What does it mean that, once again, he refused to hold a public workout and then declined a worldwide satellite interview?

"But the real pressure is from campaigns that are offering a satellite interview," he said.

The only campaigning he did was taping 26 satellite interviews for stations in 12 states that vote in the next few weeks.

In a satellite interview on Nov. 14, 1977, he deployed the journalist's best weapon: he asked.

He will press the flesh and do the satellite interviews one after another.

"We've probably done 50 or 60 satellite interviews in the March 7 primary states," said an aide in one of the campaigns.

Mr. Clinton's satellite interviews were intended to spread his economic message without going through the filter of Washington press coverage.

News directors for several stations said that kind of sterility made them reluctant to use satellite interviews.

Last month, the vice president was asked in a satellite interview with an Oregon television station whether he supported Oregon's law.

Recently Maher has focused more on having this interview done on-stage in order to cut down the number of satellite interviews.