Word: rodhamize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House has trouble playing offense partly because it spends so much time playing defense. In Philadelphia on Friday, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that it was time to "cut through the expensive television- advertising campaigns" and "start talking some sense." But several White House officials admitted the Clintons are reluctant to take to the airwaves until the legislative situation is clarified. If there was a bright moment for Clinton last week, it was the inelegant pirouette performed by Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole. Less than a week after he told Americans the nation did "not have a health-care crisis...
...fact, new questions keep popping up even as special counsel Robert Fiske prepares to launch his probe into all aspects of the mess. The latest: Did Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, back in Arkansas days, underpay their federal income taxes by much more than they have previously admitted? A TIME examination of bank records, interviews with some leading participants and consultations with tax experts indicate that is at least enough of a possibility to warrant a close look by Fiske and his probers...
...Senator John Breaux. The White House has no hope of convincing the executives to back the Clinton plan, but it will try to dissuade them from endorsing Cooper-Breaux. Given the Roundtable's influence in Congress, the stakes are high, so Administration officials -- perhaps even President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton -- will lobby heavily...
...Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan while he was Governor of Arkansas. Fiske, 63, is a former U.S. Attorney who served in the Ford and Carter Administrations. He said that he would not use Justice Department prosecutors in the probe and that he expects to question the President and Hillary Rodham Clinton under oath...
...question about Whitewater. In fact the President has agreed, most reluctantly, to the appointment of a special counsel to investigate that mess largely to move the questions off the front pages and TV network news for a while. But now TIME has turned up evidence that Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton participated in deals in which the same land was sold and resold -- in one case to themselves -- at rapidly escalating prices for reasons that cannot quickly be pinned down...