Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't want to write about Monica Lewinsky today. Like everyone else, I feel we've had enough. But this scandal just won't leave us alone...
...sick nations grasp the failures of their own leaders, the more they long for some outsider to set things right. Fairly or not, the burden of leadership ultimately falls on the U.S. Clinton ought to be the reassurer of last resort, but he is distracted by the Lewinsky scandal, and many are concerned that his personal stature and moral authority are seeping away. His attention to foreign affairs has always been intermittent but surely diminishes the more time he must spend with his lawyers...
Their tactic is one the White House employed to great effect last year during the campaign-finance scandal--the "prebuttal." The idea is to put forward information--even the damaging or not-so-believable tidbits--before the other side can, on the assumption that he who spins first has the advantage...
...impeachment hearings. As Congress returns to work Monday, the fate of Ken Starr's referral -- and of the President himself -- lies solely in the hands of Henry Hyde and his House Judiciary Committee. Their task is twofold: Decide how much more of that explosive document to release to a scandal-fatigued public, and ruminate on whether the prickly details warrant an impeachment inquiry. Hyde, however, doesn't need any more ruminating time. The chairman decreed over the weekend that hearings are necessary, but has graciously agreed to "hear from everyone on the committee...
...that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow that I feel is genuine -- first and most important my family, also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family." It was the first time the President had offered his former intern an apology since the scandal broke in January. Said TIME managing editor Walter Isaacson: "It's one of the most remarkable speeches ever given by a president...