-Caveat Lector- > BlankWednesday December 20 4:51 AM ET > Clinton Prepared to 'Stand And Fight' if Indicted > > > By Arshad Mohammed > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton (news - web sites) said in > an > interview released on Tuesday he was prepared to ``stand and fight'' > if he > was indicted after leaving office. > > In a wide-ranging, one-hour interview with CBS News taped on Monday, > Clinton > said he wanted to rest for a while after leaving the White House, > mused > about some of his political adversaries, and said he didn't have a > clue if > his wife, Sen.-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites), might > run > for president. > > Dan Rather, who conducted the interview, asked Clinton if he expected > to be > indicted by the office of the independent counsel, which investigated > the > Whitewater real-estate deal, his affair with Monica Lewinsky and a > host of > other issues. > > ``Look, I don't have any idea. I don't have any control over that and > I > don't spend much time thinking about it,'' he said in a transcript of > the > interview released by the White House. > > Asked if he thought President-elect George W. Bush (news - web > sites), the > Republican Texas governor who takes his place on Jan. 20, might > pardon him, > Clinton said: ``I haven't given any thought to that. But I doubt it. > I mean, > no, I haven't thought about that.'' > > ``Since I don't believe I should be charged, I don't want that,'' he > added. > ``If that's what they want, I'll be happy to stand and fight.'' > > ``A Fraud From The Get-Go'' > > Clinton, asked to say the first thing that came into his mind on a > host of > topics, offered some trenchant observations on his eight years in > office and > on his many adversaries. > > Asked about the investigation of Whitewater, an Arkansas real estate > venture > that he and his wife invested in in 1978 and ultimately lost money > on, he > replied: > > ``Biggest bogus issue in modern American politics. Classic -- it was > a fraud > from the get-go and a lot of the people that were propagating it knew > it was > a fraud,'' he said. > > Newt Gingrich, the former House of Representatives Speaker who led > the > Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 and resigned during the > impeachment > crisis, came off relatively well: ``A brilliant adversary, and a > complicated > man.'' > > Not so for Tom DeLay, the Republican House whip who is known for his > bare-knuckled tactics in enforcing discipline within his party. > > ``My problem with him is his whole view about how you should treat > your > opponents is very different from mine,'' Clinton said. ``He's got a > total > scorch-and-burn policy -- take them out, whatever the cost, whatever > you > have to do.'' > > ``I Need To Rest'' > > Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who presided over the > investigation > into Clinton's affair with Lewinsky and his dissembling to conceal > it, also > came in for some harsh words. > > ``They put him in there because (former independent counsel Robert) > Fiske > was a fair, balanced man and the whole thing was going to be over > before the > '96 election and they didn't want that,'' Clinton said. ``So they put > him in > there; said drag it out and get a bigger body count ... he did just > what he > was supposed to.'' > > Clinton said he thought talk that his wife, who has won a seat in the > U.S. > Senate representing New York, might run for president in 2004 or 2008 > was > ``worse than idle speculation.'' > > He said he had advised her to ``solidify her roots in New York'' and > simply > did not know if she, or anybody else, would definitely run for > president. > > Asked about his own plans, Clinton said he wanted to kick back and > rest for > a while, then make some money for his family, and eventually find a > way to > be useful without getting in the way of future presidents. > > But first, he said: ``I need to take a couple of months and just go > down. 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