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...will serve to remind us of this often sugarcoated truth of our nation's most traumatic war. Perhaps we will come away from this debate with an enhanced understanding of what the Civil War means to each of us. Finally, perhaps we will learn to appreciate even more Daniel Webster's declaration in his Second Reply to Hayne. "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Is Lincoln's Spirit Dead? | 1/19/1996 | See Source »

...least 14 meetings on what regulators have described as a fictitious property deal called Castle Grande. Mrs. Clinton has told RTC investigators that she does not recall working on the transaction. According to the billings, Mrs. Clinton met repeatedly with Seth Ward, the father-in-law of Webster Hubbell, former Associate Attorney General now serving time in federal prison for bilking the Rose Law Firm. Ward, say investigators, was a sham purchaser of the 1,000-plus-acre plot south of Little Rock because the only security Madison required for the loan was the land itself. A computer printout among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SLIPS ON THE PAPER TRAIL | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

...letter from Clinton's personal lawyer David Kendall as a "smoking gun" because it led investigators to conclude that during the 1992 presidential campaign, Foster had removed Whitewater-related files from the Little Rock, Arkansas, law firm where Foster and Hillary Clinton were partners. Foster gave the files to Webster Hubbell, another partner, who stored them in his Washington home while serving as an Associate U.S. Attorney General. But Kendall testified that Foster took custody of the files in order to answer Whitewater questions from reporters and others during the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITEWATER SHOWDOWN | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...page, single-spaced typed letter said that the group used the illustration for the word "afro" from the popular Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Group Takes Credit for Fake Poster | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

...scandal has inspired a lot of finger pointing. Deutch reprimanded seven agency officers, six of whom had already retired. Frederick Hitz, the CIA inspector general, recommended that the last three agency directors (William Webster, Robert Gates and R. James Woolsey) "be held accountable." The three ex-directors sent an angry letter to Deutch insisting that they had never been told by subordinates that the sensitive intelligence was tainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: FOR YOUR DISINFORMATION | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

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