Posted on 11/11/2005 3:20:17 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Bill Clinton Decries His Impeachment In Speech At Hofstra
POSTED: 7:33 pm EST November 10, 2005 UPDATED: 9:14 pm EST November 10, 2005
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Former President Clinton said Thursday that his impeachment was "an egregious abuse of the Constitution" and asked if history judges him poorly because of his White House tryst with Monica Lewinsky, "How many other presidents do you have to downgrade?"
Speaking on the opening day of a three-day conference at Hofstra University examining his presidency, Clinton challenged a statement by noted historian Douglas Brinkley, who opined in a newspaper interview that Clinton would be deemed a great president were it not for his impeachment.
"I completely disagree with that," Clinton said. "You can agree with that statement, but only if you think impeachment was justified. Otherwise, it was an egregious abuse of the Constitution and law and history of our country."
Clinton, who was acquitted by the Senate of perjury and obstruction of justice at his 1999 impeachment trial, contended that the impeachment was not about what he called his "misconduct."
"Now if you want to hold it against me that I did something wrong, that's a fair deal," he said. "If you do that, then you have a whole lot of other questions, which is how many other presidents do you have to downgrade and what are you going to do with all those Republican congressmen, you know, that had problems?"
His remarks were cheered loudly by the audience.
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Historian massages clinton numbers, ego + legacy at revisionist confab
click on "loser," (clinton's middle finger)
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Read tonight BUMP!
I don't remember that Israel got anything good out the Clinton administration and it almost lost a lot, saved only by Arafat's greediness.
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