Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cuts and his mounting legal problems. Asked about a Money Magazine report that his more than $2 million in legal bills have driven him to the brink of bankruptcy, Clinton conceded, "That's probably right. I haven't added it all up, but it's probably right." Pressed to explain why Hillary Clinton is the most controversial First Lady in modern politics -- on a day when a Senate committee was grilling one of her former Little Rock legal colleagues about Mrs. Clinton's Whitewater work -- he went the reporter one better, saying his wife was the most controversial First Lady...
...committee will "go to President [Neil L.] Rudenstine and explain to him that there is a growing sense amongst alumni that the irreversible damage to the Union is short-sighted and would be a loss both to Harvard and the Nation," Forbes said...
...cutting 51,000 of its 169,000 employees and contractors. She also made public the agency's records on radiation tests performed on unwitting patients during the cold war. But in other ways she has had a blind spot. First she had to appear before a congressional hearing to explain why her department paid $46,500 to a media consultant who tracked and rated journalists on the energy beat. Then came reports that she had spent millions of dollars on trade missions with retinues worthy of a head of state. On a week's mission to South Africa last August...
Utah Representative Enid Greene Waldholtz held a five-hour press conference to explain the soap-opera saga that has sent her skyrocketing political career into the tailspin of a financial and marital scandal. A tearful Waldholtz claimed she was conned by her husband Joe, who she said improperly manipulated both their personal finances and her 1994 campaign funds. Waldholtz insisted she would not resign, though only 39% of surveyed Utah voters believed her version of events...
GINGRICH GOES STRATOSPHERIC: The loud Speaker threw a tantrum about being seated in the rear of Air Force One on the way home from the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin. David Letterman said Clinton tried to explain to Gingrich that it "was just to balance the weight." A Republican asked on the House floor, "Is it parliamentary to call the Speaker of the House a crybaby?" To appease Gingrich, White House press secretary Mike McCurry offered him the special M&Ms from the presidential plane...