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Opening arguments
commence in Senate
By David Espo
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Bracing for
opening arguments in his im
peachment trial, President Clin
ton said Wednesday he will tend
studiously to “the business of the
people” while his fate is settled
in historic Senate proceedings.
House prosecutors said Monica
Lewinsky had recently rejected
their request for a voluntary inter
view.
With the first formal presenta
tion of evidence set for Thursday,
Judiciary Committee Republicans
said they had sought permission
earlier in the week to talk with
the woman at the center of the
sex-and-cover-up scandal. Her at
torneys “declined to make her
available,” said a committee
spokesman, Paul J. McNulty.
Legal sources, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, dis
closed that a similar request was
made to at least one other poten
tial witness, Kathleen Willey.
Apart from Clinton’s remarks
Wednesday, his legal team dis
patched a formal trial brief to the
Senate arguing that neither “fact
or law” warranted his removal
from office.
“The vote the American people
rendered ... is hanging in the bal
ance,” the brief said in a refer
ence to Clinton’s election.
“They have their job to do in
the Senate, and I have mine,” the
president told reporters in his
first public utterance in three
weeks on an issue that has tar
nished his presidency for posteri
ty. “I trust that the right thing will
be done.”
Clinton stands accused of per
jury and obstruction of justice in
the first presidential impeach
ment trial since Andrew Johnson
was acquitted in 1868. A two
tliirds vote of the Senate is re
quired to convict him and re
move him from office.
The trial is to resume at 10 a.m.
PST, with Chief Justice William
Rehnquist presiding and the
House impeachment team — Re
publican lawmakers all — start
ing to present their case.
The House does not yet have
permission from the Senate to
call witnesses in the trial.
Spokesman McNulty explained
the overture to Lewinsky by say
ing the committee was ‘‘duty
bound to gather all relevant evi
dence and be thoroughly pre
pared for the trial. Implicit in the
House’s right to request witness
es is the responsibility to deter
mine who the House will call.”
One of Lewinsky’s attorneys,
Plato Cacheris, declined to re
spond to McNulty’s comments.
McNulty declined to confirm
the approach to Willey. She al
leged Clinton made an uninvited
sexual pass in the White House,
but the incident is not cited in ei
ther of the two articles of im
peachment approved by the
House.
Separately, officials said De
mocrats had suggested canceling
next Tuesday’s scheduled trial
session to avoid an awkward ap
pearance on the day of Clinton’s
scheduled State of the Union ad
dress. Republicans discussed the
issue at a closed-door meeting
during the day. Most were op
posed, according to sources fa
miliar with the discussion, since
Clinton had declined to resched
ule his speech, but no final deci
sion was made.
Clinton’s legal team argued
otherwise in their long legal brief
filed with the Senate.
The allegations “do not begin
to satisfy the stringent showing
required by our Founding Fathers
to remove a duly elected presi
dent from office, either as a mat
ter of fact or law,” they wrote.
They even “fall far short of what
a prudent prosecutor would re
quire before presenting a case to a
judge or jury," the brief said.
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