Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kenneth Starr, but his thoughts that night at the White House were of rebellion--against Starr, against the advice of his own lawyer, David Kendall, against the expectations building on all sides. He had agreed to testify because he felt he had no choice in the face of a subpoena and the warnings from Democrats that he had better not fight it. But no decisions are forever these days, and so on the eve of Monica's testimony, one of Clinton's closest advisers slipped into the White House late that night, so as not to upset Kendall, and spent...
...Clinton chose to stick with his plan to testify next Monday. Apart from the political costs of refusing, the courts have long ruled that you can sue a sitting President, you can subpoena his tapes, and you can get his papers. If Clinton challenged the call to testify, Kendall had warned, he would lose, and perhaps quickly. "It doesn't make sense for the presidency, for Bill Clinton, for the next 2 1/2 years, for him to be silent," says an adviser...
...going to get Monday night -- and by all accounts, not even his grand jury testimony mentioned the specifics. He came out fighting too. Attacks on the independent counsel peppered a speech that was "surprisingly defiant," according to TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "He's daring Ken Starr to subpoena him to get the rest of the testimony...
...meaning no personal questions. Though his homosexuality was an open secret, he never discussed it in public, going so far in 1951 as to become engaged to the ballerina Nora Kaye. (They never married. Interestingly, he cast her as the novice man killer in The Cage.) It took a subpoena to get him to talk about his private life: he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 about his involvement with a communist group of the '40s, naming eight other party members. "I feel I'm doing the right thing as an American," he explained. But many...
BILL CLINTON Avoiding subpoena, agrees to talk on closed circuit TV. Should've held out for pay-per-view...