WASHINGTON The White House offered Friday night to drop most ofthe conditions it set on turning over disputed Whitewater documentsto the Senate, including its insistence that the meeting in which thenotes were taken was protected by President Clinton's attorney-clientprivilege.
The proposal was made hours after the Senate WhitewaterCommittee voted to ask the full Senate to go to court to enforce asubpoena for the notes taken by a former White House lawyer at aconfidential 1993 meeting. The compromise proposed by the WhiteHouse was an effort to head off what could be a protracted andpolitically costly court battle. Senate Republicans were trying toportray the records …
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