I got McCain to meet with me on the basis that I wanted to talk to him about why he wouldn't talk to me. He could explain Trent Lott. When I met him, McCain had been softened up by lunch with constituents in the Senate dining room. But he steered every question back to Bosnia. The closest we got was the burden of sitting in judgment.
Credibility is more important than exposure.
They didn't stop until he said he would discuss only Kosovo. He's making his new campaign manager, Rick Davis, oddly happy. There are other impeachment monks. Arlen Specter, who for a time seemed willing to come to your kitchen for a chat, hasn't seen the inside of a studio since Larry King Live on Jan. 7. At one time, there was sentiment among many Republicans that once they became jurors, they shouldn't discuss the case on TV, a kind of mutual nonaggression pact.