A summary of an article in the New York Times for December 18 notes, "Clyde Haberman NYC column notes that anti-impeachment New Yorkers have begun speaking out on what to them is a crusade, with rightist zealots at its core, to ignore popular will and undo results of last two Presidential elections; says Clinton's fiercest accusers in Congress and news media include confessed or known adulterers, and no matter how much they say lying is the issue, not sex, it still boils down to lying about sex."

The article offers this quote:

'I've been trying to think of an American President in my lifetime who didn't lie to the American people,' E.L. Doctorow said at N.Y.U.

When Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon told lies, Mr. Doctorow said, many tens of thousands died in Vietnam and Cambodia. 'Perhaps the problem with President Clinton's lie,' he added, 'is that it lacked grandeur.'

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