Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Hillary yanked her arm from her husband's grasp. The New York Post called it an "icy graveyard brush-off." And yet as Air Force One prepared to take off from Ben Gurion Airport early Tuesday evening, returning to Washington and the impeachment ordeal, Congressman Sander Levin encountered the First Lady as he made his way back to his cabin. She talked for 15 minutes about the history that her husband had made during that trip, how inspired she had been by his speech to Israeli youth, how awed at the importance of his address...
...spent the afternoon watching the impeachment hearings. One witness had particularly caught her eye. "Did you see that nose?" she cried to the admirers who quickly gathered round. "My God, he's got the same nose job as [name of Congressman deleted]! Got it right off the plastic surgeon's wall chart. There's only three styles of nose jobs on the chart, you know--A, B and C--and they both chose B. Do you suppose they were embarrassed to be seen together...
...Clinton as he was. All the same, Livingston rushed that night to hold a press conference at which he underlined Republican backing for the mission. But even he was careful to say he supported "the troops," not the President. Late that same day, Defense Secretary Cohen, a former Republican Congressman and then Senator from Maine, responded to an invitation from senior G.O.P. House leaders to justify the attack from the well of the House. "The mood was fairly toxic," says Cohen. "There was a lot of anger there...
...Republicans applauding one adulterer just before condemning another was not calculated to help them take the high ground. "The word that comes to mind is hypocrite," said Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a California Democrat. That was the setting for the impeachment debate that began Friday morning. Ray LaHood, the Illinois Congressman chosen by Livingston to preside over the debate, felt compelled to open with the warning to House members that they could not make personally disparaging remarks. For the most part, the debate never veered into that territory, though little was said that was likely to change many minds...
With Livingston out, the rush was on to fill the speakership. Even as the House was preparing to vote on impeachment and Livingston's corpse was still warm, G.O.P. leaders were just a few feet away tapping a successor. Dennis Hastert, a six-term Illinois Congressman, was the reluctant draft pick. "What's Dick going to do?" Hastert asked David Hobbs, chief of staff for majority leader Dick Armey, who was once considered a contender for the top spot. "I don't know," Hobbs answered. "What are you going to do?" Hastert responded, "I don't know." But before...