Word: crooking
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...most telling moment of the Clinton presidency was the resignation of Webb Hubbell. This was when it became totally clear that Clinton had sent a crook over to supervise the Justice Department, who was also an old Arkansas hand. It was illuminating about the whole series of corner cuttings and subversions of the justice process that went on from there to the end of the Administration. We always had suspicions that Clinton was corrupt, but I have to say I was surprised by the extent, or the brazenness, of it. And I suspect that as history unfolds, we'll learn...
Well, now we know! If only we had had the Truster before! "I am not a crook!" "Read my lips: no new taxes" "I never had sexual relations..." - we might have saved ourselves a lot of trouble...
David Gergen, who in one way or another has served every president from Nixon to Clinton, offers a shrewd, balanced look at Nixon in his new book, "Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership." Gergen describes Nixon's mysterious bright side/dark side personality - a bully and political crook, much given to anti-Semitic rant, who at the same time was a visionary in foreign policy (China and all of that), far more progressive in domestic matters than anyone remembers, and, before self-destructing, "among the best of modern presidents...
...Notable: NYT's Adam Clymer polls eight different polls for a sampler of the bouncing Gore. Results may vary... WP's Ceci Connolly does the boat trip, giving us an image that could someday be the "I am not a crook" ironic memory of this campaign. "As the raindrops began to fall, he issued a challenge: 'If you don't want to hear specifics, now is your time to leave. Do you want to hear some specifics?'" Cut to helicopter, taking off without veep... USAT's AP finds Nader trying to dodge Gore triangulation: "'He's trying to make...
...government, however, Big Sister Ping is a big-time crook and people smuggler. She may have puttered around the Yung Sun restaurant and the Tak Shun variety store, but federal investigators say she also ran a global crime network that netted her more than $40 million, made her a major competitor of China's central bank, helped her corrupt foreign government officials and changed the face of New York City. For years, law enforcement called her the Mother of All Snakeheads, a leader of the species of international gangsters who specialize in the brutal trade in humans from China...