On July 20th, 1993, Deputy White House Council Vincent Foster had a cheeseburger for lunch at his desk and left his office, saying that he'd be back.

But five hours later, his body was found next to a Civil War cannon in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia.

A number of investigations, including one from the U.S. Park Police, later determined that Foster

had committed suicide by shooting himself with an old revolver.

That official determination hasn't deterred a lot of conspiracy theories though about Foster

being secretly murdered.

Foster had been reportedly suffering from very serious depression.

He'd also been caught up in the first of several ethics controversies in the Clinton

presidency.

A new presidential administration usually means that there's a lot of job turnover in the White House.

And that includes the White House Travel Office, which is in charge of booking travel for the White House press corps,

and it's staffed with people who in theory can be fired at will

but traditionally they stay in their jobs. The Clinton administration however

decided that they did want to get rid of the travel office staff.

So they had the FBI look into what seemed to be some financial problems in the office.

Maybe that would be a good reason to fire them.

And that turned out to be quite a mess.

One of the staffers was eventually charged with embezzlement but later acquitted.

These travel office firings eventually became known as Travelgate.

Trust me kids, the gate suffix given to all scandals was already tiresome then.

Travelgate itself launched a number of investigations that lasted for the next several years.

Much of the focus was about whether President Clinton or First Lady Hillary

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