XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN APRIL 16 2000 18:51:43 ET XXXXX

HILLARY VOWS TO FIGHT IF INDICTED, WILL NOT ASK FOR PARDON

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has privately vowed to fight -- and to fight hard -- if she is indicted by the Office of the Independent Counsel, it will be revealed on Monday.

"When I spoke to her in 1997 about whether she would take a pardon if her husband offered it, she was adamant that she would turn one down," former Clinton adviser Dick Morris writes in his weekly NEW YORK POST column.

The independent counsel "wouldn't dare indict me," the first lady reportedly told Morris. "But, if he plays it like that, if he does that, I wouldn't take a pardon. I won't let Bill pardon me. I'll go into court and beat him and I wont be cheated of that opportunity by a pardon."

Morris writes: "As Independent Counsel Ray moves closer to a possible indictment and delivers increasingly stinging reports criticizing both Clintons on the Travel Office, Whitewater, and Lewinsky scandals, the issue of a possible pardon will loom larger."

HENCH adds: Yeah, right. She'll take the pardon, and blame it on a "Vast-right-wing-conspiracy" out to get me that forced me into accepting the pardon, ...."just like Bill did."

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