Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew about an illegal loan issued to his then-wife Susan. According to the New Yorker magazine, McDougal now backs David Hale's story that Clinton pressured him to make a $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal. That's a departure from what both McDougal and Clinton testified under oath last year, when McDougal and former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker were convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the Whitewater investigation. In videotaped testimony, Clinton denied any memory of making such a loan, and White House spokesman Mike McCurry says the President stands by his testimony...
...President headed down to the ceremony on a frigid and overcast morning. As if on cue, the winter sun broke through the clouds just moments before the President raised his right hand, placed his left on a well-worn family Bible held by his wife, and took the oath of office. In his 25-minute speech, Clinton brushed over specifics, touching on inspirational themes. He called on Americans to transcend their differences and to open the doors of education and opportunity to all in what he called a new era and a new land. Cannon fire punctuated the applause that...
...Presidential Medal of Freedom around his neck, Dole stood Friday in the White House he'd failed to claim and said: "I, Robert J. Dole ... " As East Room erupted in laughter, Dole continued dryly: " ... do solemnly swear. Uh, wrong speech." Just three days before Clinton will utter that same oath, he awarded his election opponent the nation's highest civilian honor. Dole was clearly moved when Clinton said: "Son of the soil, citizen, soldier and legislator, Bob Dole understands the American people, their struggles, their triumphs and their dreams." Choking back tears, Dole said "I will cherish it as long...
...sitting next to me, wearing dark shades and a plain black tie, typed in a series of commands to pinpoint the article's location. I may not reveal these secrets due to a Secret Service oath that he made me take. I may only mention that the article was in Time magazine, May 4, 1992, v139, n18, p24(2), B-52. Many men died to bring us this information...
...team talked to TIME about how envious he feels as he watches this case unfold. "The plaintiffs, like any good lawyers, have learned from our mistakes," the prosecutor says. "The plaintiffs have had a built-in advantage in that they could depose people. They could take pretrial statements under oath, months before the trial...