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Accuracy in Media
Weekly Column
Clinton's Character Counts
By Reed Irvine
August 20, 1998
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On the morning of August 17, 1998, the day that President Clinton was questioned in the White House by prosecutors from the Office of the Independent Counsel concerning allegations that he had lied in sworn testimony he had given last January, The New York Daily News ran a remarkable column by Lars Erik Nelson.
Nelson said that if Clinton could again deny under oath that he had a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky "his wounded, diminished presidency would continue and his critics would owe him an apology." But he went on to say this:
But if he now admits he had sex with her, as some of his aides have begun to hint, he is unfit to lead the nation and ought to have the decency to resign. If he lied to us about Lewinsky-staring so earnestly into the camera as he denied any improper relationship-who can ever believe him again? If he allowed......

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