The guy can't help it. No matter what he does, he just doesn't seem presidential.

Memo To Elliot Richardson: Read The Constitution
"I served as Massachusetts Attorney General and Attorney General of the United States. All these experiences helped to form my perspective on the unenviable task now thrust upon Congress by Mr. Starr's report," wrote Elliot Richardson in a New York Times op-ed on Friday, where he argued that President Clinton receive a censure and nothing more. It seems that in performing all of these important jobs, Richardson hasn't found the time to read the Constitution. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah), he writes in the Times, "would preside over Mr. Clinton's trial should the House vote to impeach him."

William Rehnquist, call your office! According to Article 1, Section 3 of the supreme law of the land: "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. ... When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice [of the Supreme Court] shall preside."

Sen. Hatch may be chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, but when it comes to a presidential impeachment trial, he's just another Senator. No matter what former Attorney General Elliot Richardson says.

Teapot Dome Update
In other scandal news, the New York Times reported on Friday that the government is thinking about selling Teapot Dome, which was at the center of a presidential scandal in the 1920s. Shortly after President Harding's inauguration, Interior Secretary Albert Fall took a bribe from the owner of an oil company for exclusive drilling rights at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, a site the government had acquired in 1915 so that it would have a reserve oil supply during wartime. The incident, which became public, permanently blemished the Harding administration. But now, with Teapot Dome potentially on the sales block, James Brooke of the Times reports: "Unlike the frenzied 1920s, the [oil] reserves are so low that Government officials fear that if they open Teapot Dome to competitive bidding, they may not get a bid."