I always love that one. Here's a clip about how they lied about it from a HenchPAC article HERE about how they also screwed up the economy, all while making themselves look good, and laying land mines for the next administration:
"..."Cooked books?" They hadn't even defrosted them yet. Under Reagan and Bush, unemployment was measured by sending out about 60,000 household surveys asking about employment. The "Chronically unemployed" were dropped from counting, defined THEN as three or four years of being out of a job. The Clinton regime dropped 9,000 surveys, mostly from inner cities where unemployment is much higher, then later trimmed the overall number to 50,000 - again avoiding inner cities. They then redefined the "Chronically unemployed" horizon down to ONE YEAR. BINGO! Instant record breaking unemployment and the lowest recorded unemployment for African-Americans in history. (Pander statistic to get out the vote.) Wow, are we doing well or what!?...."