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SCHOOLBOY BUBBA BLEW THIS
LESSON
BY VINCENT MORRIS

WASHINGTON - Four decades before a
federal judge weighed throwing
President Clinton
in the slammer for lying, his
sixth-grade teacher
predicted his words could land him "in
the
penitentiary."

Clinton, who had teaching on the mind
when he
honored Georgia resident Andrew
Baumgartner
as Teacher of the Year, told a story
yesterday of
how his sixth-grade teacher, Kathleen
Schaer,
had advised him to learn "when to keep
quiet."

The president laughed as he recounted
the story,
although he said his teacher was quite
serious
when they talked on the "day I
finished my
elementary-school career."

"She said, 'You know, if you ever
learn when to
talk and when to keep quiet, there is
nothing you
can't achieve.

"'But if you don't learn the
difference, I'm not sure
whether you're going to be governor or
wind up in
the penitentiary,'" Clinton said.

Clinton was cited for contempt last
week by
federal Judge Susan Webber Wright, who
scorched the president with a ruling
that all but
called him a liar. It marked the first
time in U.S.
history that a president was held in
contempt of
court.

Her proof? Clinton's own words, just
as his
teacher feared.

"The record demonstrates by clear and
convincing
evidence that the president responded
to plaintiff's
questions by giving false, misleading
and evasive
answers that were designed to obstruct
the
judicial process," wrote Wright, who
presided
over the Paula Jones sex-harassment
case.

Clinton's lie, according to Wright,
was his denial -
to the judge's face and while under
oath - that
he'd ever had any kind of sexual
relations with
Monica Lewinsky, the famous ex-intern
at the
heart of last year's impeachment mess.

By law, Wright could have thrown
Clinton in jail
for six months - the time an average
citizen would
serve if a judge ruled that they
misled the court.