It's the first paid television time for Hatch, and his campaign is spending $50,000 to air the ad twice each in Iowa and in New Hampshire. The Utah senator has raised only about $2.3 million, a fraction of his competitors, and is mired at the bottom of the polls.

The ad features Hatch speaking directly to the camera, detailing one controversy after another, beginning with Clinton's first year in office and moving to the present. It adds up to 4,712 words.

Ironically, there's one issue he never mentions: Clinton's impeachment. In fact, he makes no mention of sex whatsoever.

A cursory look at his ad might lead viewers to think Hatch was running against Clinton, rather than Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Sen. John McCain and other Republicans. But campaign aides said the Clinton years are important because the fall race is likely to be against Vice President Al Gore.

"The vice president has certainly not repudiated the political approach and tendencies of this administration," said Kevin McGuiness, Hatch's campaign manager.

In his ad, Hatch explains that he is forgoing the rising music and pretty pictures of most advertisements in order to talk straight. And he says any real discussion must start with what has gone wrong.

"We need to get at what is bothering us, to find out why too many Americans feel the country is on the wrong track and see what we can do to get our national morale back to where it belongs," he says. It's impossible to move ahead, he says, "unless we air out what happened when the new (Clinton) administration took office."

Hatch makes just one reference to his GOP opponents, saying he is disturbed that Bush and McCain are not discussing these issues.

Most of his time is spent detailing the Clinton years. First, he discusses policy disagreements and says Clinton backed tax hikes rather than tax cuts, offered a flawed crime bill, pushed a health care plan that put the government in charge, vetoed welfare reform twice and delayed agreeing to a balanced budget.

Hatch then goes into ethical issues: Misuse of federal agencies, illegal campaign contributions, Chinese influence and missile technology transfers to China.

He says the "first step" to moving ahead is "telling the simple unvarnished truth."

"The truth I submit to you is this: that at the center of the crisis of national morale and trust ... is probably the worst breach of faith with the American people by a federal administration in our history, an administration whose abuses of power have done grievous damage to the democratic process."

Hatch plans newspaper advertisements to publicize the upcoming broadcasts, set for Wednesday and Thursday in New Hampshire and Saturday in Iowa.

The White House had no comment. Gore's campaign said that despite Hatch's complaints the American people are better off now than they were in 1992. Spokeswoman Kathleen Begala said Gore is focused on issues that matter including health care, education and keeping the economy strong.

"Whether he talks for two minutes or 28 minutes, he's not talking about the issues people care about and Al Gore is," she said of Hatch.