Word: bairds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Through a second round of questioning, Baird remained calm. At noon, Senator Herb Kohl brusquely inquired, "Have you asked yourself whether or not you might serve . . . best by withdrawing your nomination?" Baird replied, "I don't believe that would be appropriate," leaving tea-leaf readers to divine that Clinton's support remained intact. During the lunch break, White House aides Bernie Nussbaum and Howard Paster sprinted to the Hill to take Baird's pulse. The result: full-speed ahead, Baird told them. But during that same break, Senators of both parties caucused, and the mood perceptibly began to shift against...
Over the next several hours, the Clinton Administration seemed to vacillate in its support for Baird. Even as Baird soldiered on, heartened by her lunchtime visit from Clinton aides, White House spokesman George Stephanopoulos was cutting her loose. During a press conference, he said the Administration continued to support her "right now" and that details of her tax and hired-help situation were "murky." Clinton, who was kept informed of developments in multiple briefings, was determined to let Baird play out her cards and make her own decision. "Remember, he stated his case on 60 Minutes," said a Clinton associate...
While the Clinton people made no effort to warn Baird of the shifting mood, Biden did. More than once he invited her to bring the proceedings to a halt. In each instance, she declined. At 7:30 p.m., as more Democratic Senators said they would vote against Baird, Biden joined Senate majority leader George Mitchell in a blunt call to Clinton, telling him that the nomination was doomed. When Biden could not get through to the President, he resorted to a final message: If his call was not returned immediately, he would state his opposition to Baird's nomination publicly...
...TOOK ROUGHLY 36 HOURS FOR THE CLINTON ADministration to hit a snag. Zoe Baird had left a tough Senate confirmation hearing at 9:30 p.m. Thursday insisting she would not withdraw her name as Attorney General-designate. By midnight she had changed her mind: criticisms of her admittedly illegal hiring of undocumented Peruvians as servants had grown quite heated, and presidential support had turned decidedly lukewarm. In an exchange of letters released by the White House at 1:22 a.m. Friday, Bill Clinton accepted her pullout "with sadness." Feminist groups immediately began pressing Clinton to name another woman...
...Senator from New York, a giant intellect who has succeeded Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen as chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, these few whispered words are a warning shot at least the equal of the spontaneous outpouring of public outrage that doomed Zoe Baird last week. Finance's domain, Moynihan rightly says, "covers everything the President cares most about -- economic recovery, trade issues, health care, welfare, Social Security, just about everything he got elected on. He's right when he says nothing he's proposed matters unless it passes the Congress. So he either talks to us sooner...