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■ President Clinton, answering a reporter’s question on whether his “legacy will be about lying”: “There will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.” . . . Clinton faces hardball question at March 19 press conference: “Sir, will you tell us why you think people have been so mean to you? Is it a conspiracy? Is it a plan? They treat you worse than they treated Abe Lincoln.” . . . Liberal group Alliance for Justice reports: As of 1997, 36 percent of Clinton’s judicial nominees were millionaires, and the numbers are increasing (in 1998, 43 percent). Figures for George Bush and Ronald Reagan were 32 percent and 21 percent, respectively.

■ In Iowa, Vice President Al Gore reveals what his father, a senator, taught him while they lived on Embassy Row: “He taught me how to clean out hog waste with a shovel and a hose. He taught me how to clear land with a double-bladed ax. He taught me how to plow a steep hillside with a team of mules. He taught me how to take up hay all day long in the hot sun.” … In Washington Post/ABC News poll, 56 percent describe vice president as “very” or “somewhat” boring. . . . George W Bush hires pro-life conservative Michael J. Gerson as chief speechwriter and senior policy advisor to presidential campaign. . . . Former Christian Coalition legislative director Marshall Wittmann joins McCain campaign as unofficial advisor. . . . Perhaps worried about conservative criticism of his views on campaign-finance reform and tobacco, McCain writes in fundraising letter, “I hope you’ll make it clear to every Republican that anyone who engages in destructive negative campaigning or runs attack ads against fellow Republicans forfeits your support.” . . . Jesse Jackson announces he won’t run for president…. Puerto Rican governor Pedro Rossello, once touted by pro-statehood Republicans in Congress as evidence island would elect conservatives to Washington, signs up to run Gore’s presidential campaign in the commonwealth.

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■ President Clinton, answering a reporter’s question on whether his “legacy will be about lying”: “There will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.” . . . Clinton faces hardball question at March 19 press conference: “Sir, will you tell us why you think people have been so mean to you? Is it a conspiracy? Is it a plan? They treat you worse than they treated Abe Lincoln.” . . . Liberal group Alliance for Justice reports: As of 1997, 36 percent of Clinton’s judicial nominees were millionaires, and the numbers are increasing (in 1998, 43 percent). Figures for George Bush and Ronald Reagan were 32 percent and 21 percent, respectively.

■ In Iowa, Vice President Al Gore reveals what his father, a senator, taught him while they lived on Embassy Row: “He taught me how to clean out hog waste with a shovel and a hose. He taught me how to clear land with a double-bladed ax. He taught me how to plow a steep hillside with a team of mules. He taught me how to take up hay all day long in the hot sun.” … In Washington Post/ABC News poll, 56 percent describe vice president as “very” or “somewhat” boring. . . . George W Bush hires pro-life conservative Michael J. Gerson as chief speechwriter and senior policy advisor to presidential campaign. . . . Former Christian Coalition legislative director Marshall Wittmann joins McCain campaign as unofficial advisor. . . . Perhaps worried about conservative criticism of his views on campaign-finance reform and tobacco, McCain writes in fundraising letter, “I hope you’ll make it clear to every Republican that anyone who engages in destructive negative campaigning or runs attack ads against fellow Republicans forfeits your support.” . . . Jesse Jackson announces he won’t run for president…. Puerto Rican governor Pedro Rossello, once touted by pro-statehood Republicans in Congress as evidence island would elect conservatives to Washington, signs up to run Gore’s presidential campaign in the commonwealth.