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...event was moderated by Jack Ford and Jodi Applegate, co-anchors for MSNBC's "Weekend Today...
Upon Richard Nixon's resignation, Gerald Ford claimed that "our long national nightmare is over." At this point, Clinton's resignation or impeachment would prematurely leave us in a limbo of confusion and cynicism--unfair to the people who elected him and inconsistent with our constitutional system. In the meantime, we are left in this nightmare, wondering how we will ever get out. Rustin C. Silverstein '99 is a government concentrator in Lowell House. His column will appear bi-weekly...
...arrived Wednesday, unannounced and two days early, their Republican hosts had an understandable reaction -- lock them in a room until all the beds get made. TIME political editor Priscilla Painton says that while the two 18-box sets of raw scandal data languish in that sealed room in the Ford office building, the report looks leakproof, and "the process by which House members decide what to do with it may be as important as what...
...this leads us to an unpleasant conclusion. You can be lied to only if you suspend disbelief. Author Charles Ford asserts that "politicians are mouthpieces for the self-deception of the people. Wittingly or unwittingly, they tell us that which we have asked them to tell us." Ergo, we have all been enablers for Bill Clinton. Poll after poll reveals a populace that doesn't want to know the awful truth. "Lie to me," sings Sheryl Crow, "and I'll promise to be true." Bok says that because we expect to hear hypocrisy from our leaders...
...represent closure to the Lewinsky case, but it wouldn't also mean justice had been done--particularly if Starr's report to Congress were to contain persuasive evidence of crimes. When Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate, that was closure too, it can be argued--but his pardon by Gerald Ford was viewed by many, even to this day, as an unsatisfactory moral ending...