Volume 45, Number 16 · October 22, 1998
Clinton Agonistes
By Joan Didion
Referral to the United States House of Representatives pursuant to Title 28, United States Code, §595(c)
Submitted by the Office of the Independent Counsel
No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched the current president of the United States running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent. The man was, Jesse Jackson said that year to another point, 'nothing but an appetite.' No one who followed his appearances on The Road to The White House on C-SPAN could have missed the reservoir of self-pity, the quickness to blame, the narrowing of the eyes, as in a wildlife documentary, when things did not go his way: a response so reliable that aides on Jerry Brown's 1992 campaign looked for situations in which it could be provoked.
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