Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meantime, there was another audience to prepare for, and that was the prosecutors. Starr had many more choices to make about how Monday would go than Clinton did. It would have been unwise for Clinton's lawyer David Kendall even to consider allowing his client to answer direct, graphic questions about his conduct with Lewinsky. The President had, after all, not only denied having an affair with her in his Paula Jones deposition; he couldn't remember ever having been alone with her, an assertion that does not allow much room for elaboration. So there was very little leeway...
...Starr would ask. If the White House held out an olive branch to the prosecutors, it could hope that perhaps he would stand down a bit, not provoke a constitutional crisis, focus on the most relevant questions about obstruction of justice and subornation of perjury and not press the graphic sexual material too far. White House aides were quietly drawing reporters' attention to a hot scoop: "You know, the story no one has written..." The White House, they said, was backing off on Starr, hadn't attacked him for weeks. And of course, if none of that worked, if Starr...
...speech time. The President had little left to lose. By being forced to testify, he'd given up just about everything. He'd raised the white flag on the Truman balcony, opened the gates to the enemy. Starr and his deputies invaded his house for six hours, asking graphic questions about extramarital sex while his daughter was in her room upstairs. Not only had Starr forced Clinton to come clean with his wife and daughter privately, he also made him do it before the whole country while they watched, a high price even for such reprehensible conduct...
...Bold graphic but lacked clout in getting exclusive post-address guests, who popped up everywhere else; in fact, Orrin Hatch showed up dead last, after sharing his views on other networks--even Fox News...
Points for that graphic featuring Washington's grandeur, replete with phallic imagery. Misguided post-address panel included Ellen Levine, editor of Good Housekeeping, and novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard...