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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton's semen was on the dress, it might be useful at a later time in case he and his operatives called her a liar, deluded or crazy, as they were planning to do. But the real power of the dress was not to punish Clinton but to smoke him out of his denial. Her privacy destroyed and her dignity under siege, the last thing Lewinsky wants to do is spend the fall and next spring answering prurient questions from Congressmen about her private life. The sheer possibility of semen on the dress would be like truth serum in Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Devil Of A Blue Dress: | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

TIGHT SPOT Presidential ambitions go up in smoke in 1980 after he loses re-election as Governor to an underdog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lies, Tight Spots (and other near death experiences) | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

Once upon a time, Presidents might have fudged the facts to a few Congressmen in smoke-filled rooms, but who was the wiser? If voters heard the words second- or thirdhand, how could they judge them? Now it's impossible to fib in obscurity. Americans can already mouth the words when they see the incessant reruns of that finger-jabbing image: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Sissela Bok, the high priestess of the scholars of lying, says the TV camera has made it far more dangerous for a President to prevaricate than it was 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lies My Presidents Told Me | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...Free World do with his pants and did they do it on the floor or use a desk or a sofa and was it one of those hard formal sofas not meant to be reclined on and did someone knock on the door during the proceedings and did she smoke a cigarette afterward and were snacks served--these all can be provided by a good novelist. But this is not about government. There is not an impeachable offense here. You can't even see impeachment from here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Get On to Something Serious? | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...possible source might be a faulty heater. But the heating systems in Paul's apartment and office, unused in August, were found to function normally. Experts say a "massive" exposure to certain industrial products, like the solvent dichloromethane, could produce elevated CO levels, as could heavy cigarette smoking. Paul did not smoke cigarettes and only occasionally puffed on a cigar. Judge Stephan has ordered a special investigation into this enigma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery In The Details | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

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