Word: understood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawmakers in line. On Tuesday, House Democratic leaders met with White House aides Larry Stein, John Podesta and Erskine Bowles, all of whom appeared to participants to be "in shock." All they could do was to keep saying they were sorry, complained one Democratic member, and reiterate that they understood what House Democrats were feeling. It was contrition by proxy. For much of the week there was no strategy, no guidance and no evidence that the President would drop the legal argument that he didn't technically lie. "They don't know what they're doing," said a member bluntly...
...understood that you wouldn't actually have a sexual encounter in the Oval office? A. I'm sure it was understood. I - I - I wouldn't have done that. I mean - so - I'm sure he wouldn't have done that. Q. (PROSECUTOR): Are there windows all around the Oval Office? A. There are windows all around and it just I know this may sound silly, but it wouldn't be appropriate. You know...
...species have approached the mysteries of romance from different vantages. Generally it's the men who prefer to move in the direction Lewinsky suggests: sex first, romance later (if there's a ball game on TV, maybe romance never). But by his testimony, the President wants it understood that the sex was an expression, a culmination, of a deepening friendship. And there's a reason the President would like it to be seen that way. He has created for himself an unprecedented persona. We have always known him by his contradictions--the raging moderate, the compassionate realist, the hardheaded dreamer...
...mouth. Ms. Lewinsky testified: "I believe he took a phone call...and so we moved from the hallway into the back office... [H]e put his hand down my pants and stimulated me manually in the genital area." While the President continued talking on the phone (Ms. Lewinsky understood that the caller was a Member of Congress or a Senator), she performed oral sex on him. He finished his call, and, a moment later, told Ms. Lewinsky to stop. In her recollection: "I told him that I wanted...to complete that. And he said...that he needed to wait until...
...with a 24-year-old young lady. I know he has said that young people keep him involved in what's happening in the world, so I knew that was one reason, but there was a concern of mine that she was spending more time than most." Ms. Currie understood that "the majority" of the President's meetings with Ms. Lewinsky were "more personal in nature as opposed to business...