environment. The sum total of all surroundings of a living organism, including natural forces and other living things, which provide conditions for development and growth as well as of danger and damage.
Under subpoena in 1948, he testified in what became Alger Hiss's perjury (espionage) trials (1949â1950) and he became an outspoken anti-communist (all described in his 1952 memoir Witness). Afterwards, he worked briefly as a senior editor at National Review (1957â1959). President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984.
The late CBS News correspondent Ed Bradley conducted an on-camera interview with Kathleen Willey that aired on March 15, 1998, in which she first made her startling claim that President Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her in the Oval Office. Below is a partial transcript.