Word: thomasson
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Spurring this statement is the recent Supreme Court rejection of a challenge brought by former Navy pilot Lt. Paul G. Thomasson against the military's policy vis-a-vis gays, commonly dubbed "don't ask, don't tell." True to its name, the "don't ask, don't tell" policy takes a relatively laissez-faire attitude towards homosexuals in the American military: Those in power won't ask as long as you don't tell, so stay quiet about your sexual orientation, and everything will be all right; however, should you choose to be public about your sexual preferences...
...explicit in "don't ask, don't tell" is that the danger of homosexuality lies, somehow, in the aspect of public acknowledgment. The concern seems to be that fellow soldiers will respond negatively to knowing that they are training and living in intimate environments with gay men. As Thomasson expressed in his appeal, the foundation of the policy is "the expected adverse reaction that some heterosexual listeners may have" to discovering the homosexuality of members of the armed services. In its brief encouraging the Supreme Court not to hear the Thomasson appeal, Clinton administration justified the policy in the name...
...apparent inconsistencies in accounts of the removal of files by White House personnel from the office of top Clinton aide Vincent Foster immediately after his death in 1993. That night, then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff Margaret Williams and aide Patsy Thomasson were in Foster's office, reportedly searching for a suicide note. They say they removed nothing. But Secret Service guard Henry O'Neill has told Senate investigators that he saw Ms. Williams leaving Foster's suite carrying "files" or "folders on top of each other." ( Williams, who denies this, has passed...
...least 10 employees of the executive office of the president have been targeted for drug tests to be conducted at random times, according to Patsy Thomasson, director of the White House Office of Administration. Congressional Republican sources claim the tests are necessary because background checks ^ uncovered recent or extensive drug use among the Executive Office staff -- a group totaling more than 1,000, ranging from clerical workers to senior officials...
...Further, Thomasson joined ex-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and Mrs. Clinton's chief of staff Margaret Williams in entering the office of Vincent Foster Jr. the night of his suicide last July, and neither she nor the other two have ever explained what they were doing in there. Last week a crowd of reporters who did not even recognize Thomasson nonetheless turned up when she testified at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, but learned next to nothing. She would love to relate what happened that night, Thomasson told Congress, but felt she should talk first only to special counsel...