>> president clinton was thrilled, thinking he was in the clear. >> on capitol hill, tom delay is known as the hammer. >> but hard core conservatives led by house majority whip tom delay were hellbent on impeaching him anyway. >> article 1 is adopted. >> we have witnesses history. >> the house impeached bill clinton almost entirely along party lines. >> the president resigned that his legacy will be forever scarred today. >> on this article of impeachment -- >> in the senate, he was easily acquitted. >> william jefferson clinton is not guilty. >> in retrospect, the 1998-99 effort to impeach and remove clinton is viewed as a partisan endeavor because the american people spoke in the midterms in 1998 and said, we don't really want to impeach this president. >> after the senate trial, congress took the law that created ken starr's job and let it die. >> no, i'm not going to comment. >> a bipartisan acknowledgement