Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot explain how "privileged I feel and howvery proud I am to be part of it," Botchwey said."He will go down as one of the century's mostenduring legacies...
...secretary, Betty Currie, was portrayed as a warm-hearted yet harmless bystander in the Oval Office; the Starr report suggests that she was something more than that. Currie, as much as Vernon Jordan, emerges as the President's co-conspirator in covering up the affair, which may help explain why she testified five times. Clinton denied putting Currie up to these chores; and Currie could not, almost without exception, recall...
...week after spending some time at home and getting an earful. Real people, the lawmakers learned, were sick and tired of turning off the TV when the news came on and hearing their kids use "Monica" like a cussword. They kept asking each other how they were supposed to explain to their constituents why the President of the U.S. was allowed to keep his job after admitting to behavior that would get a high school principal fired. Even Republicans like Representative Fred Upton, a moderate Michigander, called for Clinton's resignation after being asked over and over by voters what...
...force him to lie again and again. Synergy is not even the critical factor behind CNN's botched Tailwind tale, though the fact that the story was both aired on CNN and reported in Time did magnify the damage. Still, the idea of synergy does help to explain the insanity that is the media's coverage of Zippergate. As Clinton Press Secretary Mike McCurry noted, "the press has but one speed on this story and it's fast forward with too few editors who press the pause button." In a realm where the impatient reader can download the relevant information...
...didn't turn over? In her new tell-all book "The Microsoft File," veteran computer journalist Wendy Goldman Rohm claims that executives were similarly uncooperative during an earlier FTC investigation. They failed to provide backup tapes of files that had ostensibly been deleted, says Rohm. Moreover, Gates refused to explain a mysterious handwritten note found in his own files that read simply "purge e-mail." What possible secrets did these communiqués contain? It may not even matter. As Bill Clinton can attest, it's not the act, but the cover-up, that gets you into real trouble...