The Backgrounds And Characteristics Of U.S. Congressional Leaders And Analysis Of The Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky Affair

Chuck Schumer: Career and Political Changes

Backgrounds U.S. congressional leaders and the occupation or firm were they employed in prior to entering public service

The background of political Congressmen varies from person to person. Before entering into Congress or the political leaders belonged were engaged in other occupation or they were employed in firms (McLauchlan & Gay, 2015). Approximately two years, Chuck Schumer had stood at the podium for the National Press Club and given a speech on the wake of Democrats. In the year of 1990, Chuck Schumer was elected in the New York State Assembly. He was a twenty three old lawyer who had graduated from Harvard Law School. He made his position as a liberal Democrats in the chamber and remained the same throughout the era of 1980 in the House of United States (Jackson II, R. & Richardson, 2014). However, during the phase of 1990s he had developed into an angry centrist. Chuck Schumer had warned for an approaching crisis in politics that established a new phase of acrimony into the body politics if the middle class declined (Brightman, 2014). During the time of the political era, Schumer was known as a tough on crime Democrat for revising his opposition to the death penalty and he helped to write the infamous 1994 crime bill that fueled mass incarceration (Overholt, 2017). While running Senate in 1998, he had claimed that his Republican opponent was not close to bring as tough on crime as Chuck Schumer. According to him, they must convince Americans stating that Government can be on their side and it will not be a tool of special interests. It is the duty of the Democrats to ensure and make clear that will make the government the people’s champion but should not be captive to the powerful (McLauchlan & Gay, 2015). Schumer had continuously interceded on behalf of business interests specially those that have filled his campaign coffers. Chuck Schumer was regarded among one of the twenty-seven Democrats who had voted against a 2010 amendment to break too big to fail banks. Schumer had proposed to provide multinational profits overseas a tax break larger than one that Obama had suggested (LeMay, 2017). Schumer had fought attempts to regulate credit rating agencies that successfully halved the fees that Wall Street had paid to the SEC. Schumer has never witnessed the affinity for the financial industry (Blau, 2017). Chuck Schumer was not only a prolific fundraiser for his own campaigns but he was in charge of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the mid-aughts. Schumer had also spent time by pushing the Democrats further to the center. He made the party avoid calling for tax increases and made them focus on tax enforcement.

The Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky Affair: President’s Response and Aftermath

An analysis of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair

In the controversy of Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair scandal, the problem that occurred was that the President did not appear or react properly in a situation where a man admitted of his extramarital sex with another woman who his half of his age. In 1998, the news of this sexual scandal spread like a wildfire (Everbach, 2017). Clinton had to project a strong image in front of everyone anyhow. However, he got success on that front. Since he avoided to portray his weakness, he had failed to come across all punished. Clinton did not apologize at all. He did not convey a clear and straightforward description of his relationship with Lewinsky (Adams, 2016). According to him, Clinton claimed that he was only inappropriate and wrong. Clinton’s strength related to every usual person and his speech to the nation was treated as a missed break to giver fuller accounting while engaging for the comprehension of the general people (Beggan & Allison, 2018). Even when he was annoyed after four hours or years of interrogating intimate questions, he could have  apologized for his behavior. He had the chance of being thrown in a pinch of humility for good evaluation. The President should receive an award for boldness. He had taken the position that many people do not have faith in and fewer honor. It was one of the rarest moments when the President did not bother to mince his words. Instead, he followed a riskier one. According to Clinton Independent Counsel Ken Starr Congress and the media, they got their business out of his family (LeMay, 2017). The President refused to take the advice of advisors that consisted of a measured attack on Starr (Anderson, 2016). It was not necessary for the public to hear all this. Opinion polls had registered long time the fact that how poorly the public thought of the independent counsel. Apparently, Starr still controls the probe of Lewinsky (Kundacina, Cardozo & Schulte, 2016). Clinton must have felt something and had to feel from his intuition. Due to his defensive tone, he kept a little space for other genuine emotion (White, 2018). That was the surprising part when the President’s details and expalnation to the people ruined on a quick note before it even began. Probably Clinton did not owe an apology to the public. In Clinton’s best interest to keep the public’s opinion on his side as the line in the investigation of Lewinsky between the political and legal has been removed efficiently (Green et al., 2017). Clinton tried to striking a balance between those nights and granting to the public as a little way of misconduct as possible while working in such criticism of the political attacks against him as listeners would be able to stomach. President could have done with a lot less of the latter and a whole lot more of the former. The proof against President Clinton for a misconduct of sexual affair was pretty powerful and strong. There have been plenty of scandals that surrounded and ruined the presidency of Bill Clinton. This forced the citizens of the United States to deny his plea of innocence (Kundacina, Cardozo & Schulte, 2016). Lewinsky was hired as a full time employee of White-House. She had left the white house for the position of public affairs at the Pentagon. Lewinsky in this case of extramarital affair had saved as a souvenir that had the President’s DNA on it. It was the first of several turning points and it worked. It can be analyzed that Clinton was not brave enough to accept his fault and apologize for his activities (Green et al., 2017). The Teapot Dome Scandal was also known as the Oil reserves Scandal in the history of America. It was an incident of bribery that took place during the 1920. President Warren G. Harding and Albert Bacon Fall had leased the Navy Petroleum reserves at Tram Dome and two other places in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding (Silverman, 2015). Later the leases became the subject of investigation. Albert Bacon Fall was later convicted for accepting the bribes from the oil companies and therefore became the first Cabinet member to go to prison. However, Teapot Dome was regarded as the greatest scandal in the history of American politics. The scandal ruined the goodwill of the public of the Harding administration that was already dismissed by the controversial handling (Schneider et al., 2016). The scandal of Bill Clinton’s ex, Monica did not create such a controversy in the history of America. In the scandal of Monica Lewinsky, the House Republicans had lost their seats in the elections and later it constituted that the impeachment proceeding was considered as one of the major reasons since polls proved that the public did not favor impeachment. Therefore, there was no probability or hope that the Senate would convict any charge. At the end, Bill Clinton agreed to accept and admit in giving false testimony in the case of Jones case.

Characteristics of Individuals in these Cases

Characteristics might apply to the individuals discussed in each of these case studies

Shapiro’s characteristics include economics and beyond, political science, management and law. Shapiro being the sociologist knew the perspective from where these characteristics can be applied. In a comparative analysis of agency theory, the characteristics of political science, law and economics will be applied in these scandals. Sociology has much offer by examining all the situations of these scenarios.

Inappropriate circumstances faced while obtaining a job

There are cases in the corporate field where a candidate or an individual can be turned down for a job or a promotion. Both genuine and non-genuine reasons exist for such circumstances and situations. There are individuals I know who have faced such situations, where she was turned down promotion and another less deserving woman received it due to other reasons. Other reasons being personal relationships. In the corporate world, as of now, I have not faced such a situation but there are less deserving men and women who gets promoted for in their jobs because of their personal relationships. As per my opinion, obtaining a job or a promotion based on personal relationships is highly inappropriate. This is because other deserving employees get affected. It has a bad effect on them because they genuinely deserve that post than the one who received it on an advantage of the personal relationship. Individual often seek the benefit of special connection to get promoted or to get a job in organizations. From my personal experience, I have never used a personal or special relationship to obtain a job or promotion. According to beliefs, doing such activities just to obtain promotion and to get a job is unethical. One must obtain it or achieve it genuinely and with efforts. It is completely out of my ethics to commit such activities for a job. Although I know individuals who have been turned down for a job and found out later that someone else had received it because of the special connection. This is unjustified and unfair on the part of the legitimate deserving candidates or individuals opting for the job. Such circumstances are highly inappropriate and it should not continue in the corporate sectors as it treated as being unfair to others present in the organization.

Usage of government equipment for personal use

There are certain circumstances where individuals use equipments of government for personal use. Using government tools like surfing the internet is appropriate and usable. Individuals can only use surfing the net by using the government websites but photocopying homework assignments and burning CDs is not appropriate. Surfing the internet is appropriate and necessary since it helps an individual to obtain information regarding any topic. Usage of government sites are only allowed since there are plenty of illegal surfing sites available for individuals. Out of the illegal sites, the government itself has blocked many. Therefore, only using burning CDs and photocopying homework assignments are considered as inappropriate.

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