- Note - This came to us via email without
full source attribution. We found it interesting and worth a look. Someone
(unknown) took the President's speech... word for word, and came up with
the following analysis:
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- Total words: 549
- Total words devoted to self-justification:
134
- Total words devoted to taking responsibility:
92
- Total words devoted to regret for actions:
4
- Total words devoted to attack on prosecutor:
180
- Total words devoted to "time to
move on" theme: 137
- Total words devoted to apology: None
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- __________________
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- This came from yesterday's Washington
Times (date uncertain). A reporter went to those portions of President
Clinton's Jan. 17 deposition that have been made public in the Paula Jones
case: his memory failed him 267 times. This is a list of his answers and
how many times he gave each one.
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- I don't remember - 71
- I don't know - 62
- I'm not sure - 17
- I have no idea - 10
- I don't believe so - 9
- I don't recall - 8
- I don't think so - 8
- I don't have any specific recollection
- 6
- I have no recollection - 4
- Not to my knowledge - 4
- I just don't remember - 4
- I don't believe - 4
- I have no specific recollection - 3
- I might have - 3
- I don't have any recollection of that
- 2
- I don't have a specific memory - 2
- I don't have any memory of that - 2
- I just can't say - 2
- I have no direct knowledge of that -
2
- I don't have any idea - 2
- Not that I recall - 2
- I don't believe I did - 2
- I can't remember - 2
- I can't say - 2
- I do not remember doing so - 2
- Not that I remember - 2
- I'm not aware - 1
- I honestly don't know - 1
- I don't believe that I did - 1
- I'm fairly sure - 1
- I have no other recollection - 1
- I'm not positive - 1
- I certainly don't think so - 1
- I don't really remember - 1
- I would have no way of remembering that
- 1
- That's what I believe happened - 1
- To my knowledge, no - 1
- To the best of my knowledge - 1
- To the best of my memory - 1
- I honestly don't recall - 1
- I honestly don't remember - 1
- That's all I know - 1
- I don't have an independent recollection
of that - 1
- I don't actually have an independent
memory of that - 1
- As far as I know - 1
- I don't believe I ever did that - 1
- That's all I know about that - 1
- I'm just not sure - 1
- Nothing that I remember - 1
- I simply don't know - 1
- I would have no idea - 1
- I don't know anything about that - 1
- I don't have any direct knowledge of
that - 1
- I just don't know - 1
- I really don't know - 1
- I can't deny that, I just -- I have no
memory of that at all
- 1
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- That, according to Clinton, is cooperating
fully and testifying truthfully
- and completely.
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