Word: ralston
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This story was reported by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Lori I. Diamond, Rebecca F. Lubens, Olivia E. Ralston and Pamela S. Wasserstein and was written by Geoffrey C. Upton...
...reasons he chose Shelton to succeed the current Chairman, Army General John Shalikashvili, who retires in October. Another is Shelton's squeaky-clean demeanor, which became a prerequisite after the Defense Secretary was forced to abandon his first choice for the job, Air Force General Joseph Ralston, because of the disclosure that the general had had an affair more than a decade ago. This time Cohen knew he needed a winner. After just six months as the lone Republican in Clinton's Cabinet, Cohen was already being typed as too timid and pointy-headed for the job. A second failed...
...Ralston thanked Cohen for his support and said he has tried to learn from his mistake. "Our armed forces are composed of human beings that strive to meet the highest standards every day," he said, "but I am acutely aware of human strengths and human frailties." So too is the White House, which in the midst of the Paula Jones battle has no desire to see a few days of televised hearings about adultery or anything else sensational before the Senate. And so the chances of Ralston's securing the nomination seem to be in a fatal dive. The Pentagon...
...example, in the case of Air Force General Joseph W. Ralston, who may have stretched the military's "Don't-ask, don't-tell" policy practically to its limits by not mentioning an adulterous affair until he was confronted about it 13 years later, one mitigating factor was that the other party, a woman who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, was not under his command or even in the service, and thus presented no threat to good order and discipline...
...justifying what seemed to be a double standard that reflected favoritism toward General Ralston, Bacon said the line had to be drawn somewhere to end what had taken on some elements of a witch hunt, with old scores being settled by calls to the sexual-conduct hot line. That was his most compelling argument, I thought, although I couldn't help contemplating what exquisite use we would have made of that hot line in the days of Lieut. Sweeney...