Eyes On The Oval

Clinton secretary Currie, subpoenaed by Starr, could be the first crack in Clinton's stonewall defense

Her eyes seemed to say, don't hit me. Her shoulders were hunched and her forearms raised, as if to ward off a blow. When Betty Currie became the object of a terrifying media scrum last month, after testifying before Kenneth Starr's grand jury in Washington, she looked for all the world like an innocent victim caught in the teeth of scandal. But last Friday the world learned that Currie has some teeth of her own.

The New York Times reported that Currie, Bill Clinton's personal secretary, told Starr's investigators that the President had led her through a sugarcoated account of his...

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