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McCurry flat-out ecstatic to be free of White House

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Is Mike McCurry feeling any pangs of regret for leaving his job as White House spokesman? Doesn't look like it.

McCurry jumped in the air, spread his arms wide and shouted "Free at last!" when he was asked Monday how he felt about quitting his job nearly three weeks ago.And he doesn't appear to miss the boss too much either, describing President Clinton as "an enormously gifted and richly qualified leader for our nation but someone who is exasperatingly stupid in his personal life."

He said Clinton's presidency "will always be marred - stained - by the episode with Monica Lewinsky."

The speech to about 200 people at the University of Pittsburgh was McCurry's first public lecture since he left the White House on Oct. 1.