AT THE WHITE HOUSE,                                  

A SUDDEN SENSE OF RELIEF

AND ELATION                                        

With Republicans in fratricidal disarray, the White House is preparing a new winter policy offensive and approaching the impeachment inquiry with new confidence that President Clinton can emerge with little or no further damage.
	White House officials insisted that last week's election results and the departure of the president's chief Republican foil, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, will have no bearing on the president's handling of the impeachment threat in the next few weeks.
These officials denied wide spread speculation that Clinton would now feel emboldened to aggressively contest the Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry or the Paula Jones sexual misconduct suit.  There is no chest-thumping or drum-beating going on in the White House, these aides said, even behind the bulletproof glass of the residential quarters.

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