Word: starr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does he rebuild his presidency now? The easy answer is that he doesn't have to, that he can let Wall Street make people rich, and Hollywood make them happy, and if he just stays out of trouble, and beyond Starr's reach, he goes down in history as a lucky survivor. The harder answer is to seize the moment and put it to good use, an effort that assumes voters will continue to separate public from private conduct. Can he return smoothly to the agenda of moral exhortation he laid out for this term--mend race relations, find...
...Wright's stunning decision to throw out the Jones case was an antidote to a poisonous winter of scandal. For the President, it was as close to a verdict of not guilty as he's ever likely to get in a case involving his sexual conduct. It left Ken Starr defending the continued relevance of his investigation even as White House aides spun out his obituary. It threw much of the press corps, especially its most aggressive investigative wing, into a defensive crouch. It inspired Newt Gingrich to marvel at the President's "courage." It gave feminists an excuse...
...over the infamous incident involving final exams in the class she took from him: he lost her exam and offered to give her a B+; she fought with him, won the right to retake the exam and got an A. In fact, defense lawyers in one of the cases Starr brought in the Whitewater probe were worried about getting a fair shake. She also worked for Clinton's G.O.P. opponent when he first ran for Congress...
...senior White House official said he was convinced Wright's ruling would sink Starr's investigation as well. "It's over," the official said. "Ken Starr was on thin ice anyway. The public isn't going to tolerate his hauling witnesses before the grand jury and continuing his investigation when the case that got this whole thing started has been thrown out." Just to help things along, the surprised White House quickly regrouped and sent its heralds out to draw attention to new charges, that conservative groups paid off David Hale, a key witness in the ongoing land-scam probe...
...been White House strategy for months to tie the Jones case as tightly as possible to Starr's operation and then take them down, one at a time if necessary, together if possible, so that the House Judiciary Committee would be hard pressed to take up his recommendations. This has worked far better than even the White House had expected; in fact the linkage has been so effective that some in Starr's office were actually delighted to have Jones and her handlers wiped away...