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Convention
April 11
"It's an open investigation. There is a principle to be vindicated,
and that is that no person is above the law, even the president of the
United States."
- Independent counsel Robert W. Ray
April 12
If elected, would you pardon Bill Clinton?
- Michael P. McGough, editorial page editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"He said publicly some time ago that he would neither request nor
accept a pardon."
- Vice President Gore, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee
April 13, 12:15 p.m.
Vice President Gore said that "you had said that you would not accept
... a pardon by your successor. It turns out you didn't exactly say
that yourself, not publicly... Would you request or accept such a
pardon?"
- Margaret Sullivan, editor of The Buffalo (N.Y.) News, to President
Clinton
"Well, the answer is I have no interest in it, I wouldn't ask for
it, I don't think it would be necessary."
- President Clinton to Margaret Sullivan
April 13, 2 p.m.
"It demonstrates just how isolated some newspaper editors are from
the rest of the country. ... The best they can come up with is two questions
about impeachment. The country has moved past this. Unfortunately many
major newspaper editors haven't. It may be some reason for declining circulation."
- White House spokesman Joe Lockhart on the luncheon questions
"All four questions were thoughtful and concerned issues that are
on the minds of many Americans represented by newspaper editors who are
much closer to their communities than Mr. Lockhart might imagine."
- 1999-2000 ASNE President N. Christian Anderson III
