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When reports about McCain's bad temper first emerged out of Arizona this fall, they indicated that he had muscled, rebuked, punished, and cowed fellow Republicans in order to squelch dissent.
Then he helped squelch an early Star story on Clinton's womanizing.
First, Stephanopoulos, rounded up affidavits to squelch an article in Penthouse by groupie Connie Hamzy, who said Clinton propositioned her in a Little Rock hotel in 1984.
Whenever the academic world is tempted to adopt a more favorable view of Nixon's character, new Nixon tapes always seem to appear that squelch the impulse.
They frame lopsided yes/no questions and squelch attempts to articulate a middle ground.