The following was a long article, so I trimmed it down and only posted
the best quotes... Let me know your opinions:
    Ethics Problems Dog White House
    (c) The Associated Press
    AP-NY-12-12-97
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of Bill Clinton's first official acts as
    president was to set his gold-and-black pen to stringent new ethics
    rules signaling a higher standard. "Members of this administration
    will be looking out for the American people and not for themselves,"
    he promised.
    Five years later, the list of Clinton administration officials who
    have been indicted, resigned under fire or investigated is growing.
    Most recently, former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros was indicted
    Thursday on charges of conspiracy, obstructing justice and making
    false statements to the FBI about payments to his former mistress.
    The Clintons' Whitewater land deal is the subject of ongoing
    investigation by an independent counsel. And while Attorney General
    Janet Reno has declined to request an independent counsel for Clinton
    and Vice President Al Gore's fund raising, a number of financial
    transactions and practices from his 1996 campaign are under Justice
    Department investigation.
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    Still, ethics watchdogs say the problems on Clinton's watch are
    particularly galling because he came into office promising things
    would be different.
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    Among Clinton's problems:
    Former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy was indicted this summer for
    allegedly accepting favors from companies doing business with the
    Agriculture Department.
    Webster Hubbell, who was Clinton's first associate attorney general,
    subsequently spent 18 months in prison for tax evasion and mail fraud
    in bilking his law firm and clients. The consulting fees he received
    after resigning from the Justice Department are still under
    investigation by the Whitewater prosecutor.
    Other Cabinet officials have faced scrutiny as well.
    At the time of his death in a 1996 plane crash, Commerce Secretary Ron
    Brown's financial dealings were under investigation by an independent
    counsel. Reno earlier this month rejected calls for an independent
    counsel to investigate whether former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary
    sought a charitable contribution in return for meeting Chinese
    businessmen.
    There could be more investigations ahead. Reno is reviewing whether to
    ask for an independent counsel to investigate Interior Secretary Bruce
    Babbitt's role in rejecting an Indian casino opposed by other tribes
    that had contributed to the Democratic Party.
    However history judges this administration, Lewis said Clinton has
    failed to set a high standard.
    "If we took them at face value, there was some reason to believe that
    they had some desire to raise the bar in terms of integrity," Lewis
    said. "There's absolutely no evidence that they've raised anything but
    lawyer's fees."
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