Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...districts. The widely cited Battleground poll released last week showed that Clinton's personal problems have elevated "moral and religious issues" to the top of the voters' agenda. They tie with crime and drugs as the No. 1 problem facing the nation. The poll also showed that scandal is discouraging traditional Democratic voters from voting. That fueled a growing fear that the Republicans could pick up enough seats in the House and as many as six Senate slots to make their power exponentially greater, impervious to filibuster. White House aides fanned out among lobbyists and labor unions and financiers last...
...feel like a character in a novel," Bill Clinton told an aide on the day the Lewinsky scandal broke. With equal parts self-pity and deceit, the President cast himself as the protagonist in Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler's 1941 classic about the victim of a totalitarian witch-hunt. Eight months later, in the pages of Kenneth Starr's report to Congress, Clinton finds himself the villain in a much trashier tale, a fetid blend of libido and legalese that reads like Jackie Collins by way of the Congressional Quarterly...
...informally accepted and reported the news to Jordan. He immediately informed Currie and Clinton: "Mission accomplished." But Lewinsky still needed references, and Clinton reached down into the White House staff to make sure Lewinsky would get a favorable one. In the end, Revlon withdrew the job offer after the scandal broke...
Three days later the scandal broke. That day Clinton got a call from Dick Morris, his longtime consultant, who'd resigned in disgrace amid his own sex scandal in 1996. "You poor son of a b____," Morris said consolingly. The consultant testified that he assured the President that "there's a great capacity for forgiveness in this country, and you should consider tapping into...
...Just as he was returning, the First Lady noticed out of the corner of her eye that the TV was on, tuned to the David Letterman show. Casually, she leaned over, picked up the remote control and switched the set off before the President could hear a barrage of scandal jokes...