The strain showed most publicly on the face of White House Spokesman Mike McCurry, whose scowl before reporters today broke only when he talked about leaving the podium. But Branegan says that for the Administration, the spin is simple: Just keep going. "The idea, for everyone from Clinton on down, is to hunker down and redouble their efforts." And hope that this scandal, like all the others, never quite comes home to roost.
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WASHINGTON: "White House staffers are despondent and dismayed," says TIME
correspondent Jay Branegan. "A lot of people seem to think Clinton did have
this affair, and they're upset that he allowed the Administration to be put
in this position." One gust of scandal has overwhelmed the
State of the Union address, the Middle East, Iraq you name it. Not helping
much were Clinton's denials to PBS' Jim Lehrer, which were all make of
this what you will couched in the present tense. Asked by Lehrer whether
there was a sexual relationship with Lewinsky, Clinton said: "There is no
sexual relationship."