Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [522]
Even worse, someone had slid: Ibid.
Back in Virginia, Alice Starr: Alice Starr, interview by author.
From his increasingly lonely: Kenneth Starr to Randy Starr, 28 Sept. 1998, Starr personal papers.
Matters only worsened: Editorials on File 29, no. 18 (16–30 Sept. 1998).
OIC had refused: Office of Independent Counsel, press release, 17 Sept. 1998.
a major “blunder”: Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 Sept. 1998.
“We got our butts kicked”: Paul Rosenzweig, interview by author.
dozens of magnifying glasses: David Kendall, interview by author.
“As the academic year begins”: Kenneth Starr to Ronald F. Phillips, 25 Aug. 1998, Starr personal papers, Sept. 1998.
New polls showed: Democratic National Committee, collection of public opinion polls, 14 Sept. 1998, Starr personal papers, KWS Outbox, Sept.–Oct. 1998.
“Well, if she”: Paul Begala, interview by author.
“Look, this was a terrible personal ordeal”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
Chapter 46: Starr Witness
Henry Hyde had engaged in: Woodward, Shadow, 471; Baker, The Breach, 98–99.
“It is the most hurtful thing”: Henry J. Hyde, interview by author.
“I would kick”: John Podesta, interview by author.
“engaged in misconduct unbecoming”: Baker, The Breach, 112–13. The resolution further stated that Clinton had “failed to provide completely truthful and forthcoming testimony” in the Jones deposition and in his subsequent grand jury testimony.
Part of the proposed deal: As Gephardt and Bauer constructed the final plan, Ken Starr and President Clinton would have to work out their differences by the date of the president’s State of the Union address in January. If the parties could not put the matter to rest, Congress could go forward with impeachment proceedings if warranted, or cut off funds to the independent counsel if that was in order (ibid.).
DeLay directed his troops: Ibid., 114.
So Democrats devised: The Boucher plan would have created tight deadlines, required a determination of what constituted an impeachable offense before considering the merits of the Clinton case, and required that the whole process be wrapped up by November 25, at which time the House would have to vote to impeach, dismiss the charges, or settle on a third option (ibid., 115–16).
“We realized they were like”: Barney Frank, interview by author.
As he witnessed: Amory Houghton, interview by author.
Daschle told the president: Tom Daschle, interview by author.
Seated in his golden wheelchair: Larry Flynt, interview by author.
Democrats were becoming: Baker, The Breach, 108–109, 137–39.
“further impeachment referrals”: “Independent Counsel Responds to Hyde-Conyers Letter; Starr Does Not Rule Out Further Impeachment Referrals,” 7 Oct. 1998, House Judiciary Committee Web site.
Feeling empowered and emboldened: Editorial, Chicago Sun Times, 6 Oct. 1998; Baker, The Breach, 123. House Republicans snuffed out the Democratic-sponsored “censure plus” concept. They additionally rejected a compromise plan by Congressman Howard Berman of California. His plan would have permitted the Judiciary Committee to take its time studying whether the Starr Report established a proper basis for a formal impeachment inquiry, before the committee would delve into it.
“This is the Russian Army”: Barney Frank, interview by author.
On October 8: “White House Scandals: House Votes for Impeachment Inquiry to Clinton’s Conduct with Lewinsky,” Editorials on File 29, no. 19 (1–15 October 1998); Editorial, San Diego Union Tribune, 9 Oct. 1998.
On October 30, Chief Judge Norma Holloway Johnson: Order, 25 Sept. 1998, in Re-Grand Jury Proceedings, Misc. No. 98–228, 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17290, 32; David Kendall to Honorable Mark J. Langer, Clerk of Court, 11 Jan. 2002, Kendall papers. The federal judge found a prima facie violation of Rule 6(e), stating that the twenty-four alleged violations were “serious and repetitive.”
For months, House Speaker Newt Gingrich: Baker, The Breach, 132–33; Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 260–61.
Gingrich’s unexpected fall from grace: Howard Fineman