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In it, says the paper, Lewinsky says she's no longer in love with Bill Clinton, that she's through having affairs with married men, and that she wants to apologize to the country for the yearlong political ordeal she helped trigger.
Isikoff ends Uncovering Clinton with a quote of mine made during a phone call at the end of the whole ordeal.
The conventional wisdom says Clinton should waive his defense and avoid calling witnesses in order to shorten the trial and end his "ordeal."
Four years later, when Savonarola declined to test the validity of his apocalyptic prophesies with an ordeal by fire, he was arrested, hanged, and ironically burned on the Piazza della Signoria.
Now McCain is running from the character issue: His Vietnam ordeal, detractors allege, left him irascible, unstable, unfit for the presidency.