Week of February 1, 1993
President Clinton tells an audience that he did not think a few rough moments
tarnished “a pretty good start,’ for his Administration. “If you just wanted me to do
things that are easy, you should have elected somebody else President.”
Congress passes the family leave bill and it’s expected to be signed by President
Clinton.
Shades of Zoe Baird - Federal Judge
Kimba
M.
Wood
withdraws her name from
consideration, admitting that she too, had hired
an illegal immigrant to serve as a nanny.
Congressional leaders suggest that President
Clinton acted too quickly in abandoning Judge
Kimba Wood as his leading choice for attorney
general because she hired an illegal immigrant
as a baby sitter seven years ago.
First radio address - President Clinton sounds a
warning of sacrifices to come and that his
economic program will require courage to do “something no generation has ever
had to do.”
Retired pathologist Jack Kevorkian helps two sick, elderly people kill themselves,
making them the 10
th
and 11
th
patients he has helped to die. His lawyer says a
flurry of people have been seeking his help in dying before a temporary Michigan
state ban on assisted suicide takes effect march 30. The two latest suicides
occurred in a town north of Traverse City.
Suspended from baseball - Sports - Baseball’s
governing Executive Council makes it official and bars
Reds owner
Margie Schott
for a year for her racial slurs.
She’s also fined $25,000.
General Motors says it will take about $23 billion in
charges against 1992 - accounting primarily for retiree health benefits.
Week of February 1, 1993
Friday night television -
CBS - Golden Palace, Major Dad, Designing Women, Bob, Picket Fences
NBC - Movie - “Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo,” I’ll Fly Away,
Tonight Show
ABC - Family Matters, Step by Step, Dinosaurs, Camp Wildnerness, 20/20,
Nightline
FOX - America’s Most Wanted, Sightings, Sightings
PBS - Washington Week, Wall St. Week
Picket Fences - An HIV Positive dentist sues after being fired.
Family Matters - Urkel gets into Harriette’s diary.
Tonight Show -
Jodie Foster
, Paul Reiser, Albert Collins.
Music - More bad rapping. Ice-T is in the hotspot for his
bad cop raps and another rap act - “The Geto Boys” have
a rap song out that’s even terser than Ice-T’s “Cop Killer.”
“Crooked Officer” is found on an album from Rap-a-Lot
Records.
Breach of contract - Geffen Records sues artist Don Henley for $30 million.
Henley signed a deal with Geffen in 1988, but so far, only one album has been
issued.
He’s the first transvestite with a dance hit since Sylvester in
the 1970’s -
Ru Paul (Charles
) and his hit “Supermodel.”
“We’re entering the new era of glamour, and actually, I’m
heralding it. Glamour is a response to the bleak ‘80’s and a
response to the whole Reagan-Bush era. That’s why there’s a
sexy Democrat in the White House, and we’re returning to
what’s fun and loving and beautiful and full of color.”
Speaking of Ice-T, he’s gone from Warner Brothers Records.
They were going to release the album “Home Invasion” but they did print
cassette singles of “Gotta Lotta Love” before the severance. About 30,000 copies
are out there. “Home Invasion” will be released on his own independent label and
distributed by Los Angeles based Priority Records.
