Word: toweritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...riveting exchange on the fourth day of increasingly heated debate over Tower's personal qualifications, DeConcini said he saw Tower "under the influence of alcohol" while on the Senate floor. Tower served in the Senate from...
...have not seen him inebriated to the extent he could not perform his duties," replied DeConcini, who said later he had seen Tower "under the influence" several times...
...Tower, in a statement, denied the charge, saying, "I have never been inebriated on the Senate floor...
Bush, in a session earlier yesterday with White House reporters, repeated his insistence that no senators had first-hand information that Tower was hampered by a drinking problem...
Bush also defended Tower's vow that he would never take another drink if confirmed. "John Tower has said he'll never touch another drop of liquor and he'll have 25,000 people at the Pentagon making sure he keeps his word. I would say we have a fail-safe guarantee," Bush said...