Word: trialing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other Clinton brother is on trial, and the prosecutor who made the most effective case against him last week was Hutchinson. Using a pointer and charts as props, he took all the familiar, disparate facts of the case and reassembled them into a coherent, sinister whole. As he went along, Hutchinson punctured a few holes in the Clinton defense. For example, the President's lawyers maintain that Clinton's leading questions to Betty Currie on the day after his deposition in the Paula Jones case could not have been witness tampering because Currie had not been called as a witness...
...that on a 747. By 3 p.m. his head was nodding. Those scribbling most energetically were not necessarily the most attentive: Senator Byron Dorgan was writing on cream-colored stationery what looked like thank-you notes. John Breaux hunched over two nearly identical briefing books, one on the trial, the other on an upcoming Mardi Gras event. Jay Rockefeller, a compulsive highlighter, covered entire pages in yellow. Bob Kerrey drew a rainbow. Joe Biden kept taking out his pocket calendar, as if it must surely be February by now. Senator John McCain perked up enormously when a page delivered...
...belonged to Lott, fitting for a man who presses his shirts after they come back from the laundry. He's so efficient he called for a 15-min. break before poor Representative Ed Bryant had actually finished speaking. The press section, fearing that perhaps we were not witnessing the trial of the century, was relieved when Dominick Dunne, the reporter of record for the previous trial of the century, in Los Angeles, finally arrived...
...trial got so soporific that Senator Tom Harkin's stunt objection over not calling the jurors jurors but "triers" was considered high drama. The best drama was supplied by Representative Asa Hutchinson. Like a sportscaster, he went to the tapes and chose bites of Clinton at his most weaselly. And like the director of a thriller, Hutchinson showcased the week of Jan. 17 with such precision you could see every point at which the perp could have come clean but didn't, that when cornered the President substituted cunning for conscience...
...President, Clinton's supporters will continue to see their tactics as more of a threat to the Republic than the President. Quiet the extremists, move to censure, and his support will evaporate. And unlike the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, now dismissed by history as a partisan act, Clinton's trial would end in his near universal condemnation, a judgment made by all of us, not one faction of us, that will stand the test of time...