Bill Clinton: “I haven't talked about it deliberately, because I think that it ought to be a private matter between me and my family.…”

“I haven't talked about it deliberately, because I think that it ought to be a private matter between me and my family. All I can tell you is I'm working at it very hard, and I think it's terribly important. It's more important than anything else in the world to me-- more important than anything else in the world. But I think the less I say about it, the better. I think one of the things that I hope will come out of the reassessment of this whole business is a conviction again, which I believe the American people already have, that even people in public life deserve some measure of private space within which to have their family lives and to deal with their--both the joys and the trials of their personal lives. So I don't think I should say more about it except that I'm working at it. Whitewater Mr. Smiley. I respect that. As you know, there was not a single reference--not a single reference--to Whitewater, as your White House staff and the entire Clinton administration reminds us every day--not a single reference to Whitewater in the Starr report. On the eve of this election day, though, it occurs to me that you still, though, have not been, despite that reality, you still have not been officially exonerated with regard to the Whitewater matter. I'm wondering whether or not that frustrates you in any way, whether you're bothered by the fact that there wasn't anything in the report but you still have not been officially exonerated.”