Word: packwood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleased to hear that Ireland was defending the story of a possible rape victim but surprised that she was so stinging in her comments about the president. Feminists' hesitancy to condemn Bill Clinton for actions similar to those for which they had rightly vilified Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood has been extremely troublesome to me. I understand the reason for the double standard, though: Packwood and Thomas were conservatives unlikely to help women's causes in any real way--in that sense, they were fair game for attack. Clinton, on the other hand, is ostensibly "on our side...
...against the advice of virtually everyone he knew--he was immediately assailed as a partisan Clinton stalker. It was an unusual position for him since he'd always enjoyed being the Democrats' favorite Republican--a lawyer trusted enough to be asked to review Senator Bob Packwood's private diaries, a conservative judge with serious credentials as a defender of the First Amendment. He had even ruled in favor of the Washington Post in a big libel suit. "[When] the attacks began," Starr says, "I started saying, 'Well, how do you respond?' And one of the things I said...
...that is where it is likely to hear the ominous rumble of truth. In Watergate it came in early 1974, when conservative Senator James L. Buckley called for Richard Nixon's resignation, starting the massive Republican defection that ultimately destroyed him. For the defiant and powerful Republican Senator Bob Packwood, it came in 1993, when freshman Democrat Patty Murray, speaking in a tremulous voice that barely carried to the galleries, found the words that moved the gentlemen of the club into ousting their colleague for sexual harassment...
...married to one of Hillary Clinton's younger brothers. Boxer deemed the President's behavior "wrong" but urged everyone to "move on." That wasn't enough for Fong, who painted the Senator as a hypocrite who led the chorus of protest against Republicans Clarence Thomas and then Senator Bob Packwood when they were accused of sexual misconduct, but was now giving Clinton a virtual pass. "Barbara," said Fong, "your silence on this is deafening...
...quirky urban-gentleman exterior beats the heart of a Washington insider's Washington insider. A former president of the D.C. bar, Stein is the man politicians turn to when their dignity is on the line, the issue is delicate or the stakes are high. He represented Oregon Senator Robert Packwood when he was charged with sexual misconduct. Reagan press secretary James Brady hired Stein when he filed several lawsuits after being paralyzed by bullets meant for his boss. And when a special prosecutor was needed in 1984 to investigate Reagan-aide Ed Meese, it was Stein who was summoned...