Word: moran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moran sat at home with his wife on Monday night, he wondered what to do about two of their children, ages seven and nine. Bill Clinton was moments away from delivering a televised address to the nation, and Moran, a Democratic Congressman from Virginia, "didn't want to say to the kids, 'You have to leave the room--the President's coming...
...kids, as it turns out, may have been less troubled than their dad by what they saw. "This whole sordid mess is just too tawdry and tedious and embarrassing," said Moran on the morning after, his voice a subdued monotone. "It's like a novel that just became too full of juicy parts and bizarre, sleazy characters." Characters like Bill Clinton, the leader of Moran's party, the President he had followed loyally for six years? "I guess part of this is finding out that everyone is far more human than we'd like to believe," conceded the Congressman...
...Moran's reaction was disturbing, what Clinton heard from some other Democrats in Congress was even worse. Dianne Feinstein, the highly regarded Senator from California, recalled how she believed Clinton back in January when he denied having had a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. With the President's change of story, she said, "my trust in his credibility has been badly shattered." Paul McHale, a retiring third-term Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, went even further. Declaring that the President "lied under oath" and "almost certainly" encouraged Lewinsky to keep silent, McHale bluntly called on Clinton to "resign...
...never succeed in restoring the credibility he needs with Congress to be able to lead effectively. The most he might hope for is to be viewed from Capitol Hill with disdain by his enemies and pity by his friends. Which is why, even to sympathetic Democrats like Jim Moran, Clinton's plight seems so unbearable. "After dedicating his life to public service, to have his career defined by a sleazy incident like this is more than ironic," Moran says. "It's tragic...
Huddled in a plexiglas incubator, 3 1/2-lb. Andreah Moran is, at nine days, so fragile that she looks as if her twig-thin arms and legs would snap from one false move. But gingerly navigating the tangle of blue electrodes attached to the infant's chest, John Dieter, a researcher at the University of Miami's Touch Research Institute, firmly massages those arms and legs and rubs Andreah's back and her tiny head. The baby sighs, parts her withered lips and begins a slow drool...