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House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde (R., Ill.) orders study of impeachment procedures for President Clinton, in event there’s a “smoking gun” in latest scandals. . . . G. Gordon Liddy on Watergate comparisons: “These are two incidents that are a generation apart and it looks as if we are going to come down to getting pretty close to, if not getting to, the same effect.” . . . Defending President Clinton over fundraising scandals, Garry Wills points out in New York Times, “No one complains when Chelsea’s friends stay over.” . . . Clinton official Mickey Kantor has no apologies for his effort to get Fannie Mae CEO to hire disgraced Clinton official Webster Hubbell’s son Walter: “You’re darned right I was calling. It was a family that was going to go into a lot of pain. I was trying to help.” … Marty Peretz, proprietor of The New Republic, explains Gore’s fundraising practices-it was all Clinton’s fault: “Because [Gore] did what was expected of him by a President hungry for cash at whatever cost, he finds himself, in the depiction of a scandal-hungry press, cutting a Clintonian figure.” . . . Time/CNN survey finds 49 per cent of Americans don’t think Gore would make a good President; only 34 per cent say he would.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), GOP’s most sensible voice on campaign-finance reform, assembles a press conference to oppose spending limits that includes representatives from ACLU, National Education Association, and National Association of Letter Carriers, as well as Christian Coalition, National Rifle Association, and other groups on the Right. . . . Rep. John Doolittle (R., Calif.) introduces a reform bill that would eliminate all limits on how much individuals, PACs, and political parties may contribute to candidates for national office, while requiring full public disclosure of contributions. . . . President Clinton taps former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker (R., Kan.) and former Veep Walter Mondale to lead bi-partisan “citizens committee” promoting campaign reform. . . . Jack Kemp, meanwhile, at an Erie County, N.Y… GOP dinner, calls campaign-finance reform “absolutely essential.” . . . Steve Forbes finishes first in a Fabrizio & McLaughlin survey of presidential preferences at CPAC. Jack Kemp, Pat Buchanan place and show in that order.

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House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde (R., Ill.) orders study of impeachment procedures for President Clinton, in event there’s a “smoking gun” in latest scandals. . . . G. Gordon Liddy on Watergate comparisons: “These are two incidents that are a generation apart and it looks as if we are going to come down to getting pretty close to, if not getting to, the same effect.” . . . Defending President Clinton over fundraising scandals, Garry Wills points out in New York Times, “No one complains when Chelsea’s friends stay over.” . . . Clinton official Mickey Kantor has no apologies for his effort to get Fannie Mae CEO to hire disgraced Clinton official Webster Hubbell’s son Walter: “You’re darned right I was calling. It was a family that was going to go into a lot of pain. I was trying to help.” … Marty Peretz, proprietor of The New Republic, explains Gore’s fundraising practices-it was all Clinton’s fault: “Because [Gore] did what was expected of him by a President hungry for cash at whatever cost, he finds himself, in the depiction of a scandal-hungry press, cutting a Clintonian figure.” . . . Time/CNN survey finds 49 per cent of Americans don’t think Gore would make a good President; only 34 per cent say he would.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), GOP’s most sensible voice on campaign-finance reform, assembles a press conference to oppose spending limits that includes representatives from ACLU, National Education Association, and National Association of Letter Carriers, as well as Christian Coalition, National Rifle Association, and other groups on the Right. . . . Rep. John Doolittle (R., Calif.) introduces a reform bill that would eliminate all limits on how much individuals, PACs, and political parties may contribute to candidates for national office, while requiring full public disclosure of contributions. . . . President Clinton taps former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker (R., Kan.) and former Veep Walter Mondale to lead bi-partisan “citizens committee” promoting campaign reform. . . . Jack Kemp, meanwhile, at an Erie County, N.Y… GOP dinner, calls campaign-finance reform “absolutely essential.” . . . Steve Forbes finishes first in a Fabrizio & McLaughlin survey of presidential preferences at CPAC. Jack Kemp, Pat Buchanan place and show in that order.