Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home taking out the trash that morning, when he decided to offer a long press conference that revealed as much about his moral outlook as his legal one. There is "no room for white lies" in sworn testimony, even if the case is thrown out, he asserted. "In that civil case, you cannot defile the temple of justice." Starr recalled fondly the Joe Friday character on Dragnet who was interested in "just the facts, ma'am." His rambling sermon was so defensive that White House staff members started paging one another, asking, "Are you watching this?" A staff member said...
While the subdued reaction was carefully choreographed, it reflected some mixed emotions. Surprise and relief to be sure, but sauced with some fury at what the past three years--and especially the past three months--have done to everyone's life, as if a decision voiding a civil action somehow voided the alleged facts of the case. Having lived with this case for so long and having seen the damage it inflicted on Clinton and his presidency, deputy chief of staff John Podesta had mixed emotions. He told friends privately that "part of me wants to celebrate, and part...
Starr for his part was quick to say his case never depended on Jones', and the collapse of the civil case would do nothing to his criminal case. The White House machinists, he said, were trying to use the Wright ruling to spin a false sense of vindication. He plans to press forward with his probe into whether Clinton lied under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky and tried to cover it up. But it said much about his team's p.r. problems that even before the Wright decision came down, Starr had reached out to Stuart Taylor...
...hard as I could to put this and Whitewater in the smallest possible box and to let it be handled by others and to respond only when required. But now we see why for over 200 years no one had any idea the President should be subject to a civil suit and believed that the chances were that if one was filed, it would have an overwhelming political aspect...
...pick a two-word summation, it would be: freedom won. It beat back the two totalitarian alternatives that arose to challenge it, fascism and communism. By the 1990s, the ideals developed by centuries of philosophers from Plato to Locke to Mill to Jefferson--individual rights, civil liberties, personal freedoms and democratic participation in the choice of leaders--finally held sway over more than half the world's population...