Word: trippe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned out, the historic moment was as dismal as the characters that brought us to it. Into the chamber of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, lawmakers invited Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp. The legislators launched an inquiry into whether a President lied about sex under oath at a time in the nation's life when all their energy and attention might still not be sufficient to cope with a melting economy at home and elusive enemies overseas. And they did it in a way that suggested that the history they cared most about was their...
...urged members to listen to that still, small voice whispering "duty, duty, duty." The Democrats took the opposite tack, warning of the horrors ahead. "Do we really want two more years of Monica Lewinsky?" Democrat David Bonior bellowed from the well of the House. "Two more years of Linda Tripp...
...little hard to pin down. But among the President's defenders, one basic diagram goes this way: at the center is what they call the iron triangle, an illicit cooperation between independent counsel Kenneth Starr and the lawyers for Paula Jones. At the hypotenuse is Linda Tripp, the go-between who first alerted Starr to Monica Lewinsky's false affidavit in the Jones case. Around this triangle is a circle, a group of loosely affiliated Clinton haters who fostered ties among the inner threesome, always looking for ways to embarrass Clinton...
...evidence that supports this map of the world is suggestive but still mostly circumstantial. For instance, in January, on the night before Clinton's deposition in the Jones case, and just after Tripp lured Lewinsky into Starr's ambush, Tripp met with the Jones attorneys, thus putting them in a position to hit Clinton with questions about Lewinsky. And more than a year ago, Arkansas state troopers reported that Starr's Arkansas team was asking them about Clinton's relationship with Jones. Then there is the omnipresent billionaire and funder of anti-Clinton investigations, Richard Mellon Scaife, whose alleged interference...
Last week the circumstantial evidence became a bit more suggestive. In his report to Congress, Starr insists he first learned about the relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky when Tripp contacted his office on Jan. 12. The story Tripp told that day--and especially the parts about Vernon Jordan's job search for Lewinsky, with its hints that Clinton was trying to buy her silence--became the basis for Starr's successful request that Attorney General Janet Reno allow him to investigate the Lewinsky matter. But according to an Oct. 4 article in the New York Times, word about the Clinton...