The Door Ajar: The Erotics of Hypocrisy in the White House Scandal

Clinton’s first apology speech in August 1998 was not entirely apologetic. Less contrite than stern, the president insisted that his errors had been private and should have remained as such, so that he could “go on with the business of running this country.” Despite his patriarchal gravity that nigh...

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Zusammenfassung:	Clinton’s first apology speech in August 1998 was not entirely apologetic. Less contrite than stern, the president insisted that his errors had been private and should have remained as such, so that he could “go on with the business of running this country.” Despite his patriarchal gravity that night, more Cotton Mather than François Mitterand, many of Clinton’s defenders used the bon vivant dalliances of European politicians to remind us that the Puritanism of a repressed America had led in this case to the criminalization of consensual sex. These lines of defense seem commonsensical and, at first glance, just about