[Cboldt]

Mr. Chief Justice, ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, distinguished managers from the House, good afternoon.

My name is Greg Craig, and I'm special counsel to the president.

I'm here today on behalf of President Clinton. I'm here to argue that he is not guilty of the allegations of grand jury perjury set forth in Article I.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/impeachment/trial/craig_1-20.html <-- More Gregory Craig

[nw_arizona_granny]

ping

[cyn]

blast from the past PING.

I was just wondering about Elian, too . . . thinking what Cubans have sacrificed in order to come to the US, remembering that his mother and others died for their chance to win freedom.

[cyn]

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.