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History Texts Take Up Clinton Impeachment
NY Post ^ | Dec. 27, 2005 | BEN FELLER

Posted on 12/27/2005 5:15:15 AM PST by COUNTrecount

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The impeachment of former President Clinton is in a gray area of history, too long ago to be a current event, too recent to be judged in perspective.

Yet history is already judging Clinton in the place where millions of students get their information about him - textbooks.

Seven years after he was impeached in a scandal of sex, perjury and bitter politics, Clinton has become a fixture in major high school texts.

The impeachment is portrayed in the context of his two-term tenure, a milestone event, but not one that overshadows how Clinton handled the economy, crime and health care. The most commonly used texts give straightforward recaps of Clinton's toughest days, with some flavor of how it affected the nation. Absent are any the lurid details of his relationship with Monica Lewinksy that spiced up daily news reports and late-night talk shows as the scandal and impeachment played out in 1998 and early 1999.

"It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores," said Alan Brinkley, the Columbia University provost who has written or contributed to several history text books. "It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history."

Clinton was president from 1993 to 2001, the growing-up years of today's high school students. Even today's oldest high school students were only 10 or 11 during the height of the scandal, and today's middle schoolers were just approaching or entering first grade.

"This is very difficult for everybody, because it's so fresh," said Gilbert Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council, an independent research group that reviews history texts used in schools. "It's easier to nail down history like the transcontinental railroad. With Clinton, you're dealing with material that has by no means been settled."

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KEYWORDS: clinton; disbarred; hillary; historyeducation; impeached; impeachedx42; textbooks
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1 posted on 12/27/2005 5:15:16 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Someday history will properly judge him.


2 posted on 12/27/2005 5:17:40 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: COUNTrecount

A few more years and it will be: President Clinton was the victim of an inappropriate impeachment.


3 posted on 12/27/2005 5:18:58 AM PST by putupjob
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To: COUNTrecount
I'll always remember Slick as The Slacker President presiding over a scandal ridden Know-Nothing Do-Nothing Administration
4 posted on 12/27/2005 5:20:53 AM PST by TexasCajun
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"A few more years and it will be: President Clinton was the victim of an inappropriate impeachment."

Never will that be what I think. I have always had to be accountable for my conduct. Believe me I'm not a Saint though I'm a lot closer than billy clintoon is.


5 posted on 12/27/2005 5:23:06 AM PST by JOE43270 (JOE43270, God Bless America and All Who Have and Will Defend Her.)
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"Although there was general agreement that the president had lied, Congress was divided over whether his actions justified impeachment,"

The "general agreement" included IMPEACHED PRESIDENT Bill Clinton plea bargaining for deliberate false testimony and accepting punishment for the crime.

6 posted on 12/27/2005 5:24:47 AM PST by Loud Mime (Libs will oppose terrorists when they turn into smoking, christian, whale killers)
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To: COUNTrecount
The House impeached Clinton on charges of lying to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice to conceal his affair with Lewinsky, a White House intern. Although he was acquitted in a Senate trial

Wrong. The sole power of impeachment resides with the House [see below] - impeachement IS the conviction. The Senate merely sentences. Just because they chose to give him a slap on the wrist doesn't remove the stain [lol] of impeachment.

* Article 1 Section 2 US Constitution - "The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment."

Clinton remains Impeached.

7 posted on 12/27/2005 5:25:58 AM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: COUNTrecount

B/S. Nothing about lying to a grand jury, obstruction of justice or denying an individual their protected rights, you know, the things the impeachment listed, but, given credit for things (economy) he had nothing to do with. SHEESH!


8 posted on 12/27/2005 5:26:37 AM PST by moonman
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To: COUNTrecount

Impeached and DISBARRED.


9 posted on 12/27/2005 5:26:56 AM PST by jimbo123
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It Has Begun.

The indoctrionation of the next generation of New Socialist Workers.


10 posted on 12/27/2005 5:29:09 AM PST by Old Sarge (In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
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Yeah, that's the part that gets me. It's really simple: He was impeached for lying under oath to avoid the consequences of a sexual harassment lawsuit, thus obstructing justice and denying an individual their protected rights.

Try getting a Lefty to admit that.


11 posted on 12/27/2005 5:41:03 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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12 posted on 12/27/2005 5:43:26 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: COUNTrecount
Bubba really cared about people.
He even gave free medical exams...

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Bubbacare?

13 posted on 12/27/2005 5:54:38 AM PST by Bon mots
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Hopefully the text books show him in a negative way... he was almost as big of a failure as Carter.


14 posted on 12/27/2005 7:47:31 AM PST by Element187
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To: COUNTrecount

Clinton is a disgraceful sack of crap.


15 posted on 12/27/2005 8:13:39 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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Given the scarce amount of space in any history book the very fact that Clinton is in the history books is absurd.



He ranks in significance with Millard Filmore and James Buchanan.
16 posted on 12/27/2005 10:48:50 AM PST by RedMonqey (People who don't who stand for something, will fall for anything.)
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17 posted on 12/27/2005 6:51:08 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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18 posted on 12/27/2005 6:53:40 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: JOE43270

Believe me I'm not a Saint though I'm a lot closer than billy clintoon is.

How about Billy Carter?


19 posted on 12/27/2005 7:16:02 PM PST by moog
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To: Element187

Carter had a little better morals, but had no idea about anything else. Clinton did a little better with the economy, but had too much of his mind on everything else.


20 posted on 12/27/2005 7:24:02 PM PST by moog
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