White House Sex Scandal

Another media feeding frenzy is swirling around the Oval Office about some new alleged tawdry indiscretion (Jan. 21-22). Already the media are spewing the possibility of impeachment. Poppycock! Get the story behind the story. Find out who is promoting and funding these women to come forward.

The president has been hounded both of his terms and guess what? The country has been in a renaissance. Banks are not failing, inflation is low, unemployment is low, interest rates are low and our fighting men are not dying.

I am tired of Kenneth Starr, the special Whitewater prosecutor who has spent millions of taxpayers’ dollars and cannot find anything on the president. Now the investigation seems to be very desperate, and what great timing. The stretch from Whitewater to Paula Jones to the young Monica Lewinsky seems like a concerted effort by his political enemies to bring the president down.

FRED SCHWARTZ

Irvine

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Starr’s expanded investigation of President Clinton has reached a new level of absurdity. Starr, who supposedly aspires to be a Supreme Court justice, has been reduced to the level of a two-bit private eye with a tape recorder. What does this investigation have to do with the presidency or justice, or (what was it, oh, I remember) Whitewater? Does Starr really believe he is acting on behalf of the American people? Who could have imagined that the independent counsel law could be abused so badly?

JILL BEBER

Los Angeles

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Our beleaguered hero in the Oval Office has done an amazing job for this country and the world. His critics conveniently disregard the statistics regarding unemployment, inflation, interest rates, relations with other countries and respect among the nations of the world.

He is a womanizer--so what else is new? The monogamous milquetoast leaders in our world haven’t achieved a fraction of what he has. Let’s get off his back and let him complete his task without the backbiters and hypocrites.

BERNARD LEHRER

Ventura

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I think my chin just hit the floor. The Times wrote that Jones should settle her suit to avoid besmirching the presidency and embarrassing the nation (editorial, Jan. 20). Clinton’s actions only embarrass the president, not the office or the nation. The electorate is responsible for assuring the dignity of the office and the nation by voting for honorable and upstanding individuals. When we ignore evil, we tacitly support it.

The Times should be shining the brightest searchlights on the alleged misogynistic behavior of the president. If he is a hypocritical womanizer, the rest of us should call for his ouster.

JIM COLSTON

Trabuco Canyon