Aftermath: The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This collection is meant to start a conversation across political, moral, and religious divides on the problems of trust in public life. That interchange required that authors receive each others’ manuscripts so as to comment on each others’ work. For managing the essays as they came in and went out, my thanks go to Lynda Hicks, Keith Landers, Debi McNuttGrassman , and David Ward. They put in long hours at no additional pay and often at times of personal crisis. Their competence, professionalism, and integrity demonstrates that a degree means nothing in the face of hard work done honestly and well. Special thanks to Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic for bringing this book to the NYU Press. Thanks also to Steve Maikowski, Cecilia Feilla, and Emily Park of NYU Press, for their hard work and support. For their helpful comments to authors, I thank David Trubek, Louise Trubek, and Bill Whitford, all of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. For their contribution to this project’s intellectual and moral base, I thank Idit Dobbs-Weinstein of Vanderbilt University, Dr. Fran Erlich Price, Fred Harris of the University of Illinois Law School, Dirk Hartog of Princeton University, Leon Trakman of the Dalhousie Law School, and Stephanie Wildman of the University of California at Berkeley , Boalt Hall. Finally, I thank the people who provided the intellectual stewardship for this text: David Canon and Ken Mayer, Drucilla Cornell, John Milton Cooper, Jr., Jean Bethke Elshtain, Robert Gordon, Lawrence Joseph, David Kennedy, Richard Neuhaus, David Novak, Linda Oakley, Elizabeth Rapaport, Lawrence Rosen, Eric Rothstein, Aviam Soifer, Lawrence Solan, Cass Sunstein, Stephen Toulmin, Leon Trakman, Frank Tuerkheimer, Mark Tushnet, and Robin West. beverly i. moran xi Although the editors receive credit on the cover, it takes the combined effort of many other competent people to produce a coherent volume of essays . I would like to thank my coeditor, Beverly Moran, and join her in honoring the memory of Jackie Macauley, and the contributing authors for producing such thoughtful, insightful, and timely essays. It was a pleasure to work with Niko Pfund, Eric Zinner, and Despina Papazoglou Gimbel of New York University Press. The process of putting this book together started with a conversation amongst various scholars, most of whom have contributed to this volume . Some of these contributors were able to attend a conference entitled , “Aftermath: Conversations on the Clinton Scandal, the Future of the Presidency, and the Liberal State,” which was held at the University of Wisconsin Law School in February 2000. The conference was supported both intellectually and economically by a number of individuals and organizations on campus. Special thanks to welcoming speakers Peter Carstensen and Judith Kornblatt; to panel chairs Charles Cohen, Mary Layoun, and Ann Althouse, and to commentators Heinz Klug and Carin Clauss. Thanks also to Walter Dickey for stimulating discussion with his presentation at the conference, and to Laura McClure who prepared a statement that linked Aristophanes to the Clinton scandal, but unfortunately could not join us. Thanks also to Theresa Dougherty for assistance in pulling it all together, and to Keith Landers, Dave Ward, and Michael Morgalla, whose help on many of my projects is always necessary and too frequently unmentioned. Pam Hollenhorst made sure, despite more than the general vicissitudes of putting on a conference, that everything went smoothly. I thank her for her tact and competency. I would also like to thank the following conference sponsors and decision makers, including the Institute for Legal Studies, the University of Wisconsin College of Letters and Science Humanistic Fund, and the UW Law School; Kenneth B. Davis, Jr., Dean of UW Law School; Philip R. Certain, Dean of the College of Letters and Science; Peter Carstensen, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development; and Howard Erlanger, Director of the Institute for Legal Studies. Other university entities that provided support include the Department of Political Science, the Religious Studies Program, the Women’s Studies Program, the Department of English, the Department of History, and the Remington Center. I have already mentioned that the conference and the book represent a conversation amongst people of very different intellectual and disciplinary xii Acknowledgments viewpoints. This conversation must be ongoing. The purpose of this book is to contribute to this ongoing conversation. I must thank several friends and colleagues for contributing to my ideas and providing emotional support with respect to my contribution to this conversation. I have already acknowledged my...