Word: wright
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...National Endowment for the Humanities. (The nea, you will remember, funded Piss Christ and the Mapplethorpe show. The neh, more recently, helped fund U.S. history standards that contained 19 references to Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism, and not one to Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison or the Wright brothers.) The endowments' grantees of progressive and independent vision live, of course, at the teat of the taxpayer, a parasitism the new Congress promises...
...articles on Clinton's formative experiences, Clinton decided against running for President in 1988 in part out of fears that rumors of extramarital affairs would scuttle his chances and destroy his Family. Maraniss quotes extensively from on-the-record interviews with longtime Clinton friend and aide Betsey Wright, who described sitting down with Clinton and ``listing the names of women he had allegedly had affairs with and the places where they were said to have occurred.'' They went over the list twice, Maraniss writes, trying to figure out which women might tell their stories to the press...
That does not exempt him from charges of hypocrisy. ``Newt Gingrich complained about the corrupt system when he was in the minority,'' says Fred Wertheimer of Common Cause, who six years ago gave crucial support to Gingrich's effort to oust Speaker Jim Wright for ethics violations. ``Now he's running that corrupt system, and it's politics as usual...
...biography of President Clinton claims that he decided against running for the office in 1988 for fear of stories about extramarital affairs. "First In His Class," by Washington Post staff writer David Maraniss, says Clinton dropped the idea of running that year after his then-top aide, Betsey Wright, listed the names of women with whom he had been rumored to be involved, and then advised him to forgo the race out of deference to his wife and daughter. Maraniss writes that Wright "was convinced that some state troopers were soliciting women for him and he for them." Wright said...
ANDREW L. WRIGHT...