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William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an American attorney, businessman, author, and politician who served as the 68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. A Harvard graduate, [1] Weld began his career as legal counsel to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary before becoming the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and later, the United States ...
The Whitewater controversy, Whitewater scandal, Whitewatergate, or simply Whitewater, was an American political controversy during the 1990s. It began with an investigation into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal , in the Whitewater Development Corporation.
Scandal is defined as "loss of or damage to reputation caused by actual or apparent violation of morality or propriety". Scandals are separate from 'controversies', (which implies two differing points of view) and 'unpopularity'. Many decisions are controversial, many decisions are unpopular, that alone does not make them scandals.
Former governor and Republican presidential candidate Bill Weld weighs in on the impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
This 1920s scandal had it all: “ornery oil ... A sexual relationship between President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky between 1995 and 1997 made news in 1998 with the ...
Donald Trump has his first Republican challenger for 2020.
In 1988, Weld and Robinson resigned in protest of an ethics scandal and associated investigations into Attorney General Edwin Meese. The pair, along with Jane Serene, joined Hale and Dorr. When Weld was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1990 he chose Robinson to serve as his chief of staff. [4]
One particular document was seen as potentially damning, a Clinton annotation on a Democratic National Committee memorandum from its finance chair Terry McAuliffe, written regarding names of people who had not been in touch since the Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992: "Yes, pursue all 3 and promptly - and get other names of the 100,000 ...