Bill Clinton

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  9/29/19
  

  Impeachment’s Role in History: Part Legal Creature, but Mostly Political

  The legal definition of the phrase ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ was left flexible by the framers of the Constitution to protect against abuses of power

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• 6/30/19
  

  Presidential War Powers and Bill Clinton's Battles

  by Paul W. Lovinger

  Reviewing the 1999 attack on Yugoslavia and other belligerent acts: a study of arbitrary power and its supremacy over the Constitution in modern times.

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• SOURCE: National Review
  6/10/2019
  

  Why Clinton Got Impeached

  by Rich Lowry

  The anti-Clinton case then was stronger than the anti-Trump case is now.

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• SOURCE: Colorado Public Radio
  4/15/19
  

  After Columbine, President Clinton Set A New Standard As 'Consoler In Chief' — And He’s Still Thinking About The Survivors

  “There are certain things, if you're president, you need to say,” Clinton said. “There are certain other things you need to not say.”

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  3/19/19
  

  Road to Mueller report paved by Watergate, Iran-Contra, Lewinsky, Waco

  Here is an explanation of some past investigations and how their findings were made public.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  Accessed 2/14/19
  

  New Book Sheds New Light on the Starr Investigation

  by Sean Wilentz

  Twenty years after Kenneth Starr delivered to Congress his report recommending the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, the former independent counsel has delivered a second report, in the form of a memoir, condemning Clinton all over again. 

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• 1/20/19
  

  Will Beto O'Rourke Follow the Path of Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush to the Presidency?

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  How previous longshot presidents defeated the odds. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/2/18
  

  Bill Clinton's friendship with Boris Yeltsin was sincere, documents show

  The documents show Clinton believed backing Yeltsin personally was necessary to ensure Russian stability and market reform, which he privileged over the development of democracy.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9/25/18
  

  Yeltsin: “Let Us ... Get Rid of the Nuclear Footballs”

  Possibly for the first time in U.S. diplomatic history, the “Nuclear Football” became a subject of a heads-of-state discussion when Russian President Boris Yeltsin proposed getting “rid” of it during a meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton in September 1994.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-10-18
  

  Brett Kavanaugh Urged Ken Starr Not to Indict Clinton While in Office

  Judge Kavanaugh delivered the advice in a private memorandum made public on Friday by the National Archives in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6-4-18
  

  In Bill Clinton's New Thriller, A (Fictional) President Faces Impeachment

  Authors Bill Clinton and James Patterson spoke to NPR about how realistic the book's plot is and the experience of impeachment.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-29-18
  

  When the President Testified: People in the Room Recall Clinton’s 1998 Interrogation

  The date was Aug. 17, 1998. President Bill Clinton testified before a grand jury. Twenty years later, people in the room and those waiting nearby share their memories.

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• 4-16-18
  

  A Short Chat at a Party with Some Ambassadors from Former Soviet Republics and Suddenly this Historian Was an “Informed Source in Jerusalem”

  by Isabella Ginor

  It happened twenty years ago when Bill Clinton launched missiles in the midst of his sex scandal.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4-11-18
  

  When presidents lawyer up: A brief history

  by Steven Lubet

  President Trump’s difficulty finding lawyers who will represent him in his current legal troubles tells us much about his leadership style and the advice he is willing to accept.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1-17-18
  

  20 years since America’s shock over Clinton-Lewinsky affair, public discussions on sexual harassment are changing

  Looking back, the Clinton-Lewinsky affair heralded a sea change in political discourse by normalizing public discussion of sex acts.

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• SOURCE: Fox News on Twitter
  1/16/18
  

  New Fox Series: Bill Clinton's Scandals

  The first seven-episode installment chronicles the events that ultimately led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton during the 1990s.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  12-16-17
  

  Why We Shouldn’t Let the #MeToo Movement Change History

  by David Greenberg

  Some argue Bill Clinton should have resigned over the Lewinsky scandal. They’re getting it all wrong.

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• SOURCE: The Brookings Institution
  10-10-17
  

  Brookings study concludes Trump is probably guilty of obstruction of justice for firing Comey

  The study cites precedents from the Nixon and Clinton impeachments.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-27-17
  

  The moment in 1993 when healthcare died

  by Joseph J. Fins

  Bob Dole and Pat Moynihan were ready to cut a deal. Then Bill Clinton said no.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-22-17
  

  Can the President Be Indicted?

  A long-hidden legal memo says yes.