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USA: WASHINGTON: BILL CLINTON & TONY BLAIR JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE

(6 Feb 1998) English/Nat U-S President Bill Clinton has said he will never resign, despite allegations that he tried to cover up an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton's comments came at a joint press conference held at the White House with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Again and again, reporters turned the discussion to the Lewinsky matter. In a new administration strategy, Clinton suggested that Whitewater prosecutors are violating a federal gag order by talking to reporters about the case. On the allegations against Clinton, the president refused to explain his relationship with Lewinsky and criticised those "leaking unlawfully" grand jury testimony. Blair offered Clinton his full support. SOUNDBITE: (English) "What is essential is that we focus on the issues that we were elected to focus on, and in the discussions we have had over these past two days, we have been focusing on issues like Iraq, where we are considering if diplomatic solutions fail, taking military action. We have been focusing on the peace process in Northern Ireland that gives the chance for the first time in generations, after centuries of conflict, for people to find a way through. We have been focusing on the problems of the world economy, that if they are not tackled could have a serious impact on the living standards of the people living here and in Britain as well as people out in Asia. These are the important questions for me - schools, hospitals, crime, living standards, jobs - that people want us to focus on. And I believe that it is absolutely essential that we stay focused on those things and that we deliver for our people what we were elected to deliver. Now that is what I intend to do, and I think that is in the end what the British people expect me to do." SUPER CAPTION: Tony Blair, British Prime Minister SOUNDBITE: (English) "(Q: At what point do you consider this is not worth it and you consider resigning from office?) Never. You know, I was elected to do a job. I think the American people know two or three things about me now that they didn't know the first time this kind of effort was made against me. I think they know that I care very much about them. And I care about ordinary people whose voices aren't often heard here, and I think they know that I have worked very very hard for them, and I think they know now more often than not the ideas I have and the things I fought for have turned out to be right in terms of the consequences for the American people. I think they know all that and I am going to just keep showing up for work - I am going to do what I was hired to do and I am going to try to keep getting good results for them. The pain threshold at least for our side being in public life today has been raised but to give in to that would be to give in to everything I fought against and got me into this race in 1991 to try to run for President in the first place. I have tried to bring an end to this sort of thing in our public life. I have tried to bring the American people together - I have tried to depersonalise politics and take the venom out of it and the harder I try to do it the harder others have pulled in the other direction. That doesn't mean that I am wrong and I would never walk away from the people of this country and the trust they have placed in me." SUPER CAPTION: Bill Clinton, U-S President Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...