Of her role in the Clarence Thomas hearings, she said, "I had to tell the truth"
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Confirmation: Clarence Thomas v. Anita Hill - National Review  Apr 15, 2016 ... The new movie about the Clarence ThomasAnita Hill hearings turns ... Her statements, I don't want it to appear that I had a political agenda and I had to tell the truth. ... and yet it never translates into believability (except for her role in .... Even Suze Orman said she tried to get money education into the...
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"I had to tell the truth" | MetaFilter  Wright heard Anita Hill and thought, I believe her because he did it to me. ... Why wasn't she called to testify  and what would she have said if she had been? ... Who has read justice Thomas' opinions? .... Has Joe Biden ever publicly apologized to Anita Hill for his awful role during those hearings?
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Anita Hill changed how we talk about workplace harassment | Fusion  Apr 15, 2016 ... Confirmation depicts those hearings, with dialogue taken directly from the confirmation ... Clarence Thomas is an associate justice on the Supreme Court. ... Following her time as a staffer for Thomas, she became a professor at Oral ... of this committee to report my experience, I felt that I had to tell the truth.
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'I Could Not Keep Silent': HBO's 'Confirmation' Reexamines Anita ...  Apr 15, 2016 ... Fluency around the issues at the center of the Thomas hearings  not just ... At the hearing, she deploys the calm, strained delivery of a parent ... surprising in her reply: He said if I ever told anyone of his behavior, it would ruin his career. ... committee to report my experience, I felt that I had to tell the truth.
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THE THOMAS NOMINATION - THOMAS ACCUSER TELLS ...  Oct 12, 1991 ... The proceedings in a jammed hearing room at the Russell Senate Office ... Senate aides had asked her if she was aware of any harassment. "I felt I had a duty to report -- I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas," she said. ... to report my experience," she said, "I felt that I had to tell the truth.
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Helen Thomas, veteran reporter: why she had to resign | US news ...  Jun 8, 2010 ... Helen Thomas listens during the White House daily briefing at the White ... Club and first female president of the White House Correspondents' ... for 57 years, nearly half of them as UPI's White House bureau chief. ... Technically it should have gone to someone from one of the major news organisations.
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Telling the Truth - Parade  Sep 2, 2009 ... Second, they're asked to tell the whole truth. This means ... Third, witnesses are asked to tell nothing but the truth. This is yet another concept...
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THE THOMAS CONFIRMATION - Senate's Futile Search for Safe ...  Oct 16, 1991 ... At the end of the bitter fight over Clarence Thomas, Senators sat quietly ... to be a Supreme Court Justice, and to succeed the first, Thurgood Marshall, ... poll after another found far more Americans, men and women alike, saying ... The hearings, which proved so damaging to the Senate's reputation, were...
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Clarence Thomas - Wikipedia  Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American judge, lawyer, and government official who currently serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Thomas succeeded Thurgood Marshall and is the second black American to ... Thomas's confirmation hearings were bitter and intensely fought, centering...
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The Canterbury Tales  Had power to confess coat and gown  ..... Told stories most of sin and harlotry. He stole corn ..... There came a kite, while they were waxing wrath, ..... Falsely concealed your true name thus! .... You know yourself she cannot wed both ...... On holidays before her he would troop, ...... In shriving, preaching, is my diligence,.
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Clarence Thomas (b. 1948) | New Georgia Encyclopedia  Aug 26, 2013 ... (Bork resigned his seat when the Senate rejected his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.) The Senate promptly confirmed Thomas's appointment. ... associate justice Thurgood Marshall created a vacancy on the Supreme Court by retiring. ... On July 1, 1991, he nominated Thomas to the Supreme Court.
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'It was just awful': The Clarence Thomas hearings, in the words of ...  Apr 9, 2016 ... In 1991, George H.W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas for a seat on the ... Near the end of his hearing, a former employee of Thomas's named Anita Hill came ... 10, 1991, during confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary .... any further questions, angrily calling the hearing a high-tech lynching..
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Day 2 of GOP convention speeches: CNN vets the claims - CNN.com  Jul 21, 2016 ... Based on these reports, we rate Christie's statement as true. ... Christie says she "fought" to keep them off the list and there is no evidence that ... Reality Check: Christie calls Clinton 'chief engineer' of Gadhafi's overthrow ... work helping to build an international coalition -- and Clinton was happy to take it.
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Clarence Thomas Versus Anita Hill: He said, She Said - TIME  Oct 21, 1991 ... As the nation looks on, two credible, articulate witnesses present irreconcilable ... He said, "I have not said or done the things Anita Hill has alleged." ... Viewers had to weigh the testimony of two admirable people  both of whom had ... If Hill's description of Thomas' words and actions was truthful, then the...
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Truth in a Lie: Forty Years After the 18 Minute Gap - Washington ...  May 11, 2014 ... On the afternoon of October 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon ... Nixon's long-time personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, had come to the ... Two months after Woods's private admission, the discovery of an 18 minute gap on that tape .... She said she stopped transcribing to take a phone call, and while...
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THE THOMAS NOMINATION - THOMAS ACCUSER TELLS ...  Published: October 12, 1991 ... testimony today from Judge Clarence Thomas and the woman accusing him of sexual harassment. ... Testifying first in a hearing that lasted 12 hours and 35 minutes, Judge Thomas sounded .... "And it was all sapped out of me. ... She said her contacts since working with Judge Thomas were...
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THE OTHER WOMAN - The Washington Post  Oct 9, 1994 ... The story was breaking that a University of Oklahoma law professor had accused ... As she listened to Hill's allegations that Thomas had pursued her for dates and .... "I can assure you," she said, "that even if I left there under better ... Some other woman might have, but these were not situations that I ran...
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Press Briefing by Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin and ...  He has been enormously involved in these issues since we started focusing on Thailand, ... Q: Mr. Secretary, can you tell us more about your plans -- ... ought to take and that in other areas, these kinds of judgments will develop over time. .... people reiterate what I've heard as long as I have been at the Treasury Department,...
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Sojourner Truth - Wikipedia  Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black ... Truth was from New York and grew up speaking Dutch as her first language.
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If you are asked to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the ...  Dec 3, 2012 ... Pretty simple, really...you won't be allowed to give your testimony. Now, if you're the ... really...you won't be allowed to give your testimony. Now, if you're the only witness in a criminal matter, then it's possible that the circum...
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Judith Miller's "Story": Setting the Record Straight | RealClearPolitics  Apr 8, 2015 ... now reading: Judith Miller's "Story": Setting the Record Straight ... Three years later, with her reporting mired in controversy, the Times drove her out. ... and the newspaper's own leadership all demanded an accounting for what they ... and a theater critic for Tablet Magazinewrites: When journalists make...