Extra! 1999 Ed. 4 – Update April

April 1, 1999

Hit the Rewind

The day after President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, George Stephanopoulos, surveying the rubble on ABC‘s This Week (12/20/98), made a bold confession: “As a Democrat, I will say the Democrats should rue the day when they made one simple act: the day they subpoenaed Robert Bork’s videos.” Stephanopoulos was soon joined by others. Edward Rothstein, cultural […]

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