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Article: Hatch Is Presidential Critic, Backer in Tumultuous Week
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- The Washington Post
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- August 22, 1998
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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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