Posted on 08/17/2005 7:02:50 AM PDT by alisasny
August 17, 1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
Drudge report January 17, 1998 and other stories
I wonder why THIS item did not make the MSM news today...
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Clinton January 26th, 1998
Awwww the good old days ...all we had to worry about was what bimbo was going to erupt next....not if a bunch of terrorists will kill us and our families.
MSNBC chat was jumping that day....:-)
The happy couple..
LOL!
He ignored real national security threats, and couldn't even speak the truth when under oath in a trial.
Bill Clinton was a below average president, no doubt about it.
ROFLMAO! Good one.
Nice and your tag line is priceless
`` Good evening.
This afternoon in this room, from this chair, I testified before the Office of Independent Counsel and the grand jury.
I answered their questions truthfully, including questions about my private life, questions no American citizen would ever want to answer.
Still, I must take complete responsibility for all my actions, both public and private. And that is why I am speaking to you tonight.
As you know, in a deposition in January, I was asked questions about my relationship with Monica Lewinsky. While my answers were legally accurate, I did not volunteer information.
Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.
But I told the grand jury today and I say to you now that at no time did I ask anyone to lie, to hide or destroy evidence or to take any other unlawful action.
I know that my public comments and my silence about this matter gave a false impression. I misled people, including even my wife. I deeply regret that.
I can only tell you I was motivated by many factors. First, by a desire to protect myself from the embarrassment of my own conduct.
I was also very concerned about protecting my family. The fact that these questions were being asked in a politically inspired lawsuit, which has since been dismissed, was a consideration, too.
In addition, I had real and serious concerns about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings 20 years ago, dealings I might add about which an independent federal agency found no evidence of any wrongdoing by me or my wife over two years ago.
The independent counsel investigation moved on to my staff and friends, then into my private life. And now the investigation itself is under investigation.
This has gone on too long, cost too much and hurt too many innocent people.
Now, this matter is between me, the two people I love most -- my wife and our daughter -- and our God. I must put it right, and I am prepared to do whatever it takes to do so.
Nothing is more important to me personally. But it is private, and I intend to reclaim my family life for my family. It's nobody's business but ours.
Even presidents have private lives. It is time to stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on with our national life.
Our country has been distracted by this matter for too long, and I take my responsibility for my part in all of this. That is all I can do.
Now it is time -- in fact, it is past time to move on.
We have important work to do -- real opportunities to seize, real problems to solve, real security matters to face.
And so tonight, I ask you to turn away from the spectacle of the past seven months, to repair the fabric of our national discourse, and to return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of the next American century.
Thank you for watching. And good night.''
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BARF!!!
Oh, and don't donations need to be accounted for and catalogued?
I just finished reading a very entertaining novel from a few years ago called "Good in Bed." It's a funny and moving story of a fat girl and her struggle to find love and accept herself. The author, Jennifer Weiner, says in her end notes that she was writing the book during the Lewinsky backlash and it was among the chief motivations for her to finish it. She says she was appalled that a President was lying to his wife and to the American people, and all the media were doing was cracking fat jokes about Monica and snickering aboout how ugly Linda Tripp was. As though the worst thing Bill Clinton did was have sex with a fat girl who had a fat and ugly friend protecting her.
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