Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly before 3 p.m. Friday, more than 25,000 people streamed into Tercentenary Theatre, without so much as a blade of grass in the general seating area subject to security scrutiny...
...staff members never knew what the facts were, and the lawyers wouldn't tell them. They had no choice but to wait for signs from the top. An aide, asked what the strategy is, said the President will continue to talk but won't pretend to change the subject; the White House knows this scandal is not going away. Then he paused and conceded, "I guess that's not a strategy. That's a philosophy...
There is no guidance on the books about what constitutes actual grounds for impeachment: Nixon resigned before a Senate trial unfolded. But at the time, a third-year law student named John Whitehead interviewed a congressional candidate on the subject: "I think the definition should include any criminal acts, plus a willful failure of the President to fulfill his duty to uphold and execute the laws of the United States," the candidate replied. "The third factor that I think constitutes an impeachable offense would be willful, reckless behavior in office, just totally incompetent conduct in the office and the disregard...
...stunned and dejected man of one week earlier in Moscow, the one who had gone through the motions of a press conference with Boris Yeltsin. At the breakfast Clinton sometimes spoke with the faint but unmistakable trace of a smile. You could see him warming to his subject, even when the subject was his own abjection. Throughout Clinton's political career he has been happiest and most energized during a campaign, when he was asking for love and approval, and never more so than when he was asking for it against the odds. After his re-election...
...speech that night, the president revealed a man who regretted only that he had been caught and who bristled at the notion that his actions would be subject to review and criticism. His rebuke of the Independent Counsel in that speech was a warning to the nation as a whole...