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"The group reads like a Clinton 'enemies list'...Over 300 more law-abiding citizens whose only crime was to oppose Bill Clinton...We are in for a negative, dirty campaign this fall."
--Bob Dole on the White House's admission that it requested confidential FBI files of top Republican leaders

"I teach my mistakes...I always begin my courses by saying if I knew anything about politics, I wouldn't be here."
--Michael Dukakis, now at Northeastern University, to the New York Times

Whitewater And Other Rapids

Presidential Immunity

Arizona Governor J. Fife Symington's real estate empire has crumbled; he's under scrutiny for possible financial wrongdoing and the misuse of office. Above all, the scion of the Frick dynasty is broke--$25 million in the hole, after a nose dive as sharp as his performance in recent polls. And one escape clause seems to have gone pffft! In an offbeat promissory note made public last week, Jerome Hirsch, a Phoenix, Arizona, lender with ties to former Symington projects, agreed to accept as little as $100,000 in final payment of a $4.2 million loan if the Governor is still in grave financial trouble by Dec. 1, 2001, the loan's due date, and "is then President of the United States of America." Don't bank on it.

By Kathleen Adams, Charlotte Faltermayer, Jance M. Horowitz, Lina Lofaro and Alain L. Sanders

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