Presidents who faced impeachment: Bill Clinton
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🗓️ 27 December 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, can you do that, listeners? |
| 0:10.3 | This is Allison Michaels. |
| 0:11.3 | Today is our final episode in this special series of presidential episodes on the three |
| 0:16.4 | presidents who faced impeachment before President Trump. |
| 0:19.7 | Today's episode is about President Bill Clinton. |
| 0:22.7 | His impeachment in 1998 was the most recent one in American history. |
| 0:27.1 | To hear more of William Cunningham's episode on each of the American presidents, check out |
| 0:31.2 | Presidential on your favorite podcast platform or at WashingtonPose.com slash Presidential. |
| 0:36.8 | Here now is the story of Bill Clinton. |
| 0:54.8 | Clinton is, I always said he's an exaggeration of all of us. |
| 0:58.2 | He's sort of chaos theory. |
| 1:01.1 | There's a lot of good and bad in him. |
| 1:02.7 | And actually when I was writing my biography on Clinton, it was the hardest three months |
| 1:08.5 | of my writing career where the final three months of writing that book because I kept |
| 1:13.5 | saying, well, you've studied his whole life, you're a biographer. |
| 1:18.0 | What is it you like him or not? |
| 1:19.0 | Is he good or bad? |
| 1:20.0 | And the obvious became obvious, which was that he's both, that they're inseparable, that |
| 1:27.3 | the same force is that drove Clinton for the better, also drove him for the worse. |
| 1:31.8 | And you couldn't, you couldn't separate the two and his presidency is sort of like that. |
| 1:36.6 | It's a grab bag of good and bad. |
| 1:44.0 | As we get closer and closer to President Day, we don't have the great arc of history to |
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