First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified concerning the Whitewater probe.

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Hillary Clinton Tells Grand Jury She Cannot Account for Records

FRANCIS X. CLINES

JAN. 27, 1996

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton testified for more than four hours today before a Federal grand jury investigating whether there has been obstruction of justice at the White House in the inquiry into the First Lady's former Arkansas law firm.

 

With a nervous but determined smile, Mrs. Clinton emerged from the extensive grand jury session and declared, "I tried to be as helpful as I could in their investigation efforts."

 

It's been a long day," she said after enduring the extraordinary event of the President's wife being summoned to defend her veracity in the convoluted issue, known broadly as Whitewater, that has been intensifying in the opening weeks of a Presidential election year.

 

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