A in in in in in Gannett Newspapers MEN Wednesday, September 23, 1998 3B News in Focus News views on today's top stories Politics, zealotry seen behind impeachment ent bid The Daily FINANCIAL 0. The Guardian CLINTON TAPES A TIMES THE Celegraph esanive PINIER President awaits video verdict THE CLINTON TAPES robant but Clinton sweats it out 14 at Clinton sal TIMES aid 2014) exposed to Secrets the the world site Cal Daily FAT a DRUGS: THE EXPRESS UNITINY Sun of The Mail A cure or a AND 6PM DRIVE IT COUNTRY HEAT ST Esquire Mirror DEMOCRACY La world 98 sorisusty Skies take againt the hon sex on HUMILIATED OF BILLY LIAR We had UMP crutches 4 fest conte shamed in sees Caron President Clinton's grand jury testimony dominates the front pages of the London newspapers yesterday. A betrayer or 'just like Tripp portrayed in documents The Associated Press WASHINGTON She filled pages in a steno notebook with Monica Lewinsky's shared confidences. She piled up a bowlful of tapes of their private conversations. She urged Lewinsky not to clean the dress.
The latest batch of documents from Kenneth Starr's investigation offers a fuller picture of Linda Tripp, the woman who Bill Clinton says stabbed Lewinsky in the back, the woman who has offered herself to Americans as someone "just like you." "Ugh!" Lewinsky said when a grand juror asked about her confidante-turned-informer. "I hate Linda Tripp." From prosecutors themselves come questions about whether Tripp may have lied about her taped conversations with Lewinsky. The independent counsel's office said it "continues to investigate" whether. Tripp lied in denying she duplicated the tapes. The portrait of Tripp remains largely one-sided, the newest details coming chiefly from those who say she betrayed them.
Her grand jury testimony has not been made public. Still, the latest documents offer glimpses of Tripp in her own words and tell more about her role in the unraveling of the Lewinsky affair. Tripp's handwritten notes, scribbled page after page in a Skilcraft stenographer's notebook, laid out in stream-of-consciousness fashion the story entrusted to her by Lewinsky, Pentagon co-worker half her age. Among the more innocuous notations: "heavy session," "fooled around," "no kissing," "romantic," "incredible," "wore her Action Classified ONLINE Westchester GANNETT SUBURBAN NEWSPAPERS' ONLINE SERVICE Visit Action Classified online today! www.nynews.com/action To find out more or to place your Action Classified ad call: 1-888-300-SOLD For Congress, it may not matter what the public thinks By Chuck Raasch Gannett News Service WASHINGTON If a majority of Americans want the Monica Lewinsky scandal to go away with a censure or some other official rebuke of President Clinton, why does Congress appear to be heading toward an impeachment inquiry? Many members say it is their constitutional duty, and that allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice by a president are too serious to dismiss with a poll. "Remember, there is theoretically wrongdoing on the part of the president," GOP consultant John Morgan said.
"What does that have to do with a poll number?" But the answer also hinges heavily on politics. An election is less than six weeks away. And in many places where individual races are expected to be closest, Clinton's job approval numbers mask more ominous political math for his party: In California, polls show Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democrat ally of Clinton, in trouble against Republican Matt Fong. Democrats fear a low voter turnout tied to Clinton's problems.
In a Los Angeles Times poll released this week, 23 percent of Republicans said they would be more likely to vote after Clinton admitted an affair with Lewinksy, but only 11 percent of independent and 6 percent of Democrats did. In Nebraska, where Democrats face an uphill battle to hold onto a governorship held by retiring Democrat Ben Nelson, Clinton's job approval is only 44 percent, an Omaha World Herald poll taken last week showed. This helps explain why Sen. Bob Kerrey, D- has been among Clinton's biggest critics. In New Mexico, where Re- Associated Press A motorist yesterday purchases a copy of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report on President Clinton, which is being sold at traffic signals in Bombay, India.
publicans are fighting to hold two House seats, only 49 percent say Clinton is doing an excellent or good job, a Santa Fe New Mexican poll showed. In Wisconsin, where Sen. Russell Feingold, a Democrat, faces a tough re-election battle, 42 percent in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel poll this week said Clinton should resign; 56 percent said the scandal will reduce Clinton's ability to govern. "There are 30-some states where we are going to have a pretty good year, and the Democrats are going to do that in six or eight states," said Morgan, who said that national polls interview too few people to distinguish important regional divergences. Democratic consultant Mark Gersh says it is too early to make those predictions.
He argued that Republicans could be in danger of overreaching, as they have in the past when Clinton was perceived to be down. "I think the reason they are pushing impeachment is a combination of just zealotry, combined with the fact" that some Republicans believe "impeachment might help turn out their true believers, their most firm voters, and that that might have an impact in an election where only, a third of the people might vote," said Gersh, who has close ties to House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo. Gersh said the Republicans "have a potential to overplay their hands. The public wants this over, Polls still support Clinton The Associated Press Key findings from polls taken Monday night after the videotape of President Clinton's grand jury testimony was Do you approve or disapprove of the way Bill Clinton is handling his job as president? approve 66 percent, disapprove 31 percent Gallup; approve 60 percent, disapprove 39 percent ABC News; approve 68 percent, disapprove 30 percent CBS News. Do you think that President Clinton should or should not resign from office? Should resign 38 percent, should not resign 60 percent CBS News; should resign 36 percent, should not resign 60 percent NBC News; should resign 39 percent, should not resign 59 percent Gallup poll.
Given what you know, do you think Congress should or should not impeach Clinton and remove Was your furnace brand new when he was? (He's in college now.) from having it cleaned to wear again, saying it makes her look fat. As the friendship unfolds, Tripp starts taking notes, then making dozens of tapes she piled "in a bowl on a piece of furniture," according to prosecutors. Lewinsky, for her part, begins to worry that Tripp will "rat" about her relationship with Clinton. She starts telling lies to Tripp, hoping to keep her quiet. "I was so desperate for her to not reveal anything about this relationship that I used anything and anybody that I could think of as leverage with her," Lewinsky acknowledged in her grand jury testimony.
Tripp's spokesman, Philip Coughter, declined comment except: "Linda Tripp from the outset has testified truthfully and completely without exception. Any allegations to the contrary from whatever quarter are entirely false." Ultimately, Tripp turned her tapes over to prosecutors and arranged for them to confront Lewinsky when the two met at a hotel. When the FBI agents closed in, Lewinsky recalled, Tripp "tried to hug me, and she told me this was the best thing for me to do." In the words of President Clinton to the grand jury, Tripp "betrayed her friend Monica Lewinsky, stabbed her in the back." In her own grand jury appearance, the final question to Lewinsky was whether she ever lied about Tripp because of her dislike for the woman who turned her in. "It wouldn't have been necessary to lie," Lewinsky said. "I think she's done enough on her own." tie," "hugged." E-mail chitchat reveals a friendship in which Lewinsky and Tripp seemed drawn to one another.
Tripp is the older, wiser woman, always happy to dispense advice; Lewinsky is the vibrant, energetic one with the irresistible story. When Lewinsky's relationship with Clinton hits a bump, she unburdens to "Thank God for you! Oh, Trippin don't 1 know what I am going to do." When Lewinsky tries to entice her friend out for lunch, Monica writes: "PLEASE ESCAPE WITH HOW CAN YOU RESIST Indeed, it's as if Tripp can't resist her secret role in an unfolding romance novel. She fawns over a Valentine message to Clinton that Lewinsky runs in the newspaper. "CALL ME WHEN YOU GET IN. It read beautifully, placement was great, typeface totally effective, and text superlative.
good job." She praises Lewinsky's choice of a tie for Clinton: "I am knot (ha!) particularly into ties, but from my exposure to you, I am developing an interest. Yours was stupendous a total hit." To hear Lewinsky tell the story, she is almost under Tripp's spell. Tripp presses the young woman for more details about her relationship with the president, and Lewinsky draws up a computer "spreadsheet" to chart each time they met or talked. When Lewinsky shows Tripp the infamous blue dress that may have been stained from encounter with the president, Tripp tells her to preserve it as evidence and discourages her Think about it. How old is that furnace, anyway? Lennox, the first name in home comfort for over 100 years, has devoted dealers and expert, trained technicians.
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Do you think the House Judiciary Committee released the videotaped testimony mostly so others can judge whether Bill Clinton committed perjury or mostly to embarrass and damage him? Prove perjury 39 percent, embarrass Clinton 58 percent CBS News. Whom do you blame more for things getting to the point that they have? Bill Clinton 43 percent, Ken Starr 32 percent, Republicans in Congress 16 percent; all equally 4 percent Gallup poll. The Gallup poll of 631 adults and the CBS News poll of 696 adults had margins of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. The ABC poll of 523 adults and the NBC poll of 508 adults had margins of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. and if the Democrats come up with a clear proposal to end this, it could But there are political cross currents that may prevent a rapid end.
Some polls released this month have shown that morality has become the top concern of voters, above such perennial topdrawer issues like education and crime. In that environment, it is advantageous for Republicans to have Clinton's morals to kick around in campaigns. Some pollsters point out that while Clinton's job approval has remained remarkably constant at around 60 percent throughout the scandal, his trustworthiness and effectiveness as a leader have suffered. "Job performance is as much a passive measure as it is an active measure, meaning it only tells part of the story," said New York pollster John Zogby, who has surveyed for both Gephardt and the National Republican Congressional Committee. "It is tantamount to asking whether the country is heading in the right or wrong Zogby said that "for leaders to be effective, they need to build a governing majority coalition." And on that front, Zogby said, "the president is on the wrong side of the majority.
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