| I had never wanted the Whitewater inquiry to be a... 265 |
[Feb. 4th, 2010|02:46 am] |
I had never wanted the Whitewater inquiry to be a home game, in Doug Sosniks words, but I thought I was at least entitled to a neutral fieldSince there was nothing to Whitewater, the only way to use the investigation against me was to turn it into one long away gameRobert Fiske was too fair and too fast for that job
Lloyd Cutler didnt eat his hat, but less than a week after the Starr appointment he left, too, having fulfilled his commitment to serve a brief stint in the counsels officeI replaced him with Abner Mikva, a former Illinois congressman and court of appeals judge with an impeccable reputation and a clearheaded view of the forces we were up againstI was sorry that, after such a long and distinguished career, Lloyd had to learn that people he thought he knew and could trust were playing by different rules than he was
When Congress left town, we took off for Marthas Vineyard againHillary and I needed some time offA few days earlier he had ruptured his Achilles tendon in a basketball gameIt was a painful injury, requiring a prolonged recoveryAl would come back stronger than before, using his forced immobility to work out with weightsIn the meantime, on crutches, he traveled to forty states and four foreign countries, including Egypt, where he brokered a compromise on the sensitive issue of population |
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