Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was enough momentum, even before the video hit the airwaves, for the logic of resignation to penetrate Clinton's inner circle. It's not fair, it's not right that Clinton should be impeached, one longtime adviser said. It's not fair, it's not right that he should be run out of office by an independent counsel with an unlimited purse and a partisan, moralistic bent. But "what should and what will happen are two different things," said the adviser. Clinton might survive, the adviser says, but the cost to the party and to the issues and interests...
...lawmakers to miss the implicit message: You want my money? We want your vote. Or at least, hold your fire before all the evidence is in. This has been especially important with Senators and Congressmen in close races who are rumored to be thinking of calling on Clinton to resign...
...former Clinton aide has expressed doubts about the Morris story. But Morris or not, the polls back in January were absolutely clear: if Clinton lied under oath, 63% of Americans thought he should resign...
...professions of decorum, Republicans were playing for keeps and Democrats were trying to make it all a fairness issue. It was hard to square Gingrich's talk about sober bipartisanship with the impeachment war room set up by Republican whip Tom Delay, who has already called for Clinton to resign. Staff members from his office had compiled binders full of material on impeachment procedures. By waging a phony war over whether to give Clinton an advance look at Starr's report, Democrats laid the groundwork for a claim that the whole process ahead will be a show trial. "I feel...
Garry Wills said in his piece "Leading by Leaving" that Clinton should resign. I strongly disagree. Resigning would only further lower the morale of a country that already feels foolish about this whole affair. What Clinton needs to do (if he's smart) is admit in a nationwide address that he has a problem with sex, then get into therapy and earn our sympathy back. I bet it would work. SUE RA Lansing, Mich...