Word: conditionals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sure was a strange way to launch a rehabilitation, as one of his advisers later admitted. The Levy family began firing back within an hour. Lawyer Billy Martin appeared on Nightline to shred Condit's claim that the Levys made a "specific request" that he not discuss the details of the relationship. "Ted, he's hiding," Martin said, "and I wish he would answer the question. What was his relationship with Chandra?" D.C. police chief Charles Ramsey was subtler. "One could say that he answered every question that Connie Chung asked him; he answered every question that we asked...
Even people who had nervously stood by Condit's side for weeks were beginning to bail. After watching Condit's network-TV performance at a supporter's house in suburban St. Louis, Mo., House minority leader Dick Gephardt shook his head and said over and over to aides, "I can't believe he's not being more candid. I can't believe he's not taking responsibility." In a press conference the next day, he called Condit's evasions "disturbing and wrong...
...curious thing about Condit's performance was that there seemed to be so many well-worn paths to redemption. When they heard Condit was finally ready to jump on the media barbecue last week, two of Bill Clinton's many lawyers actually sat around their offices writing the script in their heads. The drill is so routine by now that you can practically download it from meaculpa.com "I did a stupid thing, America. In an attempt to protect my family and Chandra Levy's, I kept my mouth shut when I should have gone immediately to the police. I shouldn...
...Condit has always seemed like a poor man's Clinton, a politician who lacked the instincts or talent to get himself out of trouble of his own making. Everything is eerily familiar--the long-suffering wife Carolyn Condit understudying Hillary, the still frames of a Monica look-alike, and the pol trying somehow to appease both his lawyers and his pollsters, all in the same sentence. There was even a haunting "that woman" moment when Condit declared of his wife, "I've been married for 34 years, and I intend to stay married to that woman as long...
...hard for Condit to convince even sympathetic viewers of his innocence because he acted so pitiless. You needed to listen carefully to find a single expression of any appropriate feeling, whether of sympathy for the Levys or remorse for his own behavior or fear for Chandra's fate or fury at the lynching by the press. Instead the answers were measured, etched with legal constraint and word-perfect repetition, as though he didn't dare get one wrong...