[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 39 (Wednesday, April 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 13, 1994]
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                        CLINTON TAX UNDERPAYMENT

  (Mr. DOOLITTLE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, the other night Jay Leno, commenting on 
the $14,000 underpayment in the Clinton's taxes observed ``when the 
President does it, it's a discovery. When you do it, it's a felony.''
  In this morning's Washington Post the liberal columnist, Richard 
Cohen wrote:

       There is a floor staring, stammering and juvenile quality 
     to the way the Clintons reluctantly 'fess up. Whatever 
     Whitewater and related matters might eventually be about--
     maybe nothing--it is now about candor. The Clintons--not the 
     press and not some right-wing Daddy Warbucks--have made it 
     that. Maybe they think that since the truth and their 
     preferred political image do not conform, its okay to monkey 
     with the former to match the latter.

  The least the Clinton's could do is answer questions frankly:

       If they had done that from the beginning, Whitewater would 
     be about an obscure land deal and not about the character of 
     the first family.

     

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