Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just this week, for example, Kalb moderated a discussion on press coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal for the American Society of Newspaper Editors and will moderate one next week for newspaper publishers...
...hopes the White House had of a scandal-free "back-to-work" week were dissolving Tuesday, after the GOP leadership launched its bitterest attack on the President since the Lewinsky crisis began. ?I believe he?s a shameless person,? House Majority Leader Dick Armey announced to a group of 50 high school students -- adding that if he were in Clinton?s shoes, ?I would be so filled with shame that I would resign.? And in case anyone had any doubt, Newt Gingrich added a reminder that the dismissal of the Paula Jones suit would not impede a possible impeachment probe...
...investigation. "We want to get this [investigation] over with as soon as possible," says Clinton adviser Rahm Emanuel. But delay has been enormously helpful to Clinton. By refusing to explain his relationship with Lewinsky, he created a time-release capsule that aided the public's digestion of the scandal, giving people the leisure to sort out which parts of the President's character are important and which are not. And by slowing Starr's investigation until after the Jones case comes to trial next month, Clinton could use the not-guilty verdict he expects to argue the pointlessness of Starr...
...scandal in Hollywood...
Even as one scandal dies for Bill Clinton, another comes back to life. Representative Dan Burton's campaign-finance team is set in coming days to depose presidential pal Webster Hubbell on a sensitive subject. Burton's gumshoes have traced an additional $200,000 that went to Hubbell in 1994, bringing to $700,000 the total of gifts and fees raised by Clinton friends from sympathetic companies. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is trying to determine if any of it was intended to buy Hubbell's silence about Clinton dealings at a time when Hubbell was being investigated. In the deposition...