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that the senate had other intentions. even though it was in republican hands, the senate clearly did not want to dirty its hands with impeachment. the house and the senate are just two different institutions, and they were intended to be that way. the old metaphor that george washington used the house is the cup of coffee where the coffee is very hot. the senate is the saucer that you pour the coffee into, so it can cool the passions of the house. they had a lot more sensitivity to the politics of this i think than we did. and the republican leadership kept coming into our meetings tell us, make this go away. make this go away. but even before the procedural details were worked out, the impeachment trial of president clinton began. it was january 7, 1999, exactly one year to the day since monica lewinsky signed an affidavit in the paula jones case denying a sexual relationship with the president. just before 10:00 a.m., the house managers marched from their chamber articl

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