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Let Clinton move on: Bush
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US President-elect George W Bush said on Monday it was time for President Clinton's critics to stop focusing on the past and “let him move on and enjoy life” as an ex-president.
Bush said he doubted he would consider a pardon for Clinton short of the president being indicted on charges stemming from the Monica Lewinsky scandal two years ago.
Independent Counsel Robert Ray has reportedly been considering whether to indict Clinton on perjury charges stemming from the scandal that led to his impeachment
and almost drove him out of office.
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Sunday Bush should pardon Clinton.
Asked about the remark, Bush said: “I wouldn't pardon somebody who hasn't been indicted... Listen, here's my view: I think it's time to get all of this business behind us. I think it's time ... to allow the president to finish his term, and let him move on and enjoy life and become an active participant in the American system.”
In 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned former President Richard Nixon after Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal. At the time Nixon had been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up but had not been indicted.(SD-Agencies)
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