A L K Cokie and Sam go back to Washington. Here is the president who campaigns, with his wife yet, for teenage sexual abstinence. But most media reactions were of two equally objectionable kinds. Those who were not Pharisees were gloaters.
Nothing is worse than press masochism and defensiveness.
And nobody should profit from it less than Clinton. He had all the time in the world to meet Roger Tamraz and other bagmen and scumballs, and to play golf with whoever, and to leave messages on the home answering machines of female interns. But these tales are not to be repeated before the profane masses. Vienna has taught us that if a politician cruises the country babbling about family values and continence and morality, he is probably screaming for sexual release. And Morris, as we know now and could have guessed then, was engaged in debauching a national presidential election, not just a few babes dialed at random.