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Article: White House avoids harassment issue
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 9, 1991
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WASHINGTON -- The White House declined to say yesterday
whether a proven case of verbal sexual harassment should disqualify
someone for the Supreme Court.
President Bush has stressed that he does not believe the charges
by Anita Hill, a former assistant to Supreme Court nominee Clarence
Thomas, who accused Thomas of verbally sexually harassing her.
But, in one of the year's most combative White House news
briefings, Bush's spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, declined more than a
dozen times to say whether Bush would automatically disqualify
someone for a prominent position if it was proven the individual had
engaged in verbal sexual harassment.