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Bill Clinton Scandal
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Background• Bill Clinton was elected president January 20th, 1993. • While he was in office, the U.S. had the lowest unemployment rate and lowest inflation in recent years.• He was big on expanding NATO •increasing world trade • also made efforts to help defeat drug trafficking.
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Monica lewinsky
• Had a hard time growing up–Was always very self-
conscious
• Later in life, focused on men to feel better about herself
• Had an affair with her married high school teacher after she graduated
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Start of a problem
• Monica started out as an unpaid intern at the White House in 1995– She was just 21 years old, newly graduated from
Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
• Later she got a paid job in the Office of Legislative Affairs.– This got her close to President Clinton, she often
hand-delivered letters to the Oval Office.
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• The two got to know each other better at an unofficial birthday gathering for Clinton
• Other White House staffers soon noticed Lewinsky’s inappropriate behavior
• April 1996, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Evelyn Lieberman, transferred Lewinsky to work at the Pentagon as an assistant for Ken Bacon (Pentagon Spokesperson)
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At the pentagon
• While working at the Pentagon, Lewinsky begins telling a co-worker, Linda Tripp, about her relationship with the president – lots of details
• Linda eventually started to record these conversations (the ones over the phone).
• Monica visited the Oval Office 37 times after her transfer (From April 1996 to December 1997)– She logged in as coming to visit the President’s
secretary, Betty Currie.
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Paula jones• Former Arkansas State Clerk
• Was filing a suit against Bill Clinton for sexually harassing her and defaming her when she went public with the accusations– This was from when he was governor of Arkansas.
• The case was going to be dismissed, but it ended up going to the Supreme Court.
• While working on Paula’s case, prosecutor Kenneth Starr came across the newest presidential scandal.
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• Jones’ lawyers subpoenaed Lewinsky.– Lewinsky, allegedly under the influence of
Clinton, denied ever having an inappropriate relationship with him.
• 5 days later, Linda Tripp contacted Kenneth Starr to talk about the recorded conversations.
• Lewinsky was taken by FBI agents and U.S. attorneys to a hotel room where she was questioned about her relationship with Clinton.– She was even offered immunity if she cooperated.
• A few days later, the story broke to the public.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6yhEbEw9c
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• Bill Clinton was taken to court for impeachment on 11 grounds
• Including: perjury, obstruction of justice, witness-tampering and abuse of power
• They needed a 2/3 majority to impeach him but it didn't even come close to that.
• Congress hadn't seen a case like this since President Andrew Johnson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR6dhpbe2O4