WINNERS & LOSERS
[WINNERS]
PAULA JONES Spurns $700G, wants more. With lawyer Bennett distancing himself from Clinton, odds are she'll get it
BILL CLINTON Good news: latest poll shows he's No. 1. Bad news: it's a poll of Halloween-costume buyers
IMELDA MARCOS Philippine court overturns a corruption conviction. Shoemakers rejoice
[& LOSERS]
LARRY FLYNT Wants to spend big money to publish pols' dirty secrets. Say, isn't that Ken Starr's job?
HOUSE REPUBLICANS Constitutional scholars? More like a gang of vice principals hell-bent on holding detention
CHUCK KNOBLAUCH Pick up the ball, Chuck! Pick up the ball! Chuck! The ball! Yo, man, the ball! Aw, Chuck!
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
With an impeachment inquiry authorized, we can look forward to getting to know the members of the House Judiciary Committee, which brings up the question, What happened to the 38 Judiciary Committee members who examined Richard Nixon 24 years ago?
Quiet, dignified committee chairman PETER RODINO left the House in 1988; now 89, he teaches law seminars at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.
Two members of the committee remain in the House. Michigan's JOHN CONYERS is the ranking Democrat on the committee. New York's CHARLES RANGEL moved to the Ways and Means Committee, where he's the ranking Democrat. Two others are in the Senate: majority leader TRENT LOTT (Nixon partisan, Clinton critic) and PAUL SARBANES (Nixon critic, Clinton ally). The fresh-faced WILLIAM COHEN won a Senate seat, published works of poetry and fiction, and is now Secretary of Defense. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN lost two Senate races and served as New York City comptroller.
Many members pursued careers in the law. Silver-maned Nixon apologist CHARLES WIGGINS of California and Democrat WILLIAM HUNGATE of Missouri became federal-court judges, and Arkansas' RAY THORNTON and Wisconsin's HAROLD FROEHLICH became state-court judges. Wisconsin's ROBERT KASTENMEIER headed a National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal. California's JEROME WALDIE served on the National Labor Relations Board. JOHN SEIBERLING taught law at the University of Akron. "Our results were clearly a bipartisan effort," he says. "I don't detect any of that today." And ROBERT DRINAN of Massachusetts teaches law at Georgetown University. "I don't think there's much impeachable here," he says of the current scandal. "I almost resent these people on this committee now, trying to piggyback on the dignity of the Rodino committee." Among members who turned to the practice of law are Democrats JAMES MANN and EDWARD MEZVINSKY (who headed the Pennsylvania Democratic Party) and Republicans DAVID DENNIS, CALDWELL BUTLER, DELBERT LATTA, THOMAS RAILSBACK and WILEY MAYNE. "I didn't think this would happen again," says Mayne. "I would have thought that twice in 150 years was enough."
Democrat WAYNE OWENS heads a Middle East peace center; DON EDWARDS serves on various civil-liberties boards; and CARLOS MOORHEAD is active with several foundations. Democratic stalwart JACK BROOKS manages his financial interests, and the G.O.P.'s LAWRENCE HOGAN has written a book, The Osage Indian Murders: A True Crime Story.