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CLINTON ACQUITTED RELIEVED PRESIDENT 'PROFOUNDLY SORRY'

JAMES BENNET AND JIM BRODER, THE NEW YORK TIMES

1999

Overview

\"I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and on the American people,\" Clinton said. Hoping to betray no hint of smugness, the president spent part of Thursday evening in the White House residence working on his five- sentence statement, his aides said. He revised it yesterday morning in the White House residence, where he remained until early afternoon. As a strong southerly wind rustled the magnolia trees and puffed into the microphone, Clinton walked alone from the Oval Office two hours after the Senate finished voting. Speaking slowly and shaking his head for emphasis, he kept his statement short and bittersweet; its essential elements reflected those in a statement of regret he made on December 11, before the House impeached him.

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