February 15, 1999
Web posted at: 11:57 a.m. EST (1657 GMT)

Verbatim

"The President's conduct is boorish, indefensible, even reprehensible. It does not threaten the Republic."
RICHARD BRYAN, Democratic Senator from Nevada

"After stripping away the underbrush of legal technicalities and nuance, I find that the President abused his sacred power by lying and obstructing justice."
CHUCK HAGEL, Republican Senator from Nebraska

"It's essential, for impeachment to prevail, to have bipartisan support. We never had it."
HENRY HYDE, lead House prosecutor, stating the obvious

"Go home; it's over; get a life."
BOB BENNETT, Clinton's lawyer, to reporters waiting for him at the base of an escalator on the way to the Senate subways

Sources: Bryan, Hagel, Hyde, AP; Bennett, Time

If it please your Royal Highness, DUCK!

The History Channel may want to televise the Oscars this year, with two Elizabethan and three World War II films vying for Best Picture. Will Oscar smile on gowns or guns?

Winners

TRENT LOTT
Neat freak keeps impeachment trial tidy; thanks for those closed-door sessions!

ASA HUTCHINSON
If the other 12 House prosecutors were half this good, they might have convicted

BILL CLINTON
No majority for conviction on either count beats the spread. Will polls now plunge?

& LOSERS

HENRY HYDE
Patriotic cliches are still cliches; trial turned GOP's elder statesman into an angry, bitter man

JAMES ROGAN
Politically vulnerable manager bragged about being ex-judge. What about ex-Congressman?

KENNETH STARR
Does aiding in the death of the independent-counsel law count as a win?

Cover Date: February 22, 1999

• Nightmare's end
• D.C.'s best grudge match
• New rules of the road
• Pundits: Out of gas?
• Star Wars: The sequel
• Garrison Keillor: The Republicans were right, but--
• Margaret Carlson: Sighs and whimpers
• James Carville: How I'd throttle the GOP
• Mary Matalin: How I'd whip the Democrats
• Lance Morrow: Why I'm still angry
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: How history will judge him
• Deborah Tannen: Freedom to talk dirty
• Notebook

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