Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since Whitewater first surfaced as a potential scandal during the 1992 campaign, the Clintons have insisted on three points: that they were merely passive investors in a company controlled by McDougal and his wife; that they lost on the deal--as much as $68,900; and that they never gave McDougal or his businesses special treatment. The picture drawn by the papers released last week casts doubt on each of those assertions. Amid dozens of the documented contacts between the Clintons and McDougals on Whitewater-related issues, a 1981 letter sent by Hillary Clinton to Jim McDougal was especially...
Media commentators made comparisons to Watergate and repeated the familiar questions from the 1970s scandal that brought down Richard Nixon: What did the President know, and when did he know it? Did he try to cover up? Will he step down...
...toilet you could hear the water running in his hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa. It was bad enough that Roseanne, his soon-to-be ex, had fired him as executive producer of her eponymous ABC-TV hit series. Then, after she and he had grabbed five years of scandal-sheet headlines as a white-trash version of Taylor and Burton, Roseanne had filed for divorce, badmouthing Arnold as a no-talent wife beater, a charge he denied. And thanks to the successive failure of two dud TV sitcoms, The Jackie Thomas Show and Tom, he had dropped to Tinseltown...
...door, went into that area where women and children were there (and) we killed over 80 people," he said. In a letter to Zeliff today, White House Counsel Abner Mikva said the comments were "nothing short of irresponsible, intent on creating a story without any news and alleging a scandal without any basis." Republican colleagues on the panel today appeared to distance themselves from the charges. Rep. Steven Schiff (R-N.M.) said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had a "legitimate interest" in the Branch Davidians because of alleged firearms violations, and Rep. Bill McCollum...
Graves, who is working on a book about the Packwood scandal and its implications, said she found it "really ironic" that a senator known for his feminist leanings would be accused of harassing women from...