Word: nixon
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...Jones saw Willey and Tripp as golden witnesses and aimed subpoenas at them. Tripp anticipated that she would be asked about Lewinsky and that the White House would challenge anything she had to say. So last August she sought the advice of a friend, a literary agent and former Nixon operative, Lucianne Goldberg. Goldberg has represented the Arkansas state troopers who went public with stories of Clinton womanizing, as well as a woman named Dolly Kyle Browning who has been trying to sell an account of her own alleged affair with the President. The agent had approached Tripp through...
...became executive director of the United Negro College Fund; a year later, he was running the moderate, pro-business National Urban League. He got to know everyone who mattered in corporate America--white, black, whatever--and in politics as well. He played tennis regularly with John Ehrlichman, the Nixon aide, and the Urban League's federal contracts soared. Before the '70s had ended, he was enjoying a chauffeured Mercury, a Fifth Avenue apartment, an annual getaway to Martha's Vineyard, seats on four corporate boards and a reputation among some blacks as a "sellout." He didn't see it that...
...some point her political allegiances changed--Goldberg's spying on behalf of the 1972 Nixon re-election effort has been widely reported--and she left politics for the more lucrative world of publishing. It was no less a shark tank: tell-all biographer Kitty Kelley, a former client, sued Goldberg in the early 1980s for fraud and other infractions in connection with Kelley's biography of Elizabeth Taylor. Although a judge overturned the fraud portion of the jury verdict against Goldberg, he awarded Kelley $41,000 in damages and costs...
...charges against Clinton are true, he could be in the worst legal spot a President has been in since Nixon was forced from office. Evidence seeping out in the media could support charges of perjury, suborning perjury and conspiracy to suborn perjury, all serious crimes. They could also, as some Republican Congressmen have begun to declare, rise to the level of the "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" the Constitution requires for impeachment. Other players in this drama may also be in legal trouble, including Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan, Lewinsky herself and even White House turncoat Linda Tripp. But obstruction-of-justice...
...President" (Jan. 29), Susannah B. Tobin manages to turn a critique of the President's alleged affair into a polemic against Republicans and the Republican Party. Tobin compares the current scandal to Watergate; but this comparison serves only to highlight Clinton's relative innocence. While Nixon was "paranoid and plotting" and committed acts of "evil," Clinton's actions are merely "stupid" and stem from a "personal flaw." Of course, many of us have a large personal flaw and do many stupid things. Most of us, however, have never committed the felony of perjury--which Clinton allegedly...