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BROKAW QUESTIONS CLINTON ON DISBARMENT RECOMMENDATION
NBC NEWS' Tom Brokaw, in an interview previously scheduled to
focus on the China trade vote, spoke with Bill Clinton Monday
afternoon soon after the Arkansas Supreme Court judicial panel
recommended that the president be disbarred.
The following is the exchange on the topic between Brokaw and
Clinton:
The Roosevelt Room, White House
6:30 P.M. EDT
BROKAW: Mr. President, in your home state of Arkansas tonight a
panel for the Arkansas Supreme Court has recommended that you be
disbarred. Your lawyer has already said that you will appeal,
that it's unprecedented. Will you personally take part in that
appeal and appear in Arkansas to argue your case?
THE PRESIDENT: No. No, I promised myself, and I promised the
American people when all the proceedings were over in Congress,
that I would take no further personal part. And I knew when the
timetable for this was moved up that I'd always be at a severe
disadvantage because I will not personally involve myself in any
of this until I'm no longer President. It's not right.
The only reason I agreed even to appeal it is that my lawyers
looked at all the precedents and they said there's no way in the
world, if they just treat you like everybody else has been
treated, that this is even close to that kind of case. So the
precedents contradict this decision and ultimately the decision
has to be made by a judge. And so we're going to give the judge
a chance to do what we believe is right, and I think that's the
right thing to do.
BROKAW: Mr. President, this comes in a state where you were the
Attorney General, where you taught law -- you've now been held in
contempt of court by a federal judge in that state and you've
been recommended for disbarment. With all due respect, this is a
stain on your record well outside the political arena, isn't it?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, when I'm not President anymore, I'll be
happy to defend myself. And there is certainly another side to
both those things you mentioned and I'll be happy to talk about
it. But the main thing I want to say tonight is the only reason
I agreed even to have papers filed, since I'm not going to defend
myself while I'm President, is that there are clear precedents
where more significant kinds of conduct -- even if you assume
what the judge says is right, which I strongly disagree with --
that led to nowhere near this kind of decision. This decision
contradicts all the cases on point that the committee has ever
decided in the past. And so we'll let a judge decide whether it's
right or wrong.
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