Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President, who a year ago campaigned on the promise of a bridge to the 21st century, who has spoken of Hope as a place both in Arkansas and in the national consciousness, was constrained by media intrigue and a year of personal and partisan scandal to a personality-less speech needling Congress on to small goals and smaller thinking. Clinton said we need to remember the big picture, but gave a speech that, from NATO to John Glenn, sounded more like a laundry list of minutiae...
...evidence as in his face and on his lips. Even for a grammar-loving person like myself, it's a bad sign when you have to parse his sentences to get through his syntactical tap-dance to the truth. His answer to Lehrer's simple question about the scandal was disturbingly complex: "I did not ask anyone to tell anything other than the truth. There is no improper relationship." Note the indefinite pronouns, "anyone" and "anything". He's taken the question out of the personal realm and into the theoretical, where the President would never ask someone...
There are countless other issues entwined in this mess of presidential proportions. Kenneth Starr might be praised in some circles for his role in uncovering the scandal. He shouldn't be. He extended the purview of his office far beyond Whitewater into the realm of a witch hunt. The Republicans, unusually quiet on this issue, may seem untainted by comparison with this disaster. Don't forget that their Speaker of the House prevaricated to the Ethics Committee about his shady book deals and that they have allowed their lobbyists to stand on the edge of the House floor, writing...
...have an obligation to hear what the President has to say" whether or not he is surrounded by scandal, Parr said...
When the Monica Lewinsky storm engulfed the White House, one caller to his old friend Bill was Dick Morris, famously felled by his own sex scandal. Some advisers didn't want Clinton to return the call -- one group thought Morris was bad for the regular staff's morale, another just sees him as radioactive -- but Clinton called back. The President explained that Morris was grateful to Clinton for not rejecting him in his disgrace, and "it would be wrong to refuse his help now." But that was then -- and this, after Morris implied yesterday on a KABC radio talk show...