day before the grand jury dent's "inner circle," floated the idea that the president, by some tortured definition, feeling more petulant and defiant than con- could acknowledge a "specific type of sexu- trite. The draft included an angry attack on al behavior" with Lewinsky without con- Starr and left out any direct apology. On tradicting his own deposition in the Paula Monday, Clinton adviser Mickey Kantor Jones case or his public denials. White gave the speech, now typed, to Paul Begala, House aides bet that a member of the presi- one of the president's spinmeisters. Begala dent's legal team had leaked the story to (a) was taken aback by the tone. He set to work lock in the boss, (b) warn Hillary and (c) on Clinton's draft, excising much of the at- prepare the nation for a limited mea culpa. tack on Starr. Another White House aide in- But no one really knew. Contrary to the sisted that the words "I'm sorry" needed to reports floated last week, over the weekend be in the speech. At one point, a staffer draft- Clinton did not apologize to his own staff ed an apology to Lewinsky and her family, for misleading them on the Lewinsky mat- but the language was never shown to Clin- ter. He was preoccupied with the upcoming ton, partly for fear of offending Hillary. The missile attack against terrorist targets and mood among the aides was decidedly prepping for his own testimony on Mon- cranky. At the morning staff meeting, White day. Aides noticed that Hillary was shut up House chief of staff Erskine Bowles pleaded in the residence, alone. for understanding for the president. Some- Sunday was for brave faces. A Bible-tot- one in the White House communications ing Clinton held Hillary's hand on the way shop prepared talking points. "Do you for- to church; the Rev. Jesse Jackson was sum- give him for misleading you and the coun- moned to the White House residence that try?" read one question. Answer: "It's been evening for some private spiritual counsel- said that, 'He who cannot forgive others ing with Hillary and Chelsea. The First breaks the bridge over which he must pass Family might as well have taken out an ad. himself.' Of course I do." A few aides who Jackson, a former political rival of Clin- received the talking points threw them in ton's, told of joining hands with the Clin- the trash after they heard the speech. tons, reciting the 51st Psalm, David's At about 1 p.m., Clinton began his testi- prayer for mercy from God after he had mony, fed to the grand jury via video cam- LAND CRUISER been seduced by Bathsheba. ("Wash me era, from the Map Room in the White thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse House. He began by telling the jurors that he me from my sin.") recalled a half dozen or so sexual encounters Clinton spent more time that night writ- with Lewinsky, beginning in late 1995 or ing, in longhand on a legal pad, his own plea early 1996, and ending by 1997. Starr's legal to the American people. He was apparently team methodically bore in on the details. MARTIN Caught in the Web In the seven months since Clinton began misleading the public about his relationship with Lewinsky, 29 current and former White House employees went before the grand jury. Those who testified-and have the legal bills to prove it: January February March April Jan. 12: Linda Tripp informs Starr's Jan. 17: Clinton denies having sexual March 10: Kathleen Willey testifies team that Monica Lewinsky had an relations with Lewinsky in a sworn before the grand jury. She tells her affair with President Clinton deposition for the Paula Jones case story on '60 Minutes' the next week. JANUARY 1998 Leon Panetta FEBRUARY Bayani Nelvis Jocelyn Jolley Nancy Hernreich former chief Caroline Self called back former legis- director of of staff former White Justin Coleman lative-affairs Oval Office Ashley Raines House intern former White supervisor operations Office of George House intern Timothy Keating Administration Stephanopoulos John Podesta Stephen Goodin former White Patsy Evelyn former senior deputy chief former presi- House staff di- Thomasson Betty Currie Lieberman adviser of staff dential person- rector of Office former deputy president's per- former deputy to Clinton Lewis C. Fox al assistant of Legislative director of sonal secretary chief of staff Kris Engskov retired Secret Affairs Bruce Lindsey White House Bayani Nelvis Service officer Jennifer personal assis- deputy counsel personnel White House Palmieri tant to the and Clinton office steward confidant deputy director president of scheduling 34 PHOTOCOPY NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 Clinton balked, citing an invasion of priva- vase of flowers, no flags. Absent was any cy. There were questions about the gifts. picture of Hillary. Lewinsky had testified that Clinton told her A few staffers watched Clinton's speech that if she didn't have the gifts, then she in the White House solarium. Some hoped would not have to turn them over to Paula for the best-that the public would want to Jones's lawyers. Clinton had a different rec- forgive and move on-others were more ollection: he testified that he told Lewinsky gloomy. Most left without waiting for the that if she had the gifts, she would have to pundits to carp. One who did stay behind turn them over. Reports differ over Clin- later remarked, "It ain't ever over." Several ton's mood during the course of his four- members of Starr's team watched in the bar hour testimony, which was interrupted five of Sam & Harry's, a Washington steak- times for breaks. Some sources say he blew house, where they had gone to unwind. up over the prosecutor's graphic questions. Careful to avoid drawing attention, they But others insist that he kept his temper. first quietly chuckled over Clinton's legalis- He was without question in an angry tic equivocations. Then some appeared to state when he emerged from the testimony grow quietly angry about his defiance. at about 6:30 p.m. After taking a quick White House aides wanted to believe shower, he reinserted his attack on Starr in that the bad reviews of Clinton's speech the draft of his speech. Aides pleaded with were mere Beltway blather, and the presi- Clinton not to. Red-faced, he insisted, "No, dent's approval rating would stay high. I want to say this. This needs to be said." Hillary, who had been working with him on his testimony for the past two days, agreed. What Happens Next? Contrary to press reports, however, she had not been an active member of the presi- Starr is expected to deliver his report to dent's legal team in its secret deliberations Congress by mid-September. Then what? over the summer, according to White The Report: The House Judiciary Com- House insiders. Her role on Monday night mittee privately reviews Starr's findings was essentially passive. "It's your speech," she said. (which will be kept under lock and key). The speech had been scheduled for 9 The House Investigation: If the committee p.m., then pushed back to 10 in part so few- decides the report merits further action, it er children would be watching. Clinton's can ask for a resolution of inquiry and old Arkansas friend Hollywood producer launch its own probe and hearings. Harry Thomason set the stage in the Map The Vote: After all evidence has been con- Room, where FDR planned strategy for sidered, the Committee can draft articles of World War II and Clinton hours earlier impeachment and send them on for a floor had testified about his sex life. Together vote if a majority are in favor. Another with media consultant Robert Squier, option would be to recommend a formal Thomason wanted a fireside-chat look: a censure or reprimand. May 22: Federal Judge Norma Hol- June 2: Lewinsky fires attorney July 29: David Kendall, Clinton's Aug. 6: Monica Lewinsky testifies loway rules that Secret Service William Ginsburg, hires Jacob Stein attorney, announces that the about her relationship with Clinton agents must testify and Plato Cacheris president will testify before the grand jury June July August April 1: Judge Susan Webber Wright July 28: Starr grants Lewinsky and Aug. 17: Clinton testifies, then ad- dismisses the Paula Jones's sexual her mother, Marcia Lewis, full im- mits his relationship with Lewinsky harassment lawsuit munity in exchange for testimony was 'wrong' in a televised address Bruce Lindsey Nancy Hernreich Marsha Scott MAY Rebecca Sidney called back called back called back Betty Currie Cameron Blumenthal Ellen McCathran Marsha Scott APRIL called back Oval Office called back presidential called back staff aide Erskine Bowles JULY diarist chief of staff Kris Engskov Sidney Marsha Scott called back Betty Currie Janis Kearney called back Harold Ickes Blumenthal chief of staff White House JUNE Harold Ickes called back Clinton's spe- for personnel archivist Harold Ickes called back cial assistant office Cheryl Mills Glen Maes former deputy MARCH Jodie Torkelson Glen Maes chief of staff AUGUST deputy counsel Nancy Hernreich White House former head of steward called back Nancy Hernreich Lanny Breuer Bayani Nelvis called back management called back called back special and adminis- Nancy Hernreich called back John Podesta counsel, legal tration office called back strategist LEFT TO RIGHT: BRAD MARKEL-GAMMA-LIAISON, RON HAVIV SABA (2). RICK WILKING-REUTERS, MARTIN SIMON SABA, BEUTERS. MARTIN SIMON-SABA. JOE MARQUETTE AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 35 SPECIAL REPORT CHUCK KENNEDY Coded message or coincidence? Starr probed the fact that on Lewinsky's first day of testimony before the grand jury, WALLY MCNAMEE FOR NEWSWEEK Clinton wore a diamond-patterned tie she had allegedly given him. Clinton saw the line of questioning as preposterous. But they were disheartened by the strong- of cameras in his (or her) tie. But as the mood at Clinton's island vacation house ly negative reaction from Democrats on story played the next day in The New York was described by one insider as "tense." Capitol Hill, whose support will be critical Times, the idea of a secret signal between Back in Washington, Monica Lewinsky if Clinton faces impeachment. Lawmakers the former lovers didn't seem quite so was hurt that Clinton had not apologized to like California Sen. Dianne Feinstein felt far-fetched. her or her family. She was also irked by personally betrayed by Clinton. White Clinton was greeted by an enthusiastic Clinton's intimation that their sexual rela- House spinners began to grope for coun- throng of well-wishers at the Martha's tionship had been all one-way-that she termeasures. On Wednesday, some clever Vineyard airport Tuesday afternoon. But had, in effect, been servicing the president. Clinton ally leaked that Starr had ques- the rope line was stacked with draftees. On Thursday, she appeared again before tioned the president about the tie he had Several members of the island glitterati, the grand jury to answer questions about worn at a Rose Garden ceremony on Aug. like socialite-liberal activist Rose Styron, inconsistencies between her testimony and 6, the day Monica Lewinsky had first testi- wife of novelist William Styron, had been Clinton's. She has testified that Clinton had fied before the grand jury. The gold-and- asked to turn out by Mrs. Clinton's White fondled her breasts and genitals. She was royal-blue cravat was one of a half dozen House office. The Clintons passed up the also asked about the gifts. Clinton had testi- that Lewinsky says she had given Clinton usual social scene to have a quiet 52nd- fied that at his last meeting with Lewinsky as gifts. Was the president sending Lewin- birthday dinner with Clinton's golfing bud- on Dec. 28, he had not told Lewinsky to lie sky some kind of sign, a coded plea for loy- dy, Vernon Jordan. (Clinton testified that or return any of his tokens of affection. In- alty? During his testimony, Clinton had he misled Jordan, too, about his affair with deed, last week the White House leaked laughed off this suggestion as preposter- Lewinsky-good news for Jordan, who that Clinton had given her more gifts: an ous. The timing alone was impossible: was being investigated for trying to buy Alaskan stone carving, a throw rug, a deco- Lewinsky would have entered the grand- Lewinsky's silence last December by find- rative pin and a few jokey items, like sun- jury room before Clinton appeared in front ing her a job in the private sector.) The glasses. If Clinton had been so concerned 31% of Americans now think Clinton should consider resigning. Only 24% believe Congress should begin impeachment proceedings; 45% would prefer a censure. 36 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION SPECIAL REPORT Family business: The Clintons' relationship has always been about more than matters of the heart. Now the First Lady bears the burden of the bargain she made, while Chelsea is the bridge between her parents. BY JONATHAN ALTER Why Hillary Still Holds On HE WAS 21 YEARS OLD THEN, AND FULL OF A circumstances. By committing sex acts with a 22-year-old subordinate in the White S righteous idealism that could not have fath- House, Bill Clinton made his marriage the omed a $100 necktie. It was spring 1969, the nation's concern. In doing so, he victimized his wife all over again. For all her years of height of the student protests on American self-delusion, Hillary was only now bearing the full burdens of her bargain. college campuses, and Hillary Rodham of The Clintons had always claimed priva- cy to protect Chelsea. But last week, out Park Ridge, Ill., was speaking at the Welles- in public, it was she who protected ley commencement on behalf of her generation. them. Chelsea, now 18, looked surprisingly strong and comfortable walking between "The problem with empathy is that empathy doesn't do her parents en route to what promised to be a hellish holiday. Her father, leading anything," she told the audience. A quarter century later, Buddy on a leash, wore an artificial smile; empathy would be her husband's trademark political skill. her mother, in sunglasses, looked straight ahead, deflated and not even pretending to By last week, the American public would feel plenty of it be cheerful. "To say Hillary is disappoint- ed would be a gross understatement," said for her. But that day young Miss Rodham saw empathy one friend. She was said to believe that her husband betrayed not just her and as insufficient if not insincere-an emotion The trust of a wife. Many of the questions of Chelsea, but much of what they have used mostly to cover up compromise and trust are extremely personal but suddenly worked together to build. failure to act on social issues. In her earnest relevant. What did Hillary Clinton know Yet they soldiered on. Hillary released a speech, so memorable that it landed her in about the president's philandering and lies? statement saying she "is committed to her Life magazine, she chose to focus on anoth- What has kept her with him? What is the marriage" and "believes in this president er word. "When I asked the class at our re- true nature of their peculiar yet compelling and loves him very much." Friends said it hearsal what it was they wanted me to say 27-year relationship? was more than boilerplate, and that she is for them, everyone came up to me and said, No one can see behind the closed doors of certain Clinton still loves her, too. But any "Talk about trust'." someone else's marriage, especially one as healing would take time. The president, by There was a lot of talk about trust in perplexing as theirs. No one can know the more than one account, had not yet come America last week, some of it undoubtedly full mysteries of love-or what it can ab- fully to terms with what he did. His re- in a guest house on Martha's Vineyard. The sorb. And under normal circumstances, it's morse was still laced with anger at his fate trust of a nation after a finger-wagging lie. no one's business. But these aren't normal and a cloying ingratiation: the bombing and 38 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 TRICIA MCINROY SIPA PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION about concealing gifts, his spinners argued, cause she is the one player in this drama dent can be tried on criminal charges why was he giving her even more? But, known for her truthfulness. (though not imprisoned) while in office. NEWSWEEK has learned, Lewinsky testi- There is little doubt now that Starr will Starr is not likely to ask the grand jury to in- fied that the very next day, Clinton's secre- send a scathing report to Congress. Starr's dict Clinton. But Rotunda's arguments may tary, Betty Currie, had appeared at her Wa- own thinking has gradually hardened over have convinced the independent counsel tergate apartment to retrieve the gifts. the past few months. As a young law clerk last July that he could constitutionally sub- Lewinsky was clear that she had not sum- to a federal judge during Watergate, Starr poena the president. That was a critical de- moned Currie. Was Currie there on Clin- argued to his colleagues that, under the velopment in Starr's investigation. Where ton's orders? Absolutely not, testified Clin- separation of powers in the Constitution, a it ultimately leads cannot be known. But ton. But according to knowledgeable sitting president could not be indicted by a any quick and happy ending now seems im- sources, Currie told investigators last win- prosecutor or tried in the courts. Only Con- possible for Bill Clinton. ter that Clinton had instructed her that gress could bring impeachment proceed- "Monica may have something to give you." ings. But lately, NEWSWEEK has learned, With MICHAEL ISIKOFF, DANIEL KLAIDMAN, KAREN BRESLAU and MARK HOSENBALL The precise wording of Currie's testimony Starr was persuaded by a conservative law in Washington and DEBRA ROSENBERG is crucial. She is a key witness, in part be- professor, Ronald Rotunda, that a presi- on Martha's Vineyard Pressure: Starr himself has come under investigation isn't Starr's only worry. Clinton allies have dug up BY DANIEL KLAIDMAN AND MARK HOSENBALL witnesses who claim that one of Starr's key White- water witnesses received In a Hurry-Up Offense payoffs from some of the Clintons' right-wing ene- mies. Starr relied on testi- mony from former Little ILL CLINTON'S AD- Rock municipal judge David B dress last Monday Hale to convict key White- night sent one unmis- water figures, including Jim takable signal: the and Susan McDougal. Now president's assault against accusations have surfaced Ken Starr is far from over. that Hale got secret pay- And why not? Even after the ments from people working president's admission that he independent counsel for drag- ging out the investigation. CHRIS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE on an anti-Clinton investiga- lied about having an affair tion by The American Spec- with Lewinsky, much of the tator magazine that was be- public continues to blame the ing financed by conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. Hale, the magazine Starr knows he's unpopu- and Scaife all deny that any lar-and under the gun. He payments were made. For- has little time left to deliver mer Justice Department his impeachment report to watchdog Michael Shaheen Congress. He faces two fed- By the time Starr sends his findings to Congress, an inquiry into his Jr. has been given broad eral investigations of his own office's alleged leaking of grand-jury info could cause trouble powers by Starr and Justice office that could blunt the to probe the allegations. impact of any findings he ever, Starr leaked secret and plodding lawyer, was Shaheen has begun calling might eventually make grand-jury testimony, he will stuck arguing the exotic legal witnesses before an against the president. The have violated Rule 6(e), a fed- theory that revealing contacts Arkansas grand jury. And, most critical of the probes eral-court edict that subjects with reporters would be tanta- NEWSWEEK has learned, accuses Starr and his staff of leakers to contempt citation- mount to exposing confiden- Starr himself and one of his illegally leaking information and possibly jail. Part legal tial informants. top deputies, Hickman Ew- provided to the grand jury. ploy, part PR offensive, the It's unclear how the judge ing, have been questioned by The other suggests that one leak accusation was drummed will proceed. But Starr and Shaheen's investigators. of Starr's key witnesses in up by Clinton lawyer David his deputies are likely to be Both investigations could the Whitewater case re- Kendall last winter. (And an- put under oath and interro- be completed this fall. The ceived payoffs from Clinton other reason Starr's investiga- gated about their discussions president's spinners remain enemies. Both are powerful tion is under time pressure is with reporters. The presi- ready to pounce if Starr has weapons in the White the time-consuming legal dent's defenders VOW to made any mistakes. By that House's continuing cam- roadblocks deployed by keep the pressure on Starr. time, though, the independent paign to discredit Starr. Kendall and the First Client.) "The leaks investigation is counsel plans to have sent his In Washington, everyone Judge Norma Holloway John- very much alive," Kendall report on the Monica Lewin- leaks. Both Starr's team and son ordered Starr to prove told NEWSWEEK. If the Clin- sky affair to Capitol Hill. Each the Clinton camp have repeat- that his office did not leak se- ton team can prove Starr man holds power over the edly given reporters their take crets. Starr, who has a well-de- leaked, he could be fired. other's fate-and judgment on the investigation. If, how- served reputation as a careful The leaks investigation day for both is coming fast. PHOTOCOPY AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 37 PRESERVATION is a sham, saying that the affection and intimacy the Clintons display in private can't be faked PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION SPECIAL REPORT other presidential business interrupted any His Class," she watched him talk their way ton were thinking solely of getting elected, introspection. Some friends said it was ob- into a closed art museum by volunteering to he could have married an Arkansas beauty vious the Clintons needed therapy, which pick up some trash. Their intellectual part- queen instead of a Chicago feminist. If the family undertook in Little Rock in the nership began during moot-court competi- Rodham hadn't been so madly in love, she 1980s after Clinton's brother was arrested tion at the law school. They lost, but class- never would have dropped a promising ca- on cocaine charges. But the president was mates remember the remarkable way that reer as a Washington lawyer to move to described as unlikely to submit to any coun- their skills complemented one another. It's Arkansas. No other man could meet her seling until he leaves office. hard to remember today how fiercely standard of likability and intellectual pow- The Clintons' relationship had always young people once believed they could er, she told friends. But even when they been about more than matters of the heart. change the world through politics. Clinton were first dating, he sometimes saw other It began at Yale Law School in 1971, when and Rodham shared the dream-and a women on the side. When they married in Hillary spotted him bragging about pragmatism about needing to "win first" 1975, Maraniss wrote, "She understood his Arkansas watermelons in the student before they could get anything done. talents and his flaws. He might not be lounge. On their first date, according to As the relationship deepened, both sac- faithful, but together they could be faithful David Maraniss's revealing book, "First in rificed something to stay together. If Clin- to their larger mission in life." Only 11% of Americans believe that Hillary Clinton found out about her hus- band's affair just days before his speech; 84% think she had known for some time 40 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: DAVID HUME KENNERLY FOR NEWSWEEK, CHRISTOPHER LITTLE-OUTLINE NBC-"TODAY" SHOW. AP PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION STICKING TOGETHER bound together so deeply that they will never get divorced. On the campaign trail To those who didn't know the Clin- in 1992 (left) and 1996 (far left), the tons, this sounded bizarre and perhaps Clintons complained manufactured. With all the publicity, how privately that their could she not have known months ago critics would have about his relationship with Monica Lewin- found a speedy sky? Hillary Clinton, this theory goes, must have been an "enabler" who con- divorce easier to accept than the stantly covered up or even lied for her messy sight of a fam- husband. According to this analysis, the ily working through White House concocted the story about problems like adul- her finding out for the first time just last week so that she wouldn't seem to have tery. Time and time again, Hillary would been lying on behalf of the president when have to endure the she went on the "Today" show in January. Hillary is described by a friend as "ticked pain of a public de- fense of her wayward off" by this line of analysis. Yes, she had dug her husband out of political trouble over husband, like her ap- womanizing, as she did by standing beside pearance on '60 Min- him in the famous 1992 "60 Minutes" inter- utes' in 1992 (below, view about Gennifer Flowers. But an en- center) and 'Today' in 1998 (below, right). abler? Hillary always relied on some strong woman staffer-Betsey Wright in Little Rock, Evelyn Lieberman in the White House-to keep the temptresses at bay. In the White House, she felt she could relax more on the perennial issue of her husband's whereabouts, which were now tightly cir- cumscribed by the nature of the presidential cocoon. It wasn't as if Clinton was widely known within the White House to be play- ing around. There was no sense on her staff that she turned a blind eye to the obvious. And for anyone who knew them, the no- tion that their marriage was a political "arrangement" was simply false. Eleanor Roosevelt was a heroine to Hillary, and Eleanor's fortitude amid Franklin's infi- delity must have been some inspiration. But the Clintons had an entirely different NBC NEWS TODAY sort of marriage from the Roosevelts, whose intimate physical relations appar- ently ended after 1918. The Clintons slept in the same bed and were constantly seen holding hands, kissing and flirting in ways Soon they became an astonishing political The marriage nearly ended in the late that were impossible to fake. team-"Billary," "two for the price of one." 1980s after Clinton was caught in a long- Meanwhile, it wasn't hard for Hillary to She was not just the corporate-lawyer term affair (not Gennifer Flowers), but they filter out the rumors, which grew increas- breadwinner, but his most trusted adviser. patched it up-mostly for the sake of ingly outlandish. Gary Aldrich's claim of Clinton didn't call his wife "Mommy," as Chelsea, friends say-and were proud of seeing the president leave the White House Ronald Reagan did, but through the years surviving. In 1992 and 1996, they both com- with a blanket over his head? Hollywood Hillary sometimes played that role, organiz- plained that if they had simply divorced- starlets? Ridiculous, she thought. There ing and shaping him for advancement. Clin- like Reagan, Bob Kerrey and Bob Dole, were so many phony stories being peddled ton's own beloved mother, Virginia, had among others-sex would never be an on so many topics-stories she knew to be been less of a mother than a fun-loving issue. In the White House, friends report- false-that she stopped trying to sort them friend and worshiper at the shrine of Bill. ed, there were plenty of loud fights-al- all out unless she was specifically preparing Hillary, by contrast, was not subservient but ways a feature of their relationship-but no to testify. She rarely watched TV news, and equal. In intellectual terms, this worked sense that the marriage was in trouble. the news summaries provided by her staff brilliantly. But Clinton occasionally chafed "She was caught flat-footed this year," says did not include stories about sex. Hillary at the discipline she brought to their life. one friend, who still insisted that they are knew a lot had happened in Arkansas-and 69% of those surveyed still believe Bill Clinton is a good father; 48% think he is worse than the average American husband; 40% think he's about the same AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 41 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION SPECIAL REPORT Hot Springs FAMILY MATTERS Chelsea Clinton has never known a life left, in 1992) and in the White House outside the spotlight-from her girl- (above, with her father in 1997). She's hood in the Arkansas governor's man- learned the lessons of public life well; sion (top left, with Hillary in 1984) to the poised young woman now seems to her adolescence on the presidential be protecting her parents as much as campaign trail (center and bottom they ever protected her. had been angered when the Troopergate sponsored by Walter Kaye, who has done long since stopped asking him the hard story appeared in The American Spectator more favors for the Clintons than almost questions. According to one version, the in 1994-but she honestly believed that her any benefactor. (The biggest may have been president did tell her in January that he had husband had changed his ways once they figuring out how an insurance policy could slipped briefly during the late 1995 budget came to Washington. be made to cover the expenses of the Paula shutdown-grown "too close" to Lewin- So when the Lewinsky story appeared, Jones case.) She shrugged off the gifts in sky, which was dumb and looked dumb- she told friends it was false. It seemed to private just as she did to Matt Lauer on TV: er-but that the intern was a lovesick pup- come from the same sewer as so much else everyone knew Bill was always buying trin- py who wasn't telling the truth about a that she knew was untrue. This would kets for his staff; he'd done it for years. sexual relationship. prove to be a hoax, too, she told friends. But if Hillary was not exactly an enabler, When reports of the dress first surfaced When news broke that Lewinsky had re- she had become, over the years, conspicu- in the press, Clinton simply lied. "There is ceived unusually high-level help for an in- ously incurious about her husband's behav- no dress," he told friends and family in Jan- tern, Hillary easily rationalized it. Lewin- ior. By the most reliable accounts, Hillary uary. Faced with a choice between believ- sky, she knew, was not just any intern, but was so heavily invested in Bill that she had ing her husband on the one hand, or Ken 42 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE SIPA, WIN MCNAMEE REUTERS. HARRY BENSON, ITM BOURG-GAMMA-LIAISON PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPY RRESERVATION Starr and the press on the other, it was no gy of different faiths, including works by minister some day. But Methodists have a contest for Hillary. Starr was the one she Gordon MacDonald, an evangelical minis- different, less tolerant attitude toward sin thought had lied for four years, and made ter defrocked for adultery, then given a sec- than do Baptists, the faith of her husband. her life miserable digging dry holes. ond chance. She had been a regular church- One friend suggested that the redemption And then came mid-August. At first she goer even in college when most of her friends provided by Jesse Jackson last week might learned the truth in legal terms, from the were looking for other sources of insight- not prove enough. president's lawyers. And finally, on Aug. like psychiatry. In recent years, Hillary came Hillary's own tradition stressed the so- 13, from her husband himself. As she ab- to recognize that she was not naturally dis- cial gospel and a strong impulse to find sorbed the details-an 18-month affair with posed to the psychological perspective. grace in responsibility. Instead of empathy special gifts and at least a half-dozen sexual Maybe now, says a friend, she will be. or sympathy, Hillary wanted her friends encounters-Hillary Clinton was appar- Friends predicted that the First Lady and supporters to renew their commitment ently deeply angry. She still didn't doubt would now apply her usual diligence to the to something larger. It was that shared her husband's love for her, and she didn't task of figuring out which blend of religious commitment that had bound her to Bill blame herself. But according to friends she traditions was best for her family. The Clinton in the first place, a mixture of ambi- did turn inward, to her spiritual side. search was potentially confusing. Hillary is tion and idealism she had expressed at her Religion was always central to Hillary. a strong Methodist; over the years she had graduation nearly 30 years ago. The trust For years, she had read widely in the theolo- even mused about becoming a Methodist would have to wait. Inside the family: A counselor to the Clintons tells of early age. Chelsea is both tough-minded and tender- their struggle-and their love. BY REV. JESSE JACKSON hearted. Her parents raised her to have inner strength and maturity. Keeping Faith in a Storm I remember last winter when Chelsea was briefly hos- pitalized at Stanford for the flu. She told me then that she ARRIVED AT THE WHITE I was aware of the rumors flying House shortly after 10:30 around that she was on drugs Sunday night. Hillary or had dropped out of school. and I had spoken by She didn't get angry. She just phone and she said that rolled her eyes and said, "I'm Chelsea wanted to see me. I doing fine.' I have spoken to was concerned that Hillary Chelsea throughout this crisis, was having to bear so much of and she has not been sitting the burden. With grace and around crying or wringing her strength, she was coping with hands. Chelsea is old enough a crisis affecting her husband, to know that her father isn't her daughter and the nation- perfect. She knows that some- and there was almost no one times men in their weakness she could talk to about it. go beyond their boundary. But Throughout the entire ordeal, that is no basis for not loving both Bill and Hillary have had one's father. Throughout this, one eye on each other and one eye on Chelsea. How is she PAUL ELLEDGE she has said, "I love my dad. I understand. I can cope." responding? How is she cop- After about an hour, we ing? Both have a real sensitiv- went upstairs to the solarium ity to how she handles fame Jackson visited while Clinton prepared the Lewinsky speech on the third floor, where the and trauma. president was working on his Hillary, Chelsea and I sat covered up in shame and em- faith, hold on to your hopes speech. We hugged each other down in the living room and barrassment. Sin and shame and dreams and stand togeth- and prayed. It was clear that began to talk. Bill dropped by and lies tend to go hand in er until the storm passes. Hillary and Chelsea were to say hello. After a few min- hand. We talked about King I don't feel free to relate the standing with him. Soon he utes, Hillary told him to go David, who, like Bill, was tal- words that they used, but it would have to testify; he knew upstairs and finish preparing ented and gifted and tempted was clear that Hillary and when it was over that he for his testimony. "When by the forbidden fruit. So Chelsea understood. Hillary would have to look in their we're done talking, then we'll were some of the greatest was absolutely committed to eyes and walk into their arms. come up and see you." After American leaders in history. keeping her family together. They offered him love and un- he left, I told Hillary and This storm, I told them, is not Chelsea is devoted to both her derstanding at a time when he Chelsea that I was reminded an original storm. The ques- parents. She has seen her fa- needed it most and deserved of another First Family in cri- tion is, how will you respond? ther under attack and heard it least. We have seen the sis, in the very first Rose Gar- You can panic and jump over- all the allegations. She comes Clintons in triumph and we den. When Adam and Eve board. You can become irate from a generation made either have seen them in trauma. transgressed from God's will and turn on each other and lay more cynical or more solid by But throughout it all, we have and sinned, they immediately blame. Or you can apply your all they are exposed to at an always seen them together. PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION SPECIAL REPORT Lost ideals: Aides who defended him are being called dupes, and supporters now wonder if they cared more about Clinton's agenda than he did. BY GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS he blwow Betrayal Y WORST MORNING IN THE CLIN- ambition and my belief in our common work. I have thought about that day a lot this week M ton campaign bunker was April 5, as I watched my friends and former colleagues, 1992-the day we had to deal with Rahm Emanuel, Paul Begala and Ann Lewis, endure the embarrassment of having their pub- Clinton's induction notice from lic defense of Clinton contradicted by the pres- ident himself. For seven months, they had de- 1969. For months, we had been de- fended the president loyally and well; now they were being called liars or dupes. I know some fending against the charge of draft people will say that's what "spinners" deserve. dodging. I was right there on the ramparts-accosting Others argue that it's the price of working for a president. As LBJ counsel Harry McPherson any reporter who dared to question our story, insisting once wrote, all presidents "consume their staff like fuel." But that ignores how seriously these that Clinton had never been drafted and never "pulled people take their responsibilities, how much they care for our country and how truly unusu- strings," arguing vehemently that this obsessive focus on al the current situation is. It's bad enough that Bill Clinton defiled his presidency by having Clinton's past was part of a right-wing plot to sex with an intern off the Oval Office; bad deny the country a progressive president enough that he humiliated his wife and daugh- who would shake things up. So when John ter. But President Clinton turned his personal King of the Associated Press handed me a flaws into a public matter when he made the copy of Clinton's draft notice, I was shaken. whole country complicit in his cover story. How can this be? After all of the questions and This was no impulsive act of passion; it was a all of the stories, how can we still be confront- coldly calculated political decision. ed with documents we didn't know about? How He spoke publicly from the Roosevelt can you defend a guy when you don't know the Room. He assembled his cabinet and staff, facts? How come the governor didn't tell us? and assured them that he was telling the "I forgot about it," Clinton said. By the time truth. Then he sat back, silently, and the draft notice reached him at Oxford, he ex- watched his official spokespeople, employees plained, his local draft board had told him to of the U.S. government, mislead the country ignore it, so he did. It was a hard story to swal- again and again and again. Not to protect an low, and even if it was accurate, reporters innocent life, or shield soldiers in combat, would rightly accuse us of dissembling because but to save the president from personal em- we hadn't revealed its existence before. Clin- barrassment and political harm. One more ton could tell I was agitated. Over breakfast, as Risking his legacy for a dalliance sad example of the lesson every president I peppered him with questions in his hotel knows and every president forgets: the suite, he reached over and pressed both hands on my shoulders to cover-up is always worse than the crime. calm me down. He didn't want me talking to reporters until I pulled "Oh, c'mon," you say. "How could they believe him? We knew myself together. all along that Clinton was lying." That took a while. Unable to face the world, I stayed in bed that Don't get me wrong. Anyone who's worked for this president morning-literally under the covers. James Carville and I retreat- knows enough to listen for the loophole in the categorical denial, ed to his bedroom and watched Julia Child make a meringue. By to wonder about the question you failed to ask. But experience is afternoon, I was back on the front lines. Clinton had told me his an unsteady guide. For every charge against Clinton that has story, and I had made a choice to believe him and defend him. turned out to be true, I know a dozen worse rumors that were Whatever doubts I had were overwhelmed by his word, my own proved wrong. And senior White House staffers aren't dumb; PHOTOCOPY And if you don't, you have to quit. Loyal still, my White House friends aren't com- plaining; that's not their style. They will make their personal peace with the pres- ident in private, over time. The bigger problem, for them and the president, is how hard it will be for them to do their jobs now. A senior White House staffer is both counselor and character wit- ness; you advise the presi- dent and represent him to the world. But it's awkward to advise a man whom you don't fully respect, and it's unnerving to represent a man whom you don't fully trust. In a television inter- view, or during a strategy session on Capitol Hill, you can hear the next question before you complete your first sentence: "Why would we believe you?" The usual trump card-"I just spoke to the president and you have his word"-doesn't mean to- day what it meant in January. For now, at least, the sen- ior White House staff has been consumed by the crush of work in a week of crisis. But since Monday, I've had dozens of conversations with members of President Clinton's extended political family, lower-level White House staffers and the "Schedule C" political ap- pointees scattered in cabi- net departments across the government. Idealists and operatives, patriots and ac- tivists, they apprenticed in the Clinton campaign or on Capitol Hill-drafting con- stituent letters and legisla- MICHAEL J.N. BOWLES tive amendments, standing with Clinton signs on snowy New Hampshire over- passes, staying up all night in the War Room to re- It's awkward to advise a man you don't fully respect, and unnerving to represent a man you don't fully trust search rebuttals to anti- Clinton attacks-all for the they didn't follow blindly; many harbored doubts in the pits of privilege of working for a president and his policies, for the chance their stomach, especially as the months wore on without a real ex- to make a difference. planation from the president. That's why Clinton defenders But they couldn't do much work on Tuesday morning. In govern- checked and double-checked with his lawyers to make sure that ment cafeterias, over coffee at Starbucks, on impromptu confer- their defense was accurate and true. But Clinton may have misled ence calls with old friends, they vented their feelings. Some were his counsel, too. And most of all, before you judge his aides you defiant, ready to fight for Clinton one more time. Others felt sorry must understand what it's like to have the president of the United for Hillary and Chelsea. All were angry at Clinton. For risking his States put his hand on your shoulder, look you in the eye and presidency on a foolish dalliance; for lying about it; for paralyzing say, "You have to believe me. I didn't do this." You believe him. their policy agenda; for vindicating Starr and all the other attackers 45 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION SPECIAL REPORT they had been fighting for so long. I heard words like "despise" and "disgust" and "hate" from people whose most cherished memory is shaking the president's hand after a Saturday-morning radio ad- dress. And as the hours passed, the anger settled into disillusion, the sad sense that if all this were true, we "cared about his agenda more than he did." There was anxiety, too. Was there any hope left of getting some- thing done over the next two years? Or would the rest of their ca- reer with Clinton be spent waiting for another shoe to drop and watching congressional committees pore over all the ugly details of their leader's indiscretions? Some wondered if it would be better for Vice President Al Gore to take the helm right now; then we'd definitely be spared the indignity of impeachment hearings and we might even get something done. Voicing a sentiment I heard far more than I expected, one Democrat who reveres his party and the presidency simply said: "I wish President Clinton would resign." UNDERSTAND HOW HE FEELS, BUT FOR THE PRESIDENT TO I resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction. In all of our his- tory, through countless scandals petty and grand, only one president has resigned from office, only one president has been impeached and no president has been convicted and removed from office. Undoing a national election is serious business. Presi- dent Clinton hasn't been charged with an impeachable offense. His actions in Afghanistan and Sudan this week demon- strate that he's capable of carrying out his duties as commander in chief, and he still has strong public support. That is thanks, in part, to the conduct of his adversaries. Although he chose the wrong time to say it, everything the president said last week about the Starr investigation and his political adversaries is true. Starr's in- I vestigation has gone on too long; his office is the subject of an ethics investigation, and there is something terribly unsettling about a full-fledged criminal investigation into a president's sex life, unre- strained by common sense or proportion. But that's where we are, so what should the president do-in- Putting the arm on deed, what can he do-to return purpose to his presidency? Follow Stephanopoulos on his own advice. At last year's National Prayer Breakfast, the presi- NEWSWEEK Air Force One in 1996 dent talked movingly about the need to "repair the breach" in our public life. Today, the most serious breach in our public life is the What Did You Think? Clinton's speech Monday may not have played well in the Belt- way, but everyone's entitled to his own opinion. A few voices: DR. LAURA SCHLESINGER DR. FRANK PITTMAN RADIO PERSONALITY INFIDELITY EXPERT A 13-year-old boy called my The saddest part of the whole show two weeks ago who had speech for me was when the received a presidential award. president said Hillary didn't He was having a fight with his know. I hope he's lying about mom. She wanted to hang it up that and he didn't really send in his room; he refused to do it her out onto the "Today" show because he thinks the president MARIO CUOMO in January to make a fool of is disgusting. Boy, I'll tell you, FORMER N.Y. GOVERNOR herself-hell, we never even my eyeballs just about fell out of The speech failed. He was ap- would have voted for him in my head when parently tired and allowed him- the first place if we hadn't HELEN GURLEY BROWN I heard that self to project anger instead of thought Hillary would keep FORMER COSMO EDITOR one. He said, contrition. It was interpreted by him on a short leash. The I sat watching raptly and "This is no role too many as a personal insult whole thing was pitiful to thought he was superb. Do they model, this is a because he didn't ask them for watch. We needed to hear "I want him to grovel, to apologize bad person. forgiveness. I know him well did it, it was wrong, I hurt all for the rest of his life? He said Every time I enough to see that he was trying of you by doing it and I am sor- just enough. If he had delivered look at it, I'll to say "This was wrong and I ry." But he couldn't say those the Gettysburg Address, people go 'yuck'." won't try to excuse it." four simple things. would still be dissatisfied. broken trust between the president and the American public. Re- pairing it fully may be impossible, but the president must try. To start, he should deliver the speech he should have given last week-one that demonstrates clearly that he understands what he's done and how much his actions have cost the office he sought and the country he leads. But what really matters now is deeds, not words. Litigating every privilege and telling the truth slowly should be policies of the past. Starr, in turn, should wrap up his in- vestigation quickly. If there is to be a report to Congress, he should send it without further delay. Until Congress receives Starr's report, and decides what to do, the rest of our domestic agenda, for better or worse, will be entan- gled in the Lewinsky affair. This is why those of us who support the president's agenda are so upset. Nothing we care about can get done until this matter is behind us. Imagine, for example, if President Clinton's economic plan had come to a vote in August 1998 instead of August 1993. The margin of victory came from representatives who would pay a political price for supporting the president. Some weren't convinced that it was the best course for the country; many would later lose their seats. But the president was persuasive, full of conviction, and he ultimately won because he made it personal: I need you to do this for me. That wouldn't work today. It may never work for President Clinton again. But he can still call on the Con- gress and the country to do the work we need to do-on education, health care, Social Security-for us, if not for him. In the end, there may be little the president can do to repair the political damage that's already been done. It may be impossible for people to trust him again; the final two and a half years of his presi- dency may be a continuation of the last seven months: a second term paralyzed by criminal investigations and legislative deadlock. Worse, his legal peril may have only just begun. Perjury and ob- struction of justice aren't just breaches of faith; they're violations of the law that the president has sworn to uphold. If Starr can make a convincing case that the president has broken the law, and Con- gress agrees, the last chapter of Clinton's presidency may be the chronicle that his character foretold. STEPHANOPOULOS, former senior adviser to the president, is a con- tributor to NEWSWEEK and ABC News. His forthcoming memoir of his years with Clinton, "All Too Human," will be published by Little, Brown. CAMILLE PAGLIA If you cared about it, you were a SANDRA BERNHARD FEMINIST AUTHOR crank. That was an important ACTRESS AND COMEDIAN I am completely disgusted. The news story, but the Walsh re- Maybe if Clinton had just com- White House has turned into port never had the same level of pletely lost it and cried hysteri- Bluebeard's castle and a Krem- publicity as that dress. cally the speech would have lin of constant official lies. The been more appealing. I think he president has become Nero DAN QUAYLE should've consulted his drama crossed with Howdy Dowdy. FORMER VICE PRESIDENT coach and just gone for it. A And the independent counsel President Clinton has made half-assed statement doesn't has become a bumbling Mr. clear that he lied under oath have the punch that a good cry Magoo in a Godzilla mask. and lied to the American pub- does-even Nixon cried. He lic, and he should've just gone for it, just KATHA POLLITT has admitted HUGH HEFNER in terms of drama and excite- COLUMNIST, THE NATION a sexual re- PLAYBOY FOUNDER ment for the country. I think this obsession with Clin- lationship The man does have a character ton's personal life really substi- for which a problem, that's rather evident tutes for a more serious analy- high-school That he found it appropriate sis of the political deceptions principal to lie about his situation raises that are practiced on the Ameri- would have some very real questions, but can people every day. The Iran- been fired. sex is the one subject in Ameri- contra scandal is a good exam- This leaves to him only one ca that everyone lies about-to ple. From the moment it honorable course: he should re- their girlfriends, their wives, started, people said it's boring. sign the presidency. themselves. LEFT TO RIGHT: BLAKE LITTLE SYGMA. NAJLAH FEANNY THEO ESTENBERGER-GAMMA-LIAISON. JAMES SCHNEPF GAMMA-LIAISON, STEVE GRAVSON SIPA. FRED PROUSER SIPA AUGUST 31, 1998 NEWSWEEK 47 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION THE LAST WORD sanctions against Iraq will not soon be lift- ed. James Rubin, the State Department CONTAGIOUS spokesman, was equally chipper, saying Hussein had "shot himself in the foot." P.J. Crowley, a White House spokesman, completed the collection of puerilities, saying, "I think Saddam Hussein has CLINTONITIS probably watched too many episodes of 'Star Trek'." Evidently 'twas a famous victory for the United States, Iraq's blocking of an in- spection regime that seven months ago the The disorder of Clinton's foreign policy is United States was prepared to use mili- tary force to preserve. Saddam Hussein proportional to that of his glandular life thinks otherwise. Obviously he thinks the inspections threaten his arsenal of weapons, weapons that can magnify Iraq's BY F. WILL power far more than economic sanctions can injure Iraq's power. But all this, Al- bright said, is not between Iraq and the ILL CLINTON DESPERATELY WANTS TO-NEEDS To- United States. Gracious, no. It is between B seem presidential. The problem is, he isn't. Every pub- Iraq and the United Nations. lic sighting of him is now filtered through images of U.S. officials stressed this when there him in the act of staining the intern's dress. His were reports that the United States re- stature has been squashed to near nothingness be- cently pressured Richard Butler, the chief neath the accumulated weight of petulant sophistries, artless se- U.N. inspector in Iraq, to cancel certain mantic dodges and plain lies. surprise inspections that inspectors con- Another impediment to Clinton's program for seeming serious sidered especially promising. The Wash- is that he has never shown serious, sustained interest in the ington Post reported that the second- president's most serious responsibility: foreign policy. Now that ranking U.S. diplomat at the United he is desperate to change the subject from the consequences of his Nations called in Butler and raised many glandular life, he admonishes the nation that it is time to turn to questions and concerns about the planned raids: "Reading from serious things. He may be sorry if the country does. prepared guidance, he told Butler the decision was [the United Clinton deserved-he has earned-public skepticism about his Nations'] but left the inspection chief with the plain understand- motives in ordering attacks against terrorist targets in Sudan and ing that the United States did not support his plan." Afghanistan. It is impossible for a leader to confine his reputation Now, there may have been sound reasons for doing this. But for untrustworthiness, to hermetically seal his conduct of foreign instead of hearing them, we heard language that, in the context of policy from the acids of suspicion. The attacks did not even change this Washington summer, sounded symptomatic of Clintonitis. the subject: they became part of the subject of his enveloping White House spokesman Mike McCurry said U.S. officials con- troubles. In fact, all reminders that the world is a dangerous place sulted with Butler about timing and tactics, "but we don't order are dangerous for Clinton because they make him seem risky and them not to conduct missions." Albright said, "I do not tell chair- optional. man Butler what to do." Yes, of course. And the president did The disorder of his foreign policy is proportional to that of his not "order" or "tell" anyone to lie about his glandular life. But he presidency and personal life. The public, reminded of the world's has sensitized the nation to the slipperiness of language wielded dangers, may, rather than reflexively rally around the president, by people who are not to be trusted. And this has brought the desire a more serious president. And there is disturbing evidence secretary of State and others under the cloud of cynicism that that Clintonitis-misplaced confidence in the semi-clever manip- Clinton has created. ulation of words-is a contagious disease, one that his foreign- It is deeply depressing and, worse, dangerous that seven policy team has caught in dealing with Iraq. months of lies from, and on behalf of, the commander in chief The rout of the United States by Iraq is now nearly complete. have corroded the usefulness of normal political language in the Saddam Hussein has shredded the tissue of transparently insin- conduct of the country's business. Albright has said, "We are not cere promises that was the agreement he made in February with going to stand by and watch the Serbian authorities do in Kosovo Kofi Annan. The U.N. secretary-general intervened with a face- what they can no longer get away with doing in Bosnia." But they saving agreement to allow the Clinton administration to back are getting away with it. Serious people disagree about what, if down from its theatrical-dramatic, unreal-threat to use bomb- anything, the United States can or should do about this. Howev- ing to force Iraq to honor the U.N. inspectors' right to "immedi- er, U.S. officials can at least watch what they say, lest they add to ate, unconditional and unrestricted" searches for weapons of the spreading acid of suspicion that, in Washington, words are mass destruction. not taken seriously as vessels of meaning. At that time Clinton administration spokesmen said U.S. poli- In perhaps the most dangerous place in the world, the Korean cy was a muscular one of "snap back"-automatic military retali- peninsula, as many as 800,000 people a year may be dying from ation for any departure from the Annan agreement. But when malnutrition in North Korea. U.S. intelligence sources recently Iraq effectively ended the inspections and monitoring, Secretary discovered that the North Korean regime, in violation of its of State Madeleine Albright snapped back with a jaunty sound agreement with the United States, is pouring resources into a bite: "Basically, Saddam Hussein has wrestled himself to the vast underground complex to serve its nuclear-weapons pro- ground. He's stuck in a box and he's thrown away the key." She gram. Is the president paying attention? Are America's enemies presumably meant that he had guaranteed that the economic taking him seriously? Should they? 62 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION update Angry and Hurt, but No Quitter Hillary Clinton struggles to cope with the President's belatedly admitted infidelity I n the hours before Bill Clinton finally faced inde- pendent counsel Kenneth Starr and the American public-confessing to his "inappropriate" relation- ship with Monica Lewinsky-the President was busy at the White House with an even more daunting task: informing First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea, apparently for the first time, of his infidelity. "In many ways you'd rather face the grand jury and the press than a wife and daughter," says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was on hand to offer solace to a First Family in crisis. APTV/AP Mrs. Clinton remained "committed to WALLY MCNAMEE/SYGMA the marriage" after the Presi- dent's TV con- fession (left). PEOPLE 8/31/98 61 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION upaate WIN MCNAMEE/REUTERS OF THE On Jan. 26, the President denied having a sexual relationship with Lewinsky. Says one of Hillary's close friends: "She believed him." But during the tense time the Clin- two days later, de- tons spent praying with Jackson in spite the tumult the family quarters on the night of around her, a beam- Sunday, Aug. 16-and putting the fi- ing Hillary was by MARK WILSON/REUTERS nal touches on yet another round of her husband's side The Clintons presented a united front at church on Aug. 16. crisis management-the First Lady again for services at never seemed to abandon her hope Foundry United Methodist Church. sional posture hasn't quieted ques- and determination that her husband's Back at the White House, however, tions about the true state of the Clin- Presidency, and their marriage, could Hillary was "girded for battle," says ton marriage. Washington tends to be saved. "She was in the strategy an Arkansas friend. Relying on her divide into two camps: There are the meetings helping to make prepara- own keen legal skills, she huddled Clinton partisans who describe the tions, instead of being downstairs with White House attorneys to prep marriage as a true love match brooding in anguish," says Jackson. the President for his historic Aug. 17 ("There is no doubt in my mind," "Hillary is not a fair-weather wife." appearance before a grand jury inves- says First Ladies historian Carl Sfer- Not that anyone needed remind- tigating possible perjury and helped razza Anthony, who dined with the ing of that. For when it comes to draft his tersely worded TV admission pair late last year. "When we were buttressing their storm-tossed union, of adultery. "She is not a victim," says waiting for dessert, they were holding the First Lady has had plenty of Republican commentator Mary hands under the table"). And there practice. "She is torn between being Matalin, an admirer, who late last are those who regard the marriage as angry and worrying about Bill," says month attended a baby shower hosted a complex alliance founded, in part, one close friend. As the momentous by Hillary for Democratic consultant on mutual ambition. "I don't think weekend began, Mrs. Clinton, 50, Mandy Grunwald. "Bill Clinton Hillary wants to think about his infi- spoke by phone with members of her wouldn't be where he is without her." delity," says David Maraniss, author inner circle, including Diane Blair, a Still, the First Lady's brisk profes- of the 1995 Clinton biography First retired professor of political science at the University of Arkansas. Earlier this year, when allegations of the President's relationship with Lewin- sky were first leaked to the press, Blair told PEOPLE that, after White- water, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers, Mrs. Clinton was "getting tired of all this, weary of all the alle- gations and back-and-forth and scrutiny. I mean, it's a hard way to live." But when Blair spoke with her friend on Friday night, Hillary, she says, was "doing fine." Certainly that was the impression she tried to project to the public. That Friday afternoon, she had cheerfully hosted an early surprise party for Bill's birthday (he turned 52 on Aug. ALLENFREDERICKSON/REUTERS 19) just outside the Oval Office. "She looked terrific," says a guest. And Hillary now counts even Republican women among her supporters, according to polls. 62 8/31/98 PEOPLE PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION update in His Class. "To get to this point, she's had to say that their being to- Advice to Hillary from the pros gether and being in the White House are more important than his personal Helen Gurley Brown, former editor of and say, 'Yes, we're going to get behavior. Once she made that deci- Cosmopolitan: "Hillary should help for this,' people around the sion, it's there until their eight years in go on doing exactly what she has country would look at that and the White House are up, no matter been doing. She has been ab- say, 'If they can do it, we can what." When the President slips, says solutely flawless. She should just too.'" Maraniss, Hillary tends to "focus on keep being under control; she Rev. Ed Matthews, retired minister his adversaries." should still keep being a great from Hillary's Little Rock Many have also asked how the helpmate to him-they're still in church: "She and the President the White House." First Lady deals with the repeated hu- have been down these roads be- miliation brought on by her husband's Gloria Allred, women's rights fore. She should keep the conver- liaisons. In a New Yorker article ear- lawyer: "It's unimaginable to me sation going and work toward lier this year, Primary Colors author that she would leave at this time. I reconciliation and get outside Joe Klein wondered "why [she] al- don't see her remaining with him help wherever needed." ways looks so radiant in the middle of as being an altruistic decision, but Zsa Zsa Gabor, veteran of nine a sex scandal?" One explanation: a well-thought-out decision." marriages: "She has to forgive "She looks good at such times be- Gary Smalley, marriage consul- him. Basically, he's a good man. cause she's invigorated," writes Klein. tant who counseled Frank Gif- He made a very stupid mistake. ford and Kathie Lee: "If she can "Her husband needs her desperately; He loves her. But you know she is the essential element in his de- forgive him and they come out men." fense." In times of crisis, Hillary be- comes a key White House player. toric sites, visited New York State's leased the day after Clinton's televised She has also kept herself extraordi- chic Hamptons beach resort and admissions. The First Lady may draw narily busy. As the President's grand bagged more than $500,000 for De- strength from her public-approval rat- jury appearance drew near, the First mocratic candidates during recent ing, which has soared to an all-time Lady cleared her schedule to spend solo jaunts to a half dozen states. high of about 60 percent since the time with Chelsea, 18, who is home "Her strong religious faith is some- scandal broke, though at steep per- from Stanford. This summer she has thing she relies on," said her press sec- sonal cost. taken part in a 10-city bus tour of his- retary Marsha Berry in a statement re- But even some longtime supporters were left wondering how Hillary could have been in the dark about her husband's dalliance until mid-August. "A lot of people willfully don't know what their spouse is up to," says Pa- tricia Ireland, president of the Na- tional Organization for Women. "But as somebody said, 'At least we want to know she kicked his butt.' There were no clues to that as the Clintons strode toward the presiden- tial helicopter on Tuesday to begin a holiday on Martha's Vineyard, but there were signs of strain. Onlookers made much of the fact that Hillary and Bill were holding their daughter's hands rather than each other's. "She's disappointed, there's no other way to say it. I think she feels there's work to be done," says White House adviser James Carville, who spoke to the First Lady after the President's speech. But his comment on the President's vacation may be more to the point. "He will spend a little time at the beach," says Carville, ROBERTO BOREA/AP "and a little time in the woodshed." Patrick Rogers Linda Kramer, Jane Sims Podesta and "They [leaving on vacation on Aug. 18] want to be left alone," says a Clinton friend. Margery Sellinger in Washington, D.C. 64 8/31/98 PEOPLE Spice GINS Baby Boom . Farewell to E.G. Marshall The Killer Landlord People Surviving Infidelity HOW THEY COPE, WHY THEY STAY FRANK & KATHIE LEE GIFFORD Hillary says she's sticking with Bill. Here's how other famous couples picked up the pieces HUGH GRANT & ELIZABETH HURLEY BILL & HILLARY $2.79 CLINTON 36> CANADA $3.69 0 72440 10227 9 PRESERVATION Cover High AP JANUARY 26, 1992: Hillary looked on as her husband denied having had a relationship with Gennifer Flowers. SYGMA JANUARY 26, 1998: She stood behind him when he claimed the same about "that woman," Lewinsky. RICE STERN Bill CLINTON On vacation, Clinton "was clearly very drained," says a friend. "It was hard not to feel AUTH FREMSON/AP AUGUST 25, 1998: They make it look like smooth sailing sorry for the guy." on Walter Cronkite's yacht off Martha's Vineyard. PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Infidelity Humiliated publicly, Hillary Clinton and other prominent women still find the will to patch things up oping to leave behind for a H few moments the inescapable, apparently interminable furor over l'affaire Lewinsky, the President took time out, as Air Force One carried him toward a 12-day family vacation on Martha's Vineyard on Aug. 18, for his daily pastime-racing through The New York Times crossword puzzle, in ink. He paused briefly at the clue for 46 down, which called for a four- letter word for "meal for the hum- ble." "In a bemused way," according to an aide, the President said aloud, "Here's one appropriate for today," as he penned in the answer: "Crow." In the wake of the most embar- rassing scandal of his 22-year politi- cal career-and that's saying some- thing-the President and his family took refuge at the estate of Boston real estate developer Richard Fried- man, a major Democratic contribu- tor. While their entourage settled into a four-bedroom main house, Bill, who celebrated his 52nd birthday on Aug. 19, and Hillary, 50, took the small, shingled guest cottage where, presumably, they began the delicate task of repairing their marriage. The aftermath of marital infidelity is never a cakewalk, but for the Clin- tons, like a number of other high- profile couples-Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant, Kevin and Cindy Costner, Kathie Lee Gifford and hus- band Frank, Donald and Ivana Trump, to name just a few-the glare Hillary CLINTON of public scrutiny and embarrass- ment only adds to the pressure. "The "Hillary's performance," tragedy is that most of us endure says former White such things as infidelity in secret. But STEVE CONNOLLY House social secretary the Clintons live in a fishbowl. They Letitia Baldrige, "has must endure this publicly," says Jesse been A-plus." PHOTOCOPY PEOPLE 9/7/98 53 Jackson, who counseled the First browsing at the Bunch of Grapes peared together in public, going sail- Couple the night before the President Bookstore in Vineyard Haven, this ing last Tuesday with Walter acknowledged on national television time there have been no public din- Cronkite. "They've been talking, that his relationship with Monica ner engagements, no impromptu jogs they've been relaxing, they've been Lewinsky was "not appropriate." on island bike paths and no sign of reading, they've been walking," re- The question in Hillary Clinton's the presidential cart rambling over ported White House spokesman case, of course, is how much humilia- the links at the Farm Neck Golf Mike McCurry at an Aug. 24 brief- tion can one woman take? When Club. It was a week before they ap- ing, "and they've been dealing with does the unforgivable become unen- what is a personal, private matter." durable? "You might say she is the On Saturday night the two at- most mentally abused wife in the tended a party at the home of invest- world-ever," says Michael McCur- ment banker Steven Rattner, where ley, a prominent Dallas divorce attor- "they weren't frosty, they weren't ney. "There's no place this woman warm and cuddly, they were just can walk without knowing every- kind of correct," says a guest. "The body is snickering at her. The most First Lady was very clearly deter- powerful man in the world got on mined to have a normal evening and TV and said, 'I lied to her and she was not at all interested in discussing bought it.'" the obvious subject. The President While no one but the Clintons was much more emotive, and you knows precisely what went on be- BK4454813 06-27-95 could just see on his face that it was hind the door of their vacation cot- on his mind more. There was discus- OSANGELES POLICE: HWD tage, even from a distance it was clear that this was no ordinary First GLOBE PHOTOS sion, for example, about Ken Starr. Mrs. Clinton didn't want to deal Family vacation. Unlike years past, with it at all. She internalizes every- when they were seen hitting Espresso When Grant telephoned Hurley after his thing, and you never really quite Love in Edgartown for muffins or 1995 arrest, "it was a very short call," know what's going on inside her. He said one reporter. "Grant was crying." wears everything on his sleeve. You "You shouldn't kick always know everything that's on his mind and then some." someone when Still, everyone wonders how the they're down," said First Lady-or for that matter any Hurley (at the '97 intelligent woman who doesn't need Cannes festival). a man for financial security-can tol- erate indignity so complete that she has been caricatured in a Claymation bout with Monica Lewinsky on MTV's Celebrity Death Match. The public debate on the subject has as- sumed epic proportions; virtually no one is without an opinion (see poll, page 56). "She has been way too un- Elizabeth HURLEY and "This is all very painful for me," said Hurley (scolding Grant in the garden of their rented Hugh GRANT Cotswold country house days after his arrest). PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Cover Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage, credits Kathie Lee with showing remarkable re- silience. "The whole nation found out," says Scarf. "You have to say that she showed grace under fire. She went on the air every day." Ultimately, it was a family tragedy-the skiing death last De- cember of Michael Kennedy, who was married to Frank's daughter Vic- toria-that helped start the healing. "When [Michael] was killed," says Astrid Gifford, Frank's second wife, "that, I think, brought them closer together." Three years ago, shortly after learning that longtime love Hugh Grant, then 34, had been arrested in Hollywood with a prostitute, Eliza- beth Hurley, 29, issued a telling state- ment: "I am very much alone," and dressed Grant down at their rented home. But more recently their abid- ing friendship-not to mention their professional partnership (they own a production company, Simian Gifford's '97 affair Films)-has helped them rebuild. As Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociol- "was probably a plea for attention on ogy at the University of Washington his part," says his in Seattle, notes: "Pain goes away. ex-wife Astrid. Even the worst things that you think PHOTOS JAMES you'll never get over start to get dull over time." Kathie Lee and And if time doesn't work, then Frank GIFFORD maybe playing hardball will. In 1992, when tabloids ran a story about her then 49-year-old husband derstanding," says Vivian Eberhard, who served as Jackie Kennedy's in a posh Thai hotel with Italian a Houston marriage counselor. "She chief of staff during her White House model Carla Bruni, 23, Texas-born tries harder and harder to fix the years, "Hillary is a strong, tough Jerry Hall, then 36, turned steel mag- problem and be part of the solution. woman who knows herself and nolia. Though Bruni consistently de- But she should set boundaries and knows her husband." nied the affair, "I rang her," said expect him to keep them." Only time will tell if that is Hall, "and told her to leave my man In truth, of course, every marital enough. Meanwhile, the First Lady alone." Four years later, when pub- crisis is different. And friends suggest might consider the experiences of lished photos showed Czech model that Hillary, in dealing with hers, is other highly visible wives and lovers Jana Rajlich, 28, peering out of guided by the same resources she has who have weathered infidelity and Mick's hotel room in Beverly Hills, always drawn on in bad times: her salvaged their relationships-some- Hall made a different kind of call- religiously based moral compass, a times by speaking softly and some- to a divorce lawyer. "It was a shock 23-year investment in the man she times by carrying a big stick. tactic to make [Jagger] sit up and ac- has always been said to adore and, of In May 1997, after talk show host knowledge that he should be well course, her love for Chelsea, 18. "My Kathie Lee Gifford, then 44, saw a past this stage of playing around," strong feelings about divorce and its tabloid photo of her husband, Frank, says rock author Laura Jackson. effects on children have caused me to 67, cavorting with flight attendant If so, it apparently worked. In bite my tongue more than a few Suzen Johnson in a New York City 1992, Hall gave birth to daughter times during my own marriage," she hotel room, the two went through a Georgia, and the couple, says a wrote in her 1996 bestseller It Takes rocky phase. "She forgave him pub- friend, are now "besotted" with their a Village. "That we are blessed with licly, but in reality, she made life mis- fourth child, son Gabriel, born late Chelsea enhances our commitment." erable for him," says a friend. Still, last year. Still, "it hasn't been easy," Beyond that, says Letitia Baldrige, Maggie Scarf, author of Intimate Hall once told a reporter. "I know PEOPLE 9/7/98 55 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION DR Clinton 9700 women who move out the first time sportscaster Marv Albert, then 55, the guy does something wrong, proposed, he was indicted on charges At a Crossroad which is crazy. You have to decide that he had assaulted divorcée what you want and who you want." Vanessa Perhach, 42, with whom he Fidelity ST And she wanted Mick. had been having a 10-year affair. 100 Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israel's When she learned of the scandal, "I current Prime Minister, knew what felt like I was almost hit over the The President, we are told, benefit- she wanted, too-and got it in writ- ted greatly from the gender gap in ing. In 1993, when her husband, his last two elections, and accord- Benjamin, went on Israeli television to admit an affair with a married ad- ing to a PEOPLE poll of 507 respon- dents-53 percent female-women viser, Sara, then 34, tossed him out of still judge him less harshly than the house. Professing his love for her, men. Fifty-nine percent of women Netanyahu, 43, asked for forgive- polled think Hillary should stand ness, and she gave it-but only after by Bill, at least until the end of his he reportedly signed a binding con- term (52 percent of the men agree), tract forswearing any future infi- and just 41 percent of women hold delity. Today, Sara, who has since him solely responsible for his rela- had the couple's second son, accom- tionship with Monica Lewinsky, as panies her husband on public ap- opposed to 57 percent of the men. pearances and trips abroad. "Perhaps if our relationship were less deep, I would have accepted what happened 1. Do you feel the President is entitled to a private life? with more tranquillity," she told a re- porter. "But because of this relation- MEN WOMEN ship, the pain is not mine alone." Yes 66% 68% Freelance ESPN producer Heather FRANK MICELOTTA/OUTLINE No 32 30 Faulkiner also received legal help Don't know 2 2 with her relationship, but not the Hall hit the roof when she reportedly kind she could ever have anticipated. 2. Do you think Hillary Clinton should: found a fax from model Carla Bruni ar- In 1997, just three weeks after MEN WOMEN ranging to meet Jagger on a tour. Stand by her husband? 34% 31% Stand by him until his term is over? 18 28 Leave him? 22 17 Don't know 26 24 3. Do you think the Clintons will still be married in five years? MEN WOMEN Yes 46% 44% No 44 42 Don't know 10 14 4. Who is to blame for Clinton's troubles: MEN WOMEN Bill Clinton? 57% 41% Monica Lewinsky? 1 4 Clinton and Lewinsky? 28 39 Ken Starr, prosecutor? 8 8 Other? 6 8 5. If you found out that your spouse had The strength of her been unfaithful to you, you would: marriage, says one MEN WOMEN PAUL observer, "comes Leave 18% 17% from Hall herself." Depends on circumstances 60 60 Jerry HALL and Find a way to save the marriage 20 21 Mick JAGGER Don't know 2 2 REFLEX Clinton and Fidelity meet in Houston, Texas PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Cover Sara and Bibi NETANYAHU Today, Netanyahu "invests more time in our relationship," said Sara. head," says Faulkiner, now 40. "My Says a friend: "They are probably knees went weak, and I felt like I happier now, or at least more con- couldn't breathe." Still, she dug in for the long haul, and today, as Al- known them." bert-who later pleaded guilty to a JEFFREY MARKOWIT2/SYGMA Mary Alice and tent, than at any time since I've Henry CISNEROS But it seemed like political déjà vu misdemeanor charge-undergoes a all over again last February when year of court-ordered therapy, "we Bea Romer, 68, wife of Colorado are best friends," says Faulkiner, who Gov. Roy Romer, 69, stood by her still plans to marry him. "I know it's husband of 46 years as he admitted difficult for people to understand, to an "honorable and beautiful rela- but I think Marv is the first one to tionship" with his former deputy admit that he made a mistake and is trying to correct it. In a way, it has brought us together." For the luckiest couples, that may be true. Back in 1987, after she learned that her husband, Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, then 50, had been carrying on with 29-year-old model Donna Rice, Lee Hart, 51, stood by his side when he withdrew from his presidential campaign. "If it doesn't bother me," she told reporters, "I don't think it ought to bother any- body else." Having gone resolutely to ground in the wake of the affair, "We've tried the couple now live in their 4,700- JIM to rebuild as a square-foot mountain home in "I loved Henry [Cisneros] to the depths of family," says Kittredge, Colo., and last month my soul," said ex-lover Medlar. But when Cisneros (with celebrated their 40th anniversary. the affair ended, "I was expendable." his wife in '93). PEOPLE 9/7/98 57 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Cover LEFT-RIGHT: YANN GAMLIN/OUTLINE: NATIONAL INQUIRER/GAMMA LIAISON ETWORK At a benefit last Hart made headlines in 1987 when he April, Lee Hart traveled to Bimini with Donna Rice on the (with Gary in charter boat Monkey Business. '91) "looked very happy," Lee and Gary HART they have moved from their long- says a friend. time home of San Antonio to Los Angeles, where they are less vis- chief of staff, Betty Jane Thornberry, His wife, says Cisneros, now the ible and have become regulars at 52. Bea got through the ordeal president and chief operating officer Sunday mass at St. Paul the Apostle with the help of Prozac and, more of the Spanish-language television Catholic church. "When one loses importantly, her faith. The daughter network Univision, also "had many one's compass, as I unfortunately of a Presbyterian minister, "she is counselors during the toughest days, did, and the moorings come un- going to go through this marriage including some evangelicals." Today done," says Cisneros, "you just literally 'for better or worse," says a friend. "That is what she has been taught, and that is what she clearly Bea and Colorado Gov. Roy ROMER believes." Mary Alice Cisneros, then 39, also turned to her religion after re- porters broke the story, in 1988, that then San Antonio mayor Henry Cis- neros, 41, had begun an affair the year before with political fund-raiser Linda Medlar, 39. Last December the wound was reopened when Cis- neros (who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1992 to '96) was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements about the more than $250,000 he gave Medlar in finan- cial support after they split in 1991. A trial is scheduled for November in Washington. The couple separated, and Mary Alice filed for divorce before the two "This is a strong ultimately reunited. Their marriage marriage," said has survived in part because of their Romer (with 11-year-old son's severe health prob- Bea at his lems (he was born without a spleen and with a serious heart defect that ED ANDRIESKI/AP February press conference). has now been surgically corrected). 58 9/7/98 PEOPLE PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION have to rely on institutions like the church." But even the deepest personal faith can't save all relationships. Believing her husband would ulti- mately return to her, Adua Pavarotti, then 58, stood by him in 1995 when news reports revealed that 59-year-old tenor Luciano Pavarotti had left her for his 25- year-old secretary, Nicoletta Manto- vani. "I will defend my marriage at all costs," she told the Italian maga- THE zine Gente, even after it was ru- mored that Mantovani was preg- nant. "There is no price too high to save our 34 years of life together." But by March 1996, when the In '92, Ivana Trump (right) met her ex with his new belle Marla Maples in Aspen. couple appeared in court to request a required three-year separation be- Broken Promises fore they could divorce, Adua was finally ready to throw in the towel. GERALI BRUNEAU/G NERI/SYGMA Wandering eyes can be fatal, even for seem- "I cannot recognize Luciano any- ingly healthy relationships. "Once Humpty more," she said. The split was espe- Dumpty falls, it's very difficult to put the cially galling for a wife who had pieces back together," says L.A. psycholo- served as Pavarotti's business part- gist Robert Butterworth, who estimates ner from the start of his illustrious Pavarotti nuzzles with lover that once trust is lost, one-third of couples career. Though she now has half of end in divorce. his reported $209 million fortune, Nicoletta Mantovani (in '96). "On the calendar there is no such thing as Saint Adua," she has said, "but I wouldn't mind if it was added, thanks to me." Although Hillary Clinton, on the day after her husband's public ad- mission, stated that she is commit- ted to her marriage, whether she will succeed at getting him back on the straight and narrow is anybody's guess. But whatever healing goes on in private, the Clintons can be sure that every gesture and every word will be scrutinized publicly and tire- lessly by pundits, pols and talk show types feeding off the First Couple's Luciano and Adua Pavarotti (with their daughters) seemed very much together in '81. plight. "Clinton was caught by the changing vulnerability of the presi- dency to a complete lack of pri- vacy," says sociologist Pepper Schwartz, adding that the President "probably can't believe why he's the unlucky person [in a situation] where technology and lethal party politics caught up with him." Susan Schindehette Reported by: Ron Arias, Vickie Bane, Lorenzo Benet, MICHAEL OBE Joanna Blonska, Karen Brailsford, Laurel Brubaker Calkins, Julia Campbell, Sarah Delaney, Joseph Harmes, Beverly Keel, Elizabeth Leonard, Jennifer Longley, Danelle Morton, Jane Podesta, Abe Rabi- novich, Bob Stewart, Elizabeth Velez, Pat Waring Her split with Kevin "had been coming for a long time," said Cindy Costner (in '94). PEOPLE 9/7/98 59 PHOTOCOPY 666L / Exclusive S.S.News AUGUST 31, 1998 www.usnews.com SPECIAL REPORT Clinton in Crisis Backlash in the Lewinsky Scandal Missile Strikes on Terrorists $2.95 35 02239 0 140068 7 PHOTOCOPY CONTENTS AUGUST 31, 1998 / VOLUME 125 / NUMBER 8 ROBERT TRIPPETT-SIPA FOR USN&WR COVER STORY Clinton in crisis It was some kind of a week for President Clinton: An admission, ESIDENT of sorts, in the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal; prosecutor Kenneth Starr draws a closer bead on him; a flight to and from a family vaca- tion, and then an order for bombing strikes. PAGE 12 U.S. NEWS & NEWS YOU CAN USE 6 Update WORLD REPORT 61 1999 ANNUAL COLLEGE GUIDE 7 Washington Whispers 12 Strange days in American history Our rankings of four-year accredited schools Can Gore patch up the rift in can help you find one where you will thrive the Silicon Valley? Stephen Budiansky looks at a White House week that was bizarre, by any measure 62 The honors experience 9 On Society 16 The scandal unending Get an Ivy League education at half the price John Leo looks at the speech that wasn't Clinton gives Starr reasons to press on 65 High-tech teaching 10 People 27 Marriage VOWS Do wired classrooms help students learn? More passages from Anne The public betrayal of the first lady 67 Early decision pitfalls Frank; Boston Mike resigns; 32 Opinion shapers cry, "enough!" Here's why you might not want to apply early possible evidence for Editorial writers decry a new low 77 Values up north Arthurian legend 34 A proud vice president Many Canadian schools are terrific, and cheap 36 On Politics Campaign finance may be his worst nightmare 78 The problem with A's David Gergen says Clinton's 38 Bombings Even high achievers often need remedial help salvation lies in putting the Striking terror targets in Afghanistan, Sudan 79 The art of the essay nation before himself 48 Bin Laden Reflect on your experiences in vivid prose 100 Editorial Terrorist No. 1 is shadowy Saudi millionaire 80 Hiring an adviser Mortimer B. 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Delaware Avenue, Suite 202, Yardley, PA 19067 (202) 955-2000 (212) 716-6800 (800) 333-8130 (800) 736-9623 H 2 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 ILLUSTRATION BY JEAN TUTTLE FOR USN&WR PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION WASHINGTON WHISPERS Al Gore's Silicon Valley woes Plus Clinton's second thoughts, Chelsea calls Jesse, McCain's questions T he high-tech industry, long Clinton told friends he con- ready despite reduced budgets asked chief U.N. weapons in- a generous supporter of cluded it was important not to and manpower-and field spector Richard Butler, an Aus- the Clinton administra- send any "signal of weakness" troops who complain that cuts tralian diplomat, to describe tion, has three big disputes to America's enemies and in- threaten to make their outfits the latest tussle: "The law re- with administration policies, stead to portray an image of unfit for combat. McCain quires that they tell us the truth and that could have an impact strength. Those concerns limit- wants the truth about spare- about their weapons-they on technology champion AI ed his willingness to deliver a parts shortages, training cut- never have. If they did, we Gore's presidential prospects. full mea culpa and intensified backs, why soldiers are leaving could verify in breathtak- The issues involve visas for his desire to get tough with In- the service, and whether stand- ingly short time." Iraq is de- more immigrant workers dependent Counsel Ken Starr. ards are being lowered. An- manding that Butler tell what (which the industry likes), soft- swers, due by September 30, the inspectors know about its ware encryption (which the in- dustry likes), and the Justice Really ready to fight? could provide ammunition for chemical, biological, and bal- senators holding readiness listic missile weapons efforts Department's antitrust cases in Field commanders in the four hearings this fall. before Saddam Hussein's offi- Silicon Valley (which the in- services are busy responding to cials respond. Butler dismisses dustry hates). With the veep's an extensive list of questions on military readiness submit- Standoff on Iraq that as "nonsense" and says, ties to traditional Democratic "It's no way of getting an hon- power bases like organized la- ted by Sen. John McCain. The Virtually lost amid last week's est account." bor less than solid, he needs Arizona Republican has been U.S. strikes on terrorist targets campaign contributions and frustrated at hearing different was the continuing standoff be- strong support from high-tech stories from the top brass- tween Iraq and United Nations The spiritual connection states to make a credible run who claim troops remain war- weapons inspectors. Whispers When they can draw on the for the White House. Not sur- RICHARD THOMPSON FOR USN&WR support of so many religious prising, then, that Gore is stop- leaders, why did President Clin- ping in Silicon Valley this week ton and Hillary Rodham Clinton to try to patch things up. invite the Rev. Jesse Jackson to the White House to help Second thoughts heal their family amid the Monica Lewinsky affair? White President Clinton, in a bout of House aides say the main rea- post-confession soul-searching son was that Jackson has es- that skeptics will see as self- tablished a close kinship with serving spin, told friends late Chelsea Clinton, who specifical- last week he was "sick" about ly asked that the civil rights the trauma that his private con- leader spend time with her duct had inflicted on his family during the family crisis. Jack- and the country. He also con- son, who has run for president ceded that, to emphasize his two times (but never against feelings of regret, perhaps he Bill Clinton), impresses the should have "worn the hair president's daughter as an ar- shirt" in his nationally tele- ticulate, charismatic leader vised statement by being more who bridges the gap "between apologetic for his behavior the spiritual and political with Monica Lewinsky. Whis- worlds," says a senior White pers has also learned that Clin- House adviser. "And Chelsea is ton, in his latest discussions a very spiritual person." with friends, has added a new element: As he considered the By Joseph L. Galloway with address, he says, he was keenly William J. Holstein, Kenneth T. aware that the strike against Walsh, Richard J. Newman, terrorist bases in Afghanistan Linda Fasulo, and Thomas and Sudan would likely occur Omestad later in the week and he knew that retaliation against the E-mail address: United States was possible. Silicon Valley has some big issues to raise with AI Gore. [email protected] U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 7 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION ON SOCIETY BY JOHN LEO The speech that wasn't (This is the first draft of President Clinton's address to the na- of that other woman, Paula Jones, I stated that I had "no tion last week.) specific recollection" of being alone with Ms. Lewinsky. As you know, "specific" means a full and complete recollection ood evening. This afternoon, in this room, from this in detail, so I was technically correct in denying specificity of G chair, I testified before the Office of the Independent recollection, since there were some details about which I was Counsel and a grand jury. I have been through a lot, an- fuzzy. For instance, was I involved in the proceedings or swering a lot of tacky questions that no American would merely in the vicinity looking on? If they had asked me about want to answer. But I want to be a man about this. I take com- generalized recollection, I would of course have said yes. plete responsibility for all my actions, both public and private. But they never asked this. Too bad. And that is why I am speaking to you. Similarly, you might recall that on This is serious enough to warrant four the NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, I said minutes on TV. "there is not a sexual relationship, an I, and my lawyers, are speaking to improper sexual relationship, or any you from the heart, telling you exactly other kind of improper relationship" how we all feel about the unfortunate with Ms. Lewinsky. Some of you may events that have swirled around Moni- wonder how I can now describe my re- ca Lewinsky and the media. I have lationship with her as inappropriate af- been guided in figuring out what I feel ter emphatically denying that it was im- by the heartfelt opinions you have proper. The answer is simple. Both passed on to pollsters, so I intend to "improper" and "inappropriate" come show my respect for you by sticking as from the Latin word proprius, but there closely as possible to what you would is a world of linguistic difference be- like to hear, and what you and my law- tween the two. Trust me on this. I don't yers think will play well. have time to go into it now. You may have read the trial balloon Enough about words. The important three days ago in the New York Times thing is that I told the grand jury to- that one of the possible courses of ac- day, and I say to you now, that at no tion I was considering for this speech time did I ask anyone to lie, to hide or was to tell the truth. This was greeted destroy evidence, or to take any unlaw- by a wave of cynical jokes. People sug- ful action. The truth is that I have no gested that I must really be in trouble specific or appropriate recollection of to think about telling the truth. But I any of that at all at this point in time. have told the truth many times in the And you can take that to the bank. past without attracting praise or even Even though, legally speaking, I was attention. I continue to believe that the not part of the sexual relationship con- truth, used sparingly, has a genuine ducted by Ms. Lewinsky in my very bracing effect. So I intend to employ People suggested I must own office, I cannot fully exempt my- the truth tonight. self from criticism. I must admit that it Because of the trust you place in me, really be in trouble to think constituted a critical lapse in judgment I will speak to you tonight in plain and a personal failure on my part for English. No more word games. As you about telling the truth. which I am solely and completely re- know, in a deposition in January, I was sponsible. It would be wrong to lay the asked questions about my relationship blame on others. However, it is clearly with that woman, Monica Lewinsky. My answers were legally all Ken Starr's fault. I am the victim of a vengeful, $40-mil- accurate when I said that I never had sexual relations with lion, four-year witch hunt that has gone on too long, cost too her. "Sexual relations," as you probably know, is a technical much, hurt too many innocent people, notably myself. As you term that often causes undue confusion. Under the legal defi- can tell, I am trying to be a vaguely contrite and earnest figure nition of sexual relations that I was using at the time, I was here, but I would like to hurl Ken Starr and his tiny approval not having sexual relations with her, though it turned out that rating from the top of the Washington Monument. she was having sexual relations with me. So while there was Remember, all of this is a private matter between me and an inappropriate relationship that one might describe as sexu- my three favorite people-Hillary, Chelsea, and God. It's none al, she was involved in it, but I wasn't. I was merely in the vi- of your business, so bug out. Now that I have cleared every- cinity when Ms. Lewinsky was having these sexual relations thing up, it's important for all of you to rally behind me and by herself. This is the source of the erroneous belief that I turn your eyes from the spectacle Monica Lewinsky and Ken somehow lied under oath. I hope that my simple, straightfor- Starr have made of themselves for seven months. We have im- ward remarks here have cleared that up. portant work to repair the fabric of national discourse, etc., Another confusion. In my January deposition in the case etc. Thank you and good night. ILLUSTRATION BY SAM HUNDLEY FOR USN&WR U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 9 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION PEOPLE IN THE NEWS FROM LEFT: CHRISTIES REUTERS; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PAUL SAKUMA-AFP A stately, bearded Abraham Lincoln has been immortalized on the $5 bill and the penny. Now the world may know what Honest Abe looked like as a young man. An 1843 daguerreotype is believed to be the first likeness of Lincoln, taken 17 years before he was elected president. Its authenticity has been hotly debated since it was exhibited in upstate David Kaczynski, 47, New York in 1994. Among the believers: a photogra- who turned in his pher who digitally "aged" the picture, a professor who brother, Ted, and thus mathematically analyzed its facial dimensions, and helped end the Una- even O. J. Simpson's forensic guru, Henry Lee. But bomber's 18-year ter- skeptics swear physical traits-the ears, nose-don't ror spree, received a $1 match known images of Lincoln. million reward last More than historical accuracy is at stake. If the pic- week from the FBI. ture is of the 16th president, it could be worth $1 mil- He'll share it with vic- lion; if not, one expert says, maybe $5. It's now up to tims' families to "help the public to decide, at a Christie's auction in October. us resolve our grief over what happened." A piece of Camelot may have turned up on a rocky promontory overlooking the Atlantic near the English village of Tintagel, one Five missing, handwrit- of many British towns claiming to be the birthplace of the legend- ten pages from Anne ary King Arthur. Last month, University of Glasgow archaeologist Frank's famous diary sur- Kevin Brady dug up a 14-by-8-inch hunk of gray slate inscribed faced last week in the with the word Artognov-a Latin name that is related to the mod- Netherlands. The pas- ern name Arthur. Though critics say the Round Table and the sages, a harsh account of Holy Grail are mere myth, some scholars believe Arthur may be her parents' marriage, based on a real sixth-century were apparently withheld warrior. But Brady warns, "It's a by Anne's father, Otto, red herring," since the inscription who died in 1980. They'll is verifiably sixth century but appear in a new edition of the name is too common to prove the widely read memoir. a link. Nevertheless, the ruins of ancient Tintagel Castle-built on Arthur's STEVEN supposed birth site- Media credibility suffered another blow have enjoyed a boom in tourism last week when long- time Boston Globe col- since the umnist Mike Barnicle discovery. resigned amid charges he'd fabricated and Boston Glob plagiarized stories. Be- loved in Beantown for his gritty yarns, "Bos- ton Mike" faced new questions about his columns. The piece that led to Barnicle's latest problems in- volved a poignant 1995 tale of two young can- cer victims, whose ex- istence he later could not prove. Barnicle, 54, stands by his stories. FROM LEFT: THE GRANGER COLLECTION; UPI CORBIS PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT Days of Crisis us IN CHARGE. Clinton returns to the capital after ordering raids on terrorist bases. CHICK HARRITY FOR USN&WR PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT BY STEPHEN BUDIANSKY he American presidency has been witness to some bizarre scenes in its 209 T years-Lyndon Johnson baring his abdomen to reporters to exhibit the scar from his gallbladder operation, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger on their knees together in prayer in the Lincoln Bedroom, Nancy Reagan basing her husband's schedule on astrological forecasts. But for sheer twain at last had met, by coincidence or design. For months, strangeness it is unlikely that anything has quite equaled the polls have shown that the American public has been ready, series of events that began Friday, Aug. 14, 1998. To summa- willing, and able to divorce the president's job performance rize President William Jefferson Clinton's schedule for that (with an approval rating hovering around 65 percent) from day: Prepare testimony for grand jury probing in excruciating his moral values (with only about 40 percent approving). But anatomical detail the physical interactions between the leader last week a surprisingly large 36 percent of the public said of the free world and a half-his-age former White House in- they believed that the Lewinsky investigation had influenced tern; meet with national-security advisers and order cruise- Clinton's decision to order the attack. missile attacks in two foreign countries; arrange to turn over While most Republicans realized that to suggest the presi- presidential DNA specimen to forensic ROBERTO BOREA-AF dent had ordered military action as a experts at the FBI laboratory; decide to ruse to distract attention from his per- inform wife and daughter that their sonal problems would undermine the husband and father has been lying to nation's security and directly insult the them for seven months. And so to bed. professionalism of the Americans in On the following Wednesday, the uniform, a few could not resist the bait. day before the missile strikes took "When you don't know whether or not place, the president was with his fam- you can take the president at his word, ily on Martha's Vineyard on what asso- then what normally would be accepted ciates described as a "healing" vacation is questioned," Sen. Dan Coats, Repub- but which presented a domestic tab- lican of Indiana, told CNN and the leau so strained that the commander world. "I think we fear what might in chief was seen taking long walks come next." with Buddy the Labrador retriever to The circularity of such cynical suspi- escape the house. At 3 a.m. Thursday cions was immediately manifested by the president gave the final go-ahead the comic-opera scene, carried live for the mission. At 1:30 p.m., 70 or by CNN, of Sudanese television hosting more Tomahawk missiles, each armed a call-in show. Two turbaned fellows with a 1,000-pound warhead, were masquerading as news announcers crashing into a chemical factory in posed with a map of the world behind Khartoum and a sprawling tent camp them and delivered 1960s-vintage in a mountainous corner of Afghani- anti-American diatribes interspersed stan. A half hour later Monica Lewin- with set pieces from callers proposing, sky emerged from the federal court- as if the idea has just occurred to house in Washington having appar- them, that Clinton had ordered the air- ently provided even more excruciating WITNESS. Lewinsky returns to the courthouse. strikes to take the heat off his private anatomical details about the physical life. interactions between herself and the leader of the free world. The president's national-security team was insistent that At almost the exact same instant the president went on the air even the appearance of political calculation be kept out of the from Martha's Vineyard to announce the military action and equation; White House political aides were frozen out of all to say he was returning to Washington. the discussions and not informed of the attack until the last The only comforting bit of normality in the entire week was minute. And yet-opinion polls, crusading members of the provided by the reliable inanity of the Washington press Fourth Estate, and amateur Sudanese orators all aside-the corps. The reporter who demanded to know if Defense Secre- twain really have met. tary William Cohen had seen the movie Wag the Dog reas- To the fight against terrorism the cold war has bequeathed sured us that in one tiny corner of the globe, at least, all was its inverted logic that places the cart of credibility before the right. The inevitable materialization of the Rev. Jesse Jackson horse of action. Appearances, God help us, are reality. Had upon the scene of global crisis-he appeared at the White the president failed to act, America's enemies would have re- House Sunday night to pray with Chelsea, Hillary, and Bill- joiced in his paralysis and distraction. But even in the face of would have been a reassuring bit of normality, too, were it not decisive action-and a few score tons of cluster munitions is for the bizarre fact that this time he was actually invited. no symbolic pinprick-they can still wonder if it was one What made the confluence of events so especially unreal week's desperation; they can still exploit a wedge of doubt in was precisely that after months in which both the president an all-too-cynical world; they can still take comfort in the and a majority of the nation struggled valiantly to keep affairs smug knowledge that the world is viewing America's actions of state and the affairs of a man in their separate spheres, the and resolve reflected in a fun-house mirror. 14 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION 16 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 DAVID BURNETT-CONTACT FOR USN&WR PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Dog Days With Starr in pursuit, the Comeback Kid tries to save his presidency BY MARIANNE LAVELLE, JULIAN E. BARNES, AND KENNETH T. WALSH ill Clinton has always been a clutch player. B In 1992, when Gennifer Flowers threatened to derail his presidential candidacy, he put it back on track with one 60 Minutes inter- view, arguing that he and Hillary had sal- vaged their troubled marriage. In January, with Monica Lewinsky's allegations cascad- ing over him, Clinton delivered a riveting State of the Union speech that ignored the scandal, laid out his agenda, silenced critics, and rallied support. Last week, after becoming the first president to tes- tify in his own defense before a grand jury, Clinton needed an equally masterful performance. This time, his rhetorical gifts failed him. Tired and agitated after more than four hours of sparring with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and his four aggressive prose- LEAVING TOWN. The cutors, Clinton delivered an address oddly divided Clintons, with their dog, against itself. It was one part contrition-admitting to Buddy, leave for having misled the public and conducted an inappro- Martha's Vineyard priate relationship with a former intern-but two parts anger, condemning Starr for his examination of his personal life and calling for the investigation to end. Many of his staunch defenders were dismayed. As PHOTOCOPY U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT. AUGUST 31. 1998 17 PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT STEPHEN JAFFE-AFP of last week, at least 17 newspaper editori- ists when he was on the verge of ordering al boards had called for his resignation. attacks. Indeed, White House officials say On Capitol Hill, 10 Republicans-and Clinton was referring to the likely air even one retiring Democrat-likewise de- strikes when he talked about having "real manded that he step down. But the surest security matters to face." Of course, the sign Clinton was in trouble was that Re- mirror image of that may also be true: publican leaders were so pleased with the that Clinton, knowing that he'd be play- political turn of events that they scarcely ing commander in chief in just a few days, raised the issue, talking instead about felt he could get away with only a mild ex- their legislative agendas. Democrats were pression of contrition last Monday night. shaken and fearful. They publicly conced- A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found ed they would reserve judgment until 61 percent of Americans approving of they saw the prosecutors' evidence-a how Clinton does his job and 66 percent stunning change from even the previous approving of the air strikes. "This freezes week when most Democrats were dis- opinion about the scandal. It recedes sub- missing Starr as a prosecutor out of stantially in the public mind. This will be control. the main focus," said Karlyn Bowman, a But then, just three days later, Clinton polling expert at the American Enterprise returned from a hangdog holiday on Mar- STARR WARS. Kenneth Starr leaves the Institute in Washington. Still, suspicions tha's Vineyard to deliver a firm and presi- White House after questioning Clinton in about Clinton's motives remain: 58 per- dential address, explaining why he or- person. Below, guards close the White cent said it would be legitimate for Con- dered missile strikes against two terrorist House gates after Starr has entered. gress to question the timing of the strikes. targets he said threatened American But while Clinton's speech seemed lives. The bold gambit drove even super- whether he had managed to put the scan- partly designed to send a message to Con- critic Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch into dal aside at a moment of crisis. By week's gress that constituents want to put the the klieg lights to support Clinton's ac- end, Clinton was telling friends (who Lewinsky affair behind them, the speech tions. It also prompted speculation over were telling the press) that his Monday did not change the course of the Starr in- whether the attack was a stunt to deflect night speech was hard-edged because he vestigation. Prosecutors are as deter- attention from the Lewinsky scandal or didn't want to show weakness to terror- mined as before to pursue the investiga- DAVID BURNETT-CONTACT FOR GSN&WR 18 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT tion to the end, and the results could dog with questions about conversations be- affair with Lewinsky had ended in the ear- the president well into next year. U.S. tween Clinton and Lewinsky related to ly part of 1997. He had felt it was over and News has learned that prosecutors intend the Jones case. Clinton remembered hav- done with, although he still felt guilt-not to present a report to Congress that will ing two meetings and one phone conver- only about the affair but also about her focus on evidence that Clinton suborned sation with Lewinsky after she was sub- transfer from the White House because perjury and obstructed justice, a report poenaed in the Jones case last December aides thought that she was spending too that will echo the language of the Water- 17. A critical question is why Lewinsky much time near the president. gate era-abuse of power and lack of fit- swore in the Jones case that she had not But Clinton could still be in trouble ness for office. Moreover, six different had sex with the president. Clinton testi- over how he advised her. Lewinsky has parts of Starr's investigation remain fied that he told Lewinsky, in effect, to ap- reportedly told prosecutors that Clinton open-probes into Whitewater, Rose Law proach the problem just as he would: Use laid out "hypotheticals" about how she Firm billing records, the White House narrow definitions and don't volunteer could deny the relationship. Prosecutors travel office, use of FBI files, former Jus- details. In that way, he believed that she apparently thought that her story was useful enough to give her full im- HARRY munity. Such coaching a witness with hypothetical answers can be criminal under some circum- stances. Former Rep. Mario Biag- gi was convicted of obstruction in 1987 for this sort of coaching. However, a source close to Lew- insky's defense says her lawyers do not believe her story supports a solid subornation of perjury case against Clinton. They say that Lewinsky and the president may have shared only the implicit promise of silence that accompa- nies any illicit affair. Clinton testi- fied that he, too, attempted to keep the affair secret. "He admit- ted that he concealed it. He con- cealed it from Vernon [Jordan]. He concealed it from Betty [Cur- rie]," said one source familiar with his testimony. His lawyers argue this was not obstruction. Clinton's testimony also under- cuts the idea that Currie helped in an illicit coverup or that Jordan tried to help Lewinsky get a job as a payoff for her silence. Sources close to both Clinton and Jordan scoff at press reports SHOWTIME. Aide Paul Begala helps Clinton prepare for his speech about his affair with Lewinsky. that Jordan's testimony hurt Clin- ton. "Believe me, he said nothing," tice official Webster Hubbell, and Lewin- could execute a truthful affidavit for said one source. The source believes Jor- sky-and Starr is required to report on all Jones's lawyers without revealing the af- dan is out of danger from Starr, primarily these matters to the three-judge panel fair, a source close to the president told because Clinton "misled" his friend about that appointed him. U.S. News. The Jones lawyers were asking his relationship with Lewinsky when Jor- Starr's main focus right now is whether about "sexual relations." The president dan asked him about it. Jordan's legal ad- Clinton urged Lewinsky to lie about their contended that term meant consummat- visers told him to steer clear of Clinton un- affair or otherwise tried to hide the truth ed sexual intercourse, which he said had til the president testified. But once Clinton in an illegal effort to confound the Paula not happened with Lewinsky. gave prosecutors his testimony, Jordan Jones sexual harassment case. Jones, Guilt. During his 41/2-hour grilling, Clin- was given the green light to pursue their who claims to have rebuffed a 1991 sexual ton also told prosecutors he believed Lew- friendship in public. The result: a bear hug advance by Clinton, had called Lewinsky insky could offer no evidence relevant to for Clinton when his plane touched down as a witness in an attempt to establish the Jones case, which involved an allega- in Martha's Vineyard. that Clinton had a pattern of doling out tion that Clinton had made an unwanted But if Jordan is now safe from obstruc- job favors to those who gave in to his sex- sexual advance; the affair with Lewinsky tion charges, Clinton may not be. Prose- ual advances. When Clinton testified last had been consensual. In response to pros- cutors are keenly interested in how Lew- Monday, prosecutors hammered away ecutors' questions, he explained that the insky dealt with gifts from Clinton after When Clinton's political strategists saw the speech, they were aghast. 20 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT the Jones lawyers subpoenaed the items. that Lewinsky was recalled to the grand was not just the product of legal advice. Lewinsky testified that soon after she dis- jury last Thursday. Clinton aides predict- For days previously, a stream of sugges- cussed the subpoena of the gifts with ed that prosecutors would try to use Lew- tions had flowed to the Oval Office and Clinton, Currie, the president's secretary, insky to contradict the president's testi- the White House residence from staff and called and said she understood that Lew- mony. But Lewinsky's lawyers were told friends about what the president should insky had a box for her. Later, Currie that she was being recalled to answer say, even though no one knew what he came to Lewinsky's apartment to pick up questions that the grand jurors had not planned to tell the grand jury. Senior ad- the gifts-which U.S. News has learned asked earlier. It seems unlikely that she'll viser Paul Begala worked on what aides included a rug, a beach dress, and an make any public appearances soon. The called "the remorse draft" for much of the autographed copy of a State of the Union Washington, D.C., lawyers who negotiat- weekend. Begala and others were seeking address in addition to the previously re- ed her deal for full immunity, Plato Ca- a speech in which Clinton would ac- ported hat pin and brooch. The key ob- cheris and Jacob Stein, have advised her knowledge that he had hurt a great num- struction question is whether Clinton to stay mum because she could still be an ber of people, including Lewinsky, and helped Lewinsky hide sub- that he had not been true to STEVE HELBER -AP poenaed gifts from unfriend- his own principles. He could ly lawyers, perhaps with Cur- say the relationship was sex- rie's help. What Currie ual, they thought, and he testified is not known, but need not attack Starr. she has been cooperating Aghast. On Monday morn- with Starr since early in the ing, Clinton presented his investigation. personal draft to former In the session with prose- Commerce Secretary and cutors last week, however, presidential confidant Mick- Clinton testified that he told ey Kantor. When political Lewinsky that she should strategists Begala and Rahm comply with the subpoena Emanuel saw it, they were and turn the gifts over to aghast. Polls conducted for Jones's lawyers. Clinton's the White House were show- view was that the gifts were ing that, while the public dis- the kind of trifles he gave to liked Starr, what they wanted acquaintances all of the time. most from the president was "We're not talking about a di- contrition and an apology. amond heart with an arrow According to the polls, most shot through it saying 'Moni- Americans believed he had ca and Bill,' says one source lied about having an affair knowledgeable about Clin- with Lewinsky, but they ton's testimony. Also, Clinton would forgive him and move told Starr's team unequivo- on if he said he was sorry. cally that he never asked Cur- But in a later meeting in rie to retrieve the gifts and he the solarium with the staff, did not know why the secre- about two hours before he tary would do so. was scheduled to go on televi- Proving perjury. During his SHE'S BACK. Lewinsky answered more grand jury questions. sion, it became clear that the testimony, Clinton refused to president's inclination to answer many of the questions prosecu- important witness before Congress. Be- take on Starr was endorsed by the first tors asked him about sex. U.S. News has yond that, Cacheris says, "We think our lady. Both insisted on attacking the inde- learned that Starr's office plans to make job is over. The team is retiring." pendent counsel. There would be no its report to Congress without the an- Because of Lewinsky's confession to the changing their minds. Despite what they swers, which could be integral to proving grand jury that she had lied in the Paula both now knew about his affair with Lew- a perjury case in a court of law but proba- Jones case about having sex with Clinton, insky, they still believed what they had bly not necessary in a congressional in- the president's lawyers were most con- said in public for so long: Starr was part quiry. Prosecutors have not yet decided cerned that he not tell the grand jury that of a conservative conspiracy to bring whether to subpoena Clinton for more he, too, lied. That would put him in the down the Clinton presidency. questioning, a move that Clinton's law- "perjury trap." Instead Clinton and his The question of what Hillary Rodham yers have pledged they would resist, lawyers maintained that he told the truth Clinton learned and when she learned it touching off a constitutional battle that based on his narrow definition of sex. is still a matter of conjecture at the White could last into early next year. If prosecu- That also explains why his speech last House. Although some insiders find it tors do decide to issue a subpoena, they Monday contained the politically sour hard to believe that she had not known will send their report to Congress before note that his testimony about Lewinsky about the affair months ago, sources say the legal issues are resolved. had been "legally accurate." that the full revelation came about in the The most obvious sign that Starr's in- Clinton's four-minute speech, consid- third-floor family quarters last weekend. vestigation was continuing apace was ered a failure-at least in Washington- Knowledgeable sources say that Clinton Prosecutors are as determined as ever to pursue the investigation to the end. 22 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT CONGRESS Democrats critical of Clin- which writes spending bills. noring the issue entirely. ton's private conduct will "We don't want to close House Republicans had Ready for a stand with him in a shut- government." hoped to send Clinton a hefty down duel. "The president While big proposals are tax cut, but Senate Republi- government will almost certainly follow pending-HMO reform, cut- cans have balked, fearing he through on his veto threats, ting teen smoking, chopping would accuse them of imper- shutdown? and I will be with him," vows taxes, changing campaign fi- iling Social Security. Even Rep. Paul McHale of Penn- nance laws, and extending though the House passed a T he day President Clinton sylvania, the only Democrat "fast track" trade authority- bill to ban large contribu- arrived for his Martha's asking him to resign. none is expected to become tions to national parties- Vineyard vacation, the "soft money"-Senate leaders CHICK HARRITY FOR USN&WR Republican National Com- have no intention of bringing mittee aired a commercial on the bill to the floor. Finally, the island's tiny cable system House Republicans VOW to urging him to strike a deal vote on extending fast-track with the GOP over this year's trade authority, which Clin- budget. "Surely we can work ton would ordinarily support out our differences on next SAVE but now opposes because he year's budget," declared Jim SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIAL SECURITY sees it as an election-year bid Nicholson, the RNC chair- FIR FIRST to antagonize union leaders. man. "So join us: Don't shut Republicans are content to down the government." keep conflict to a minimum Far from being embold- and hope the Lewinsky scan- ened by Clinton's Lewinsky dal depresses Democratic confession, Republicans re- turnout in November's elec- main terrified of a shutdown tions. The key for Democrats showdown with Clinton. In a will be to embrace the issues dispute over an array of poli- without appearing to con- cy issues and spending priori- done Clinton's conduct. ties, the president is threaten- BIG PLANS. Clinton speaks at a forum on fixing Social Security. "His high approval rating ing to veto seven of the 13 bills is testament to the popularity that finance government Republicans, aware that law in the final days of the of his policies," says Ed Kil- services. If he doesn't sign the they lack the votes to prevail, 105th Congress. Clinton gore, political director of the bills by September 30, he and hope to avoid a confronta- VOWS to veto the GOP's HMO Democratic Leadership Congress will have to agree to tion by sending Clinton a reform bill in the unlikely Council, a centrist organiza- a temporary spending meas- stopgap spending bill next event it survives a filibuster tion that Clinton once led. ure-or see another partial month. "We've told the presi- by Senate Democrats. The "The emphasis will be to cre- government shutdown. dent, 'We'll negotiate with Senate has killed a tobacco ate a reverse triangulation Behind Clinton. House you on the bottom line," bill with numerous new reg- where Clinton is at the outer Democratic leaders have says Rep. Bob Livingston of ulations and $516 billion in point and the issues are clos- lined up votes to sustain ve- Louisiana, head of the Ap- higher excise taxes over 25 er to congressional Demo- toes of spending bills. Even propriations Committee, years. House leaders are ig- crats." -Major Garrett advisers, knowing that he had not yet told enthal, who was at the time on vacation in not arise from the lawyerly language of his wife the truth, leaked a story to the Europe. Blumenthal, the administration's the speech or its defiance of the inde- New York Times about his impending leading conspiracy theorist about Starr, pendent counsel. They believe the presi- grand jury testimony in part to signal Hil- advocated taking a hard line against the dent's troubles come from waiting so lary Clinton that her husband had lied independent counsel. One source close to long. "The seven months," said one legal about his relationship with Lewinsky. the White House says that White House adviser, "is what makes this very hard." Clinton's resolve to slam Starr was fur- lawyers tried to delete from the speech the In the hours before Clinton's 10 p.m. ther reinforced by his interrogation by attack on Starr and the assertion that Clin- address to the nation, Chief of Staff Er- the special counsel's prosecutors, which ton's conduct was a private matter. But the skine Bowles and other aides made phone the president told aides was unrelenting- tough language stayed. calls to 30 key congressional Democrats ly specific and intrusive. One associate Clinton's lawyers recognize that they on summer recess. They asked their party says he came out of the Map Room have been accused of having a deaf ear to colleagues to rally behind the president "steaming" at his inquisitors. politics but see themselves as keenly and speak out publicly on his behalf. Sev- Mrs. Clinton may have been influenced aware that the most serious jeopardy eral suggested a line for the members of by a series of draft speeches sent to her by their client now faces is political, not le- Congress to use in public that night and senior White House adviser Sidney Blum- gal. Those difficulties, in their view, do the next morning: Clinton's confession, 'Moral leadership is an essential ingredient of presidential authority.' 24 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT though tardy, should cause Starr to end calls for his resignation and intensify the gues that Clinton also may have blown his his investigation. Few of them showed likelihood of impeachment hearings. Any chance at another distinction: being one any enthusiasm. But even their lukewarm of this would likely depress Democratic of the few two-term presidents with a bet- support was not taken as a sign to alter turnout and imperil incumbent Demo- ter second term than a first term. "Now the speech. crats seeking re-election. he's managed to botch that up with his Many White House aides are still A recent GOP poll taken before Clin- own genes and chromosomes," Hess said. smarting over what some call Clinton's ton's speech showed that 58 percent of Obsessed. Almost since his election, "betrayal" of them and what others say is a voters who identified themselves as "very Clinton has been obsessed with his place deep disappointment in their boss. But conservative" said they were "highly like- in history, gobbling up accounts of past few, if any, plan to leave because of the ly" to vote, compared with 35 percent of presidencies and casting about for role scandal. Perhaps the leading candidate self-described "very liberal" voters who models in the White House archives. for a departure in disgust is Communica- said they were "highly likely" to vote. Re- "This is someone who's probably read tions Director Ann Lewis. "She has gone publicans are confident that Clinton's more history than most other presidents far out on a limb defending in this century," says presi- CHICK HARRITY FOR USN&WR the president, and she's very dential historian Michael unhappy with all this," says a Beschloss, author of Taking friend. "I'm not sure she Charge: the Johnson White thinks it's worth it to stay on." House Tapes, which Clinton The more serious political read this year. "All presidents fallout from his transgres- are concerned about their sions will be seen not in the historical reputation, but I White House but in Congress would say Clinton more than and across the country. In most." Democratic offices on Capitol As he knows all too well, Hill, there was a strong mood any future assessment of the of dismay after Clinton's Clinton years will now be speech. However, since so few overshadowed by a distinc- congressional Democrats tion that is uniquely his own: rose to Clinton's defense in admitting a major indiscre- the Lewinsky matter, few felt tion to the American public. compelled to publicly react to Says Allan Lichtman, chair- the confession. Most Demo- man of the history depart- crats spent the week seques- ment at Washington's Ameri- tered from media calls. Sever- O can University, "It won't al issued sanitized statements destroy what he's accom- denouncing the behavior but plished, but whatever it is calling for an end to the inves- 9 that historians give him cred- tigation. "The attitude of most it for, there will now be a ma- members is they weren't the jor 'but.'' ones who did this and they IN CHARGE. Hillary Clinton issues orders at Martha's Vineyard. Nor is the full extent of don't want to borrow any- that "but" yet defined. If Con- one's problems," said a senior House aide problems will only further tilt conserva- gress should pass a resolution censuring who spent the week canvassing Demo- tive voters in their direction. him-an increasing possibility-it would crats' reactions. "I mean, they are not go- As for Clinton's agenda, if things don't put Clinton in the company of only one ing out there to defend the indefensible." get any worse, Democrats will stand with other president: Andrew Jackson, who in Vexed. Democrats will, for now, contin- him on popular issues (box, Page 24). But 1834 was censured by a Senate resolution ue to seek his help in fund-raising since for the tough fights that will require Clin- for arbitrarily removing public deposits big party donors appear far more vexed ton to mobilize the nation-reforms in from the Bank of the United States (the by Starr than the president. The appoint- health care, education, and Social Securi- censure was later expunged by friendlier ment of an independent counsel to inves- ty-the key will be the Starr report and Senate Democrats). tigate Democratic fund-raising prac- the public's reaction to it. "He can't use But even without that congressional tices-which looked more likely than ever his stature or his moral authority," says a slap, presidential historian Robert Dallek last week-could cause party contribu- White House aide. "He has to argue thinks it unlikely that Clinton will be able tions to collapse just before the election, things on the merits. Unless he can do to shake off this blot on his record. "I don't increasing the prospects of big GOP gains that, it's over. He's a lame duck." think he can escape this-this lying, this in the House and Senate. But Democrats' Stephen Hess, a former official in the deceit, this double-dealing," Dallek says. biggest fears lie in the near future. Disclo- Eisenhower administration who is now a "He's a man of flawed character, and that's sures about his affair with Lewinsky that scholar at the Brookings Institution in going to be a central piece of the story prove more embarrassing to the presi- Washington, contends that Clinton has about the man and his presidency." dent, or disclosures that might add to the already blown the crucial sixth year of his circumstantial evidence of perjury and presidency. "It's the last year he can really With Major Garrett, Marci McDonald, and obstruction of justice, would increase control the agenda," Hess says. Hess ar- MichaelJ. Gerson It won't destroy what he's accomplished, but there will now be a major 'but' 26 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT Portrait of a marriage The most public of betrayals yields 'one very hurt lady' BY KENNETH T. WALSH couldn't I do? What couldn't I give House the day after the president's public him?" She was too proud to expose her confession, Mrs. Clinton refused to look illary Rodham Clinton seemed to H pain and humiliation to the public. So she at her husband as they walked across the be the last to know. Seventy-two kept it mostly to herself. South Lawn to Marine One, and she hours before her husband's public But as with so much else in the first la- brushed coldly past/him as she entered admission of his "inappropriate" dy's life, the standards for dealing with the helicopter. This moment prompted relationship, the first lady's official line a spouse's affair are different for Hil- friends watching on TV to speculate that was still a naive insistence that she be- lary Rodham Clinton. No other American Mrs. Clinton's fury would not abate lieved his denial of an affair with Monica ever endured the most private of betray- quickly. After the Clintons reached their Lewinsky. When he confessed, the su- als in SO public a way. What other wom- borrowed estate, the president took his preme confidence she projects in public an, after all, has sat in front of a TV and Labrador retriever, Buddy, for a couple of vanished and she reacted like many an- watched her husband tell the world: "I long walks alone. Several of Chelsea's other wronged wife-with a surge of pri- misled people, including even my wife"? friends from Stanford, spending the sum- vate self-doubt. "Hillary got mad at Bill," Friends say Bill and Hillary know that mer at Martha'a Vineyard, got a White says a friend who has known her for 30 their vacation on Martha's Vineyard, House staffer to pass her a note offering years, "but then she did her own soul- which continues this week, is a crucial pe- to take her away from the tense family searching. She asked herself, 'What do I riod for their reconciliation. But things compound for some R&R at the beach. owe him? What couldn't I feel? What started out badly. As they left the White On Thursday, after barely a full day on BRAD MARKEL-GAMMA LIAISON BETTER DAYS. The first couple at the last inaugural ball PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 27 STALEY-SYGMA the island, the president announced U.S. missile attacks on terrorist bases in Af- ghanistan and Sudan and flew to Wash- ington to coordinate U.S. diplomatic ef- forts. Mrs. Clinton stayed behind, reading, making phone calls to friends, and commiserating with Chelsea. Aides say the president was intent on re- suming his healing campaign upon his re- turn Friday afternoon. But neither his wife nor his daughter greeted him at the airport, and family friends began specu- lating about what would happen if the marital chill persisted. In that case, the Clintons likely would continue to work to- gether on policy issues important to her, such as health care reform and expanding educational opportunities. "He probably has to do everything she wants," says a longtime family friend. "He is pretty much owned by her now." But Mrs. Clinton would surely spend increasing amounts of time away from her husband on the road. Few friends will even venture a guess about the longer-range future. But the past is full of episodes that show the depth of Mrs. Clinton's commitment to the 23-year marriage. "It may seem strange, given all that he's put her through, but she has a real attachment to him," says one confidant. "You spend time with them and they definitely seem to be in love-they touch, they hug, they enjoy each other." The Lewinsky affair may have shat- tered that dynamic. But what fuels their relationship above all, friends say, is Mrs. Clinton's devotion to her husband as a public figure, especially his desire to help the needy and his commitment to wom- en's rights. Hillary tells friends, for exam- ple, that without Bill as president, there would not be nearly so many women in high federal positions. Without the Clin- ton presidency, she sees abortion rights eroded, the Family and Medical Leave Act never enacted, and no chance for START OF THE "BILLARY" ERA. The Clintons at home in the Arkansas governor's residence "progressive" reforms in Social Security; racial tension would be worse, and the ing environment for children. would have sent many a wife to a divorce economy would not be so healthy. What's become increasingly relevant in lawyer long ago. First, there was a series And, without Bill, there would be no recent days, according to White House of rumored sexual liaisons by her hus- chance for Hillary to share power at the advisers, is her assessment that any split band in Arkansas, going back two dec- highest level-a goal both of them have in the first family would play into the ades. She stood by him-saved his 1992 desired for 30 years. hands of the "right-wing conspiracy" that presidential campaign, in fact-even The Chelsea factor. Above all, Mrs. Clin- she believes is trying to undermine the when he admitted causing "pain" in his ton wants to save her marriage for the Clinton presidency. For her to break faith marriage during a 60 Minutes interview sake of their daughter, Chelsea. In her with her husband publicly would only en- to discuss his relationship with Gennifer book, It Takes a Village, she made the courage Independent Counsel Kenneth Flowers. He denied having an affair with old-fashioned argument that Americans Starr in his battle with the White House, Flowers then but later admitted it. tend to divorce too quickly. People should she believes, and that would jeopardize all For the past six years, Mrs. Clinton strive to preserve their marriages, she the administration's accomplishments. thought he had quit straying. "He prom- wrote, if only to promote a stable, nurtur- Still, her husband's cheating ways ised Hillary he was never going to do that In private, 'Hillary got mad at Bill, but then she did her own soul-searching.' 28 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT SIPA SYGMA MERIPOL-SYGMA IN THE '80s. Clockwise, top left: Chelsea Clinton with her parents at Donald Duck's 50th-birthday party; a family ride in a Little Rock parade; perspiration amid a phone conversation; and a swirl at one of the young governor's inaugural balls again," says a close family friend. This intern. Someone called the report to the dent had an affair and lied to hide it. "If private vow made his betrayal all the attention of Mrs. Clinton, who long be- all that were proven true, I think that more hurtful. fore had quit reading newspaper ac- would be a very serious offense," she said. When the Lewinsky scandal broke last counts of the scandal. She was shaken. "That is not going to be proven true." January, Mrs. Clinton made a decision Some White House advisers suspect Birthday chill. When the first couple not to quiz her husband on any particu- that she knew about her husband's "inap- emerged from the White House on August lars. "What's the point?" she told a confi- propriate" relationship months ago. 14 for a South Lawn party celebrating the dant months ago. Some of her allies now These advisers argue that she is too smart president's 52nd birthday, friends in the say she was in denial. They are convinced to have missed the signs that her husband crowd whispered that something was she finally began to fully comprehend her had cheated on her and lied about it. But wrong. Hillary looked exhausted and an- husband's infidelity on August 14, just most of her friends and staff say she gen- gry, unwilling to fully participate in the three days before his grand jury testimo- uinely believed him-at least that he festivities. "I thought they'd just had one of ny. That morning, the New York Times, hadn't had a full-fledged affair. They note their fights in the residence," says a pal. quoting anonymous sources, said the that when the Lewinsky story erupted, "She was so cold that all of us felt frostbit- president was considering whether to ad- Mrs. Clinton conceded on NBC's Today ten. I look back on it and I see one very mit a sexual relationship with his former show that she would be upset if the presi- hurt lady. She barely spoke to us." No wife ever endured the most private of betrayals in such a public way. 30 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT Yet 48 hours later, presumably after her husband had come clean with her and ADULTERY IN AMERICA she had vented her anger at him, she had composed herself enough to resume her role of key adviser and political help- A sad but essential ingredient: the lie mate. That Sunday morning, they attend- ed Foundry United Methodist Church C ounselors like to offer a quiz to acts of betrayal, says Peggy Vaughan, and, when they emerged, she was holding couples who wonder if their mar- author of The Monogamy Myth, whose his hand. That afternoon, she worked riage is vulnerable to affairs. One: husband, James, had 16 affairs over with him and his lawyers to develop the Do you both have a pulse? Two: Do ei- seven years. "I must have asked him final strategy for his testimony the next ther of you lay eyes on other humans? 'why?' 100 times a day for weeks." day. Helping him write his Monday-night That's a lighthearted way of convey- There are many answers. People address to the nation, she insisted that he ing the consensus that many can be have affairs for excitement, an ego hammer Starr for persecuting him. "It tempted to have affairs. It is also a way boost, to feel younger-but usually not was classic Hillary," says a White House to urge betrayed spouses not to take because they are not in love with their official. "She was putting all her resources the blow quite so personally. After all, spouse. Psychologist Shirley Glass into the political battle and putting every- every human community ever formed found that most men who stray say thing else aside." has witnessed infidelity, no matter they are "very" satisfied with their Several weeks ago, one family friend how condemned it was. A recent poll wives, and that most betrayers say told Bill Clinton that he faced a choice be- of the 24 most developed nations sex at home is as good or better than in the affair. tween his family and his presidency. If he APTV-AP A union's survival continued to deny the affair, the friend warned, he would keep his wife, but the hinges on the betrayer's perjury might cost him his job. Yet if he patience during the changed his story, he might save his pres- spouse's obsessing, tan- idency but lose his spouse. In the end, trum throwing, and re- Hillary saved him, again, from making a hashing. "Discovering choice. She decided he could have it all- you've been betrayed is keep the power and maintain the mar- like other major trau- riage. "She likes the power too," says a ma-you relive it a mil- source familiar with the incident. lion times to figure out Was she candid? Presidential historian what you could have Robert Dallek wonders whether the crisis done differently," says will raise questions about Hillary Clin- Peggy Vaughan. "It's ton's credibility. "Is it conceivable she did a process that can not know what he was doing?" Dallek last years, and the worst asks. "Or that she trusted his denials? thing a spouse can What you have again are questions about say is, 'Can't you get her integrity, about her candor. Is this an- past this?" THEIR SECRET. A hug in '96 that became famous in '98 other example of political manipulation Some experts argue on the part of the White House?" that the best way to pre- Friends say she will never divorce her found that two thirds of people asked vent future affairs is not to promise husband but after their White House think adultery is almost always wrong; monogamy but to commit to full dis- years they will spend much time apart in America, that figure jumps to 90 closure about hard topics like attrac- pursuing different interests, although percent, and up again to 99 percent tion to others or boredom with sex. both expect to be based at the Clinton when it comes to one's own spouse. Yet "Affairs happen when you create the most reliable measurements find presidential library being planned in Lit- walls-secrets-between you and your tle Rock. that, in the United States, roughly 1 in spouse, and windows-intimacy-with 4 spouses-some 19 million husbands Mrs. Clinton frequently discusses her someone else," Glass says. "You have to and 12 million wives-has had an af- post-White House years with friends. She reverse that so there is nothing your is said to be interested in running a pres- fair. The prevalence of affairs seems to spouse doesn't know about that some- tigious think tank or public-interest or- have remained steady for decades; one else does." what's risen is the number of betrayers ganization, perhaps one like the MacAr- Ultimately, as polls made clear to thur Foundation in Chicago, her who confess. (Surveys in the 1960s Bill Clinton, affairs are as much about showed that fewer than half of cheat- hometown, where she could distribute lying as about sex. "We'd like to do all ing husbands told their wives; over money for good causes, help children and kinds of things that we never will do, families, promote women's rights, travel time that number rose to 80 percent.) like robbing a bank," says James actively, and retain a public platform. Work it out. As devastating as the Vaughan. "No affair can happen until Until then, she may have more influ- news is, two thirds of betrayed spouses after you've made the decision that ence with her husband than at any time decide to stay married-not always a you are willing to lie." No lying, no since the early months of his presidency. bad idea, since 80 percent of those adultery. Sounds simple-unless you At this point in the family drama, having who opt for divorce later say they re- share comedian Jerry Seinfeld's opin- the upper hand in their public partner- gret it. The first step in making ion: "If it weren't for lies, there'd be amends is to talk about what led to the ship will have to compensate for the sad no sex." -Joannie M. Schrof realities of Mrs. Clinton's private life. PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 31 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT to think he was immune from a rule that 'A new low in leaps out from any reading of modern presidencies. Everything comes out soon- er or later." national discourse' DENVER POST: "The most honorable course remaining is resignation. After all the other rubbish is cleared away, credibility and integrity Opinion shapers say 'enough is enough' are at the ethical core of this fiasco, and the president doesn't have them. Out of re- DAVID FOR USN&WR spect for the office, he should step down." Cos.Angeles POST-TRIBUNE (NORTHWEST INDIANA): "The president put the country through an unnecessary tabloid hell that left par- Relationship With Lewin Clinton Admits to De ents trying to explain to their children what oral sex was, what the notorious stain was and, worse, why it was OK for Jos Chimin INSURANCE Provider the president to lie and not them." CHATTANOOGA (TENN.) TIMES: In "Whatever good things Mr. Clinton has (III but Cha accomplished during his presidency will be forever tainted by the brazen reckless- ness that has undermined the legacy he hoped to leave the nation." UNITED THE End Common Mient ORLANDO (FLA.) SENTINEL: "Enough is enough. If Mr. Clinton is an honorable man, he will resign and let the country move on." ST. PETERSBURG TIMES: "President Clinton, who habitually has HEADLINES. Clinton's admission dominated front pages and prompted editorial attacks. lied about everything from marijuana to his golf score, has been caught in his big- generation ago, newspapers across There comes a time-it's usually definite gest and broadest lie yet. How can he pos- A America were demanding Richard and memorable-when they stop giving sibly provide leadership on Social Securi- Nixon's resignation. Last week, him the benefit of the mounting doubt, ty, or race relations, or-God forbid- Hotline, the electronic political when they just give up on him and vow war?" newsletter, counted 17 newspapers be- that they' never be suckered again. The seeching Bill Clinton to step down. Opin- difference between a Clinton critic and a E. J. DIONNE, COLUMNIST, ion columns and editorials written in the Clinton apologist is that the apologist WASHINGTON POST: hours that followed his grand jury testi- hasn't had his moment of truth yet." "Clinton is right about one thing: This mony assailed him as a cheat and a liar. has to end. A substantial majority of Only later in the week, after his bombing MODESTO (CALIF.) BEE: Americans would prefer that this matter of terrorist targets, did a few words of "A new low in national discourse." go away and that Clinton serve out his support emerge. Some of the comments: term. But they'd also like to be able to THE (COLUMBIA, S.C.) STATE: trust him. At the moment, many who feel ANCHORAGE TIMES: "He lied to us-not inadvertently, not as a him no ill will don't think they can. He "Clinton has thrown himself into the momentary lapse, but deliberately, insis- owes the nation, and his supporters espe- trash heap of history. And the nation has tently and over a long period of time. He cially, more than he's given so far." reason to mourn the shame he has should resign." brought to his office." WALL STREET JOURNAL: ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH: "Terrorists and other foes of America SAN JOSE (CALIF.) MERCURY NEWS: "Trust is the glue that binds a leader to stand warned that no matter how dam- [Clinton] should be profoundly the people in a democracy. Mr. Clinton aged, a president of the United States still ashamed, and the shame should haunt has lost that trust." is a force to be reckoned with. Unlike some him for the rest of his life." king or dictator, he is not one isolated per- NEW YORK TIMES: sonage but the representative of a far PAUL GREENBERG, COLUMNIST, "Here was a man of compassionate im- broader society and political system, a ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE: pulse and lofty ambition who went to system that does not depend on the indi- "Most of the folks who cover Bill Clinton Washington with virtually every imagin- vidual on top in responding to crisis or le- eventually reach a moment of truth. able political skill except one. He seemed thal provocation." 32 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT campaign-finance thing sticks, he could The heir apparent has turn out to be his own worst enemy." Publicly, Gore's friends put a brave face on the possibility of an investigation. "It used to be a big deal," says Greg Simon, a problem of his own Gore's former chief domestic policy advis- er. "Now, it's like, without an independent counsel, you're not a serious candidate." But as aides admitted that Gore had been Did Al Gore knowingly solicit illegal money? questioned by Justice officials for nearly an hour before he began his vacation, Pe- DENNIS FUJIMOTO-AP ter Knight, his chief fund-raiser, launched a telephone blitz to his leading financial benefactors-"to reassure them," accord- ing to one Gore supporter, "that every- thing is all right." Benefits of boredom. Except for the cam- paign-financing cloud, Gore's prospects have rarely seemed brighter. With Clin- ton's character image in shambles, Gore's chief electoral disadvantage-his stolid boringness-is suddenly a plus. And with both lawmakers and editorial writers urg- ing Clinton's resignation or impeachment, Gore could find himself in higher office without the trial of the ballot box. "If he was a heartbeat away from the presidency before," says presidential historian Allan J. Lichtman, "he's now a whisper away." DEPARTMENT OF Some political strategists are urging 1959 Gore to distance himself from Clinton's now-tattered legacy. But such a move would run counter to both Gore's charac- ter and the limitations of his job. As differ- UNITED POWOR ent as Clinton and Gore are in personality, they are longtime political allies-both are from the party's centrist, pro-business wing-and have forged an unusually close bond. Says Marla Romash, a former Gore LOYALISTS. With wife, Tipper, at his side, Gore hails Clinton as "a great president." staffer: "There's a personal as well as a po- litical friendship there." his own alleged indiscretion. The fund-raising memo alone is not BY MARCI MCDONALD At issue is whether, in 45 phone calls enough to oblige Reno to seek an inde- he call typified Al Gore's image as an from his office, Gore knowingly solicited pendent counsel. By the end of August, T unrepentant political Boy Scout. donations that went to the party not as le- she must complete a 30-day review of the Hours before Bill Clinton faced Ken gal "soft money" but directly to the Clin- fund-raising allegations, which puts into Starr's grand jury, the vice president ton-Gore re-election campaign. That question her own exoneration of Gore phoned his senior Washington staff from would make the contributions "hard mon- last December. Then she can launch an a vacation hideaway in Hawaii and deliv- ey"-and illegal. Justice Department in- additional 90-day inquiry-the next step ered three commands: "Be supportive of vestigators are poring over a 1995 Demo- toward appointing a special prosecutor. the president. Be supportive of the presi- cratic fund-raising memo that features That timetable could help or harm dent's staff. And be 110 percent loyal." hand-written notations by David Strauss, Gore. A 90-day review would last through Gore promptly heeded his own advice by a former Gore staffer. One of the scrawls- the November congressional elections, penning a declaration of support for his "65% soft/35% hard"-could threaten when Republicans might be softening boss. "I am proud of him because he is a Gore's claim that he never raised hard their cries for Clinton's ouster. By letting great president," Gore said, "and I am money. His presidential bid could suffer if Clinton limp on to the finish line of his honored to have him as a friend." Attorney General Janet Reno requests the term, they would leave his administration Gore's effusive loyalty to the scandal- appointment of an independent counsel intact. But they also would deprive Gore ravaged president could hurt his own to investigate the affair. "Gore's future is of a big electoral advantage: two years of White House hopes. But Clinton's in- going to have less to do with what Clinton on-the-job training in the Oval Office. discretions aren't the vice president's did than what he did to himself," says biggest problem. More troublesome is Michigan pollster Ed Sarpolus. "If this With Major Garrett 'If he was a heartbeat away from the presidency, he's now a whisper away' 34 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION ON POLITICS BY DAVID GERGEN Can he save his presidency? or one brief, shining moment last week, we had a presi- his own. Self-indulgence has been in the saddle too long and is F dent again, Zeus hurling thunderbolts from atop his taking him over a cliff. mountain against dangerous enemies. As even Newt The best line in his speech was his admission that when he Gingrich said, the missile strikes ordered by Bill Clinton lied to the nation about his relationship, his primary motive were "the right thing to do at the right time." But those attacks was to protect himself. But then he turned right around and will not deflect attention from his personal conduct any more committed the same error again, making the rest of the speech than his terrible speech did last Monday night. So we begin a all about protecting himself once more. Steaming from his af- new week with a question that won't go away: How can Clin- ternoon confrontation with Starr, under pressure from his wife ton possibly lead the country for the next two years? and lawyer, he rejected his better instincts and a better speech His troubles are now on a trajectory that had been drafted for him. Instead GREG GIBSON-AP that, unless altered, is heading toward of addressing the needs of the nation, a crash landing. Within a few weeks, he used his talk to try to save his mar- Kenneth Starr seems sure to submit a riage and his own fanny. Had he waited scathing report to Congress containing 24 hours to calm down, he might have serious evidence that impeachable of- given apologies to everyone who de- fenses may have occurred. Whether served them-not only his wife and the report will also offer lurid details is daughter but also Monica Lewinsky, uncertain, but presumably they too the friends and staff who took him at will emerge soon from some dank cor- his word, and a nation that endured ner. Elections this fall could bring an- seven months of hellish controversy. other blow, as Republicans are likely He could have healed, not polarized. to gain in the Senate and the House. Now, the matter cries out for a final The stage would then be set for an in- resolution, some sort of national ca- quiry by the House Judiciary Commit- tharsis. Clinton can't walk away from tee next year into impeachment. Only it any more than can Starr, Congress, twice before has that body undertaken or the rest of us. He needs to stand up such investigations, and both were to it and say, in effect: "I have wronged lengthy: The committee investigation the country, I have a responsibility to of Richard Nixon began in 1973 and help us get through this mess, and I lasted eight months; its 1867 probe of am prepared to pay a just price in or- Andrew Johnson took 10 months. Be- der to achieve that end." cause Clinton's abuses aren't in the A reflective conversation on televi- same league as Nixon's, it still seems sion with a respected newscaster-and doubtful that the House would vote ar- without his wife-would be a start. It ticles of impeachment, but the process Clinton at the moment of "confession" would also help to waive all claims of would be a political circus and might privilege, as in Bruce Lindsey's case, well cripple his presidency. Things be- 'Now, the matter cries out and to call off the war against Starr, as come even riskier if his popularity much as he may justifiably hate him. If cracks and a new independent counsel turns up damaging information about for a final resolution, some Congress wants to inquire, Clinton should provide full disclosure. After campaign finances. confessing to sex in the Oval Office, is Trying to salvage his former boss, sort of national catharsis.' there anything left to hide? Leon Panetta recommended on ABC Last week's airstrikes showed that last week that the White House and Clinton can still act as commander in Congress try to work out a formal reprimand. If a Democrat chief and that Republicans will support him when he acts in like Panetta is already talking reprimand, which is serious, the national interest. He now has an opening to reach out to Republicans probably won't settle for anything less than a them, acknowledging that he needs to work with them closely stiffer penalty, a vote of censure. Andrew Jackson was cen- in forging a bipartisan foreign policy for the rest of his presi- sured in 1834, but the Senate removed the stain from its re- dency. Beyond a war on terrorism are a host of threats demand- cords the following year. No other president has faced such ing attention: the economic crisis in East Asia; the threat of rebuke, and it would leave Clinton with a permanent, dis- weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and North Korea; the car- abling wound. Calls for resignation could be intense. nage in Kosovo. If he can make headway with the GOP on for- His interests vs. the country's. Can the president reverse this eign policy, maybe he could even get something done at home. course? No single step will do it anymore, not after his grudg- Harry Truman proved in 1947 and 1948 that a Democratic ing speech last Monday. But the president could help him- president in deep domestic trouble could still make history by self-and more important, everybody else-if he adopted a working in concert with a Republican Congress. But he also mindset that at long last puts the country's interests ahead of had his priorities straight: the nation first, himself second. 36 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, AUGUST 31, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT America fights back Clinton raises the stakes in the war against terrorism TAMA-AFP BY RICHARD J. NEWMAN 0 the world, President Clin- T ton seemed consumed by his well-known personal problems. Yet as he strode pensively on the grounds of a Martha's Vineyard estate with his dog, Buddy, last week, the president pondered other events known only to a handful of his closest advisers. U.S. intelligence agents had already decided that the August 7 bombings of U.S. em- bassies in Kenya and Tanzania were the work of Osama bin Lad- en, the wealthy scion of a Saudi construction magnate, who had been kicked out of his native coun- try in 1991 for radical leanings. Meanwhile, on seven U.S. war- ships in the Red Sea and the Ara- bian Sea, weapons specialists were plotting the flight paths of dozens of cruise missiles targeted at com- plexes in Sudan and Afghanistan linked to bin Laden. Then, accord- MENT OF ing to Clinton administration offi- PENTAGON BRIEFING. Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Gen. Henry Shelton describe the cials, came secret intelligence in- bombing. Below, a chemical plant in Sudan smolders after being hit by six Tomahawk missiles. formation that bin Laden's forces planned to carry out further acts of terror American targets," Clinton said sternly that rhetoric, Clinton's strategy of raising against Americans, perhaps within days. from the Oval Office, after returning to the stakes for terrorists is risky. Govern- The resulting U.S. action-Operation Washington briefly to meet with his na- ment leaders were quick to caution that Infinite Reach-amounted to one of the tional-security team. "There will be no the strikes themselves could prompt fur- most decisive attacks against suspected sanctuary for terrorists." ther terrorist attacks, either by bin Lad- terrorists in years. More than 70 Toma- Despite the show of force that backed en's organization or by others who sympa- hawk cruise missiles shattered thize with him. It is "very buildings at a sprawling base important for the American people about 90 miles south of Kabul, Af- to understand that there may in ghanistan, that U.S. officials said fact be retaliatory actions," said was used to train terrorists. Some Secretary of State Madeleine Al- of bin Laden's lieutenants and as- bright. After the strikes, govern- sociates were probably killed, ment officials said an unprecedent- though bin Laden himself evident- ed number of threats poured into ly survived. An additional six Tom- U.S. embassies and other outposts. ahawks slammed into a suspected Bin Laden himself pledged further chemical weapons plant in Khar- attacks, telling a London newspa- toum, Sudan, virtually destroying per through a spokesman that "the it. Perhaps more significantly, the battle has not yet started." Even if strikes signaled a new aggressive- imminent attacks are foiled, terror- ness in dealing with those who ists can be patient and persistent. wish harm upon America and its The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 citizens. "There are no expendable in 1988 is widely believed to have 38 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT. AUGUST 31. 1998 PHOTOCOPY RESERVATION JOYCE NALTCHAYAN-AF HISTORY BRUSH, FLOSS SCRAPE? It's the latest rage in dental hygiene Old glory among Hollywood's elite: tongue scraping. Touted O ne hundred and fifty years ago, Elizabeth Cady Stanton led early as a bad-breath remedy, feminists to Seneca Falls, N.Y., for the plastic, serrated gad- the first Woman's Rights Conven- gets are moving into the tion. Hillary Rodham Clinton jour- mainstream as more dentists recommend neyed there last week, stopping at them to patients. imperiled historic sites along the Scraping is an ancient practice still com- way. The first lady's 12-site, four- mon in the Far East. It's novel in the United state tour launched a joint cam- States, with annual tongue scraper sales of paign of the White House and the National Trust for Historic Preser- $10 million. Los Angeles firm Discus Dental, for one, expects fivefold sales growth by vation to "honor the past and imag- ine the future," she says. 2001 as word of mouth spreads. Corporate sponsors are joining Scraping is one way the cause. Ralph Lauren's Polo, to remove bacteria that which makes apparel sporting Old cause bad breath. Glory, donated $13 million to pre- Plastic scrapers are serve the star-spangled banner that Star-spangled: the president, Lauren, and first lady cheap and available inspired Francis Scott Key's nation- over the counter or al anthem. The flag is housed at the Smith- inventor's New Jersey laboratory. from dentists. sonian Institution's National Museum of The first lady wrapped up her trip at -Ross Cohen American History. And GE, the descend- the Seneca Falls fete commemorating ant of Thomas Edison's Electric Light Co., great advances for American women. also chipped in $5 million to renovate the -Stacy Atlas ILIA MALAKIE-AP (2) The '98 Honda Clearance и Civic Coupe PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION Don't you just love it when you win? See Your Honda Dealer Today 1998 American Honda Motor Co. Inc. NATION BREAKING THE SILENCE Now that Clinton has been subpoenaed, will his lawyer David Kendall let him tell the story, and if so, what will that story be? By KAREN TUMULTY WASHINGTON took the unprecedented step of serving a sit- ting President with a subpoena in a criminal hand account? Or was it a feint to give the RICHARD appearance of cooperation and compliance OR BILL CLINTON TO LOOK THIS matter in which the President himself is in that will ensure that Starr gets the blame good in the polls after six months jeopardy. The White House said virtually when the President ultimately refuses to of sex scandal is a measure of his nothing about the showdown except to ac- talk? survival skills, dumb luck and, knowledge for the first time that Kendall As long as Kendall is in charge, it may above all, the wall of silence had stepped up the delicate process of en- be a while before anyone knows the an- erected by his personal lawyer, suring "the grand jury gets the information swer. Kendall operates so far below the David Kendall. It took a reserved it needs." In other words, Clinton must soon radar that when the President's lawyer TIME Quaker who views the law in life- decide whether to change course and capit- dealt Starr his most significant setback, it and-death terms to muzzle a politician ulate to Starr's demands or stare him down took nearly a month before word got out of used to talking his way out of trouble. in a constitutional battle that could be a the judge's chambers. Even Clinton's own The President will find out just how short route to impeachment proceedings. strategists had no inkling that something good Kendall is in the next few weeks as in- The White House announcement last serious had happened until last Tuesday dependent counsel Kenneth Starr presses Friday lends itself to many interpretations, morning, when White House counsel Clinton harder than ever to testify. Starr has each carrying its own degree of cynicism: Charles Ruff warned them that the re- invited the President's cooperation at least Was it a good-faith effort by Clinton to cut porters covering the comings and goings of half a dozen times in recent months, and through the thicket of circumstantial evi- grand-jury witnesses were likely to notice now the courtship between the two men has dence, Secret Service recollections and some extra activity that day on the fifth taken a more coercive turn: last week he secondhand testimony by offering a first- floor of the federal courthouse. 38 TIME, AUGUST 3, 1998 PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATI

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