Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Clinton took the oath, but exaltation is not his style. He has polled us and tested us and talked to us until he's hoarse and spent, and we know so much about him, right down to his choice of underwear, that he made it hard for us to hold him to a higher standard. So instead his allies defended what was worst in him by appealing to what is best in us. How could we not be generous and forgive him? Has he done anything that many of us have not done ourselves? Are these not private matters...
...defense was arguing that Bill Clinton should not be held to a higher standard than any other criminal defendant, the Republicans were arguing that a President must be. If the nation's chief law-enforcement officer can get away with lying under oath, whatever the subject, then the rule of law collapses, and everyone else walks. "We've got to do it for the children," Representative Steve Chabot of Ohio said later...
...through the President's mortar as efficiently as David Schippers, a Democrat hired by Hyde as majority counsel. In an angry, sarcastic and merciless presentation delivered in a penetrating Chicago twang, Schippers drilled holes in Clinton's words, deeds and character, arguing that the President had lied repeatedly under oath, obstructed justice by helping Lewinsky get a job and encouraged everyone around him to do the same. "He lied to the people, he lied to his Cabinet, he lied to his top aides, and now he's lied under oath to the Congress of the U.S. There...
...spared a trial? House Republicans had been offering the President a way out for weeks: Confess that you lied under oath, they said, and we'll let you off with censure. The President never bit, in part because the White House smelled a GOP trap: Admit to perjury and get prosecuted for it the moment you leave office. Even though the White House has argued that no prosecutor would bring perjury charges on what Clinton is alleged to have done, an admission would be like waving a red cape before Ken Starr. And while few believe Clinton could be prosecuted...
...family," Livingston told Roll Call. He went on to make a distinction between himself and the man whose conduct he will be evaluating Friday: "I want to assure everyone that these indiscretions were not with employees on my staff and I have never been asked to testify under oath about them." The big question, once again, is one of timing, since this comes on the eve of what is sure to be a contentious debate on impeachment...