Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very first thing a new President does is put his hand on a Bible and promise to do what no other citizen can: defend the Constitution and the country--to the point of sending soldiers to die for them. He had better be better than the rest...
...word makes it impossible to do business when the doors are closed and the hands are played and the hard trading begins. Time and again, Bill Clinton made solemn, cross-his-heart promises, about taxes he would support and concessions he would make and difficult positions he would defend, and once they let him have his way he stepped out and all but said, "Suckers!" and pushed them off the ledge...
...even more helpful in what became her public defense campaign. Right up until Hillary appeared on the Today show six days into the scandal-- the round-the-clock commentary had been entirely about the scandal: what Clinton had done, whether he could survive--with virtually no one out to defend him. Then Hillary sat down across from co-host Matt Lauer and challenged the press to pay attention to a different story: "this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President." She shone the light on Starr--his agenda...
...Hillary's Today show performance gave Clinton a lifeline, it was at great personal cost. People close to her say that of all the year's betrayals, this was one of the most painful--that he sent her out there alone, risking her reputation by having her defend him, effectively lie for him, to buy himself some time. "Oh, that did not make her happy," says a close friend. He used her, and she saved...
Among Senate Democrats, there's no obvious candidate to defend Clinton as adroitly as Barney Frank did in the House. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who forcefully called Clinton to account over the summer, is still too undecided about him. Ted Kennedy and Virginia's Charles Robb, who have their own histories with women, are unlikely to come forward aggressively on a matter like this. Robert Byrd of West Virginia has already said he would oppose any attempt to sidestep a trial, such as a quick route to censure. Senators with presidential ambitions, like Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, will have their...