Word: congress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...September 22, he will receive the Congressional Gold Medal, America's highest civilian honor, in Washington. The award will be presented by the Congress and the Clinton Administration, with President Clinton scheduled to attend...
...current gamble is to maintain his public support with a series of apologies, so that the retribution that he may face for his actions is lessened by a Congress that is responsive to public opinion. That is his strategy: to use his sorrow to cushion his landing once his case crashes into the impeachment process...
...Clinton and his legal team continue to make their case in the growing crisis, his supporters are left with few arguments in his defense. Their latest refrain is that now that the President has sincerely apologized, asked forgiveness and taken responsibility for the scandal, the American people and their Congress should move on, recognizing his contrition and appreciating his effort to heal the nation...
...caused pain to his family and to the American people. Yet at the same time, he sends his lawyers into both the legal and political arenas with an argument so tenuous and so precise in their hair-splitting that he draws criticism even from the Democratic leadership in Congress...
...class I was told that Mandela was some sort of political agitator (the word was used disdainfully by one history teacher) jailed for protests and violence. He was a member of the African National Congress, an underground guerilla organization which actively and viciously opposed the white moderate government...