Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what voters would ordinarily hear from the White House during an election campaign. Presidential aides, however, stuck doggedly to just that line in trying to explain the concededly inexcusable White House request for secret FBI files on some 700 people, mostly low-level workers in the Reagan and Bush administrations but also including prominent Republicans...
...serving time for inflating billing records at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. And after briefly trying to assign the task to the FBI, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked Starr to investigate how the White House got hold of secret bureau files on officials of the Bush and Reagan administrations. Reno's pass to him undercuts Administration attempts to portray the special prosecutor as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Dole campaign, just a courtroom branch of the Republican election-year strategy...
...White House has moved Livingstone out of his job as head of the personnel security office. It is being reorganized by Charles Easley, a former Army counterintelligence specialist who worked for both Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Otherwise, the Administration has been trying to dismiss the latest developments in Whitewater/Fileflap as a G.O.P. attempt to find an election issue. It's campaign season, says a senior Administration official, when "every mistake is a conspiracy, every charge is a conviction, every rumor is reality...
...when both worked for Arkansas Senator William Fulbright. Twelve years later, after losing his first re-election bid for Governor, Clinton found refuge in Lindsey's law firm and plotted a comeback. When Clinton launched his unlikely bid to unseat George Bush in 1991, Lindsey was his only traveling companion, and the two trekked anonymously through airports, carrying their own bags. Once in the White House, Clinton put him in charge of personnel, but his range has always been unlimited...
...handed out large dollar bills picturing "Smokin' Bob" with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. At a Woodland Hills event, Buttman placed himself on the balcony opposite the podium, directly in Dole's line of sight. Yet the candidate did not acknowledge him, mindful, no doubt, that George Bush was ridiculed for talking back to the giant chicken that followed him around during the '92 campaign carrying a sign saying CHICKEN GEORGE WON'T DEBATE...