WHITEWATER . . . WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS GET

In the second day of congressional Whitewater hearings, former presidential counsel Bernard Nussbaum repeatedly denied he had tried to influence the government's investigation into Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. Nussbaum resigned in April under accusations of mishandling the affair. While he admitted he had been shocked by the Resolution Trust Corporation's appointment of Jay Stephens, a former Republican federal prosecutor and a sharp Clinton critic, to investigate the failure of the savings institution, he said he had not attempted to remove Stephens. Nussbaum was followed by the "White House 10" -- high-level Clinton Administration officials, who all copped a plea of no wrongdoing.