Chuck Robb Quotes
I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.
Robb, Charles S. Press Statement. 25 Mar. 1991. Quoted in Baker, Donald P., and John F. Harris. "Robb Acknowledges 'Socializing' Inappropriate for Married Man." The Washington Post, 26 Mar. 1991, p. A1.
The sexual behavior of President Clinton with a White House intern had started a sequence of events and investigations, eventually leading to an impeachment inquiry. The Republican House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, resigned (later admitting that he was having his own adulterous affair with a member of his staff). Henry Hyde, the Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee handling the impeachment hearings, admitted to adulterous conduct and fathering an illegitimate child. Livingston was then selected by the Republicans to be House Speaker. He then shocked the country with this announcement, and refused the Speaker’s post and then resigned as a member of Congress. The impeachment was voted by the House on a partisan vote, but failed in the Senate.
Charles Spittal Robb is an American politician from Virginia and former officer in the United States Marine Corps. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 64th Governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986 and a United States Senator from 1989 until 2001. In 2004, he co-chaired the Iraq Intelligence Commission.
