Posted on 02/13/2004 5:24:02 PM PST by ambrose
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| Bill Clinton, 42nd U.S. president | |
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Denies sexual relationship with White House intern |
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| "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky." (Washington, D.C., January 26, 1998) | |
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| On January 26, 1998, at the end of a televised event at the White House, President Bill Clinton passionately denied having had a sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, a young intern who had worked at the White House. Several weeks earlier, in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case against Clinton, Lewinsky had filed an affidavit in which she denied ever having had a sexual relationship with the president. Clinton likewise denied the affair in his own affidavit. A Pentagon coworker who Lewinsky had confided in, Linda Tripp, then contacted Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel, and informed him that Clinton and Lewinsky had apparently lied under oath. FBI agents working with Starr wired Tripp for her next meeting with Lewinsky, and on January 16 Lewinsky was taken by FBI agents and U.S. attorneys to a hotel room where she was questioned and offered immunity if she cooperated with them. A few days later, the story broke. Starr worked out a full-immunity agreement for Lewinsky, and in August she began testifying before a grand jury about her former sexual relationship with Clinton. On August 17, Clinton testified and admitted the affair. Less than a month later, the Starr Report was delivered to Congress, outlining a case for impeaching Clinton on 11 grounds, including perjury, obstruction of justice, witness-tampering, and abuse of power, and also provided explicit details of the sexual relationship between the president and Ms. Lewinsky. On December 19, after nearly 14 hours of debate, the House approved two articles of impeachment, charging President Clinton with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton, the second president in American history to be impeached, vowed to finish his term. On January 7, 1999, in a congressional procedure not seen since the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, the trial of President Clinton got underway in the Senate. Five weeks later, on February 12, the Senate voted to acquit the president on both articles of impeachment. The prosecution needed a two-thirds majority to remove Clinton from office but failed to achieve even a bare majority. After the trial concluded, Clinton said he was "profoundly sorry" for the burden the episode imposed on Congress and the American people. |
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"We all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more g*****n nonsense. Bill Clinton...has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore, he's a bore, and will always be a bore."
--David Brinkley, on the eve of Clinton's re-election, during "This Week with David Brinkley".
So are we all.
Accept it. If you're having trouble doing so, repeat these words you'd probably be hearing daily if The Rapist had been convicted on impeachment, or abandoned by the 'Rats and forced to step down:
"President Al Gore"
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