Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just his own. When Morris fell, he hit Clinton where it hurt--in all the misgivings about the President's character that Republicans attempt to bundle into an issue. If he had done no worse than dredge up memories of Gennifer Flowers and her stories of an affair with Clinton, that would be bad enough. He also revived the enduring question about whether Clinton stands for what he stands for. When the architect of Clinton's family-friendly strategy gets caught in an infidelity, so does the President's family-friendly message. With all his clients, Republican and Democratic, Morris...
...advance copy of Hillary Clinton's convention speech. He told her his secret nickname for Clinton--"the Monster," inspired by Clinton's temper. Morris told Rowlands that he calls Hillary "the Twister," because she stirs up trouble. In a notebook that Rowlands says is her diary of the affair, she recorded Morris telling her he also called Clinton "the blind man" because "he's super-intellagent [sic] but has no common sense or compassion." She reported that Morris liked to suck her toes, has a thing for women's feet generally and one night got down "like...
...House. Morris insisted to TIME last week that his departure from the campaign is final. Dole strategists are betting it isn't. "If they don't bring anyone else in, that means he's still running things," says a hopeful-sounding Republican. "And when that gets out, the Morris affair gets brand-new legs...
...doesn't, Dole is still in double-digit trouble, the kind that only a few presidential candidates have pulled themselves out of after Labor Day. So long as the Morris affair is still working its way through the media system, Clinton is in some trouble too. It's true that he has been through worse moments. But this time he won't have Morris to help him get through...
...camera--but when they do, they make it count. In 1987 the National Enquirer printed a photo of Donna Rice sitting on Gary Hart's lap, creating the most infamous visual epitaph for his crashed political career. Four years ago, the Star ran a story on Gennifer Flowers' alleged affair with Bill Clinton, throwing a major scare into his campaign just before the New Hampshire primary. And last week it was the Star's sensational account of Dick Morris' alleged trysts with a call girl that prompted the President's top political strategist to resign...