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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday morning, Livingston was paid a visit by an impatient DeLay. "We've got to get it done," he said. "The President is playing games." DeLay believed that Clinton's goal was to push off the vote until just before Christmas, making the Republicans look just as nasty as if they had voted during the Iraq assaults. According to some sources, DeLay hinted that if Livingston held the vote off, he wouldn't last long as Speaker, a job he had yet to assume. "We're going to get hit either way," he told Livingston. "Get it over with...
Republicans who gathered for a meeting of the full conference Thursday evening thought they were there to discuss the impeachment vote. It was not until 45 minutes into the meeting that Livingston quietly dropped his bomb. "I wanna talk to you about something I'm not proud of, something I wanted you to know. I've been Larry Flynted...
...then read a statement: "It has suddenly come to my attention that there are individuals working together with the media, who are investigating my personal background in an effort to find indiscretions which may be exploitable against me and my party on the eve of the upcoming historic vote on impeachment." The room went silent. Members looked around at one another, their eyes wide. "When I did an early interview with the media after announcing my candidacy for Speaker, I told a reporter that I was running for Speaker, not sainthood. There was a reason for those words." More stunned...
...Saturday, the day of the impeachment vote, there was a resignation that stunned the capital, but it wasn't Clinton's. A slow-moving Livingston, head bowed, took the floor to deliver what his colleagues believed would be a speech about the President's transgressions and instead gave a speech about his own. Then Livingston made his way to the now common Republican argument that if Clinton truly wanted to avoid the nightmare of a Senate trial, he should do the honorable thing. "You sir," he addressed the President, "may resign your post." Democrats hissed and moaned. Waters of California...
...Christmas offer of peace ring across the capital. "We need to start healing; we need to start binding up our wounds; we need to end this downward spiral that will end with the death of our representative democracy," Gephardt said as he urged in vain for the chance to vote on censure. Linking Livingston with Clinton, Gephardt said, "Our Founding Fathers created a system of government of men, not of angels. We are on the brink of the abyss. The only way we stop this insanity is through the force of our own will...