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Dick Morris doubts Bill Clinton would have arranged hush money for Webster Hubbell. According to Morris, “Clinton’s mindset is one of total denial” about the seriousness of the scandals surrounding him: “He’s too much into denial on one hand and too much of an ingrate on the other.” . . . Asked what President Clinton could do to help get his ex-wife Susan McDougal out of jail on contempt charges, James McDougal says: “Perhaps he could go ahead and advise her to answer the question. . . . Tell Susan to honestly answer the question. Take the consequences if it hurts you, Mr. President, but let this innocent woman out of jail.” … New ABC talking head George Stephanopoulos gets subpoena from House Committee for information relating to Asian-American moneyman Johnny Chung. . . . As Al Gore continues to get hurt by fundraising scandals, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt gears up for presidential run. Says Morris: “Gephardt is running for President and has basically abandoned the notion of leading the House; all he’s doing is trying to position himself in the race for President.” . . . House Minority Whip David Bonior, meanwhile, leaning toward Gephardt for 2000, takes shot across Gore’s bow: “Are we simply going to go to China, stay silent, and raise a glass for signing a couple of contracts that will do little to affect our $40-billion trade deficit?” . . . The more things change, the more they stay the same: then-Democratic strategist Mike McCurry said in March 1992, “If I was on the Clinton staff, I would say we have one problem, and one problem only: People don’t think we’re honest enough to be President.”

In instance of interest-group politics gone haywire, black women oppose moving statue of three female suffragists into the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Feminists had agitated to move a 13-ton statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott-informally known as “Three Ladies in a Bathtub”-from its exile in the Crypt of the U.S. Capitol at a cost of $80,000. But the National Political Congress of Black Women now balks at relocation, scheduled for June, because statue doesn’t include black nineteenth-century feminist Sojourner Truth. . . . Media Research Center points out that Speaker Newt Gingrich gets unusual sympathy from Katie Couric when the NBC personality interviews Gingrich critic Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.): “But in fairness, what is wrong with Newt Gingrich reaching out to some other groups, extending himself? I mean, can’t you catch more flies with honey? Isn’t there something about that? And perhaps the rigidity of some of the conservative Republicans and their almost religious adherence to the Contract with America, didn’t that ultimately backfire on them?”

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Dick Morris doubts Bill Clinton would have arranged hush money for Webster Hubbell. According to Morris, “Clinton’s mindset is one of total denial” about the seriousness of the scandals surrounding him: “He’s too much into denial on one hand and too much of an ingrate on the other.” . . . Asked what President Clinton could do to help get his ex-wife Susan McDougal out of jail on contempt charges, James McDougal says: “Perhaps he could go ahead and advise her to answer the question. . . . Tell Susan to honestly answer the question. Take the consequences if it hurts you, Mr. President, but let this innocent woman out of jail.” … New ABC talking head George Stephanopoulos gets subpoena from House Committee for information relating to Asian-American moneyman Johnny Chung. . . . As Al Gore continues to get hurt by fundraising scandals, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt gears up for presidential run. Says Morris: “Gephardt is running for President and has basically abandoned the notion of leading the House; all he’s doing is trying to position himself in the race for President.” . . . House Minority Whip David Bonior, meanwhile, leaning toward Gephardt for 2000, takes shot across Gore’s bow: “Are we simply going to go to China, stay silent, and raise a glass for signing a couple of contracts that will do little to affect our $40-billion trade deficit?” . . . The more things change, the more they stay the same: then-Democratic strategist Mike McCurry said in March 1992, “If I was on the Clinton staff, I would say we have one problem, and one problem only: People don’t think we’re honest enough to be President.”

In instance of interest-group politics gone haywire, black women oppose moving statue of three female suffragists into the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Feminists had agitated to move a 13-ton statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott-informally known as “Three Ladies in a Bathtub”-from its exile in the Crypt of the U.S. Capitol at a cost of $80,000. But the National Political Congress of Black Women now balks at relocation, scheduled for June, because statue doesn’t include black nineteenth-century feminist Sojourner Truth. . . . Media Research Center points out that Speaker Newt Gingrich gets unusual sympathy from Katie Couric when the NBC personality interviews Gingrich critic Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.): “But in fairness, what is wrong with Newt Gingrich reaching out to some other groups, extending himself? I mean, can’t you catch more flies with honey? Isn’t there something about that? And perhaps the rigidity of some of the conservative Republicans and their almost religious adherence to the Contract with America, didn’t that ultimately backfire on them?”