Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday, Federal District Judge Susan Webber Wright threw out Paula Corbin Jones' sexual misconduct lawsuit against President Clinton. Wright, once Professor Clinton's law student, is a Republican judge appointed to the Federal bench by former president Bush. She ruled that Jones' case lacked the tangible evidence of sexual harassment and emotional distress needed to justify a trial against the President. As a result of this ruling, Jones' brief encounter with fame seems to have come to an end. She will now disappear from the political scene just as quickly as Monica S. Lewinsky burst onto...
Elizabeth Dole served as Secretary of Transportation for President Reagan and Secretary of Labor under President Bush, the first woman to hold Cabinet-level positions for two presidents...
...student in an admiralty law course Clinton taught at the University of Arkansas in the early 1970s, she challenged him over the grade he gave her. She was also involved in Clinton's first political race in 1974 -- but she worked for his Republican opponent. Finally, Wright, a Bush appointee to the federal courts in 1990, remains a Republican...
...apologized to Clinton, saying he should have seen through the troopers' rather flimsy stories but didn't know they had been paid off by Smith. For his part, Smith told the Chicago Sun-Times he wasn't part of any right-wing conspiracy -- he just wanted to get George Bush re-elected. A conservative fund-raiser and heavy contributor to Newt Gingrich's think tank, GOPAC, Smith maintains the 1992 payouts were "an independent effort to have the untold story told by the mainstream press." He certainly got his money's worth...
Riley's address came at the end of a day-long tribute to David Kearns, Deputy Secretary of Education under President Bush...