Strick, you think Bush hasn't had loads of people stay in the Lincoln bedroom? Get real. Of course he has. EVERY president has. It's part of the package, a really really nice guest room for your friends and contributors.

There is never going to be a pure play as far as finger pointing and assigning blame for events like embassy bombings and the airliners-as-missles of Sept. 11. Somebody as predecessor always sets up the next guy in office.

Clinton's mistake was in having an affair with a twit who bragged about it to her buddies. Having affairs is another all-too-familiar tension-breaker in the White House. Bush senior is alleged to have had an affair with one of his staffers on a trip to Geneva in 1984. Despite being written about, whoever the staffer was, she kept her mouth shut and that ended it. Bush also didn't have Richard Mellon Scaife hounding his ass for his entire presidency.

SRS