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"But we couldn't do the allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice [against President Clinton] unless we talked about the antecedent, which was sex," Donaldson said.
Likewise another trend: our growing tendency to talk and think in the bulky, arcane dialect of the law. A doctor I know has noticed, for example, that when she asks a new patient, "Do you have any allergies?" she frequently gets the response, "Not to the best of my knowledge...
ACQUITTED. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, 52, of perjury and obstruction-of-justice charges; by the U.S. Senate; in Washington (see cover story).
But now that the Lewinsky matter is over (sort of), the bridge metaphor may take on a new meaning: The bridge Clinton built for us was the sex-and-perjury-and-obstruction-and-mendacity scandal itself. It was one big distraction, an all-consuming diversion with its own engine. Under...
The Senate was split evenly when voting on the charge of obstruction of justice, with only five Republican Senators defecting from the party line vote. The vote on the perjury charge garnered only 45 votes for conviction, with 10 Republican Senators voting against conviction. Each charge needed a two-thirds...