Words Matter Library: If you cannot believe the President, who can you believe?

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

More than 20 years ago - in his closing argument in the Senate Impeachment Trial of President Bill Clinton, Republican House Manager Congressman Henry Hyde held up a letter from 8 year old William Preston Summers, a 3rd grader from Chase Elementary School in Chicago. It was perhaps only compelling moment in the entire trial. This week, we put Congressman Henry Hyde reading third grader William Preston Summers' letter into the Words Matter Library. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:12.2	This is the Words Matter Library.
0:17.6	More than 20 years ago in his closing argument in the Senate impeachment trial of President
0:23.1	Bill Clinton, Republican House manager Congressman Henry Hyde held up a letter from eight-year-old
0:29.6	William Preston Summers, a third grader from Chase Elementary School in Chicago.
0:36.0	Joe, it was perhaps the only powerful moment in the entire trial.
0:42.2	I think at the time I didn't like it very much, being in the middle of a very partisan
0:47.9	and nasty fight with the Republicans on impeachment, but I listened to it a little bit differently
0:54.1	20 years later.
0:56.0	And I'll just remind people once again that what President Clinton did was wrong and
1:00.6	he admitted it.
1:02.5	We've yet to hear any admission from President Trump.
1:05.8	I think he needs to write a letter himself.
1:09.1	With that, we put Congressman Henry Hyde reading third grader William Preston Summers letter
1:15.6	into the Words Matter Library.
1:20.5	I wish to read you a letter I recently received that expresses my feelings far better than
1:25.0	my poor words.
1:29.0	Dear Chairman Hyde, my name is William Preston Summers.
1:34.6	How are you doing?
1:36.5	I am a third grader in room 504 at Chase Elementary School in Chicago.
1:43.0	I'm writing this letter because I have something to tell you.
1:46.6	I have thought of a punishment for the President of the United States of America.
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