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Even people who had nervously stood by Condit's side for weeks were beginning to bail. After watching Condit's network-TV performance at a supporter's house in suburban St. Louis, Mo., House minority leader Dick Gephardt shook his head and said over and over to aides, "I can't believe he's not being more candid. I can't believe he's not taking responsibility." In a press conference the next day, he called Condit's evasions "disturbing and wrong...
...There's no mortal blow here. It's really a question of whether I react or I respond," he told TIME. "One is steeped in self-appraisal and maturity, and one is kind of superficial and temporary. I'm responding; I'm not reacting." He left the campaign committee, shook up his staff and brought back trusted family political advisers. He became a different kind of Congressman--one who acknowledged some frailties that made him seem more human, less like a Kennedy fund-raising machine. Having gone public with the fact that he has sought therapy and taken medication...
...support him in his decision to make himself available for a second term was seeing people's reaction to him. It may be the truck driver who drove past us yesterday leaning out of his window or the homeless man we met in Central Park last week who shook his hand. Is it also the countless letters from people around the world putting their trust...
...asked the policeman. "We want people to know our sentiment," said the man. His argument seemed to calm the policeman. He handed me the poster. "Okay," he said, sharply, and then marched off again in search of other misdemeanors. The well-dressed man smiled at me and shook my hand. I thanked...
...After the crackdown, he put his thumbprint on a police document promising he would never again practice, but he was lying. He never joined in the political protests, but at home he continued meditating and gliding through the slow-motion exercises, jealously guarding his secret belief. But the deaths shook his faith in the movement. "It's wrong for people to do that, for any reason," he says. He no longer practices. "If real belief means putting faith ahead of your own life," he says, "then I guess I don't have faith...