Bill Clinton Research Paper

The impeachment of President Clinton is something that will be remembered forever. Along with the fact that a presidential impeachment has only happened one other time since the Civil War, the publicity that came with the Clinton trial was extensive (Miller 2004). While the Republican and Democratic members of the House of Representatives had vastly different views on impeaching President Clinton, the fact that only five Democratic Representatives voted to impeach him truly shows how wide that gap was between the two parties. Clinton was impeached on the grounds of perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice, with the vote on both articles extremely close, a 228-206 vote on perjury to a

Clinton’s first problem occurred in 1994, when Paula Jones claimed that Bill Clinton propositioned her and exposed himself to her while he was governor of Arkansas. Clinton denied everything from the beginning. In 1997, Clinton offered $700,000 to settle the case, but Jones only wanted an apology. If Clinton did not do anything wrong, then why would he pay a hefty fine to dismiss the case? April first of this year, the Jones case was dropped, but was reopened in November. Jones came out with a recorded $800,000 settlement (Froomkin 1).

The reason why he faced impeachment is because in November 1995, Clinton began an affair with Monica Lewinsky, she was a 21 year old unpaid intern. In April 1996, Lewinsky was transferred to the Pentagon. In the summer, Monica confided in Pentagon co-worker Linda Tripp about her relationship with the president. In 1997, the relationship was over, Linda began to secretly record conversations with Lewinsky, so she would get details about the affair. In December, lawyers for Paula Jones brought Monica. In January 1998, allegedly under the recommendation of the president, Monica denied having a relationship with the president. Five days later, Linda contacted the office of Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater counsel, to talk about Monica and the tapes she made of their conversations. Linda, who was wired by FBI agents, met with Monica again and Monica was taken by FBI agents and U.S. attorneys to a hotel room where she was questioned and was offered immunity if she cooperated. Few days later, the story was out and Clinton denied the allegations saying, “I did not have a relationship with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.” Clinton spoke a live television to a grand jury in a nearby federal courthouse. He was the first sitting president to testify before a grand jury investigating his conduct. Clinton gave a four minute televised address to the nation which he admitted he had a relationship with Lewinsky. On December 11th, the House Judiciary Committee

One of the things Clinton is most famous for, but not the proudest of, is his affairs. The issue of Clinton having an affair with Monica Lewinsky is purely personal. It should have been discussed within his family and in his family alone. Many people seem to forget that Presidents before him have done the exact same thing. John F Kennedy is probably the best known with his affairs. This doesn't diminish the fact that Clinton took it one step farther and lied about the affairs.

In the words of the 36th President, Lyndon Johnson, “A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.” In the case of Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky, he did not know what was right and in turn, did not do what was right. Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton carried on a behind the scenes sexual relationship that lasted two years during Clinton’s time in the white house, this relationship led to a federal investigation into the Clinton Presidency and later led to Bill being impeached. After his impeachment trial, Clinton was wrongly acquitted. Even though Bill Clinton was a good President, he should have been convicted for lying about his relationship

Walter Nixon was impeached in 1990. He has no relation to the former president Nixon, but was still an official who was caught doing things they were not supposed to. While he was a U.S. federal judge he was caught committing perjury. The reason for him committing this was for one of his business partners’ son’s had been caught with drugs and was facing charges for it. This trial was going to take case in a state court, but he used his power to talk to a prosecutor, who was a friend of his, and they dropped the case. This wasn’t the perjury he had committed though, the perjury happened when he was talking to the FBI and DOJ and denied any involvement with what he had done. After being sentenced to 5 years in prison, he refused to resign and

In 1999, for the second time in American history, the President of the United States was impeached. For those who don’t know, impeachment means to bring a government official to trial over accusations of illegal or shameful activity. President William Jefferson Clinton, more commonly known as Bill Clinton, took office in 1992 as a leader who had promised to bring a more honest and better government to the American people. This Democratic politician would have his two terms in office defined by self-inflicted shameful events. Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky would go down as one of the most talked about scandals known to man.

I believe that President Clinton should've been impeached not because he cheated on his wife but because he tried to cover it up with a lie and things escalated from there. To begin Clinton has been tried for sexual contact before and here is a summary of that case. “Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case establishing that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation against him or her, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office.”(1). I used that as an example just to show that it happened before Ms. Lewinsky. I also believe he should of been impeached because of his stupidity. He gave Lewinsky full access to everything in the White House.

William Jefferson Blythe III, also known as Bill Clinton was our 42nd president serving his terms from Jan. 20th, 1993 too Jan. 19th, 2001. Bill Clinton was a great president he accomplished many things that have never been done or have not been done in many years, but everyone has their flaws as he did he was the cause of a lot of controversy between '95 and '98 involving white house intern Ms. Monica Lewinsky. He might have a lot of defaults thrown his way but, in the end, he changed America for the better.

When Bill Clinton became the president of the United States of America some investigations took place when he was accused more than one thing. These investigations were the caused for his impeachment.

One of the most known scandals in U.S. government history was the bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal. Lewinsky was an intern for the white house who graduated from Lewis and Clark College. After serving as an intern she was hired as an employee for the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Clinton began a personal relationship with her shortly after she received the job in legislative affairs. Lewinsky told her department co worker, Linda Tripp, who recorded their phone call conversations. The Clinton and Lewinsky scandal was brought to light in 1998. Once the scandal is brought to light, Lewinsky says she had sexual encounters with President

Watergate changed America’s trust in its leaders, people at that time had a lot of pride and trust in their leaders, Nixon’s impeachment had to have been a shock. Nixon was never charged with the break in of the Democratic National headquarters, but he was found to have involvement of the cover up. He paid money to the people that broke into the headquarters to keep quiet, Nixon also attempted to stop the FBI from investigating the incident. He was charged with high crimes and misdemeanors for abuse of power, since he tried to stop the FBI from investigating, obstruction of justice, for destroying evidence, and contempt of congress, for refusing to turn over evidence they had requested. Other people involved were also charged and convicted.

Representatives voted to issue Articles of Impeachment against Clinton. This vote was followed by a 2- day trial in senate where Clinton was acquitted of all charges and remained in office.

On August 17, 1998, exactly one year after making the statement above, President Bill Clinton prepared to deliver a speech concerning a scandal that had gripped the nation for months. It is needless to say that this was an important moment during the Clinton administration. After accusations of sexual harassment, Clinton addressed the nation and admitted to having a relationship with Monica Lewinsky. In this critical speech Clinton set out to admit to wrong-doings, provide a few reasons for his

Clinton ended a televised speech with the statement that he "did not have sexual relations" with Lewinsky. (Waxman, "Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky Scandal-Timeline of Key Moments”) Further investigation led to charges of perjury and to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives. He was voted on impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a Senate trial. (Waxman, "Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky Scandal-Timeline of Key Moments”) Examination political landscape being changed-