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District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that White House aide Ira Magaziner--the architect of President Clinton's 1993 health-care proposal--and White House lawyers had "deceived" his court in a 1993 affidavit.
Only in the annotation does Gibbon add, "The world has laughed at the credulity of Marcus; but Madam Dacier assures us (and we may credit a lady) that the husband will always be deceived, if the wife condescends to dissemble."
In La Stampa of Turin, Gabriele Romagnoli wrote from New York that Clinton's destiny is in the hands of the "strange, wonderful, deceived American people, who continue to form a dam against the torrent of mud poured out by Kenneth Starr onto the president they elected, onto the TV sets in their homes, onto the screens of their children's computers."
He carefully explains how Clinton spurred witness Monica Lewinsky to lie, coached potential witness Betty Currie to lie, found Lewinsky a job in exchange for a false affidavit, got Currie and Lewinsky to conceal gifts, and deceived Sidney Blumenthal and John Podesta so that they would lie to the grand jury.
The present Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, because of his tendency to change his public position on such things as the universality of social programs, is widely known as Lyin'-Brian . In the 1970s, Prime Minister Trudeau was overheard using the f-word in the House of Commons, but when asked about it later, he claimed that what he had said was fuddle-duddle . The country was generally amused (though not deceived) by this humorous explanation.
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