【正文】 esidents have e, each in his turn to today, I, myself, make my second visit to your e to Berlin, we American Presidents, because it39。 t just been the last few days this has actually been over a month now that I have been under the strain of this the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this may have used poor judgment early on in my relationship with this was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future I did not want early on to burn all the bridges to the I said, I may have used poor I should have taken angry or even militant steps, both when I was in the agency, or after I left I must confess to the world that the course that I took seemed the better as well as the easier declined any ment to newspapers, but later when Senate staff asked me about these matters I felt I had a duty to have no personal vendetta against Clarence seek only to provide the mittee with information which it may regard as would have been more fortable to remain took no initiative to inform anyoneI took no initiative to inform when I was asked by a representative of this mittee to report my experience, I felt that I had to tell the could not keep silent.第二篇：美國(guó)經(jīng)典英文演講一百篇美國(guó)20世紀(jì)經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)演講100篇（MP3+文本）s marriage and I did say, “Congratulate him.” It is only after a great deal of agonizing consideration that I am able to talk of these unpleasant matters to anyone except my closest I39。t go out with began to show displeasure in his tone and voice and his demeanor and his continued pressure for an mented on what I was wearing in terms of whether it made me more or less sexually incidents occurred in his inner office at the of the oddest episodes I remember was an occasion in which Thomas was drinking a Coke in his got up from the table at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the Coke, looked at the can and asked, “Who has pubic hair on my Coke?” On other occasions, he referred to the size of his own penis as being larger than normal, and he also spoke on some occasions of the pleasures he had given to women with oral this point, late 1982, I began to feel severe stress on the began to be concerned that Clarence Thomas might take out his anger with me by degrading me or not giving me important also thought that he might find an excuse for dismissing January of 1983, I began looking for another was handicapped because I feared that, if he found out, he might make it difficult for me to find other employment and I might be dismissed from the job I factor that made my search more difficult was that there was a periodthis was during a period of a hiring freeze in the February 1983, I was hospitalized for five days on an emergency basis for an acutefor acute stomach pain, which I attributed to stress on the out of the hospital, I became more mitted to find other employment and sought further to minimize my contact with became easier when Allison Duncan became office director, because most of my work was then funneled through her and I had contact with Clarence Thomas mostly in staff the spring of 1983, an opportunity to teach at Oral Roberts University opened participated in a seminartaught an afternoon session and seminar at Oral Roberts dean of theof the university saw me teaching and inquired as to whether I would be interested in furtheringpursuing a career in teaching, beginning at Oral Roberts agreed to take the job in large part because of my desire to escape the pressures I felt at the EEOC, due to Judge I informed him that I was leaving in July, I recall that his response was that now I would no longer have an excuse for not going out with told him that I still preferred not to do some time after that meeting, he asked if he could take me to dinner at the end of the I declined, he assured me that the dinner was a professional courtesy only and not a social reluctantly agreed to accept that invitation, but only if it was at the very end of a working , as I recall, the last day of my employment at the EEOC in the summer of 1983, I did have dinner with Clarence went directly from work to a restaurant near the talked about the work I had done, both at Education and at the told me that he was pleased with all of it except for an article and speech that I had done for him while we were at the Office for Civil , he made a ment that I will vividly said that if I ever told anyone of his behavior that it would ruin his was not an apology, nor was it an was his last remark about the possibility of our going out or reference to his July of 1983, I left Washington, and I39。s signature on the education of minority second was the organization of a seminar on highrisk students which was abandoned because Judge Thomas transferred to the EEOC where he became the chairman of that this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was had a good deal of responsibility and thought he respected my work and that he trusted my approximately three months of working there, he asked me to go out socially with happened next and telling the world about it are the two most difficult thingsexperiences of my is only after a great deal of agonizing consideration and sleepless numbera great number of sleepless nights that I am able to talk of these unpleasant matters to anyone but my close declined the invitation to go out socially with him and explained to him that I thought it would jeopardize at whatatat the time I considered to be a very good working had a normal social life with other men outside of the believed then, as now, that having a social relationship with a person who was supervising my work would be was very unfortable with the idea and told him thought that by saying no and