126 Michael Kelly, “The 1992 Campaign: The Democrats,” New York Times, October 29, 1992.
127 CNN’s Campaign USA ’92—Voters and Media Picked and Panned, November 1, 1992.
128 Arguably, a president’s lies about official policy are worse than lies about his personal misconduct because they can have greater consequences for the nation. But distinguishing “lies” from, for example, “protecting vital national security information” would most likely boil down to partisan disputes about the underlying policy. For example, Arthur Schlesinger writes that Fidel Castro’s request for nuclear missiles from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was a direct response to President Kennedy’s CIA maneuvers against Cuba. Noting this fact, Garry Wills has written, “Kennedy, calling that move unprovoked, was lying to the American people: He had provoked it.” Garry Wills, “Son of Nixon. Oliver Stone’s film on Richard Nixon,” Esquire, January 1996. Should Kennedy have been expected to state that Castro’s build-up was, perhaps, a “little provoked” by the CIA’s covert operation against Cuba? There may be some lies that are so bald-faced and so distant from any serious national security interest that the policy/nonpolicy distinction is inapposite. It is enough to say that oral sex from the White House interns is not even vaguely, possibly related to Clinton’s function as the chief executive.
129 James A. Barnes, “Flirting with Loyalties,” National Journal, March 28, 1998.
130 Federalist No. 71, at 434 (Alexander Hamilton). Such vigor in the president, Hamilton said, was “essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction and of anarchy.” Federalist No. 70, at 423 (Alexander Hamilton).
131 Federalist No. 57, (James Madison).
132 Report of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, at 27 (August 1993) (quoting 2 The Records of the Constitutional Convention 65 [M. Farrand ed. 1911]).
133 7 Edmund Burke, Works 11,14 (1839).
134 Rodino Report at 17 [quoting 1 J. Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States sec. 764 at 559 (5th ed. 1905)].
135 Rodino Report at 14.
136 Report of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, at 30 (August 1993).
137 Rodino Report at 10-11.
138 2 The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, at 65 (M. Farrand ed. 1911) (from James Madison’s notes from the Constitutional Convention debates, July 20, 1787).
139 Federalist No. 68, at 414 (Alexander Hamilton).
140 Federalist No. 14, at 104-105 (James Madison).
Index
A
accidents
Adams, Cindy
Albert, Carl
Aldrich, Gary
Americans with Disabilities Act
Anderson, Mari
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission
Arlington cemetery
Arnold, Truman
attorneys, U.S.
B
Babbitt, Bruce
Bacon, Kenneth H.
Baker, James
Barnett, Robert
Begala, Paul
Bennett, Bob
Bennett, Jackie M.
Berger, Raoul
Bernath, Clifford
bimbo
Blackley, Ronald
Blitzer, Wolf
Blumenthal, Sidney
Bourke, James
Bowles, Erskine
Bradley, Ed
Brandeis, Louis
Braun, Sergeant Cheryl
Braver, Rita
bribery
British constitution; system; impeachments
Brown, Kent Masterson
Browning, Dolly Kyle
Bruce, Carol Elder
Buchanan, Pat
Buford, Douglas
Burke, Edmund
Burton, Dan
Bush, George
C
Cammarata, Joseph
Campbell, Donovan
Carter, Jimmy
Carville, James
Casey, Dennis
Castle Grande
Caudle, Charles
Cerda, Clarissa
Chinese
Chippewa tribe
Christian Coalition
citizens, duties of
Clarendon
Clift, Eleanor
Clinger, William
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Cohen, William
communist conspiracy
Constitution, U.S.
Consumer Support and Education Fund
Corcoran, Thomas
Cornelius, Catherine
corruption: definition; nature of
Cox, Archibald
criminal acts
Cronin, Robert
Cuomo, Mario
Currie, Betty
D
Dale, Billy
Davie, William
de la Pole, Michael
Dean, John
Declaration of Independence
definitions
Democratic National Committee
Denton, H. Don
Dinwiddie, Jacquelyn
DNC. See Democratic National Committee
Dole, Bob
Donaldson, Sam
Drudge, Matt
duty, impeachment as
E
Eckstein, Paul
EEOC. See Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Eisele, Albert
Eller, Jeff
Ellsberg, Daniel
English law
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
executive privilege
F
Fabiani, Mark
Faircloth, Lauch
FBI files
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federalist Papers
Ferguson, Danny
Fifth Amendment
Fisher, James
Fiske, Robert
Flowers, Gennifer
Ford, Gerald
Forrestal, James
Foster, Vince
Founding Fathers
Fowler, Donald
Franklin, Benjamin
Friedman, Milton
fund-raising
G
Garten, Jeffrey
General Accounting Office
Gingrich, Newt
Ginsburg, William
Gore, Al
Gotti, John
Gray, C. Boyden
H
Habibie, B.J.
Hale, David
Hamilton, Alexander
hanging
health care
Hernreich, Nancy
Heymann, Philip
high Crimes and Misdemeanors, definition
Hobbs Act
Huang, John
Hubbell, Webb
I
Ickes, Harold
IDC
immunity
impeachment: historical acts
process
“Imperial Presidency,”
Independent Counsel Reauthorization Act of 1994
Iredell, James
Ireland, Doug
IRS audits
Isikoff, Michael
J
Jay, John
job assistance
Johnson, Andrew
Jones, Paula
Jordan, Vernon
K
Kantor, Mickey
Kelly, Michael
Kendall, David
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, William
Kerrey, Bob
Kerry, John
Kirk, Lauren
kiss it
Knight, Peter
L
Lamberth, Judge Royce
L
andow, Nathan
Lasater, Dan
Lau, Valerie
Lawrence, Shelia
Leaves of Grass
legal defense: Nixon
Clinton
Leno, Jay
Lenzner, Terry
Lewinsky, Monica
gifts to
perjury
affidavits
visits to White House
immunity
Lewis, Ann
Lewis, Anthony
Li Dao
libel
Lieberman, Evelyn
Lincoln bedroom
Lindsey, Bruce
Lippo Group
Livingstone, Craig
loyalty
lying
M
MacAndrews & Forbes. See Revlon
McAuliffe, Terry
McCurry, Mike
McDougal, James
McDougal, Susan
McLarty, Thomas “Mack,”
Madison Guaranty
Madison, James
Maher, Bill
Marceca, Anthony
Massey, Richard
Mayer, Jane
Meddoff, R. Warren
Meissner, Charles
Mendoza, Patricia
Mid-America Dairy Men’s Association
misbehavior
Moody, Jim
moral character
Morgan, Bill
Morris, Dick
Most Favored Nation Status
Myers, Dee Dee
N
Nixon, Richard
Nussbaum, Bernard
Nynex
O
Occupational Safety and Health Act
O’Connor, Patrick
O’Neill, Henry
obstruction of justice
oral sex
OSHA. See Occupational Safety and Health Act
P
Pacific Telesis Group
Palladino, Jack
partisan politics
Patterson, Larry
Peat Marwick
Pentagon
Perdue, Sally
perjury
phone tapping
political commentary
power, abuse of
president: responsibility of
nature of
power of
pardon
Privacy Act
providence
punditry
punishment of crime
R
Raines, Ashley
Randolph, Edmund
rape
Raspberry, William
Reagan, Ronald
Reno, Janet
Revlon
Riady, Mochtar
Richardson, Bill
Richardson, Elliot
Richardson, Margaret Milner
Ritz Carlton
Rodino Report
Rometsch, Ellen
Rose Law Firm
Ruckelshaus, William
Rutherford Institute
S
Sally Jessy Raphael
Sanford Law Firm
Schiavo, Mary
Schmidt, Susan
Scott, Marsha
Sculimbrene, Dennis
Secret Service
Shaffer, Beverly Bassett
Shaheen, Michael
Shalala, Donna
Shapiro, Howard
Sibbison, Heather
Simpson, O.J.
Sixth Amendment
Solomon, Gerald
Souter, Justice David
Springer, Jerry
standards, absence of
Starr, Kenneth
state’s evidence
Steele, Julie
Steinem, Gloria
Stephanopoulos, George
Stewart, Jimmy
stonewalling
Story, Joseph
Suharto, President
SunAmerica, Inc.
Supreme Court
T
Taiwan
Taylor, Stuart
Thomason, Harry
Thomasson, Patsy
Time Warner
Title
Travel Office
Travelgate
Tripp, Linda
Troopers, Arkansas State
trust
Tucker, Jim Guy
Tuttle, Rick
U
UltrAir
Utah
V
Vietnam War
virtue
W
Ward, Seth
Watergate
Watkins, David
WAVES. See Workers And Visitors Entrance System
Weiss, Melvyn
Whitewater
Willey, Kathleen
Williams, Jack L.
Williams, Maggie
Wilson, James
wiretaps
witness tampering
women, abuses toward
Workers And Visitors Entrance System
World Wide Travel
Worthen Bank
Wright, Betsey
Wright, Susan Webber
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