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What's happening may mean there are no second acts for sexual scandals in America -- which holds out some hope for Senator Bob Packwood, whose ethics case for sexual misconduct entered Phase 2 last week. (The first phase ended with his unsuccessful televised plea from the well of the Senate to keep his diary secret.) When Gennifer Flowers first dished the sexual dirt during the 1992 campaign, talk shows tripped over one another to have her on, and CNN covered her press conference live with all the solemnity of a Gulf War update. Then, hordes of reporters were panting...
...frailties. After the initial wave of prurient interest in the Flowers revelations died down and Clinton made his contrite nondenial on 60 Minutes, a large segment of the public integrated this information into the picture they had of the candidate and decided to vote for him anyway. By contrast, Packwood pursued the Clarence Thomas strategy: deny everything and attack the credibility of your accuser. Worse, he may have tried to cover up evidence. Voters ended up feeling betrayed...
...PACKWOOD'S PACK OF TROUBLES
...Senate Ethics Committee presented Finance Committee chairman Bob Packwood with results of its inquiry into allegations against him. It found evidence that the Oregon Republican grabbed or kissed women on 18 occasions, improperly solicited a job for his wife and altered evidentiary diary entries. Packwood said he welcomed the opportunity to defend himself before the committee...
...massive investigation that led to Wednesday's charges against Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood had a foundation hard as rock, Senate ethics committee members said today. Karen Tumulty, TIME congressional correspondent, reports that the committee staff spent 11,000 hours on the case, interviewed 254 witnesses and took 111 depositions -- theresults of which will be delivered to Packwood in a 16,000-page packageas soon as Monday. Though the Oregon Republican's alleged sexual advances have dominated headlines, Tumulty says charges of altering his personal diary transcripts during the preliminary probe could be most damaging. "It is easily provable...