Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hyde--and trampled all over the idea of a censure deal that would pre-empt impeachment proceedings. He also ruminated in a closed-door meeting about expanding the hearings to include Clinton's campaign-finance abuses, the Administration's transfer of satellite technology to China, and the many other scandals known as Whitewater. It sure looked as though Newt was in charge and ready to launch an open-ended inquiry into all Clintonian abuse-of-power issues that would amount, as one Clinton aide put it, to "the scandal analog of the 1995 shutdown." For now, Democrats were happy just...
...much-needed moment of restraint in a scandal that has been all about excess. By Friday the Democrats had heard, for the first time since Starr's report was released, conciliatory talk from a key member of the Gingrich team. Representative John Linder of Georgia, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told an audience in Washington that "if all Starr has is what we've seen, I don't think the public is ready for [impeachment]." But the glimmer faded when Linder went on to echo Gingrich's call for an open-ended impeachment inquiry. "There is no shortage...
...course, Democratic visions of a preemptive "censure-plus" deal were always delusional, as were Republican dreams of an abrupt resignation. Clinton did try to put one aspect of the scandal behind him last week by moving to settle the Paula Jones suit before an appeals court revives it. Jones demanded $1 million (but no apology), Clinton offered $500,000, and the two sides are still talking, with a resolution possible sometime this week. But impeachment moves still seem unavoidable: the Republican-controlled Judiciary committee is expected to vote in favor of launching such an inquiry by next week...
...those leaders, a student of exceptional merit and promise. I don't bother to look back and evaluate. It doesn't matter if I lied about missing section three months ago, or if I swear too much, or if I've been too interested in the Bill and Monica scandal. I am too important to the future of our world to die. What is so important about repentance of the past when I am engaged in so many things to make the future better...
...task wasn't an easy one, and though the press might sometimes have wished for more revealing answers, Mike managed to preserve his dignity in a situation fraught with scandal. When probed for details, McCurry often pled ignorance, saying the President's lawyers have "kept me in a position to be honest when I say I don't have any information." Mike chose not to know, and in that way he may have been more attuned to the American people than the reporters digging for dirt. He protected us with his ignorance; he made me feel...