Jerry Brown
2014-04-03 07:58:22 UTC
As the White House was enveloped in the Monica Lewinsky scandal
in January 1998, aides offered advice to President Bill
Clinton's speechwriting team on how to use the State of the
Union address that month to rebuild public confidence in the
president. "Please recognize, I am in no way suggesting that he
use his speech to discuss our current situation head-on," Minyon
Moore, Clinton's public liaison, wrote in a memo. "I am simply
stating that we cannot take his supporters for granted, nor his
detractors, and they need to be reassured on several fronts."
Moore suggested Clinton invoke God "as the underpinning for his
policy and thought process." Her memo was among some 2,500 pages
of documents from the Clinton White House years made public
Friday by the National Archives. More of the 30,000 documents
will be released in the next few weeks.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/briefs/newly-released-clinton-era-
papers-show-damage-control-during-lewinsky/2172533
in January 1998, aides offered advice to President Bill
Clinton's speechwriting team on how to use the State of the
Union address that month to rebuild public confidence in the
president. "Please recognize, I am in no way suggesting that he
use his speech to discuss our current situation head-on," Minyon
Moore, Clinton's public liaison, wrote in a memo. "I am simply
stating that we cannot take his supporters for granted, nor his
detractors, and they need to be reassured on several fronts."
Moore suggested Clinton invoke God "as the underpinning for his
policy and thought process." Her memo was among some 2,500 pages
of documents from the Clinton White House years made public
Friday by the National Archives. More of the 30,000 documents
will be released in the next few weeks.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/briefs/newly-released-clinton-era-
papers-show-damage-control-during-lewinsky/2172533