This testimony—and subsequent efforts by the White House to deal with Lewinsky-related evidence, which bore some signs of tampering—formed the basis for Starr's subsequent charge of illegal conduct by Clinton and were thus at the core of Clinton's impeachment. Starr was convinced that Clinton had lied in trying to cover up the affair, and that he had instructed others to obstruct justice by lying on his behalf.
To many observers, impeachment or resignation seemed to be the only resolution. The next seven months found the American public consumed by the Lewinsky affair, following every nuance of the investigation by Starr and debating the merits of the case.
Nothing like this had so captured the attention of the American public since Watergate and Nixon's resignation from office. Startling revelations came out, including taped interviews in which Lewinsky described details of the affair as well as a dress that contained samples of the President's DNA.
On August 17, , following his testimony before a federal grand jury on the matter, Clinton acknowledged in a televised address to the nation his "inappropriate" conduct with Lewinsky and admitted that he had misled the nation and embarrassed his family. But he did not admit to having lied, having instructed anyone else to lie, or orchestrating a cover-up involving anyone else. Starr then sent his report to the House of Representatives alleging that there were grounds for impeaching Clinton for lying under oath, obstruction of justice, abuse of powers, and other offenses.
After a vitriolic series of televised House hearings and the release of thousands of documents—many in graphic detail—the House Judiciary Committee, on a strictly partisan vote, recommended that an impeachment inquiry commence. The House adopted two articles of impeachment, charging the President with perjury in his grand jury testimony and obstructing justice in his dealings with various potential witnesses. The Senate, charged under the Constitution with judging the evidence, opened its trial in mid-January It became immediately clear that the Senate would not produce a two-thirds majority vote to convict Clinton and remove him from office.
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Even with He attended school for only one year, but thereafter read on his own in a Actor Sal Mineo is stabbed to death in Hollywood, California. Mineo was parking his car behind his apartment when neighbors heard his cries for help. In the end, Mr Clinton was acquitted on both articles of impeachment he faced, after each failed to gain the vote threshold outlined in the Constitution to remove a president.
The first, for violating his oath of office through perjury, received 45 votes in favour of removal and 55 in favour of acquittal. The second, for obstruction, saw a split. Mr Clinton went on to finish off his second term as president, and then proceeded into a very lucrative post-presidency career giving speeches that has made him wildly wealthy. His reputation in the US emerged mostly in-tact in the aftermath of the impeachment effort, and it is unclear if the issue had any significant impact at the ballot booth the midterms saw Republicans retain control of both the House and Senate.
Ultimately, Mr Johnson was also acquitted by the Senate, establishing an important precedent for the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches of the US federal government. Richard Nixon, who resigned from office in August as Congress investigated his alleged misdeeds during the Whitewater scandal, was not actually impeached by the House because his resignation had left the issue moot. It was Starr who ultimately expanded his investigation to include a possible affair by the President after he was approached by Linda Tripp, a former White House secretary who had befriended Lewinsky and then recorded their phone conversations.
The other Clinton sex scandal. In the midst of the Starr investigation, Clinton was also accused of sexual misconduct in a lawsuit by Paula Jones, a former employee for the Arkansas state government.
Jones had sued Clinton in for sexual harassment and it set off a years-long legal battle that included an important Supreme Court decision in that made clear a President could face a civil lawsuit while in office. It was as part of that case that Clinton was asked during a grand jury proceeding about the Lewinsky affair.
The Republican impeachment push. Republicans distilled those down into four articles of impeachment. Two of them -- for perjury in depositions other than the grand jury and for obstructing Congress -- didn't make it out of the House of Representatives.
But Clinton was impeached for perjury after he lied to the grand jury in the Jones case, and also for obstruction of justice. Clinton wasn't the only one whose private failings were revealed. Bob Livingston, a Republican who supported impeachment and was in line to be speaker of the House, abruptly withdrew his name from running for that leadership position and admitted his own infidelity.
He had been snared by a public call from Larry Flynt, publisher of the pornographic Hustler magazine, for proof of sexual hypocrisy. The Senate trial of Clinton was a spectacle that featured videotaped testimony from Lewinsky and the embarrassing questions from Clinton's grand jury testimony played back on the Senate floor.
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