Paul Gigot, now the editorial page editor and vice president of the Wall Street Journal, was the paper's Washington columnist in 1999 as Bill Clinton's presidency entered its final year. It was a strange time: Clinton had just been impeached, but the Senate had acquitted him on Feb. 12.
During the next week, conservatives lamented the outcome of the trial in gloomy and sometimes doomsday terms. Gigot, in his “Potomac Watch” column, assessed their lamentations and suggested a more positive frame of mind.
The column, along with nine others, comprised an entry in the Pulitzer Prize Commentary category. The entry won Gigot the 2000 prize.
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