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Starr vs. Clinton Revisited: Ruined Lives and Wasted Times

The 1994 scene from Bill Clinton's first trip to Russia is etched in my memory. As the bedraggled White House press corps staggered into Moscow's Metropol Hotel shortly before dawn after a midnight stopover in Kiev, Clinton press aides greeted reporters with these cheery instructions: "Check-in to the left, Whitewater statements to the right." It seemed bizarre at the time that a domestic political scandal like Whitewater -- a small-time Arkansas land deal gone bad -- would dominate a presidential trip that cemented agreements with Ukraine and Belarus to relinquish the nuclear weapons they ...

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