Article: The First Lady tries to retire a 'dead horse.' (Hillary Rodham Clinton's press conference on the Whitewater Development Corp. scandal)

Hillary Rodham Clinton saw nothing unusual about first ladies holding press conferences. Eleanor Roosevelt, she noted, conducted 340 of them. But none ever held one like Mrs. Clinton's. For over an hour last week, she offered a lawyer's calm defense of her involvement in the Whitewater affair. Eschewing opportunities to bash the press or the GOP, she termed Whitewater "a learning experience_sometimes a difficult one" and vowed to do better. But she also assured the public that nothing about the land deal was unsavory. "It keeps getting beat like the deadest horse it is, over and over again." And she vigorously defended her lucrative commodities trading, insisting she ...

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