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The journalist Joe Klein, a leading Bill Clinton chronicler in the 1990s, said Tuesday that he was an “enabler” for defending the then-president. Klein said in an interview with the NPR show On Point that he didn’t think Democrats today would stand by Clinton the way they did in the 1990s as the cultural landscape has shifted on sexual misconduct. “I must confess to having been a Clinton enabler during that time,” Klein told guest host Jane Clayson. “In that I defended him, and we all knew that he was a cad. There's no question about that. But it was...

The attacks on Sen. Barack Obama's credibility, ethics and experience that pushed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to a convincing victory in swing-state Ohio and helped her cling to Texas came back full circle Wednesday. Within hours, the Obama campaign struck back at Clinton's perceived penchant for secrecy and by evening had Mississippi surrogates accuse her of making "derogatory comments" about the South. "She talked about change you can Xerox," said top Obama strategist David Axelrod. "Well you can Xerox your tax returns." Calling Clinton a "habitual nondiscloser," Axelrod suggested the tax documents might reveal shady sources of the $5 million...

Former President Bill Clinton says there's no reason he should be questioned in a lawsuit by a Harlem librarian who says she was defamed in the novel "Primary Colors." Daria Carter-Clark wants to depose Clinton as part of her $100 million lawsuit against Random House and author Joe Klein, who penned the book anonymously. Clinton visited the Harlem library where Carter-Clark heads the adult-literacy program during a 1991 campaign stop. In the opening chapter of "Primary Colors," a Clintonesque candidate has sex with a Harlem librarian after a campaign stop. Carter-Clark claims the character is based on her and that...