Milestones

Ten years ago: President Bush held an informal White House news conference in which he defended a widely criticized pay raise for Congress scheduled to go into effect the following month.

Five years ago: Figure skater Tonya Harding appeared before reporters in Portland to say that while she’d had no prior knowledge of the attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, she had failed to report what she’d learned afterward.

One year ago: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on NBC’s “Today” show, charged that the allegations against her husband were the work of a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”