Word: republican
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...four representatives who Tuesday asked Trent Lott to ignore that bit in the articles about ?removal from office.? But TIME congressional correspondent James Carney says that hopes for a pre-trial censure deal will run up against the same brick wall that quashed a compromise in the House: Republican leaders in thrall to the far right. ?Trent Lott can?t be seen to be doing Clinton any favors,? he said. ?The conservatives got Lott where he is, and short-circuiting a trial would be seen as a betrayal...
...bite, called Johnson "an aching tooth in the national jaw, a screeching infant in a crowded lecture room," and said, "There can be no peace or comfort till he is out." And plenty of Congressmen would happily have offered up the 19th century version of talk-show rant. One Republican Representative denounced Johnson as "an ungrateful, despicable, besotted traitorous man--an incubus." Be grateful, Bill Clinton...
Political character assassination was alive and well long before cable TV and the Internet. Forget Vince Foster conspiracy theories--1860s Republicans charged that Johnson, when he was Vice President, aided in Abraham Lincoln's assassination so he could move up to the top job. Monica Lewinsky pales beside Jennie Perry, who blackmailed Johnson with charges that he fathered an illegitimate son. And Johnson's critics claimed he was conspiring to help the defeated Confederacy rise again. If Clinton were to channel Johnson, the two men--each born in poverty in the South, raised by a widow, elected Governor before...
Technically, Johnson was impeached for firing his Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, who was a Radical Republican sympathizer. Johnson's enemies said the dismissal violated the Tenure of Office Act, a law that was later judged to be unconstitutional. The legislators threw in a few other charges, including conspiracy and bringing Congress into disrepute. "A shaggy mountain of malice had panted, heaved and labored," an early Johnson biographer fulminated, "and this small and very scaly mouse was the result...
Writer David Brock--the journalist who discovered Paula Jones--portrayed Huffington in Esquire as a tragic, muddled figure who is no longer even sure whether he's a Democrat or a Republican. But Huffington, 51, who wasn't talking to the press last week, told friends that Brock got it wrong. First of all, Huffington says, he thinks of himself not as gay but as probably bisexual: in other words, his marriage to the former Arianna Stassinopoulos wasn't a total sham. He insists that he was never unfaithful to her, with men or women. And he takes his relatively...