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Dana Rohrabacher: in 1992, when then-Governor Clinton was kicking off his presidential campaign, I have a distant memory of that event.…

On the recordSeptember 27, 1996
in 1992, when then-Governor Clinton was kicking off his presidential campaign, I have a distant memory of that event. And recently someone called my attention to the subject matter that he used to kick off his presidential campaign. I am not sure if my friend from Pennsylvania is aware of what the central theme of the President's first campaign speech was, but it was honesty in government. And he used as an example of the terrible dishonesty that was going on in the Federal Government, he used the savings and loan scandal as the basis for his charge of the corruption that was going on in Washington, DC. I believe that it is ironic at best, it is ironic today for us to be confronted with stonewalling and roadblocks being thrown into the path of a special prosecutor who is attempting to come to grips and to follow the leads that are necessary to bring to justice those people who were involved with the looting of a savings and loan institution that cost the taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. Some people have said that the President, that this President, President Bill Clinton, has more chutzpah in the history of this country.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing President Clinton's campaign theme of honesty in government and current issues related to the savings and loan scandal.

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