``There are no plans specifically for him to address it, and I'm not aware of any planning to do so,'' White House spokesman Barry Toiv said yesterday.

Other administration officials made similar remarks, saying Clinton could address the issue at some point in a forum such as a news conference or speech. But any discussion was unlikely during the next week or two, they said.

Clinton adviser James Carville said on Sunday that at some point Clinton may openly apologise for his relationship with Lewinsky, a former White House intern.

This would go further than Clinton did in a televised speech last Monday in which he acknowledged misleading the public and his family about what he said was an inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky.

The speech angered some Republican critics of the President and even some Democratic supporters because of the lack of an explicit apology and a continued attack on special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Starr is investigating allegations that Clinton illegally sought to hide his relationship with Lewinsky from lawyers in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.

Asked about Carville's comments that Clinton may apologise, White House spokesman Mike McCurry said: ``He is one of the President's advisers and it's usually pretty good advice, but the President hasn't made any decision of that nature that I'm aware of.''

Mccurry told reporters that Clinton had been speaking with friends and advisers about how to proceed in the wake of his speech as he vacations on Martha's Vineyard.

Clinton had lunch with close friend Vernon Jordan yesterday, and was later joined by one of his top confidants, deputy White House counsel Bruce Lindsey, who arrived on Martha's Vineyard yesterday after spending much of August recovering from back surgery.

Both Lindsey and Jordan have been a focus of Starr's investigation and have testified before Starr's grand jury.

Mccurry declined to comment on suggestions over the weekend by some lawmakers that a Congressional censure resolution would be a way to register disapproval of the President's actions without launching full-scale impeachment hearings.