Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just a day earlier, Clinton became the first President in history to fire an FBI director when he put an end to the tortuous, scandal-plagued tenure of William Sessions with two short phone calls: the first to tell Sessions he was dismissed, the second to add that it was effective immediately. Appointed to a 10-year term in 1987 by Ronald Reagan, Sessions had been under pressure to resign since January, when the Bush Administration's Justice Department released a report accusing him of a range of ethical violations, including misuse of bureau planes and limousines. But Sessions refused...
...most credible Democrat on the Committee is perhaps Sen. Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio. (Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois ranks a close second.) He is the classic, grandfatherly, elder statesman. Showing equal equanimity when asking pointed questions and making cordial remarks, Metzenbaum remains unbesmirched by major scandal. Unfortunately, the Senator has declared this term to be his last...
...Kingdom and the Power is a grandiose a tale as its name implies, dealing with great national dramas such as the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Power, Privilege and the Post, about the Graham family and its stewardship of the Washington Post, tells about Katherine Graham and the Watergate Scandal...
...month for David Gergen to become the White House Svengali: a top West Wing aide says he's now the non-Hillary person the President listens to most. It was Gergen who pushed Clinton to have dinner with Bob Dole last week, who helped dispose of the travel-office scandal and the owls-vs.-timber brouhaha. "We're taking out the trash," says a Clinton aide in the White House. "When we come back in July and go into conference on the budget, we cannot have this stuff lying around...
While the Vatican clearly recognizes the damage done by the sex scandals, it believes the problem is a limited, if not distinctly American, one. One bishop who recently visited Rome noted that "the United States is a very sexual society." And one with a special talent for the propagation of scandal. In his letter John Paul bluntly criticized the U.S. media, charging them with making matters worse by their treatment of the problem. "Evil can indeed be sensational, but the sensationalism surrounding it is always dangerous for morality." The licentiousness of the secular world is another scapegoat. Last week Joaquin...