... a man named Fred Snodgrass, a retiree living in Florida, said he nearly jumped out of his chair when he first saw Hyde on television talking about Clinton.

Hyde's committee was then deciding whether Clinton's fun and games with a White House intern should be referred to the entire House [of Representatives of the United States] for impeachment proceedings.

The 76-year-old Snodgrass said as he was listening to "these politicians ?... going on about how he (Hyde) should have been on the Supreme Court, what a great man he was, how we're lucky to have him in Congress in charge of this impeachment case!" Snodgrass couldn't help but think that this was the same hypocrite who broke up Snodgrass's family.

Hyde had carried on a five-year affair with Snodgrass's wife Cherie. Hyde admitted that the affair only ended when his own wife found out about it. Hyde was a rising star in Republican politics and Cherie Snodgrass was a beauty stylist. She was Hyde's trophy mistress, an attractive beautiful much younger woman that he flaunted for many years -- including some rather painful moments in front of Snodgrass.

Hyde eventually became a pious Roman Catholic defender of family values and strong opponent -- along with Fallwell ?and gang -- of abortion. He also was, not so incidentally, a strong supporter of Oliver North of Iran-Contra scandal fame, who made a virtue of lying to the Congress to protect an illegal operation by the executive branch. During the impeachment attempt on Clinton, Hyde kept insisting that "lying must have consequences," a statement that would come to haunt him when the evidence of his own homewrecking ways were revealed. ...

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