Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less than 90 thunderous interruptions, President Clinton unleashed what the New York Times dubbed his midterm political manifesto. On the face of it, the whole evening--bipartisan applause, soundbites, no mention of the dangerous M. L.--seemed not much more than politesse, a perfectly orchestrated performance in which a scandal-torn government and a scandal-fixated media pretended that the state of the union was, indeed, sound...
Exactly a week after the sex scandal broke, Clinton achieved the highest approval ratings of his five-year presidency. That may have been a miracle, but it was no accident: Americans are less puritanical and more forgiving than the cartoon version suggests, and this President is never better than in his worst moments. Starr meanwhile was left trying to build a case around a single witness who was neither entirely cooperative nor totally credible, whose own lawyer admitted she was given to exaggeration, who a source said tried to bribe another witness, and who described herself as a lifelong liar...
...State of the Union speech that night. For days the pundits had been wondering how he would even manage it, to get up in front of both houses of Congress and the Great American Living Room and act as though nothing was wrong. Any thought of addressing the scandal was dismissed. Instead this was to be purely political, and politically pure...
WASHINGTON: The threat of new perjury allegations hung over the President's morning press conference. Reports published Friday claimed he asked his personal secretary Betty Currie a series of leading questions that may amount to suborning perjury. Once again, the stench of scandal; once again, Clinton comes out smelling like roses...
...Pity the Potato! Is Mr. T an allegorical figure in the current scandal? The Couch Potato Man, on when life imitates your...