Word: pulpitation
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...initiative's moment, however, has clearly passed. "Even the little good that could have been accomplished by the President using his bully pulpit has been squandered," says Branegan. That doesn't mean that it was not a total loss; the report may help shore up the President's support in a key constituency. "The race initiative maintained Clinton's positive standing in the black community," says Branegan. "And polls show that they've stuck by him throughout the Monica crisis...
...Sunday the First Family decided to turn on the lights in the mansion so we could see the shadows through the shades. In the middle of the most painful weekend of her life, Hillary invited into her home for comfort the one clergyman in America better known for his pulpit at CNN than at the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side...
...both characters truly believe that love is the morning and the evening star. They are no less themselves as preachers than as sinners. Gantry rails against demon booze from the pulpit, and downs a quart with the boys in the backroom. Clinton proselytizes for the V chip...
WASHINGTON: Bill Clinton might like to think he's safely back in the bully pulpit. But events Friday seem to be conspiring to remind him that l'affaire Lewinsky is very much still a work in progress. In fact, the whole gang's here: Bruce Lindsey looks set to return to the grand jury, his first appearance since the Supreme Court took his attorney-client privilege away. Reports are emerging that Monica's testimony conflicts with Betty Currie's, which could lead to one or both of them being recalled. And Linda Tripp is back in the news...
Clinton, in contrast, tipped his bully pulpit into a street barricade. He asserted Executive privilege to prevent his aides from testifying, and lost. His aides invented a "protective function" privilege to prevent the Secret Service from talking, and lost. He invoked attorney-client privilege to prevent White House lawyers from testifying, and lost. By picking, and then losing, fights on Executive privilege, he gave a legitimate right a bad name and has made it harder for future Presidents to invoke it. "All they were doing," says presidential scholar Mark Rozell, "was buying time and buying time...