Word: internic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slack by voters who believed he was an adulterer but elected him anyway, the President had only to comply with the minimal standard of presidential marital conduct: Don't have sex in the White House with a woman not your wife (no one thought to add "intern"). In these sexually perilous times, we all know lawyers and businessmen who won't meet in a hotel room with a colleague of the opposite sex. But Clinton, fighting accusations that while Governor he exposed himself to a female state employee, is now accused of behavior so reckless, so arrogant, so tawdry that...
...Former Republican independent counsel Joseph diGenova calls the whole setup "a constitutional monstrosity." Now we watch as a prosecutor gunning for a President uses tactics to dig up dirt that would make NYPD Blue's Detective Sipowicz blanch. Starr not only pulled a sting on a former White House intern but reportedly planned to wire her to run one on the President himself, as if he were John Gotti...
...dudgeon. But plenty of parents were incensed in a nonpartisan way by the thought that the young woman might have been thus debauched in the house of Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. Could the President truly have divided his time between worrying about his place in history and corrupting an intern? Now he may have a convergence, with the second activity defining the first...
...course, some thought that the affair with the intern might be a setup or hallucination. Those who credited the story separated into two camps: 1) those who don't think it matters much (a man's sex life is his business; a President's conduct of the office is the only legitimate concern, and anyway, maybe it is good macho sociobiology for a leader to chase girls); and 2) those enraged by the irresponsibility and arrogance implicit in such behavior--if it happened...
REAL LIFE: On tape, intern allegedly recounts tales of oral sex with President in back room of White House...