Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because she is such a calming presence, always a kind word, always a candy bowl on her desk, a cold cloth for the forehead, Betty Currie has been painted through this winter of scandal as a simple, sanctified sister of mercy. But she is also a puzzle, with a resume and reflexes that speak to lessons learned in 40 years of bureaucratic trench warfare. Is she too loyal ever to betray the President? Is she too honest ever to shade the truth? Kenneth Starr and Bill Clinton are each hoping that they know which side she will come down...
Known for his involvement in White House scandal management and recently for his defamation lawsuit against Internet author Matt Drudge, Blumenthal praised the Clinton administration for "progressive politics in office...
...rather unremarkable truth during his address to a schoolhouse in Uganda at the end of March: "Going back to the time before we were even a nation, European Americans received the fruits of the slave trade. And we were wrong in that." Unlike the nebulous details of the Lewinsky scandal, everything Clinton spoke of at that point is factually accurate. Slavery did exist, and slavery was wrong. White Americans, as members of a governing body which sanctioned and exploited slavery, have intentionally benefited from the consequences. That is wrong as well...
...other hand, Clinton was able to avoid public discussion of the latest White House scandal simply by appearing in sober settings with people like Nelson Mandela. Lacking protective schedulers, I was not able to do the same--which hardly seemed fair, since I'm the one who definitely hadn't done anything wrong...
What saved the day was the discovery that news from America in the South Pacific is thin and well aged. The first time a New Zealander brought up "the scandal involving that young woman," I felt safe in saying, "If you're talking about Tonya Harding, I think she brought a lot of it on herself...