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Article: In denial.(Clinton evades public blame for sex scandal)(Capital Scene)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
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- March 9, 1998
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"IN 1959 the poverty rate for elderly Americans was 35.2 per cent," White House economic advisor Gene Sperling tells a packed audience of reporters in the White House briefing room. It's the start of the third week of Monicagate, and no one is there to hear about the President's Social Security plan -- but Sperling perseveres. Helen Thomas grouses from the front row about there being more important topics -- "not that are more important to people's lives than Social Security," counters Sperling. CNN's Wolf Blitzer is reading the Washington Post sports page, while other reporters yawn. Sperling --short, with wire-rimmed glasses, the very picture of a Washington wonk -- ...