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12:19a	On the day the story broke, I did a previously... On the day the story broke, I did a previously scheduled interview with Jim Lehrer for the PBS NewsHourI responded to his questions by saying that I had not asked anyone to lie, which was true, and that there is no improper relationshipAlthough the impropriety was over well before Lehrer asked the question, my answer was misleading, and I was ashamed of telling Lehrer that; from then on, whenever I could, I just said I never asked anybody not to tell the truth While all this was going on, I had to keep doing my jobOn the twentieth, I met with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House to discuss his plans for a phased withdrawal from the West BankNetanyahu had made a decision to move the peace process forward as long as he had peace with securityIt was a bold move because his governing coalition was shaky, but he could see that if he didnt act, the situation would quickly get out of hand The next day Arafat came to the White HouseI gave him an encouraging report of my meeting with Netanyahu, assured him that I was pushing the prime minister to fulfill Israels obligation under the peace process, reminded him of the Israeli leaders political problems, and stated, as I always did, that he had to keep fighting terror if he wanted Israel to move forwardThe next day Mir Aimal Kansi was sentenced to death for the murder of the two CIA agents in January 1993, the first terrorist act to occur during my presidency By January 27, the day of the State of the Union address, the American people had been deluged with a week of coverage of Starrs inquiry, and I had spent a week dealing with itStarr had already issued subpoenas to a number of White House staff people and for our recordsI had asked Harold Ickes and Mickey Kantor to gucci ladies watch help deal with the controversyThe day before the speech, at the urging of Harold and Harry Thomason, who felt I had been too tentative in my public comments, I reluctantly appeared once more before the press to say I did not have sexual relations with Lewinsky On the morning of the speech, on NBCs Today show, Hillary said that she didnt believe the charges against me and that a vast right-wing conspiracy had been trying to destroy us since the 1992 campaignStarr issued an indignant statement complaining that Hillary had questioned his motivesThough she was right about the nature of our opposition, seeing Hillary defend me made me even more ashamed about what I had done Hillarys difficult interview and my mixed reaction to it clearly exemplified the bind I had put myself in: As a husband, I had done something wrong that I needed to apologize and atone for; as President, I was in a legal and political struggle with forces who had abused the criminal and civil laws and severely damaged innocent people in their attempt to destroy my presidency and cripple my ability to serve Finally, after years of dry holes, I had given them something to work withI had hurt the presidency and the people by my misconductThat was no ones fault but my ownI didnt want to compound the error by letting the reactionaries prevail when I walked into the packed House chamber, the tension was palpable both there and in living rooms across America, where more people were watching my State of the Union address than since I delivered my first oneThe big question was whether I would mention the controversyI began with what was not in disputeThe country was in good shape, with fourteen million new jobs, rising incomes, the highest rate of home ownership chanel classic bag ever, the fewest people on the welfare rolls in twenty-seven years, and the smallest federal government in thirty-five yearsThe 1993 economic plan had cut the deficit, projected to be $357 billion in 1998, by 90 percent, and the previous years balanced budget plan would get rid of it entirely Then I outlined my plan for the futureFirst, I proposed that before spending the coming surpluses on new programs or tax cuts, we should save Social Security for the baby boomers retirementIn education, I recommended funding to hire 100,000 new teachers and to cut class size to eighteen in the first three grades; a plan to help communities modernize or build five thousand schools; and assistance to help schools end the practice of social promotion, by providing funds for extra learning in after-school or summer-school programsI reiterated my support for a Patients Bill of Rights, opening Medicare to Americans between the ages of fifty-five and sixty-five, expanding the Family and Medical Leave Act, and called for a large enough expansion in federal child-care assistance to provide support for one million more children On the security front, I asked for congressional support in combating an unholy axis of new threats from terrorists, international criminals, and drug traffickers; Senate approval of the expansion of NATO; and continued funding for our mission in Bosnia and our efforts to confront the hazards of chemical and biological weapons and the outlaw states, terrorists, and organized criminals seeking to acquire them The last section of my speech dealt with appeals to bring America together and look to the future: tripling the number of empowerment zones in poor communities; launching a new clean water initiative for our tiffany jewelry canada rivers, lakes, and coastal waters; providing $6 billion in tax cuts and research funds for the development of fuel-efficient cars, clean-energy homes, and renewable energy; financing the next generation Internet to transmit information up to a thousand times faster; and funding the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which, because of congressional hostility, didnt have the resources to handle sixty thousand backlogged cases alleging discrimination in the workplaceI also proposed the largest increase in history for the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Science Foundation so that ours will be the generation that finally wins the war against cancer and begins a revolution in our fight against all deadly diseases I closed the speech thanking Hillary for leading our millennium campaign to preserve Americas treasures, including the tattered old Star Spangled Banner, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem during the War of 1812 There wasnt a word in the address about the scandal, and the biggest new idea had been to save Social Security firstI was afraid Congress would get into a bidding war for the coming surpluses and squander them on tax cuts and spending before we had dealt with the baby boomers retirementMost Democrats agreed with me, and most Republicans didnt, though over the coming years we would hold a series of bipartisan forums around the country in which, despite everything else that was going on, we searched for common ground, arguing about how to provide for retirement security rather than whether to do so Two days after the speech, Judge Wright ordered that all evidence related to Monica Lewinsky be excluded from the Jones case because it was prada bags cheap not essential to the core issues, making Starrs inquiry into my deposition even more questionable, since perjury requires a false statement about a material matterOn the last day of the month, ten days after the firestorm began, the Chicago Tribune published a poll showing that my job approval rating had risen to 72 percentI was determined to show the American people that I was on the job and getting results for them On February 5 and 6, Tony and Cherie Blair came to the United States for a two-day state visitThey were a sight for sore eyes for both Hillary and meThey made us laugh, and Tony gave me strong support in public, emphasizing our common approach to economic and social problems and to foreign policyWe took them to Camp David for a dinner with Al and Tipper Gore, and held a state dinner at the White House with entertainment by Elton John and Stevie WonderAfter the event Hillary told me that Newt Gingrich, who had been seated at her table with Tony Blair, had said the charges against me were ludicrous, and meaningless even if true, and werent going anywhere At our press conference, after Tony said that I was not just his colleague but his friend, Mike Frisby, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, finally asked the question I had been waiting forHe wanted to know whether, given the pain and all the issues about my personal life, at what point do you consider that its just not worth it, and do you consider resigning the office? Never, I answeredI said I had tried to take the personal venom out of politics, but the harder I tried, the harder others have pulled in the other directionStill, I would never walk away from the people of this country and the trust theyve placed in me, so Im just going to keep showing up for mulberry bayswater bag (Comment on this)
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