Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jones deposition on January 17, 1998, President Clinton -- who said he was unable to recall most of his encounters with Ms. Lewinsky -- did remember her "back there with a pizza" during the government shutdown. He said, however, that he did not believe that the two of them were alone. Testifying before the grand jury on August 17, 1998, the President said that his first "real conversation" with Ms. Lewinsky occurred during the November 1995 furlough. He testified: "One night she brought me some pizza. We had some remarks...
First, there's the tragic coincidence that the source of Clinton's greatest political triumph as President may also be the cause of his undoing. Clinton and Lewinsky started their flirtation during the famous government shutdown of 1995. As much of the permanent White House staff was forced to stay home, many of the unpaid White House interns assumed their responsibilities...
Ironically, the government shutdown is often viewed as the best thing to happen to Bill Clinton politically during his first term. By demonstrating the excessiveness and "extremism" of the new Republican Congressional leaders and by reminding people that government actually does matter, the shutdown scared voters back to Clinton and he cruised to a second term. Now, the events of that same week mar that second term and the President's place in history...
Second, more personally, around the same time as the government shutdown and the beginning of the liaison, I traveled to New Hampshire to campaign for the President. We were told to pass out glossy pamphlets featuring a thoughtful-looking Bill Clinton with the slogan "Our Families, Our Values." The campaign worker distributing the pamphlets noted the slogan and remarked, "It's good to see that we've been able to take back the 'family values' issue from the Republicans...
...failure occurred during an unusually complex maintenance procedure and was caused by a combination of two computer-software glitches and a bad judgment call. Those glitches resulted in the shutdown of one essential SOHO attitude-sensing gyroscope, a failure by a computer to recognize that the gyroscope was not operating, the unnecessary firing of SOHO's hydrazine-powered thrusters, and a mistake by controllers in switching off a gyroscope that was working properly. "Thrusters kept firing to null out a roll that was not happening," explains NASA's Michael Greenfield, co-chair of the investigation group...