Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish Senator Glenn the very best as he returns to space. However, I wish he had looked into his soul a little harder as a U.S. Senator. He decries partisanship but demonstrated it to an extreme in his defense of Clinton's flawed presidency. Glenn will be remembered by history for space flights, not for political courage. AL BELTRAMI Ukiah, Calif...
...wish this was over," the President said. "after I leave this place, I never want to see it again." Bill Clinton on Monday night, after his sorta culpa? No. President Ulysses Grant in 1875, after scandals had smudged his Civil War gloss. Clinton has been reading about Grant, who he believes got a "bum rap." Both men were subjected to all manner of low-grade calumny: mostly financial scandals for Grant, mostly Monica for Clinton. For both, the accusations were constant, painful and irrelevant to a majority of the public. Grant remained the nation's most popular politician even postscandal...
...just wish he had done right by all the people who so willingly gave him their votes, their hopes, their labor and their love...
...romantically involved with a sitting President. And I imagine it has dawned on Mr. Starr that he may go down in history as a rather small and obsessive figure who spent $40 million for a stained dress. And I imagine that by now all of the Monicas in America wish they were Cheryls or Ambers. And the President's reference to a hot-blooded amour as an inappropriate relationship does a real disservice to the English language. But otherwise, this story is without real import...
...with members of his own party. As TIME reports Monday, Clinton spent much of his Martha's Vinyard vacation dialing up top Democrats and piling on the mea culpas. Another public act of contrition is unlikely -- suggestions to that effect from top aides were shot down -- but Clinton does wish he'd been on the ball first time around. "The President admitted to us that the timing of his speech was probably not the best," Rep. Jim McGovern, one of those on the must-call list, told NBC's "Meet the Press." "He wished he had more time to reflect...