Word: republican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chapter on each Republican," she continues. "One on [famous Republican name deleted], one on [ditto], another on [ditto]. And she has this great story about [very famous Republican name]. It turns out he would not take off his glasses--even when he was buck naked, performing a particular sex act that I will not describe. But you can imagine. Anyway, his glasses would get so steamed up he couldn't see. And he'd say, 'Baby, you look so beautiful.' And she'd say, 'How the hell would you know? You can't even see me, you [euphemism for body...
...American goal was simple: to cripple Iraq's ability to brew and deliver weapons of mass destruction. Because biological and chemical weapons can be made quite easily, the Pentagon went after the bigger things--like missile factories and the Special Republican Guards--vital to the weapons' protection and production. And there was another wrinkle: while Pentagon officials said they avoided hitting storage sites that might spew deadly plumes of toxins, they privately conceded they had no idea where such stockpiles might be even if they wanted to attack them...
Clinton made the final go decision on Iraq on Wednesday, at a 7:30 a.m. White House meeting with his national security team. Then he kept an already scheduled meeting with Representative Amo Houghton, a New York Republican who opposed impeachment. But their talk focused now on the Senate and whether victory there, for so long a certainty, was really all that certain. Houghton presented Clinton with what he hoped might be the model for a tough Senate resolution of censure. It included a half-million-dollar payment to the U.S. Treasury, cancellation of this year's State...
...conference call with his Senate leaders earlier that day, Lott had learned that they were as dubious of Clinton as he was. All the same, Livingston rushed that night to hold a press conference at which he underlined Republican backing for the mission. But even he was careful to say he supported "the troops," not the President. Late that same day, Defense Secretary Cohen, a former Republican Congressman and then Senator from Maine, responded to an invitation from senior G.O.P. House leaders to justify the attack from the well of the House. "The mood was fairly toxic," says Cohen. "There...
When Livingston was finished, his Republican colleagues gave him a standing ovation. Before they left the room, the assembled Republicans seemed to have agreed on answers to the inevitable questions from the media. As he emerged from the meeting, Judiciary Committee member Asa Hutchinson was sullen and slow to speak. "I don't think we should feel uncomfortable proceeding to the floor tomorrow," he finally said. New Jersey Representative Bob Franks called it "a matter between Speaker Livingston and [his wife...