Word: answering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, July 17, around 7 p.m., Starr sent over his subpoena to Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, at Williams & Connolly. And what happened? Nothing. No answer. Nothing Saturday. Nothing Sunday. Kendall hadn't even discussed it with Clinton yet: the President was out of town, and his lawyer didn't want to go over the bad news by phone. There was still time: the date on the subpoena for Clinton to appear at the federal courthouse was July 28, nine days away. But if the White House lawyers were going to fight it, they certainly were taking their sweet time...
...question then becomes, What kind of chumps do they take us for? And the answer is, World-class...
...funny," said Clinton, who didn't look as if he thought it was funny at all. "I haven't eaten at McDonald's a single time since I've been President." To incredulous reporters the White House immediately emphasized that the operative word in the President's answer was eaten; he had in fact drunk coffee at McDonald's. Then it turned out the operative words were eaten at, for he'd eaten Big Macs at a catered party with congressional Republicans. And he had told a group of White House visitors in 1994 that "we love to have...
...like most politicians--like most people--the President is much less proficient with the categorical lie. Surely his crook-fingered, squinty-eyed, gravel-voiced denial of sex with "that woman," repeated like a tape loop on TV, looks less persuasive in retrospect. And recall his answer, after the Troopergate story broke, to the straightforward question "So none of this is true?" He was quiet for a full 10 seconds. "I have nothing else to say," he said at last. "We, we did, if, the, the, I, I, the stories are just as they have been said. They're outrageous...
...course, given last week's story about the child-services bureaucrat arrested for peeking up a little girl's skirt at a bookstore, that might not be the answer. And given the Baptist scandal over the minister who bought a house with his alleged mistress and allegedly embezzled from the church, the myriad Catholic priest child-molestation trials and the numerous other reports of misdeeds from just about every single religious denomination to profess a faith in the divine, I don't think we can trust the clergy any more, either...