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Article: Humiliation, if Not Candor, From Senator on the Defensive - New York Times
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- The New York Times
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- October 17, 2007
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Senator Larry E. Craig told NBC's Matt Lauer that he was too "embarrassed" to tell his wife, his lawyer, or his aides about his arrest for solicitation in an airport bathroom. Butwith his wife, Suzanne, seated at his side, the Idaho lawmaker didn't flinch as he watched Mr. Lauer drag one polished brown shoe across the senator's living room carpet to re-enact the alleged misstep that brought him to this point. The senator's dogged, spirited eagerness to make his case was perhaps the most painful element in last night's hourlong exercise in political hubris and humiliation. Mr. Craig found no question too petty or too probing to answer, and Mr. Lauer asked him about the movement of his ...
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