Word: leon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion that Clinton had to offer some more textured explanation for the growing pile of evidence was coming even from old White House hands. "He owes it to the American people to tell them," said former chief of staff Leon Panetta. "This is not one you do in an interview. This is not one you do in a press conference. This one, you have to look straight in the eye of the American people and tell them...
...always gone against Clinton's basic nature; which instincts usually had him looking for the third way, and if that doesn't work, the fourth, fifth and sixth. At this moment of simmering scandal, it also works against Clinton's survival instincts. As his former chief of staff Leon Panetta put it, the President is feeling particularly cautious now because "he's got to maintain a good relationship with the Congress that could ultimately be his judge" if Starr ends up handing it the whole Lewinsky investigation...
...Leon Jaroff...
...decision of the National Bar Association (NBA)--the nation's largest organization of black judges and lawyers--to invite Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to speak at its annual July convention has drawn sharp criticism from a number of the organization's members including A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government...
...have lost. On the surface, it was a snoozer: Executive Privilege 101. But pick apart the professorial text, and you get Starr's most savage attack on the President to date. Take the ending: "No one, absolutely no one, is above the law." Technically, a quote from Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski, but also the exact words Newt Gingrich has spent the last week crafting into a rallying cry for the right. Was Starr trying to be simpatico with the Speaker? It's hard to imagine otherwise...