Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cynics, this Jekyll-and-Hyde complex regarding the homeless isn't puzzling at all: Harvard students, they argue, are two-faced, selfish and career-driven. They join public service programs only to boost their resumes and then show their true colors when dealing with the poor in the Square...
...enemy will rouse him now? In rising up to foil his foes, taking to the ramparts when most of us would take to our beds, Clinton has left behind him the political corpses of Al D'Amato, Bob Livingston and Newt Gingrich and the wounded reputations of Starr, Henry Hyde and their colleagues. Who will replace them? Last Wednesday night, at a reception for Senator John McCain, Senator Phil Gramm, a scathing Clinton critic, eating an overflowing plate of red meat, looked as if he might serve as the new nemesis. Gramm was going on about...
...said of the impassioned, impugned House managers, who, whatever the merits of their case, put a lie to the assumption that all politicians are driven solely by polls and survival instincts. One could wonder where their compass pointed, but no one mistook it for a weather vane. Henry Hyde argued that "there's no political profit in this. A President Gore would not be helpful to the Republican Party." But when Hyde faced the Senators, he challenged them to larger purposes: "I have always believed that there are issues of transcendent importance that you have to be willing to lose...
Some political pros are hoping that the revelations about Clinton and Monica--and for that matter Henry Hyde, Bob Livingston and Thomas Jefferson--will inoculate future candidates against damage. Clinton has made "remarkable scandal commonplace," says Republican consultant Alex Castellanos. "Now to get in trouble, it wouldn't have to be sex with farm animals but with alien farm animals." Ed Gillespie, an adviser to Ohio Representative John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee and would-be President, says, "The public's definition of character has changed. They'd like the President to be an upstanding person. But what...
...Standard, but he wouldn't be surprised to see a G.O.P. divided in that fashion all the way to 2000. "We could have a congressional party where moderates are powerful," he says, "and a presidential party dominated by the activists, where the greatest applause line is to praise Henry Hyde...