Article: Hatch Is Presidential Critic, Backer in Tumultuous Week

As far as Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) is concerned, if President Clinton had done the right thing throughout this tumultuous week, he would be out of harm's way. Clinton did well with Thursday's anti-terrorist bombing raids, Hatch said, but blew a big opportunity on the Monica S. Lewinsky affair.

"I want to help him, he's a human being," Hatch said in a telephone interview late this week. "He's president of the United States, and I don't want to see an unnecessary impeachment hearing. I don't wish anybody any harm."

First as a Clinton critic on Lewinsky, then as the president's cheerleader after the bombing raids, this neat-as-a-pin conservative

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