Show rT iV‘ i im i- -n Ipipipwyipiipip e : i r "r TT- -t V-- ?- I I I -"' The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thureday September 21 2000 — Pagt 5 -- f- - I ends in anticlimax (AP) — concluded Wednesday there is “insuffiWASHINGTON ' Proiecutori Clinton tracks remaining pn Ms calendar cient’' evidence that President Clinton or hia wife committed a crime in Whitewater bringing the six-- ar investigation to an anticunactic end four months hefty the president yf leaves aides breathed a that Independent sighof — Ray’s InsiCounsel st contained nesslike st that could no harsh cause trout Hillary Rod ham Clinf jn’s campaign to seat from New win a 1 clock-watch- York (a cloud that bedev-'linto- Amtalviaw taken Januaiy 1994 of land the Whitewater Development Co campaign and M Nixon- who llrather than confront - and removal j Horn ifc‘Tm just glad that this is finally iver Mrs: Clinton said questioning why so mud ftwney ifu spent The presi- An end to Whitewater he promised to keep working hard until the mid on Jan 2a 2001 Independent Counsel Robert Ray ended the six your Whitflwhf r roesogaoon wnnouicnarpng rresiooni fxi mtb unhoii wnn any “I’m going to give you 120 hard days” Clinton said “I’m going to finish the peace process in the Middle East I’m going to try to get as as I can with this much done in education and do what I can to I’m to Congress going take my case on America's future to people who wish to listen to it” C6sfc More than $52 million Length: Six years The handHng by presidential aides of deputy White House counsel vmcanc rorori wnnswwor papofs foowing res Main wnicn was ruled a suicide The failng Arkansas savings and loan owned by the Clintons Whitewater real estate partners Jim and Susan McDougal The McDougaia were convicted of fraud ThetvGov Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas also was convicted of two Monies and resigned ferough theWhite House Rose jGfardenwith Italian Prime Amato' piece of unfinished business in the Rayias ope major record $52 million independent counsel ilvestigation — a Ayiwnn whener to indict the presideiit aftv he leaves office for his condct in the Monica andal A grand tin July in help make the decirfop ’I r h was thfsame independent Susan JfmMcOougal Convicted of fraud (led in prison counsel once under Ray's predecessor Kenneth Starr that first dupulted the Lewinsky scamal onto the front pages as spurred Clinton’s - AP gal to testify “the failure by the White House" to produce Mrs Clinton’s law firm records until 1996 and leg challenges to turning over White House lawyers’ notes of conversations with Mrs Clin- - Clinton knowingly participated in any criminal conduct’ Ray said - tOtt l U kit W The White House was low Y M Jy i fI "! - '7'' i" V f W- - f- i'W'"i 'A’ fV-- i announced his findings now to remove “any lingering cloud that would hover over the Hist Lady's campaign or over the electoral process as we move now closer to November" On Capitol Hill where Clinton was impeached and acquitted less than two years ago Democrats said Ray’s statement was too little too late ’“While the American public and no doubt the president and first lady are relieved to have the Whitewater matter finally behind us the resolution of this matter is years late” Sen Carl Levin ch said The Whitewater allegations investigated by Ray included: Whether the president gave false testimony in the trial of Whitewater partners Jim and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Gov Jim Guy Tucker when Clinton denial being aware of a fraudulent $300000 loan or borrowing money from the McDougals’ failed savings and loan The office concluded it could not prove Clinton “knew of the ($300000) loan or that his testimony regarding the loan was knowingly false” The disappearance of Mrs Clinton’s law firm billing records which vanished after the 1992 election and mysteriously surfaced in the White f --l - - 'y ' "1 " ’ M i 1 - mu rt- I - ' ' -t ( 111 " isfivu lr-- ' — - ?" -r -- ' v' (“A--- tetonnsfloii at 1400457-773- 5 v' 1 ' f': 4 i "WVi4 ton 4 8hop Cache VaNayMaS: Monday Munlay 100 8unday swan or willfully possessed the billing records with the intent to obstruct justice” r' ' - ' ' — t -- For bers of The Associated Press that ”1 think : most New Yorkffrs and Americans made up their minds a long prosecutor said the evidence concerning the billing records was “inconclusive” as to whether “any person including Mrs Clinton knowingly " i'- - if y-'-- delays Mrs Clinton told a meeting in Albany NY of state mem- had been subpoenaed The Not all Hems in all states spal ontan - ' said Lockhart rejected Ray’s complaints of tyhite House tions related to Whitewater Development Co and con- elude that there are no grounds for legal action” White House press secretary Joe Lockhart t1 mmwwz ' key in its response “Robert Ray is now the lat est investigator to complete an examination of the transac- coupon or tfisoowL Umiled to stock on land No - JrY “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” Ray said he House in 1996 long after they President Clinton or Mrs However the prosecutor i “When I’m not president anymore I’m still going to try to be a good citizen’’ he told the bishops “I’m going to tty to use all the things I’ve learned and all the things I’ve done to be of some use in the world And if I can be of some use to you all you’ ve got to do is call” Perhaps looking far far ahead — after all he is only 54 — Clinton mused a little about his dotage “Our life expectancy I think in the next 20 years will go from 77 years to over 90” he said “So what are all these old folks going to We’ve got to do? I hope to be one of them show up for some kind of work every day How are we going to be useful? How are we going to avoid being vegetables?” year and a half cited “delays in obtaining rcl- event evidence” — including ter real ‘''-Y- left Clinton also looked ahead to what he will do when the countdown is over Jim Guy Tucker Convicted of two felonies McDougal Convicted of fraud served a OonipBad Aon AP taka fwporta st 7 Including Wednesday Clinton actually has 123 days D6fWKI DofS unpeachreot and Senate trial as acquitted where! id his office investi-leaseven separate allegations involving ident or his wife in -- Indletmenta: 21 Convictions: 14 Areas of investigation ignored a Whitewater as' he strolled Giidiano denomination In closing he mentioned the figure again as Clinton the most president since -- Aik owned by In FHppin er Church of God in Christ a mainly black ” ns sincethe impeacl - (AP) i- Given the superhuman hours President Clinton is known to keep few would accuse him of being a He is however keeping a rather precise eye on the calendar these days as he revealed Wednesday “I’ve got 120 days more or less to be president" Clinton noted halfway through a folksy speech to a convention of bishops from the WASHINGTON i time ago about” Whitewater “I think that taxpayers have a right to ask why was all this money spent especially since the conclusions were readily available five years ago” she added The Clintons’ legal defense fund has raised $8 million over 2 12 years The fund says the Clintons still owe about $4 million in legal fees Later in an interview on wwjsiwMh I w a ' ' v ' ’V' r -- ' 12-- 8 Um Teur Cotmchnlfca Charga VIm MasMCaid Amaricaw Eapwnaa PlMavar I NWipki t i i |