Word: stewart
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...JAMES STEWART'S BOOK BLOOD SPORT should be required reading for every U.S. citizen of voting age [Book Excerpt, March 18]. It reveals an extremely disturbing pattern of deceit, dishonesty and use of power for personal gain by the Clintons. The moral decadence in America has spread as high as the White House. RICHARD R. KURTZ Angier, North Carolina Via E-mail...
...STEWART'S PORTRAIT OF THE CLINTONS' involvement in Whitewater is deeply disturbing. These are intelligent, highly educated people, so they cannot claim ignorance as a defense for violating acceptable standards of ethical behavior during Bill Clinton's tenure as Governor of Arkansas. Yet the incestuous business-political relationships of Hillary Clinton and a total indifference to the logical consequences of such actions by Governor Clinton imply either ignorance or an arrogant contempt for ethical conduct. These are not admirable people, and no amount of spin can change that. The question of character and integrity will loom as large as that...
...probably less of a big deal than it is to a lot of people in Kentucky," said Stewart A. Ellis '98. "I imagine in Kentucky right now there are many happy people, but since I'm up here, it's sort of hard to be interested when everybody else is not interested...
Meryl Streep would make a good Hillary--excellent at dramatizing pain in a marriage--but surely she would choke on this line from James B. Stewart's Blood Sport: "You can't be a woman if you don't have children. It's the central mission of women," which Hillary wouldn't utter at her most wonkish. In the end, it's not surprising that Hillary, rather than the Governor, may have been more involved in Whitewater. Political wives are often left to build a nest egg while their husbands are building empires--see Marianne Gingrich (who has taken heat...
Anyone looking for evidence that might indict Bill or Hillary Clinton will be disappointed. But Stewart does succeed in painting a portrait of how the President's men and their critics have repeatedly shaded, covered up and manipulated the truth to further their various political ends. It adds up to a vivid profile of America's political culture. Though the saga is not pretty, it has at least one redeeming quality. Slowly but surely, Stewart points out, the truth has emerged. "I hope eventually people will come to realize the futility of dissembling," he says...