Word: packwood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PACKWOOD CHANGES HIS MIND...
...startling reversal that could delay resolution of his ethics case, Senator Bob Packwood asked for public hearings into the charges accusing him of sexual and professional misconduct. The Oregon Republican said he chose this course when the Senate Ethics Committee "changed the rules in the middle of the game" by reopening the investigation to consider two new complaints. The Ethics Committee will consider Packwood's request when it reconvenes after Labor...
...first time in a just-published Vanity Fair article saying she had an affair with Gingrich while he was married to his first wife. In the current climate, that's all it takes to open the door to the kind of microscopic scrutiny politicians from Gary Hart to Bob Packwood have endured. At first Gingrich quipped Gipperlike that he couldn't hear the questions, then he refused to respond to anything in the article (although he gave its author, Gail Sheehy, a long interview); finally, he resorted to calling a reporter "obnoxious." The next morning, in a radio interview...
...PACKWOOD: MINOR DETAILS...
...sexual-misconduct case against Senate Finance Committee chairman Bob Packwood became even graver when reports surfaced that one of two recent complaints accused him of kissing a minor in 1983, a 17-year-old who worked in his office. Packwood said he took "strong exception" to the new accusation...