Season 2 Trailer: The Clinton Impeachment
Slow Burn
Slate Audio
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🗓️ 23 July 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
The saga of Bill Clinton’s impeachment is rich with forgotten characters, surprising subplots, and opportunities to reflect on just how much America has changed over the past 20 years. Whether you’re well-versed in the tale of Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, or you’re fuzzy on the details, this season of Slow Burn will take you further into the story than you’ve ever been.
From its origins in the Whitewater real estate controversy, the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit, and the suicide of Vince Foster, Clinton’s near-removal from office was the culmination of a process that remains poorly understood—and continues to reverberate through our political system today.
While Season I of Slow Burn captured what it was like to live through Watergate, Season II offers a fresh reexamination of the choices, circumstances, and manipulations that nearly destroyed the 42nd president and forever changed the life of a former White House intern.
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| 0:00.0 | How much do you know about the scandal that got Bill Clinton impeached? |
| 0:03.2 | Monica Lewinsky is under the microscope. Bill Clinton is under siege and the White House is trying to contain the damage. |
| 0:10.0 | Maybe you know the basics, that Clinton's presidency came to a screeching halt amid a storm of accusations involving sex, power, and partisan warfare. |
| 0:18.5 | But if you're like most people, you only have a grasp on the vague outlines of what happened. |
| 0:22.7 | I did not have sexual relations with that woman. |
| 0:26.7 | This vast right-wing conspiracy. |
| 0:28.8 | You're not sure how it all goes together. |
| 0:30.5 | The real estate deal years ago in Arkansas has somehow wound up dealing with the president's sex life. |
| 0:35.7 | Or why things broke the way they did. |
| 0:37.2 | If it turns out to be true, it could be the end of Clinton's presidency. |
| 0:40.3 | His presidency is over. |
| 0:41.6 | He'll have to resign within a month or two. |
| 0:43.5 | Congress is rushing to overthrow the commander-in-chief. |
| 0:48.4 | This is surreal. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm Leon Nefok, the host of the Slate podcast Slow Burn. |
| 0:56.7 | Last year, we brought you the story of Watergate. |
| 0:59.2 | Over eight episodes, we took you through the fall of Richard Nixon the way it felt at the time, |
| 1:03.3 | back when no one knew where it was going or how it was all going to end. |
| 1:07.0 | Now we're getting ready to do it again. |
| 1:08.9 | This time, with the impeachment of Bill Clinton. |
| 1:11.8 | Drama, denial, and damage control. |
| 1:14.2 | This really is a salacious and purrion story. |
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