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Bill Clinton: Absolutely not. As a matter of fact, that's one of the reasons we have taken the amount of time that we have. The…

On the recordJuly 19, 1993
Absolutely not. As a matter of fact, that's one of the reasons we have taken the amount of time that we have. The Attorney General, when she took office, was asked by me to review this matter. Both of us agreed that in the normal course of events, the Director of the FBI should not be changed just because administrations changed, even when, perhaps even especially when, there's a change of political party in the White House. So the Attorney General was very deliberate, very thorough in this, and I think has gone out of her way to avoid the appearance of political impropriety. Homosexuals in the Military
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Bill Clinton
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