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Article: Great big baskets of dirty linen.(Rep. Henry Hyde, Congress, and sexual sanctimony versus Bill Clinton)(Subject To DeBate)(Column)(Brief Article)
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- The Nation
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- October 19, 1998
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After I read Salon's report of Senator Henry Hyde's five-year affair with a married mother of three in the sixties--he was a married father of four at the time--I went to bed thoroughly depressed. Why hadn't Norman Sommer, the story's source, come to The Nation while making his dejected and rejected rounds of some fifty news organizations? What are we, I muttered, Arizona Highways?
You can imagine how I felt when I learned, the next morning, that The Nation had been offered the story in July--and turned it down. In the New York Press, our Washington editor, David Corn, explained that he could not establish that Hyde was a flaming family-values bigot while ...