Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...throughout his presidency and before. Last Thursday, when he summoned his Cabinet to an emotional meeting at the White House residence, according to the Washington Post, the President said he had been angry for 4 1/2 years, which would be about when Robert Fiske, the first Whitewater independent counsel, was appointed. Though some comparisons between this crisis and Watergate are far-fetched, in this Clinton does resemble Richard Nixon, who saw his final days in the White House as an endgame plotted by enemies who had dogged him for two decades and more...
...subpoena, she "burst into tears," and then telephoned Mr. Jordan from a pay phone at the Pentagon. Mr. Jordan confirmed Ms. Lewinsky's account; he said he tried to reassure Ms. Lewinsky: "[C]ome and talk to me and I will see what I can do about finding you counsel...
...spokesman for the Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr declared that the Office's Monica Lewinsky investigation "is not about sex... " Now...it is plain that "sex" is precisely what this four-and-a-half-year investigation has boiled down to. The Referral is so loaded with irrelevant and unnecessary graphic and salacious allegations that only one conclusion is possible: its principal purpose is to damage the President...
...Many of the lurid allegations...have no justification at all... They plainly do not relate, even arguably, to activities which may be within the definition of "sexual relations" in the President's [Paula] Jones deposition, which is the excuse advanced [by the Office of the Independent Counsel]. They are simply part of a hit-and-run smear campaign, and their inclusion says volumes about the OIC's tactics and objectives...
...federal grand jury to compile evidence for possible impeachment proceedings in Congress raises numerous troubling questions regarding the credibility of that evidence. Indeed, given the limited role of a grand jury in our system and the total absence of procedural protections in the process, the Independent Counsel's insistence that his investigation has been a search for "truth" is deeply misleading. In fact, it has been a one-sided effort to present the worst possible version of a limited set of facts... The grand jury's historic role is not to determine the truth but rather...