Word: gephardts
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Officially, Lowell will serve as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, John Conyers. But the decision to hire him for what could be the highest-profile legal-defense job in a generation was made in large part by Richard Gephardt, the House minority leader, and two other committee Democrats, Barney Frank and Howard Berman. The goal, say insiders, was to bring in someone capable of fighting a partisan war on a legal battlefield. "This situation doesn't call for a law-school dean, former-judge type," says a source familiar with the decision. "This could...
...stick by their President, no matter what they may think privately. Relieved at Clinton's decision not to fight Starr's subpoena, they are crossing their fingers that the President's high poll numbers can withstand any new revelations. In a private meeting last week House minority leader Dick Gephardt advised fellow Democrats to "remain calm" and "try to avoid getting drawn into answering hypothetical questions" about things like Monica's stained dress. "We'll get through this and move on to the next thing," he said optimistically...
...advisers," he barks into two phones when Bulworth has disappeared yet again. When the Senator shows up for a TV interview in hip-hop garb fresh from the hood, Murphy chirps, "We're back on track." It isn't until he wonders if there's an opening with Dick Gephardt that we know he's losing hope...
House Democratic Leader and probable presidential candidate Richard Gephardt expressed his frustration with the emptiness of the Democratic Party under Clinton in a speech here at Harvard in December. In thinly-veiled attacks on the President and Vice President, he criticized those "New Democrats...who too often market a political strategy masquerading as policy" and called for a Democratic Party "that is a movement for change and not a money machine...
With the attention back on the President, the scandal has granted the Democrats a double bonus. First, they avoid the embarrassing, public soul-searching Gephardt was pushing, Second, they may even be helped by Clinton's remarkable approval ratings. Republicans, on the other hand, face the unpleasant possibility of considering the impeachment of a popular President based on the recommendations of an unpopular Independent Counsel for charges many consider superfluous...