Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much-needed moment of restraint in a scandal that has been all about excess. By Friday the Democrats had heard, for the first time since Starr's report was released, conciliatory talk from a key member of the Gingrich team. Representative John Linder of Georgia, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told an audience in Washington that "if all Starr has is what we've seen, I don't think the public is ready for [impeachment]." But the glimmer faded when Linder went on to echo Gingrich's call for an open-ended impeachment inquiry. "There is no shortage...
...this event all year. Most Americans already know what they dislike about the President. What was brought home by the Clinton squirm session, and then by the transcripts of Monica Lewinsky's testimony that were released the same day, is that the man who really unnerves them is Ken Starr...
...have to care much for Clinton to know that any number of things about Starr's inquiry feel unsound. His indifference to the niceties of nonpartisanship, his way of delivering the evidence without the exculpatory alternatives that prosecutors generally offer would be enough. What's really unsettling is the larger dynamic. At a time when the notion of a protected personal realm is beginning to seem quaint and sepia toned, even people who don't expect government investigators on their doorstep sense that Starr has breached more than just the President's tattered defenses. By its very example, his investigation...
...Lewinsky's apartment, Lewinsky was called by the President, she testified, for what may have been a round of phone sex. On hanging up, the first thing Lewinsky did was try to wake Tripp to tell her about the interlude. Had the dozing mother figure not slept on, the Starr report might have been several pages longer...
...Convinced that Tripp was jealous of her association with two Big Daddies, Jordan and Clinton, Lewinsky fudged certain details of her job search and her affidavit in the Jones case. "I didn't want her to think that I had gone ahead and done anything without her," Lewinsky told Starr...