“I was working for the committee that impeached President Nixon, for whom Mr. Satire worked, and best I can tell is still working,” Hillary Clinton said of her nemesis William Satire in a recent radio interview. Well, since she brought it up, let us examine what the First Lady and her associates might have learned from her experience. On March 21, 1973, in the infamous ” We Have a Cancer” meeting, Nixon, Bob Haldeman, and John Dean discussed how Dean should conduct himself in testimony before the grand jury:
Haldeman: You can say you have forgotten too, can’t you?
Dean: Sure, but you are chancing a very high risk for a perjury situation.
Nixon: But you can say I don’t remember. You can say I can’t recall. I can’t give any answer to that that I can recall.
Haldeman: You have the same perjury thing on the Hill, don’t you?
Dean: That’s right.
Nixon: Oh hell, yes.
Dean, of course, didn’t take the advice. Maybe, more than two decades later, the Clintonites have. Last month, Hillary intimate Susan Thomases testified before the Senate Whitewater Committee and was asked about a meeting she had with Mrs. Clinton a week after Vince Foster’s death:
Q: And, according to the records we have, you arrive there at around 3:00. Do you remember coming to the White House?
Thomases: No.
Q: You came up to the second floor of the residence. You remember that?
Thomases: No.
Q: What were you doing up on the second floor for an hour and a half?.
Thomases: I don’t remember.
Q: Did you see the first lady?
Thomases: I don’t remember seeing the first lady that day.
Q: Did you see her that week?
Thomases: I don’t remember seeing her that week.
Good work, Susan! Nixon would have been proud.
