21.   Clinton once opined about exchanged rates a little more than a year into his presidency, and touched off a mini-panic among currency traders and presidential aides.

22.   Consider the sad case of Vincent Foster, the presidential aide who, suffering depression, committed suicide last year.

23.   Democrats said the administration may have acted insensitively but would have faced harsh partisan criticism if presidential aides had ignored warnings of possible financial irregularities.

24.   Earlier Monday, presidential aides dismissed talk of Clinton changing his story, insisting such discussion implies that Clinton lied under oath early this year.

25.   Eventually, the trade group received the good news from a presidential aide, days before its opening session.

26.   For now, though, presidential aides say a bit of obscurity is fine with them.

27.   Former campaign and presidential aides said Bush took a similar approach with them, using punishment and reward to keep them in line and motivated.

28.   Foster was the presidential aide who committed suicide early in the Clinton administration.

29.   Hamilton, a signature expert, was also alarmed by the insistence of presidential aides that Kennedy alone signed his name.

30.   Gutierrez was handpicked by Zedillo to be narcotics coordinator, according to a presidential aide.