THE MAN FROM GROPE
The Man from Grope Sensitive to the needs of readers without access to the Internet, where this image has been widely disseminated of late, The Scrapbook here reproduces a frame of video shot by...
...No word on how many of those stories were written from the neighboring state of Arkansas...
...After Clinton's inauguration, Schiff moved on to become a well-liked receptionist in the West Wing of the White House, where she served the First Passenger for the next five years...
...Some of the most famous post-World War II names in American politics have been swept out of office by the Curse of '68: Herman Talmadge, a fixture in Georgia politics, lost to Republican Mack Mattingly in 1980...
...Hardly...
...What with the economy humming along, and voters so docile that even the rake in the White House gets high approval ratings, what could possibly go wrong between now and November...
...And sure, picking out those contradictions in the age of Nexis is, in the idiot folk-saying of The Scrapbook's hometown, like shooting fish in a barrel...
...and hopefully this dialog will result in the end of sexual harassment in the workplace and more professional relationships between men and women who work together...
...With six-year terms, only one-third of the 100 senators run for reelection in any election year...
...The story has a happy ending...
...But, hey, if the bullets don't make all the water leak out of the barrel, the fish taste mighty fine...
...It's just a nice, touching picture...
...And the six-year cycle starting with the class of 1968 has been volatile...
...Fish in a Barrel_ Let's stipulate that every public figure who has been in Washington for the last decade has by now voiced at least five contradictory opinions on the subject of sexual harassment...
...And wish we didn't...
...Part of what makes it peculiar is that we have so much information and yet still know so little about what kind of man Bill Clinton really is...
...So here's this week's fried fish stick—Sen...
...But then it is not uncommon for vice presidents to maintain cordial professional relationships with those they serve, for legitimate career- advancement reasons...
...for the class of 1972, it's 3.4 losing incumbents on average...
...The Scrapbook apologizes for reproducing this embarrassing footage, but we wanted to assist the president's lawyer, Bob Bennett, in dispelling the "web of deceit and distortions" that has been unjustly spun regarding the president's behavior...
...And Downie then thought to himself, after hanging up, What does he mean by "upside down...
...They point to a curious pattern they dub "the Curse of '68," which recurs this year...
...Or something...
...Thirty incumbents have lost their reelection bids in those elections—that's an average of six incumbents losing each time...
...It shows then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton side by side on the jump seats with then-flight attendant Debra Schiff, aboard "Long-horn One," the official charter of the Clinton campaign...
...Truly, Al Gore gives new meaning to the term reactionary liberalism...
...But it's one more reason for Carol Moseley-Braun, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, Kit Bond, Al D'Amato, and a couple of "safe" senators nobody's yet thought much about to look over their shoulders...
...Well, nobody else has called," Downie responded, but thanks anyway...
...Is this an example of astrology politics...
...The Man from Grope Sensitive to the needs of readers without access to the Internet, where this image has been widely disseminated of late, The Scrapbook here reproduces a frame of video shot by ABC News in November 1992...
...Schiff has the microphone in one hand and in the next frame can be seen using her free hand to move the soon-to-be-presidential paw from her thigh...
...Pyramids of Denial There is a clinical condition known as being "in denial...
...because "I thought about it and thought about it, and I decided I just had to call because you've printed a picture of the Earth upside down" on the front page...
...Gore went on to read into the Congressional Record a letter from 157 women attorneys in Los Angeles who noted: "It is not uncommon for cordial professional relationships to be maintained with those engaged in sexual harassment, sometimes because the behavior ceased or because individuals changed jobs, or because it was necessary or prudent to do so for legitimate career advancement reasons...
...Occasionally, though, the condition manifests itself in pure form...
...By contrast, the average losses for the cycle starting with the class of 1970 are 3.8 seats...
...What makes it peculiar is that we know so much about what kind of man Bill Clinton really is...
...George McGovern was upset by South Dakota Republican James Abdnor that same year...
...Last week, she began a new job as assistant to the State Department protocol chief...
...GOP strategists Mike Murphy and Alan Philp argue that incumbent senators, especially, should be running hard and avoiding complacency...
...It doesn't mean anything—truly it doesn't...
...The term is often used loosely...
...The Curse of '68 All those incumbent congressmen must be pretty smug this year...
...Upside down to whom...
...Al Gore, on the floor of the Senate in 1991, paying fulsome tribute to Professor Anita Hill: "Luckily, the American workplace will never be the same...
...More Gore_ The vice president carved time out of his busy schedule last week to call up the Washington Post and lodge what can only be described as a pre-Copernican complaint...
...Each of those winners would himself lose six years later...
...What is the candidate doing exactly...
...As the Post reported, Gore called executive editor Leonard Downie Jr...
...Witness the lead editorial from last Tuesday's New York Times on "presidential character": "This is a peculiar moment," the editorialist intoned, "in what will surely be remembered as one of the oddest modern Presidencies...
...I have been deeply moved by the stories of women who have written to me from Tennessee and from across the country, telling me about their own experiences with sexual harassment, believing their jobs to be threatened by refusing unwanted personal attention from professional colleagues...
...Men and women everywhere—in offices, in factories, in schools, in banks—are talking about sexual harassment...
...Gore has not been as vocal on the subject of Kathleen Willey...
...No, no, no, no, no, no, no (as the president himself once said in a different context...
...Lots...
...In 1974, 1980, 1986, and 1992, an unusual number of incumbents have been unseated...
Vol. 3 • March 1998 • No. 28
