Woodward--understandably flustered by this unenviable task--takes 56 seconds to say, in effect, that l'affaire Lewinsky is but one episode in a larger scandal.
Woodward argued that the scandal was one of the largest in the nation's history.
mnli hypothesis: Woodward argued that the scandal was one of the largest in the nation's history. premise: Woodward--understandably flustered by this unenviable task--takes 56 seconds to say, in effect, that l'affaire Lewinsky is but one episode in a larger scandal.