Sims, who has worked most of his life fixing and cleaning for customers in a Chicago hotel, does not care much for Clinton. Still, he said, he does not think Clinton will be convicted in the Senate. Either a deal will be struck between the White House and the Senate, he said, or Clinton will be acquitted. The damage has been done, though, he said. Institutions have been hurt.
Faith is hard to come by.
I just hope it all ends soon. Jack Weinroth remembers he was playing poker at some airstrip in the middle of the Pacific when he heard that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had died. He remembers, too, during a long American life, the assassinations, protests, wars, moon landings and the moment when Congress moved to remove Richard M. Nixon. He was a real criminal. Weinroth turned away from the television set, whose screen was filled with members of Congress casting their votes.