Word: bairds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just when he wanted to focus "like a laser beam" on the economy, Clinton was sidetracked for five days by a once obscure campaign promise to lift the nearly 50-year-old ban on gays in the military. No sooner had Clinton emerged from the embarrassing miscalculation about Zoe Baird than he found himself in an even stickier political quagmire. After promising in his Inaugural Address to end an era of "deadlock and drift," Clinton was suddenly at war with the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as members of his own party in Congress. Worse yet, the spectacle...
...performance. But the fascination with public figures goes deeper than that. There's something appealing about finding out the intimate details about celebrities--you never know when dirt might appear. It was with a certain zeal that millions of Americans called their senators to complain about Zoe Baird's yuppie hubris. And it was with a certain satisfaction that those same Americans watched Baird decline her nomination...
...Baird was not without defenders, particularly among parents with firsthand experience of a child-care nightmare. "It is ironic," wrote columnist Anna Quindlen, "that the first woman Attorney General-designate has been tripped up by that thing that trips us up day after day, makes us late for meetings, causes us to call in sick when we are well: the struggle for good surrogate care for our kids. Hard sometimes even if you are well to do. Horrid often if you are not." Anne Nelson, author of "Rock-a-Bye Nino: Confessions of a White Mother with a Brown Caregiver...
...President ended the week regretting the sour finale to his Inaugural week, then he was missing a great opportunity. The outcry over Zoe Baird was a noisy reminder of how deeply voters wanted to believe his promises about a new way of doing business in the capital. It would have been a sad start to a historic presidency if Americans had been willing to accept anything less than the ideals that Clinton himself did so much to renew...
...Baird Fell...