Word: calming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the Princeton players have played together for four years, including two years under the system designer, former Princeton coach Carril. The team played in sync with each other. They were experienced and calm...
...Calm, relaxed, and even jokey, Clinton stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Tony Blair and issued all the usual denials: "I never asked anyone to do anything but tell the truth"; "This investigation is going on, and you know what the rules for it are." Knowing that wasn't enough, he also threw some meat off the wagon to the baying hounds by alluding again to that right-wing conspiracy: "If someone is leaking unlawfully out of a grand jury proceeding," he added, "that's a different story...
...After a week of relative calm, the Monica Lewinsky affair has been blown wide open again. What Currie has apparently told investigators about Clinton, that he coaxed her with questions like "We [he and Lewinsky] were never alone, right?" ? seems in contradiction to Currie's own recollections about Lewinsky and her relationship to the president...
...business with grim efficiency. As with past scandals like Whitewater and Travelgate, the White House operation divided cleanly between the President's legal team--Charles Ruff, David Kendall, Bob Bennett--who didn't want Clinton to talk, period, and his political strategists, who wanted to send him out to calm the waters. And so, true to form, the President did both: gave his interviews but didn't say anything. And that only made matters worse...
...would take a while for her mother to reach Washington by train from New York City; Monica was frantic, and Starr's team had to calm her down. They bought her cookies. They watched Ethel Merman with her on TV. They took her shopping in the mall downstairs at Crate & Barrel. Lewinsky's father back in California had reached a longtime family friend, a medical malpractice lawyer named William Ginsburg, and Ginsburg reached Starr's team by phone around 10:30 that night. Ginsburg asked them to write down the terms of an immunity deal...