David Cay Johnston: “Mr. President, if there was ever anything that is clear as the noonday Sun on a cloudless day, anything that is obvious…”

“Mr. President, if there was ever anything that is clear as the noonday Sun on a cloudless day, anything that is obvious, it is that Whitewater is politics, pure and simple, and has nothing to do with policy. And the Senate should not continue this charade any longer. Mr. President, we have had 121 witnesses. We have had 40 days. We have had over 200 depositions. We have had 45,000 pages of documents that have been produced. We have had blah, blah, blah, blah, full of sound and fury, and absolutely signifying nothing. Mr. President, the distinguished chairman of the Whitewater Committee, the last time he spoke--and I wanted to ask him some questions, and he did not yield for that purpose--spoke about the comparison of Whitewater with Iran-Contra. I wanted to draw with him the comparisons between the two. I think the comparison of these two hearings really draws in sharp focus, in sharp contrast, the difference between policy and politics.”