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forgot to say, thanks for your link. It's more than Elian. what classic clintonisms, do we want to return to that?:

"Quote: "I never even focused on that," meaning that issue of the verb tense, "until I read it in this transcript in preparation for this testimony. I wasn't trying to give you a cute answer that I was obviously not involved in anything improper during the deposition.
"I was trying to tell that, generally speaking in the present tense, if someone said that, that would be true, but I don't know what Mr. Bennett had in mind. I don't know."
Now, the president was open and honest and obvious in what he was arguing, and that is precisely what he was doing on this occasion. He was arguing a point that, as a technical matter, Bennett's statement could be read as being accurate."

It's always good to be reminded.