Word: letch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Packwood's undignified tactics upstaged Senators' concerns about Fifth Amendment safeguards against self-incrimination. Instead, many Senators fumed privately that the man who may already have been exposed as a letch, lush and liar was a lout as well. Says an ethics committee staff member: "The fact that ((Packwood)) stood on the Senate floor and issued a not-so-veiled threat against his colleagues has alienated a lot of people." (An unnamed woman, described by her lawyer as "prominent within the country," was equally unhappy, charging that the release of the diaries would cause "irreparable damage" to her reputation...