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Hyde and others would be tempted to say that lying to free American hostages and breaking the law to protect Latin America from communism are more justified than lies to hide a tawdry affair.
"By a curious paradox Richard Nixon was one of the very few people who emerged from the Watergate affair with credit."
John Longhouser , head of the Aberdeen Proving Ground, retired after an affair he had had five years ago became public knowledge.
However, Lewinsky had recently given sworn testimony in the Jones case that flatly contradicted her lengthy taped conversations with Tripp, in which she had talked about her affair with Clinton.
In its front-page editorial, the Sun , which used to have a homophobic reputation, claimed that the Brown affair had "set alarm bells ringing"--"[n]ot because people despise gays, or fear them, or wish to pillory them," but because "the public has a right to know how many homosexuals occupy positions of high power."