Word: questioned
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...stay under the mulch, the little white flags fluttered on the South Lawn putting green, aides stood in the sunshine listening to him apologize and reconcile one more time. And of course it was the postscript that sealed the day, after he turned to leave and heard the heavenly question transmitted by Sam Donaldson. "In your heart, sir, can you forgive and forget...
Some have argued that because Clinton has survived with so few Americans approving of his character and so many approving of his performance, it shows that it is possible to govern without moral authority. The logical response is to question not whether Clinton has moral authority but whether he has governed. Over the past six years there have been triumphs he can legitimately claim--his partnership with Congress on welfare reform, balancing the budget, raising the minimum wage, promoting peace in Ireland and elsewhere. But this year, when his moral authority was systematically stripped, we could not help being aware...
That process is already under way. As early as last March, on Meet the Press, Dan Quayle was asked if he expected to be hit with the adultery question. Quayle said he did and thought it was improper. But he went on to volunteer that he had never had an affair. "To say anything else would have raised a firestorm," explains McSlarrow. Some Republicans are experimenting with what was called in the Watergate era the "modified limited hangout"--an answer that seems forthright, even embarrassing, but stops well short of the bald truth. Earlier this month McCain was questioned...
Even so, every potential candidate is rehearsing an answer to the adultery question. "If we could get a caucus of all the candidates to agree to answer, 'None of your damn business,' that would change the world," says a Democratic consultant. "But that won't happen, because the clean guys will want to make the bad guys squirm." And in the G.O.P. it's not just the press they worry about, it's some fellow Republicans, especially those on the Christian right. The Rev. Lou Sheldon, who heads the Traditional Values Coalition, has said he will ask every candidate whether...
...same question, how does he do it?, can be asked about Saddam Hussein. F. RANDALL HARRIS Oshkosh...