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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Loose lips have sunk or threatened many a political career before Trent Lott's self-inflicted woes led to his resignation as the incoming Senate majority leader. Racial slurs cost Ford administration Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz and Reagan Interior Secretary James Watt their jobs. Vice Presidents Spiro Agnew and Dan Quayle had to apologize for ethnic affronts. So did presidential contenders Jesse Jackson and Ross Perot. Presidents Bush -- both father and son -- blurted out things they regretted. Both former President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore had to recant statements. Outgoing Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill was shown the door in part because of incendiary ad-libs that rocked financial markets and antagonized Wall Street. In some instances, the utterances -- such as Hillary Clinton's March 1991 lament, 'I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies' -- turn out to be more politically embarrassing than career-threatening....
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