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Bill Clinton: “I tried to spare the country that. That's the only reason that we asked the Supreme Court to affirm that, absent some…”

On the recordJanuary 21, 1998
I tried to spare the country that. That's the only reason that we asked the Supreme Court to affirm that, absent some terrible emergency, the President shouldn't be subject to suits, so that he wouldn't become a political target. They made a different decision. And they have made the decision that this was good for the country. So I'm taking it and dealing with it the best I can. Independent Counsel's Investigation Mr. Lehrer. And the new thing--you're going to be, you know, ``Pour it on; nothing is going to change''?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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