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Story about having an affair with the president in the oval office. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. >> he has described to the american people what this relationship was not in his words. has he described to you what it was? >> yes. and we'll find that out as time goes by, matt. but i think the important thing now is to stand as firmly as i can and say that the president has denied these allegations on all counts. >> but eventually her husband told the country the truth. >> i misled people. >> i asked her how she was, and she said i'd like to stay in bed and ...

>> in december 1998, president clinton was impeached by the house of representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice. >> his name now will go down in the history books as only the second president in the history of this republic to have been impeached. >> the senate did not convict. and in february of 1999 the impeachment trial was over. >> she left office with her dignity intact despite all that had been done to her, but also with something really important, which is sympathy. >> the public verdict on hillary clinton's conduct was decidedly favorable. her gallup approval rating spike t...

Address reports about an affair with a white house intern. >> bill clinton brought the presidency to a place where it had never been. standing up there and saying i did not have sexual relations with that woman, a sentence that instantly become memorialized by the entire country and a sentence that was also a lie. >> the allegations are very, very serious. if those turn out to be true, this presidency is in serious trouble. >> so much of it was salacious, and so much of it was tabloid. at some point you had to step back and say, the future of the leader of the free world is at stake. >> six mo...

>> bill clinton brought the presidency to a place where it had never been. standing up there and saying i did not have sexual relations with that woman, a sentence that instantly become memorialized by the entire country and a sentence that was also a lie. >> the allegations are very, very serious. if those turn out to be true, this presidency is in serious trouble. >> so much of it was salacious, and so much of it was tabloid. at some point you had to step back and say, the future of the leader of the free world is at stake. >> six months after lying to the country, president clinton confesse...

Secretly monica telling her story about having an affair with the president in the oval office. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. >> he has described to the american people what this relationship was not in his words. has he described to you what it was? >> yes. and we'll find that out as time goes by, matt. but i think the important thing now is to stand as firmly as i can and say that the president has denied these allegations on all counts. >> but eventually her husband told the country the truth. >> i misled people. >> i asked her how she was, and she said ...