Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dilemma for the Clinton Administration was that the circumstances faintly echoed the previous case. While Baird admitted flouting the law by hiring two illegal immigrants and failing to pay taxes for them, Wood insisted she was innocent of any wrongdoing. When she had first employed an undocumented Trinidadian baby-sitter in 1986 for her son Ben, the law allowed citizens to hire illegal aliens. Moreover, Wood said she had paid all the requisite taxes and filed all the required papers. What spooked the Clinton Administration was the fear that the public would fail to see the difference between...
...illegal-alien issue was pressed a second and third time. In each instance, Wood denied any problem. Six days later, the vetting process began in earnest. Wood sent her household-employment records by overnight express to Washington, at which point Administration lawyers say they learned about the baby-sitter. They feared that while her hiring in 1986 was legal, it might pose problems during the confirmation hearings. The information was passed to Nussbaum, who asked Wood for details. On Friday, Nussbaum met with Wood. After their meeting, she decided to withdraw her name...
Wood's supporters tell a different story. The judge, they say, was forthcoming from the first phone contact in Colorado. Asked about a "Zoe Baird problem," she answered that in regard to her baby-sitter, she had complied with all laws and paid all taxes. At the time, Wood was not asked, , and she did not offer, that the baby-sitter had once been an illegal alien. On Friday, Wood released a statement that offered her side of the story. It said that employment of an illegal alien was within the law as it stood at the time and that...
Based on Wood's initial reply, the Clinton people at first perceived no potential problem. Wood's supporters say she was later told that after White House officials learned of the baby-sitter's history, the main heat came from Capitol Hill. Administration officials counter that they hardly needed Senators to tell them that they had a political time bomb on their hands...
...Year of the Woman must have come as a surprise to the many who have written feminism's obituary over the years. In the 1980s feminism was supposed to have been supplanted by mild-mannered, skirt-suited "postfeminists" who wanted nothing more than a reliable baby-sitter and a chance to bang their head against the corporate glass ceiling...