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Robert Dornan: I want to continue what I have just loosely called "the Clinton years, part 3," and begin tonight with something from…

On the recordMarch 22, 1994
I want to continue what I have just loosely called "the Clinton years, part 3," and begin tonight with something from yesterday's Wall Street Journal that I found very disturbing. It is a description of the fine State of Arkansas that matches something I tried to describe in this well in September and in October of the election year, 1992. There is a newsletter that has just come into my possession by Kevin Phillips, published by the American Political Research Corporation. It is called the "American Political Report." The headline is, "Whitewater, The Politics of a Second Watergate." When you say this to anyone in the dominant media culture who is a gentleman and admits they are liberal, a lady of the same honor, and they are rare, most of them claim that they are perched on some Olympian peak of moderate perfection. When you mention in the same breath Whitewater or Watergate or refer to Whitewater as White Watergate, as does the great columnist for the New York Times, Bill Safire, they go ballistic on you. Here are some of the subtitles in Kevin Phillips' American Political Report: "Clinton, Whitewater and the Polls," and the polls are moving severely against Mr. Clinton.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Discussing the implications of the Whitewater controversy during a speech on the House floor.

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