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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argue that Clinton's consistently high public approval ratings are actually a reason for him to leave office. A resignation, however, would be a capitulation to the politics of personal destruction which has already claimed a would-be House speaker and placed Washington in the control of Larry Flynt's tawdry exposes. Clinton's decision to stay and fight is indeed the more honorable. Maybe he--and America with him--could then truly be an example of goodness and justice to the world. DAVID A. HOPKINS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clinton Should Stay and Fight | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...have gathered further evidence for the view that there are conflicting strains in the public's response to the current and presumably permanent scandal: most Americans deplore what Larry Flynt is doing and, at the same time, hope he comes up with something truly dreadful on Tom DeLay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two for the Low Road | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...margin of error might have been affected by the first respondent's insistence on making a speech to all assembled about Robert Livingston's nearly attaining the speakership, an office that is third in the line of succession. "Say what you want to about Larry Flynt," the first respondent declared, "but if Livingston hadn't been exposed and Bill Clinton had been forced out of office, we could have had an adulterer a heartbeat away from the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two for the Low Road | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...sheet inspectors are on both sides. In fact, you could argue that Flynt and Scaife are just Democratic and Republican versions of the same person: neither is troubled by scruples, but the Republican, like those Republicans we saw on the House Judiciary Committee, is tidier and seems to have a lot less fun. In order to finance the Arkansas Project, an effort to find something dirty on Bill Clinton, Scaife coughed up roughly the same sort of money that Flynt offered in the advertisement he took to flush out bimbos with Republican leanings. Scaife was using tax-free foundation money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two for the Low Road | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...fact, now that TIME's cover on Clinton and Starr has established the possibility of having yin-and-yang Men of the Year, we might look forward next year to having Larry Flynt and Richard Mellon Scaife. They would be presented as symbols of the enduring two-party system that's at the heart of our democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two for the Low Road | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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