Dvorah Pinto Analysis

When the events of Watergate started to become revealed, Nixon still defended his innocence. On a televised question and answer session in 1973, Nixon defended his innocence in the Watergate case. In the interview, he stated, “In all my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I got.” When

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

of his good name. However, his confession was strictly to protect his wife, so his guilt

He went on to talk about the nation's need for being “second to none” in defense and in space, for continued growth in the economy and “the willingness of citizen of the United States to assume the burdens of leadership.”

During the deposition in January of 1998, the President denied any sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, but in August of the same year, he confessed on C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) that he did have an ‘inappropriate and wrong’ relationship with Monica. That public statement led Judge Susan Webber Wright to hold the president in contempt for subverting the rule of law and violating Paula’s right to information relating to her case. The President lying and giving false testimony prevented the truth from being told and prevented Paula Jones from getting justice, because of this, Clinton was sanctioned and paid “any reasonable expenses.” Judge Wright said she tried to treat Mr. Clinton as she would any other defendant in a civil proceeding. ''In that regard,'' she wrote, ''there simply is no escaping the fact that the President deliberately violated this court's discovery orders and thereby undermined the integrity of the judicial system. Sanctions must be imposed, not only to redress the President's misconduct, but to deter others who might themselves consider emulating the President of the United States by engaging in misconduct that undermines the integrity of the judicial

shows that he has something to hide from the court and he doesn’t want Mary Warren to say anything if it can affect him in any way.

Gloria Anzaldua is among the many feminist theorists that has moved into the realm of addressing post-modern identities. In Gloria Anzaldua’s articulation of the new mestiza consciousness, she makes the argument of identities as multiple, hybrid, and more specifically created as a result of the Borderlands. However, according to Anzaldua, and despite the difficulties engendered by her very existence, the mestiza is also a figure of enormous potential, as her multiplicity allows a new kind of consciousness to emerge. This mestiza consciousness moves beyond the binary relationships and dichotomies that characterize traditional modes of thought, and seeks to build bridges between all minority communities to achieve social and political change.

During this scandal, Clinton was accused of engaging in an extramarital affair in the White House. This led to the impeachment motion in 1998 by the U.S House of Representatives. However, he was acquitted of all charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Senate trial. Moreover, his license to practice law was suspended in Arkansas and even by the United States Supreme Court. Besides, he received a fine of $90,000 because of giving a wrong account of the testimony. Like the previous President, the Clinton-Lewinsky Sex Scandal depicts a serious pursuit of the American people to safeguard the respect for the presidency. The fact that the U.S president was subjected to Senate and House of Representative trial and even suspension of his legal license manifest expansion of the oversight roles. Indeed, the president is accountable to the electorate both politically and socially. Again, this scandal revealed the increased scrutiny on the presidency and demand for accountability during that

The reasoning behind Bill Clinton’s impeachment has always fallen on the Lewinsky scandal, but his corrupt attitude could have played the major role. In attempt at keeping his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Clinton committed perjury and obstructed justice. According to Daniel Cohen (2000), President Clinton was subpoenaed by Paula Jones’ lawyers the separate, preexisting Jones v. Clinton sexual harassment lawsuit. This took place the day after Linda Tripp released the tapes she recorded of Monica Lewinsky’s private phone calls regarding her affair with Clinton. Unaware of this fact, Clinton sat down for his deposition under oath and denied having sexual relations with Lewinsky (p. 47). Clinton was unaware that he has just committed perjury. Up

On December 19th, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached under the charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Having an affair with Monica Lewinsky, Clinton and she devised a false affidavit stating that there was no having of sexual relations. In addition to lying in court, he had other acquaintances lie for his well being too. Clinton was mainly convicted under the law for perjury and obstruction of justice because of the fact that he had lied about his sexual relations, not because he actually committed adultery.

1. I think Donna finally lets loose with this expression of terror, even though she is now relatively safe in the car because she processes thing slowly and she was shocked or holding pressure. First, in paragraph 23 it states, "And suddenly it occurred to her that if she had not automatically rolled her window up as she brought the Pinto to a stop (something her father had insisted on: stop the car, roll up the windows, set the brake, take the keys, lock the car), she would now be minus her throat. Her blood would be on the wheel, the dash, the windshield." This tells us she is somewhat relieved that she is somewhat away from the dog. Next, she is focusing on the dog and even though she is in the car, they are still in danger. She can't get

on asserted that he was “not a crook. I’ve earned everything I got.” With the

Ellsberg’s case was later dismissed due to government mishandling and illegally obtained evidence by “The Plumbers” who later played a factor in the Watergate scandal and Nixon’s resignation.

Conflicts create obstacles that lead to one’s fulfillment in life. One of many factors that helps the individual to overcome challenges is the members of the community. By providing guidance, resources, and emotional support, communities can give an individual with the strength to overcome challenges. We can examine this in Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See” and Jonathan Foer’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

This story had come to the attention of the media as part of an investigation that had started with a small real estate deal in 1978 when then-Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton joined a partnership to buy “220 acres of riverfront land and form the Whitewater Development Corp”. Overtime this investigation had grew well beyond fraud allegations at the hands of Kenneth W. Starr, a conservative activist and former judge. On May 6, 1994, in a case unrelated to Whitewater Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas State Lawyer brought a sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton, claiming he has accosted her in 1991 while he was governor of Arkansas. Jones’s lawyers had questioned several women in an attempt to show that the President had a pattern of inappropriate behavior, including a young former intern, Monica Lewinsky, who filed an affidavit on January 7, 1998, denying ever having sexual relations with President Clinton. A few days later Linda Tripp, a pentagon employee and confidant of Lewinsky, contacted Kenneth Starr to talk about Lewinsky and tapes she had made of their conversations in 1997 where Lewinsky detailed a relationship with Clinton. Starr requested and received permission to expand