Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much they are willing to risk to defend a President who has again and again abandoned them when the tables were turned. Consider how their fortunes have differed in the six years since Clinton rode into the capital as a new kind of Democrat: the President triumphed in his deals with Republicans to balance the budget, reform welfare and open trade. Cutting his party loose, he launched his own job-approval ratings to gravity-defying heights. Meanwhile, Democrats lost not only their New Deal traditions but also 52 seats in the House and a dozen in the Senate, rendering them...
...Among those at the table or on the phone were White House officials, former Clinton aides Lloyd Cutler and Leon Panetta, top Democrats in Congress and their lawyers, including longtime Democratic counselor Bob Bauer. White House officials carefully leaked that the President has not yet agreed to accept a deal--a time-tested signal that negotiations were under way and a bargaining position established...
...really graphic sex is one thing: really graphic lying is another. As of Monday morning, any terms for any deal would be negotiated against the background music of Clinton's August testimony, playing continuously on every network. It is for this more than anything else that most voters would need to forgive Clinton, since it has much less to do with his conduct as a husband or employer and everything to do with the conduct of his presidency and the enforcement of the law. In the days before his grand jury appearance, just about every last citizen had sent...
...damage, was enough to bring some of the leaders up short. By Thursday afternoon top Democrats began working secretly on the escape plan that would force the President to accept some severe punishment short of impeachment, in return for some protection against prosecution once he leaves office. Selling that deal would have to involve the help of the permanent graybeards on both sides--men like Bob Dole, who has put in a call to Clinton already, Bob Strauss, Colin Powell, George Mitchell--men who have the moral horsepower to haul their crankier colleagues along...
Clinton needs two things in exchange. He gets to keep his job, and he gets immunity from prosecution. One person involved in the weekend maneuvers ruled out any deal that left the President "in legal, criminal jeopardy." Clinton will never confess as long as Starr keeps his two grand juries in session and refuses to rule out prosecuting Clinton once he leaves office...