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and i'm kerry sayers. and i'm your host, bill kurtis. it's our look at president clinton "through the decades." the presidency is the highest office in the land. and over the course of our history, the men who held that post have each impacted and shaped this country. in 1992, the youngest man since jfk, 46 year old william jefferson clinton, then jfk, 46 year old william jefferson clinton, then governor elected our forty-second president of the united states. today on through the decades we take a look at the presidency and legacy of bill clinton. he was charismatic, intelligent and approachable but his eight years in office would be plagued by personal scandal but that didn't prevent him from leaving office with the highest approval rating of an outgoing president since world war ii. we begin, where it all begins for every president. with an election. by november, 1992, the reagan revolution of the 1980s had run out of steam. reagan's successor, president george bush, was seen as aristocratic and out-of-touch. it was a new decade and america was ready for a new style of leadership. enter arkansas governor bill clinton. "here's governor clinton with his family. let's just soak up the moment." "on this day with high hopes, and brave hearts and massive numbers, the american people have voted to make a new beginning. this election is a clarion call for our country to face the challenges of the end campaign. "i remind you again tonight, my fellow americans, that this victory was more than a victory of party, it was a victory for the people who work hard and play by the rules." on november 3, 1992, the democratic nominee became president-elect and it almost looked like a story book ending to a modern political fairy tale but the reality was just little different. a campaign that had begun 13 months earlier in little rock, arkansas saw the potential democratic frontrunner drop to come-back kid in the primaries. "most people like to dish it out, more than they like to take it and i have been america's resident expert on taking it for the last month." clinton had been bruised and burned as questions about his early years arose and the media doggedly pursued answers to affairs, draft dodging and drug use. "the answer to that question is i have never broken a state law and that when i was in england, i experimented with marijuana a time or two and i didn't like it and didn't inhale and never tried it again." his supporters, thought the voters would be more interested in his economic policies and took to the airwaves to ease the damage. "i think clinton's success day shows the fact that voters are more interested in their day shows the fact that voters are more interested in their own going to come along and address those problems than they are about some personal dirt that's going to be thrown back and forth." but by june, clinton's was a floundering campaign as his personal life was threatening to drown out any other political conversation. as rumors began to swirling about a potential brokered dnc convention, bill clinton's campaign began to regroup. the new strategy - bypass traditional media, reach out to so, he played sax on the arsenio hall show. (saxophone sounds) he appeared on the cover of time and people magazine for in- depth interviews about his family and childhood. he talked about being raised by a single mother and his struggle with an alcoholic step father. he even went on the new mtv voters directly. "the problem we've got now is, we got paralysis in washington, not enough decisions are being made." it was new, it was edgy and it worked. by the time the convention arrived, bill clinton was "back." "i have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo. your time has come and gone. it's time for a change in america." from then as the calendar to pollsters and stratgeists call a bit of luck. he was talking about reviving an economy and pulling himself up to an american dream running against the incumbent president and gop candidate george h.w. bush and billionaire independent, ross perot. "now all these fellas with thousand dollar suits and alligator shoes runnin' up and down the halls of congress, that make policy now, the lobbyists, the pac guys, the foreign lobbyists and what have you. they'll be over there in the smithsn the congress will be listening to the people and the american people are willing to have fair shared sarifice. they're not as stupid as washington thinks they are." president bush had broken a campaign promise he had bolstered running for office the first time. "read my lips. no new taxes." and the clinton campaign capitalized on that, running campaign over and over: "read my lips. no new taxes. then he gave us the second biggest tax increase in american history." president bush didn't recover from the barrage and on november 3, 1992 the voters had their say. "that the people have spoken, and we respect the majesty of the democratic system. i just ll little rock and offered my congratulations. he did run a strong campaign. i wish him well in the white house." "our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every american. we're all in this together, and we will rise or fall together. that has been my message to the american people for the past 13 months and it will be my message for the next four years. together we can do it. we love everything it was meant to be. i still believe in a place called hope. god bless america! thank you all!" and with that president-elect clinton established the beginning of a new political era and one that has a lasting legacy even decades later. when we continue our journey, we'll look back when on when the president was forced to answeror the decision to put u.s. troops in the middle of one of the decades bloodiest fights. plus, his signature effort to fight the growing crime problem. stay with us as we continue our look back on the legacy of president bill clinton. before he was elected, he had to be nominated, we go back to 1992 for this moment in time from bcl for president. "we know there will be some pro material in it. "thanks dick threlkeld. the lights come back on. the film is over. it's the moment. the climatic moment of this 1992 democractic nominating convention. governor bill clinton is backstage waiting to walk on." *applause and cheers* we want bill! we want bill!" we want bill! we want bill!" "now that we have changed the world, it's time to change america." the whitewater controversy would pull at president bill clinton's integrity throughout his first term. and in the summer of 1996, he provided videotaped testimony, for the second time, asserting his innocence in a real estate testified under oath and on camera for the second time in three months. the president is not accused of any wrongdoing. he was ordered to give videotaped testimony for the defense in a whitewater related criminal trial." ar whitewater doesn't hold the same sensationalism as a monica lewinsky affair which would unravel two years later. but throughout the first four years of the clinton administration, the media kept steady pressure on the first couple over an investment they made in 1978. back then, the clinton's went into business with james and susan mcdougal. together they formed the "whitewater development corporation" and bought 230 acres of land along arkansas' whitewater river in hopes of developing it the deal was a flop. that wasn't a crime but after whitewater went sour, the mcdougals engaged in several schemes that would come back to haunt the clintons. "the mcdougals and governor tucker were convicted of lying to obtain federal loans for real estate deals. much of the money was intended for disadvantaged businesses. taxpayers lost more than three million dollars. prosecutors never accused the president nor first lady of wrongdoing but one witness, david hale, did testify the president exerted infce former banker who testified that mr. clinton pressured him in the mid-1980s to make one of the illegal loans to susan mcdougal." clintons' names being found on documents surrounding the mcdougals' illegal activities triggered the investigation that would become known as the whitewater scandal. "well, i looked forward to being able to tell the grand jury what i know. to be able to answer their questions. i, like everyone else, would like to know the answer about how those documents showed up after all these years." arkansas and in washington." "an allegation is not the same thing as a fact and, particularly i would remind the american people when it comes to the whole whitewater issue the allegations have often, and matter of fact virtually always, bore no relationship to the facts. that's really the story of this r the clintons were eventually cleared of any wrongdoing but fifteen others were not. "the president's arkansas business partners and political allies found guilty on multiple counts including conspiracy and fraud." whitewater was a noticeably expensive and complicated investigation and one neither side of the aisle was particularly pleased with. democrats considered it a witch hunt while republicans saw the clinton's exoneration as an injustice. it epitomized partisan something that only intensfied when the press got wind of a former white house intern named monica lewinsky. still to come, we look back at a moment that saw president clinton sent u.s. troops to a southeastern europeanountry for the very first time in an effort to keep the peace. plus, the scandal that rocked his presidency. the use of the military is a president. in late 1995, the former yugoslavia was resting on a tenuous peace agreement after years of bitter animosity, war and ethnic cleansing. the dayton peace accords divided power in bosnia and quelled the fighting. but tensions remained high and on december 2nd, president clinton authorized the deployment of u.s. troops to world war ii is getting still worse, rapidly. tonight the world watches in horror as the tragedy and terror of bosnia spreads." in the early 1990s, the world was shocked by images coming out of the former yugoslavia. mass displacement, incarceration and murder on a scale reminiscent of the second world war. world powers intervened this included airstrikes against serbian forces that were beseiging bosnian muslims. "confirm we're dropping." "that is affirma cleared to drop." "i've got the target on my nose." "we have bomb splash, bomb splash!" "for a second straight day, u.s. planes bombed serbian forces besieging the muslim town of gorazde. president clinton says the strikes are designed to force the serbs back to the negotiating table but so far their response has been defiance." in late 1995, peace appeared to finally be at hand through the dayton accords. but the peace was shaky and with president clinton ordered u.s. ground troops to the region. "the first substantial commitment of american forces in the balkans conflict has begun. president clinton ordered 700 troops into bosnia in the next few days. the vanguard force will pave the way for the eventual involvement of 20,000 u.s. peacekeeping troops following the signing if the bosnian peace accord later this month." the american forces were to act as peacekeepers but questions persisted over the scope of the mission. "republicans say the president should go before the american public again to answer some key questions. among them - what's the exit strategy? what happens if the agreement falls apart? and how will american soldiers be protected against armed factions with no interest in ending the war?" in congress, legislators and especially republican presidential candidates grappled with the dilemma of whether or not to suppport the president. "i haven't backed away from my there's an exit strategy." "i'm not willing to put brave, young americans as buffers between warring factions that have broken every cease-fire and violated every treaty for the last 500 years." with congressional support in question, the clinton administration went into full p.r. mode. "the president's people were on capitoll trying to explain the role of u.s. troops in bosnia." "where actually will the troops be stationed? new maps were produced this week showing a bosnia divided into three sectors: british troops in the west, french in the south and the u.s. troops in the north - 20,000 americans supported by 8,000 foreign troops, including russians. american soldiers are supposed to patrol a buffer zone between the warring sides. just separating the serb and bosnian federation forces. the task for the u.s. army is to make sure the sides keep their distance by force if necessary." "if any element: weaponry, troops - you name it - does not pull back when they're told to pull back - then they're going to get it." the administration's lobbying efforts proved to be successful in gaining congressional support. in gaining congressional support. seriousness of the mission, president clinton paid a personal visit to the soldiers about to be deployed. "president clinton came to the u.s. army base in baumholder, germany, to show solidarity with soon-to-be front-line troops of the american peacekeeping mission in bosnia." "but with soldiers and their families apprehensive about the undertaking, president clinton acknowledged it could be dangerous." "you know better than anyone that every deployment has risks. if you are threatened immediately and with decisive force." "the crowd seemed receptive, if not enthusiastic." "at one point the president's usual round of handshaking turned into a serious discussion with troops' families. we talked with a team assigned to a multiple rocket launcher." "do you feel like bosnia is a place that the u.s. ought to be going?" (chuckles) "me personally, uh no. it's a civil affair and i really don't think we have business there. but, the army wants us there and we're going". "field artillery specialist william burt is for the mission." "well i support it, i support it -- to a point, of course. this is what we have to do." "how about you? your husband is about to be deployed." "of course i don't want him to go, 'cause you know, he'll be away from his family. but, um, i "the president said he wanted to come here to look directly into the eyes of the soldiers who are going: into the eyes of their wives, their husbands, their children; because they are about to do a noble and important thing." "he explained: 'i wanted to say directly to them, here is why you are going' and afterword many of them said that at the very least, his visit here showed that he and america care about what happens to them." as we continue our look back on the 42nd president, now we take a look back at the 1996 democratic convention for then incumbent, president bill clinton. rodham clinton for 20 years. one child, daughter chelsea, age 16. one half-brother, roger clinton. both of his parents are gone." "mr. chairman. mr. chairman. mr. vice president. my fellow democrats and my fellow americans. thank you for your nomination." "so many have contributed to the record we have made for the american people but one above all, my partner, my friend and the best vice-president in our history, al gore. tonight. tonight, i thank the city of chicago, its great mayor and its magnificent convention. i love chicago for many reasons - for your powerful spirit, your sports teams, your lively politics but most of all for the love and light of my life, chicago's daughter, hillary." "four years ago, you and i set vision to our country, to keep the american dream alive for all who were willing to work for it, to make our american community stronger, to keep america the strongest force for high unemployment, stagnant wages, crime, welfare and the deficit on the rise, with a host of unmet challenges and a rising tide of cynicism, i told you about a place i was born and i told you that i still believed in a place called hope. we have pursued a simple but profound strategy - for all, responsibility from all, a strong united american community." in the 1990s, crime rates were soaring and president clinton who wanted to be seen as being tough on crime, signed the violent crime control and law enforcement act of 1994. a law which included - among other for criminals. it was then considered one of clinton's top accomplishments as president. "in miami this week, a drug agent and a police officer wounded by a drug dealer. in cleveland, a stabbing at a high school and in washington today over a hundred mayors met to talk about the subject that's uppermost in their minds - crime." "if you cannot feel safe in your home or on the streets of wherever you live, life isn't worth living." wherever you live, life isn't worth living." president clinton was on a mission to combat these fears with his crime bill and in early 1994, he asked mayors to lobby congress on its behalf. "we do not need to fool around with this for six months. so let's do it and let's do it with benefit of mayors and chiefs of police who know what it is to do it right." but republicans were opposed. fighting against the legislation, calling the bill a months later, the house voted. "the bill has passed." "after weeks of bickering, the house finally voted 285 to 141 to pass a 28-billion dollar crime bill backed by the white house." "the bill authorizes funds for 50-thousand new state and local police officers, expands the list of federal crimes that can result in the death penalty, calls for three strikes and you're out. life in prison for a violent federal offense or serious drug offense after two there are also billions of dollars for crime prevention and prisons." by july the clinton crime bill was almost a done deal. "a major new crime bill is well on its way to becoming law. a congressional conference committe approved what president clinton calls the toughest attack on crime in u.s. history. republican opponents call the crime bill a waste of money." "with crime a top concern for most americans, word that house crime bill was news that president clinton could use, especially with his public approval ratings down and it came just as he addressed a justice department assembly of law enforcement officials from around the country." "and i can tell you, this is one of the reasons that i ran for president." "in fact, the bill which still faces a final vote in both houses contains many of mr. clinton's proposals." "money for 100,000 new police officers, three strikes and you're out, life in prison with no parole for felons who com on assault weapons, new money for prisons, for drug treatment and for special drug courts, for job and education programs to deter youths from turning to crime." "the new crime fighting package will cost more than 30-billion dollars over six years. most of the funding coming from cuts in the federal bureacracy but republicans who worked on the bill complained democrats loaded it with too much money for prevention." "this bill is a big spending boondoggle that isn't going to do what we want it to do." on august 25, 1994, with just one vote to spare, the 30 billion dollar crime bill was cleared in the senate. it was a huge win for bill clinton. "when the votes finally went the president's way, you could hear cheers from all over, and the president, who is badly in need of victories, quickly went out to make a statement in the rose garden." "today, senators of both parties took a brave and promising stepbr for a crime bill closer to an end." "it's still unknown whether this bill will really do anything to solve america's crime problem but it was important symbolically for the president. he put his prestige on the line. he has now given democrats something to run on in the mid-term elections in november and he can say he stood up to the n.r.a. and won." on september 13, 1994 the president signed the crime bill. about freedom. without responsibility, without order, without lawfulness, there is no freedom." "let us rededicate ourselves today to making this law become the life of the country to restoring the sense of right and wrong that built our country and to make it safe not iwords but in fact. in the life blood of of our country who believe in the promise of america, let us make it real. thank you." once hailed as the center piece of his administration, the president has recently renounced part of the bill saying too many people are in prison for far too long. we know go back to 1993, when president clinton announced his nomination to the supreme court bench, ruth bader ginsburg would announce his first appointment to the united states supreme court. the nominee is federal judge ruth bader ginsburg. if the senate approves, she will be the second woman ever to serve on the nation's highest court and she would serve alongside the first justice, sandra day o'connor of arizona. judge ginsburg is considered a woman's right to an abortion. now, there'll be some argument about whether she's considered a moderate or not. that's one of the fulcrum points at which the debate about her nomination no doubt will turn but she considers herself a moderate and supporters of her say that she is a moderate. president clinton's decision was a long time coming. justice byron white announced his retirement some three months ago. this announcement will be held in the white house rose garden and there you see the president and his supreme court nominee rose garden, walking very near the magnolia tree planted by andrew jackson during his presidency in the last century. officials at the white house had led reporters to believe that the choice had been narrowed down to interior secretary bruce babbitt and boston federal appeals court judge stephen breyer but neither of those is to be the nominee today. the president walking out with his nominee, ruth bader ginsbur "i know clearly that a supreme court justice should have the heart and spirit, the talent and discipline, the knowledge, common sense, and wisdom to translate the hopes of the american people as presented in the cases before it into an enduring body of constitutional law, constitutional law that will preserve our most enshrined in that constitution and at the same time enable the american people to move forward. that is what i promised the american people in a justice when i ran for president and i believe it is a promise that i am delivering on today. after careful reflection, i am proud justice of the supreme court judge ruth bader ginsburg of the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia. i will send her name to the senate to fill the vacancy created by justice white's retirement." when we continue our look back on president clinton's legacy, we turn to a story that's hard to forget. the scandalous affair that rocked his presidency. it's campaign, the 42nd president of the united states was mired in scandal that would cling to his shadow. and after six years as commander-in-chief that shadow reached its depths and president bill clinton nearly didn't get to finish out his final two years in office. in august, 1998, he became the first sitting president to testify to a criminal grand jury. "good evening. bulletin from washington. it's over. president a few moments ago." it was a saga that began with a 22-year-old white house intern, an aggressive litigator and a president on the defensive advocating for both his past and present. "i did not have sexual relations with that woman." in the first eight months of 1998, 1600 pennsylvania avenue was ground zero for the tabloid-story of the soon-ending century. "i think clinton is lying as he always does." "he's doing his job as far as running the country and that's the way i feel." a story that captivated the country and congress. after months of denials, america heard the president come clean. but as embarrasing as it may have been for bill clinton, embarassment may have been the only consequence before finally 17, 1998. three years before, in 1995, monica lewinsky arrived at the white house as a clerical intern. administration staffers began to get suspicious of her behavior in the west wing and transferred her to the pentagon in april of 1996. it was there lewinsky confided in an older co-worker named linda tripp in an older co-worker named linda tripp about what she had done with the president. tripp started recording their phone conversations as evidence of an improper relationship with the married president. "we're getting up and i'm like all right, 'i love you butthead.' i called him butthead." "you didn't?" "i did." "we didn't have sex linda!" "well, what do you call it?" "we fooled around. we didn't have sex." "well, i don't know. i think if you get to orgasm that's having sex. " "no, it's not." "no, it's not. having sex is having intercourse." those types of details would prove useful to a man charged with looking into the president's activities before and during clinton's tenure in the white house. ken starr was a special independent prosecutor in charge of investigating bill and hillary clinton's whitewater land dealings while they were still in arkansas. but the focus changed as into bill's time as governor. former arkansas state employee paula jones filed a lawsuit in 1994 against him claiming clinton sexually harrassed her in 1991 in a little rock hotel room. lawyers for jones' cases subpoenaed lewinsky in late 1997. and what happened next led to the second-ever impeachment trial of an american president in u.s. history. told lawyers that she never had a sexual relationship with the president. a little more than a week later, tripp armed with her recorded conversations, said otherwise and contacted starr's office. now with this new evidence, starr got permission to also investigate whether the president pressured a former staffer to lie under oath. "i never told anybody to lie. not a single time never. these not only did clinton deny asking lewinsky to lie, in his deposition for the jones case, he denied doing anything with her. "but i want to say one thing to the american people. i want you to listen to me. i'm going to say this again. i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky." with tripp's recordings jones case, starr believed he had enough to prove clinton lied under oath and obstructed justice - potential grounds for impeachment. a judge eventually dropped jones'harrassment case. but to avoid perjury charges and strong-armed by the now- infamous stained blue dress, lewinsky agreed to testify in starr's case for full immunity. with the walls caving in, clinton agreed to testify as well. "i am looking forward to the well. "i am looking forward to the opportunity in the next few of testifying. i will do so completely and truthfully. i am anxious to do it." on august 17, 1998, the president spoke with proseuctors on camera about his relationship with the former intern. "this marks the first time in american history that a president has testified before a criminal grand jury. two sources familiar with mr. that mr. clinton intended to acknowledge a sexual relationship with monica lewinsky." with washington and the country buzzing over what they were about to hear, clinton tried to simultaneously reveal the truth while also covering his tracks. "these encouters did not consist of sexual intercourse. they did not constitute "sexual relations" as i understood that term to be defined at my january 17, 1998 deposition." term to be defined at my january 17, 1998 deposition." "was i embarrassed about it? yes. did i ask her to lie about it? no." after four-plus hours of testimony and seven months of denials, clinton came clean with an address to the nation. "indeed, i did have a realtionship with miss lewinsky that was not approrpriate. in fact, it was wrong. it constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which i am solely and completely responsible." "the american people aren't have done this seven months ago and it would have been much more acceptable then. they know that the reason, if he does it today, they know that the reason he's doing it is because he has to." but the president also chided starr for attacking his personal life turning, turning what clinton felt, was an issue between he and his wife into a national scandal. "i don't believe a word he says. he's a disingenuous president." "they should leave him alone and let him get on with his life." "allies of ken s news that starr already believes he has substantial evidence of impeachable offenses and that report may go to congress in as little as three to five weeks." after releasing most of starr's report to the public that fall, the house voted to impeach clinton on perjury and obstruction charges in december. but when the senate vote came up in february of 1999, the president snuck by as senators cleared him of both by slim margins. "i think what's interesting is how people will look back on it. i think they'll look back on it as a kind of national madness." in the end, bill clinton finished off his term with high approval ratings and hillary has continued her political ascent. bill maher was right. it was a time of national madness. it seemed as if the white house had turned into a reality show with all the drama. there was hardly anything else on newscasts. viewers were interested in only one thing - the affair. what did the president do with a young intern at the white house? i visited the white house to interview hillary clinton within a month of the initial announcement and the operation there was struggling to maintain normalcy. the strategy during political battles before. meantime, the business of the nation must be done. hillary was helping plan a state dinner, arranging the centerpieces at the tables showing an ability to focus while a hurricane raged around the white house. judged by the intensity of the political storm, one might expect that no one would be left standing but the final tally is amazing. left standing but the final tally is amazing. at the end of his second term, bill clinton's approval rating was 66%, the highest of any of the four presidents who served in the last quarter century. the early dream that hillary would follow her husband with a political career was not killed by the scandal. she would become senator from new york, secretary of state and head for the white house. vice president al gore didn't win the presidency but he shared the nobel prize for bringing the problem of climate world. the democrats would regain the presidency with barack obama and take credit for ending the recession. the lesson of monicagate for history? perhaps a strong stand and persistence is more admired than quitting. another lesson "through the decades." from the key legislation to the scandals, we continue our look back at the most memorable momentfr clinton's time in office. stay with us as we go back to the '90s for a "through the decades" moment in time that explores his plans for health now we look back to 1993 when president clinton outlined his plans for health care reform. "on a beautiful evening here on capitol hill, everyone's preparing for president clinton's address to congress and the nation delivering his vision for a sweeping reform of health care in america. there is a lot at stake for the president and for everyone in the country. white house correspondent, rita braver reports on the final build up to a defining moment in the clinton presidency." "it's game day as one white bill clinton was in his office rehearsing plays for one of the biggest events of his presidency. earlier, a huddle with congressional leaders to urge bi-partisan spirit for health care reform." "and i think now, you finally got everybody in the country focused on it and i think we can have a moment in history when we can seize it and move forward." "in fact, most democrats and republicans back the concept of the plan but a few charge it is too bureaucratic, too expensive." "the government is overloading itself a funding mechanisms are mysterious at best." "the president will not give specifics on funding. sources say he'll propose a sin tax on tobacco for example but not say what it will cost per cigarette pack." "the white house hopes this will be bill clinton's proudest domestic legacy like medicare was for lyndon johnson. a program can make or break a presidency according to writer and historian michael barrone." "and depending on whether it passed or whether it falls apart and then if it is passed, depending on what people think of it once it comes into effect that will help to determine to a considerable extent, the public's verdict on the clinton administration." "and the white house says the president will try to convey two important ideas - that the plan is open to negotiation, not carved in stone and that everything that came before was in preparation for a journey that begins tonight, dan." "rita braver. live at the white house. thanks." "rita braver. live at the white house. thanks." "critics complain that the clinton system is too complicated but the first lady says under the clinton plan, things would be much simpler than they are today." "our current system is a non- system. we do not have one that can be described in any simple term to anybody. we have a patchwork that has grown up kind of willy-nilly over the decades." "republicans are quick to point out that the clinton plan would require a new bureaucracy. a is trying to streamline the government. linda douglas. that'll do it for us today. i'm bill kurtis. as we leave, one last look back at the life and legacy of our forty second president of the united states. i'm robert de niro and new york is my home. and now it's the easiest, because now there are new tourism guides on the road, and on your phone that make it easier to find the places you love. find great dining, amazing history, and world-class entertainment, no matter where you are. take the ultimate road trip and see why i love new york. >> champions of the >> champions of the world, denver broncos. >> it is caught for the win! >> danny willett has won the masters. jason tay, major champion. >> derrick henry will win it. >> the "cbs sportsdesk" is presented by centurylink. bill: and hello, everyone. welcome to the "cbs sportsdesk" presented by centurylink. i'm bill macatee. the third round of the wyndham championship is coming up next here on cbs sports but first, track and field took center stage last night in rio. usain bolt ran the anchor leg

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and i'm kerry sayers. and i'm your host, bill kurtis. it's our look at president clinton "through the decades." the presidency is the highest office in the land. and over the course of our history, the men who held that post have each impacted and shaped this country. in 1992, the youngest man since jfk, 46 year old william jefferson clinton, then jfk, 46 year old william jefferson clinton, then governor elected our forty-second president of the united states. today on through the decades we take a look at the presidency and legacy of bill clinton. he was charismatic, intelligent and approachable but his eight years in office would be plagued by personal scandal but that didn't prevent him from leaving office with the highest approval rating of an outgoing president since world war ii. we begin, where it all begins for every president. with an election. by november, 1992, the reagan revolution of the 1980s had run out of steam. reagan's successor, president george bush, was seen as aristocratic and out-of-touch. it was a new decade and america was ready for a new style of leadership. enter arkansas governor bill clinton. "here's governor clinton with his family. let's just soak up the moment." "on this day with high hopes, and brave hearts and massive numbers, the american people have voted to make a new beginning. this election is a clarion call for our country to face the challenges of the end campaign. "i remind you again tonight, my fellow americans, that this victory was more than a victory of party, it was a victory for the people who work hard and play by the rules." on november 3, 1992, the democratic nominee became president-elect and it almost looked like a story book ending to a modern political fairy tale but the reality was just little different. a campaign that had begun 13 months earlier in little rock, arkansas saw the potential democratic frontrunner drop to come-back kid in the primaries. "most people like to dish it out, more than they like to take it and i have been america's resident expert on taking it for the last month." clinton had been bruised and burned as questions about his early years arose and the media doggedly pursued answers to affairs, draft dodging and drug use. "the answer to that question is i have never broken a state law and that when i was in england, i experimented with marijuana a time or two and i didn't like it and didn't inhale and never tried it again." his supporters, thought the voters would be more interested in his economic policies and took to the airwaves to ease the damage. "i think clinton's success day shows the fact that voters are more interested in their day shows the fact that voters are more interested in their own going to come along and address those problems than they are about some personal dirt that's going to be thrown back and forth." but by june, clinton's was a floundering campaign as his personal life was threatening to drown out any other political conversation. as rumors began to swirling about a potential brokered dnc convention, bill clinton's campaign began to regroup. the new strategy - bypass traditional media, reach out to so, he played sax on the arsenio hall show. (saxophone sounds) he appeared on the cover of time and people magazine for in- depth interviews about his family and childhood. he talked about being raised by a single mother and his struggle with an alcoholic step father. he even went on the new mtv voters directly. "the problem we've got now is, we got paralysis in washington, not enough decisions are being made." it was new, it was edgy and it worked. by the time the convention arrived, bill clinton was "back." "i have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo. your time has come and gone. it's time for a change in america." from then as the calendar to pollsters and stratgeists call a bit of luck. he was talking about reviving an economy and pulling himself up to an american dream running against the incumbent president and gop candidate george h.w. bush and billionaire independent, ross perot. "now all these fellas with thousand dollar suits and alligator shoes runnin' up and down the halls of congress, that make policy now, the lobbyists, the pac guys, the foreign lobbyists and what have you. they'll be over there in the smithsn the congress will be listening to the people and the american people are willing to have fair shared sarifice. they're not as stupid as washington thinks they are." president bush had broken a campaign promise he had bolstered running for office the first time. "read my lips. no new taxes." and the clinton campaign capitalized on that, running campaign over and over: "read my lips. no new taxes. then he gave us the second biggest tax increase in american history." president bush didn't recover from the barrage and on november 3, 1992 the voters had their say. "that the people have spoken, and we respect the majesty of the democratic system. i just ll little rock and offered my congratulations. he did run a strong campaign. i wish him well in the white house." "our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every american. we're all in this together, and we will rise or fall together. that has been my message to the american people for the past 13 months and it will be my message for the next four years. together we can do it. we love everything it was meant to be. i still believe in a place called hope. god bless america! thank you all!" and with that president-elect clinton established the beginning of a new political era and one that has a lasting legacy even decades later. when we continue our journey, we'll look back when on when the president was forced to answeror the decision to put u.s. troops in the middle of one of the decades bloodiest fights. plus, his signature effort to fight the growing crime problem. stay with us as we continue our look back on the legacy of president bill clinton. before he was elected, he had to be nominated, we go back to 1992 for this moment in time from bcl for president. "we know there will be some pro material in it. "thanks dick threlkeld. the lights come back on. the film is over. it's the moment. the climatic moment of this 1992 democractic nominating convention. governor bill clinton is backstage waiting to walk on." *applause and cheers* we want bill! we want bill!" we want bill! we want bill!" "now that we have changed the world, it's time to change america." the whitewater controversy would pull at president bill clinton's integrity throughout his first term. and in the summer of 1996, he provided videotaped testimony, for the second time, asserting his innocence in a real estate testified under oath and on camera for the second time in three months. the president is not accused of any wrongdoing. he was ordered to give videotaped testimony for the defense in a whitewater related criminal trial." ar whitewater doesn't hold the same sensationalism as a monica lewinsky affair which would unravel two years later. but throughout the first four years of the clinton administration, the media kept steady pressure on the first couple over an investment they made in 1978. back then, the clinton's went into business with james and susan mcdougal. together they formed the "whitewater development corporation" and bought 230 acres of land along arkansas' whitewater river in hopes of developing it the deal was a flop. that wasn't a crime but after whitewater went sour, the mcdougals engaged in several schemes that would come back to haunt the clintons. "the mcdougals and governor tucker were convicted of lying to obtain federal loans for real estate deals. much of the money was intended for disadvantaged businesses. taxpayers lost more than three million dollars. prosecutors never accused the president nor first lady of wrongdoing but one witness, david hale, did testify the president exerted infce former banker who testified that mr. clinton pressured him in the mid-1980s to make one of the illegal loans to susan mcdougal." clintons' names being found on documents surrounding the mcdougals' illegal activities triggered the investigation that would become known as the whitewater scandal. "well, i looked forward to being able to tell the grand jury what i know. to be able to answer their questions. i, like everyone else, would like to know the answer about how those documents showed up after all these years." arkansas and in washington." "an allegation is not the same thing as a fact and, particularly i would remind the american people when it comes to the whole whitewater issue the allegations have often, and matter of fact virtually always, bore no relationship to the facts. that's really the story of this r the clintons were eventually cleared of any wrongdoing but fifteen others were not. "the president's arkansas business partners and political allies found guilty on multiple counts including conspiracy and fraud." whitewater was a noticeably expensive and complicated investigation and one neither side of the aisle was particularly pleased with. democrats considered it a witch hunt while republicans saw the clinton's exoneration as an injustice. it epitomized partisan something that only intensfied when the press got wind of a former white house intern named monica lewinsky. still to come, we look back at a moment that saw president clinton sent u.s. troops to a southeastern europeanountry for the very first time in an effort to keep the peace. plus, the scandal that rocked his presidency. the use of the military is a president. in late 1995, the former yugoslavia was resting on a tenuous peace agreement after years of bitter animosity, war and ethnic cleansing. the dayton peace accords divided power in bosnia and quelled the fighting. but tensions remained high and on december 2nd, president clinton authorized the deployment of u.s. troops to world war ii is getting still worse, rapidly. tonight the world watches in horror as the tragedy and terror of bosnia spreads." in the early 1990s, the world was shocked by images coming out of the former yugoslavia. mass displacement, incarceration and murder on a scale reminiscent of the second world war. world powers intervened this included airstrikes against serbian forces that were beseiging bosnian muslims. "confirm we're dropping." "that is affirma cleared to drop." "i've got the target on my nose." "we have bomb splash, bomb splash!" "for a second straight day, u.s. planes bombed serbian forces besieging the muslim town of gorazde. president clinton says the strikes are designed to force the serbs back to the negotiating table but so far their response has been defiance." in late 1995, peace appeared to finally be at hand through the dayton accords. but the peace was shaky and with president clinton ordered u.s. ground troops to the region. "the first substantial commitment of american forces in the balkans conflict has begun. president clinton ordered 700 troops into bosnia in the next few days. the vanguard force will pave the way for the eventual involvement of 20,000 u.s. peacekeeping troops following the signing if the bosnian peace accord later this month." the american forces were to act as peacekeepers but questions persisted over the scope of the mission. "republicans say the president should go before the american public again to answer some key questions. among them - what's the exit strategy? what happens if the agreement falls apart? and how will american soldiers be protected against armed factions with no interest in ending the war?" in congress, legislators and especially republican presidential candidates grappled with the dilemma of whether or not to suppport the president. "i haven't backed away from my there's an exit strategy." "i'm not willing to put brave, young americans as buffers between warring factions that have broken every cease-fire and violated every treaty for the last 500 years." with congressional support in question, the clinton administration went into full p.r. mode. "the president's people were on capitoll trying to explain the role of u.s. troops in bosnia." "where actually will the troops be stationed? new maps were produced this week showing a bosnia divided into three sectors: british troops in the west, french in the south and the u.s. troops in the north - 20,000 americans supported by 8,000 foreign troops, including russians. american soldiers are supposed to patrol a buffer zone between the warring sides. just separating the serb and bosnian federation forces. the task for the u.s. army is to make sure the sides keep their distance by force if necessary." "if any element: weaponry, troops - you name it - does not pull back when they're told to pull back - then they're going to get it." the administration's lobbying efforts proved to be successful in gaining congressional support. in gaining congressional support. seriousness of the mission, president clinton paid a personal visit to the soldiers about to be deployed. "president clinton came to the u.s. army base in baumholder, germany, to show solidarity with soon-to-be front-line troops of the american peacekeeping mission in bosnia." "but with soldiers and their families apprehensive about the undertaking, president clinton acknowledged it could be dangerous." "you know better than anyone that every deployment has risks. if you are threatened immediately and with decisive force." "the crowd seemed receptive, if not enthusiastic." "at one point the president's usual round of handshaking turned into a serious discussion with troops' families. we talked with a team assigned to a multiple rocket launcher." "do you feel like bosnia is a place that the u.s. ought to be going?" (chuckles) "me personally, uh no. it's a civil affair and i really don't think we have business there. but, the army wants us there and we're going". "field artillery specialist william burt is for the mission." "well i support it, i support it -- to a point, of course. this is what we have to do." "how about you? your husband is about to be deployed." "of course i don't want him to go, 'cause you know, he'll be away from his family. but, um, i "the president said he wanted to come here to look directly into the eyes of the soldiers who are going: into the eyes of their wives, their husbands, their children; because they are about to do a noble and important thing." "he explained: 'i wanted to say directly to them, here is why you are going' and afterword many of them said that at the very least, his visit here showed that he and america care about what happens to them." as we continue our look back on the 42nd president, now we take a look back at the 1996 democratic convention for then incumbent, president bill clinton. rodham clinton for 20 years. one child, daughter chelsea, age 16. one half-brother, roger clinton. both of his parents are gone." "mr. chairman. mr. chairman. mr. vice president. my fellow democrats and my fellow americans. thank you for your nomination." "so many have contributed to the record we have made for the american people but one above all, my partner, my friend and the best vice-president in our history, al gore. tonight. tonight, i thank the city of chicago, its great mayor and its magnificent convention. i love chicago for many reasons - for your powerful spirit, your sports teams, your lively politics but most of all for the love and light of my life, chicago's daughter, hillary." "four years ago, you and i set vision to our country, to keep the american dream alive for all who were willing to work for it, to make our american community stronger, to keep america the strongest force for high unemployment, stagnant wages, crime, welfare and the deficit on the rise, with a host of unmet challenges and a rising tide of cynicism, i told you about a place i was born and i told you that i still believed in a place called hope. we have pursued a simple but profound strategy - for all, responsibility from all, a strong united american community." in the 1990s, crime rates were soaring and president clinton who wanted to be seen as being tough on crime, signed the violent crime control and law enforcement act of 1994. a law which included - among other for criminals. it was then considered one of clinton's top accomplishments as president. "in miami this week, a drug agent and a police officer wounded by a drug dealer. in cleveland, a stabbing at a high school and in washington today over a hundred mayors met to talk about the subject that's uppermost in their minds - crime." "if you cannot feel safe in your home or on the streets of wherever you live, life isn't worth living." wherever you live, life isn't worth living." president clinton was on a mission to combat these fears with his crime bill and in early 1994, he asked mayors to lobby congress on its behalf. "we do not need to fool around with this for six months. so let's do it and let's do it with benefit of mayors and chiefs of police who know what it is to do it right." but republicans were opposed. fighting against the legislation, calling the bill a months later, the house voted. "the bill has passed." "after weeks of bickering, the house finally voted 285 to 141 to pass a 28-billion dollar crime bill backed by the white house." "the bill authorizes funds for 50-thousand new state and local police officers, expands the list of federal crimes that can result in the death penalty, calls for three strikes and you're out. life in prison for a violent federal offense or serious drug offense after two there are also billions of dollars for crime prevention and prisons." by july the clinton crime bill was almost a done deal. "a major new crime bill is well on its way to becoming law. a congressional conference committe approved what president clinton calls the toughest attack on crime in u.s. history. republican opponents call the crime bill a waste of money." "with crime a top concern for most americans, word that house crime bill was news that president clinton could use, especially with his public approval ratings down and it came just as he addressed a justice department assembly of law enforcement officials from around the country." "and i can tell you, this is one of the reasons that i ran for president." "in fact, the bill which still faces a final vote in both houses contains many of mr. clinton's proposals." "money for 100,000 new police officers, three strikes and you're out, life in prison with no parole for felons who com on assault weapons, new money for prisons, for drug treatment and for special drug courts, for job and education programs to deter youths from turning to crime." "the new crime fighting package will cost more than 30-billion dollars over six years. most of the funding coming from cuts in the federal bureacracy but republicans who worked on the bill complained democrats loaded it with too much money for prevention." "this bill is a big spending boondoggle that isn't going to do what we want it to do." on august 25, 1994, with just one vote to spare, the 30 billion dollar crime bill was cleared in the senate. it was a huge win for bill clinton. "when the votes finally went the president's way, you could hear cheers from all over, and the president, who is badly in need of victories, quickly went out to make a statement in the rose garden." "today, senators of both parties took a brave and promising stepbr for a crime bill closer to an end." "it's still unknown whether this bill will really do anything to solve america's crime problem but it was important symbolically for the president. he put his prestige on the line. he has now given democrats something to run on in the mid-term elections in november and he can say he stood up to the n.r.a. and won." on september 13, 1994 the president signed the crime bill. about freedom. without responsibility, without order, without lawfulness, there is no freedom." "let us rededicate ourselves today to making this law become the life of the country to restoring the sense of right and wrong that built our country and to make it safe not iwords but in fact. in the life blood of of our country who believe in the promise of america, let us make it real. thank you." once hailed as the center piece of his administration, the president has recently renounced part of the bill saying too many people are in prison for far too long. we know go back to 1993, when president clinton announced his nomination to the supreme court bench, ruth bader ginsburg would announce his first appointment to the united states supreme court. the nominee is federal judge ruth bader ginsburg. if the senate approves, she will be the second woman ever to serve on the nation's highest court and she would serve alongside the first justice, sandra day o'connor of arizona. judge ginsburg is considered a woman's right to an abortion. now, there'll be some argument about whether she's considered a moderate or not. that's one of the fulcrum points at which the debate about her nomination no doubt will turn but she considers herself a moderate and supporters of her say that she is a moderate. president clinton's decision was a long time coming. justice byron white announced his retirement some three months ago. this announcement will be held in the white house rose garden and there you see the president and his supreme court nominee rose garden, walking very near the magnolia tree planted by andrew jackson during his presidency in the last century. officials at the white house had led reporters to believe that the choice had been narrowed down to interior secretary bruce babbitt and boston federal appeals court judge stephen breyer but neither of those is to be the nominee today. the president walking out with his nominee, ruth bader ginsbur "i know clearly that a supreme court justice should have the heart and spirit, the talent and discipline, the knowledge, common sense, and wisdom to translate the hopes of the american people as presented in the cases before it into an enduring body of constitutional law, constitutional law that will preserve our most enshrined in that constitution and at the same time enable the american people to move forward. that is what i promised the american people in a justice when i ran for president and i believe it is a promise that i am delivering on today. after careful reflection, i am proud justice of the supreme court judge ruth bader ginsburg of the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia. i will send her name to the senate to fill the vacancy created by justice white's retirement." when we continue our look back on president clinton's legacy, we turn to a story that's hard to forget. the scandalous affair that rocked his presidency. it's campaign, the 42nd president of the united states was mired in scandal that would cling to his shadow. and after six years as commander-in-chief that shadow reached its depths and president bill clinton nearly didn't get to finish out his final two years in office. in august, 1998, he became the first sitting president to testify to a criminal grand jury. "good evening. bulletin from washington. it's over. president a few moments ago." it was a saga that began with a 22-year-old white house intern, an aggressive litigator and a president on the defensive advocating for both his past and present. "i did not have sexual relations with that woman." in the first eight months of 1998, 1600 pennsylvania avenue was ground zero for the tabloid-story of the soon-ending century. "i think clinton is lying as he always does." "he's doing his job as far as running the country and that's the way i feel." a story that captivated the country and congress. after months of denials, america heard the president come clean. but as embarrasing as it may have been for bill clinton, embarassment may have been the only consequence before finally 17, 1998. three years before, in 1995, monica lewinsky arrived at the white house as a clerical intern. administration staffers began to get suspicious of her behavior in the west wing and transferred her to the pentagon in april of 1996. it was there lewinsky confided in an older co-worker named linda tripp in an older co-worker named linda tripp about what she had done with the president. tripp started recording their phone conversations as evidence of an improper relationship with the married president. "we're getting up and i'm like all right, 'i love you butthead.' i called him butthead." "you didn't?" "i did." "we didn't have sex linda!" "well, what do you call it?" "we fooled around. we didn't have sex." "well, i don't know. i think if you get to orgasm that's having sex. " "no, it's not." "no, it's not. having sex is having intercourse." those types of details would prove useful to a man charged with looking into the president's activities before and during clinton's tenure in the white house. ken starr was a special independent prosecutor in charge of investigating bill and hillary clinton's whitewater land dealings while they were still in arkansas. but the focus changed as into bill's time as governor. former arkansas state employee paula jones filed a lawsuit in 1994 against him claiming clinton sexually harrassed her in 1991 in a little rock hotel room. lawyers for jones' cases subpoenaed lewinsky in late 1997. and what happened next led to the second-ever impeachment trial of an american president in u.s. history. told lawyers that she never had a sexual relationship with the president. a little more than a week later, tripp armed with her recorded conversations, said otherwise and contacted starr's office. now with this new evidence, starr got permission to also investigate whether the president pressured a former staffer to lie under oath. "i never told anybody to lie. not a single time never. these not only did clinton deny asking lewinsky to lie, in his deposition for the jones case, he denied doing anything with her. "but i want to say one thing to the american people. i want you to listen to me. i'm going to say this again. i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky." with tripp's recordings jones case, starr believed he had enough to prove clinton lied under oath and obstructed justice - potential grounds for impeachment. a judge eventually dropped jones'harrassment case. but to avoid perjury charges and strong-armed by the now- infamous stained blue dress, lewinsky agreed to testify in starr's case for full immunity. with the walls caving in, clinton agreed to testify as well. "i am looking forward to the well. "i am looking forward to the opportunity in the next few of testifying. i will do so completely and truthfully. i am anxious to do it." on august 17, 1998, the president spoke with proseuctors on camera about his relationship with the former intern. "this marks the first time in american history that a president has testified before a criminal grand jury. two sources familiar with mr. that mr. clinton intended to acknowledge a sexual relationship with monica lewinsky." with washington and the country buzzing over what they were about to hear, clinton tried to simultaneously reveal the truth while also covering his tracks. "these encouters did not consist of sexual intercourse. they did not constitute "sexual relations" as i understood that term to be defined at my january 17, 1998 deposition." term to be defined at my january 17, 1998 deposition." "was i embarrassed about it? yes. did i ask her to lie about it? no." after four-plus hours of testimony and seven months of denials, clinton came clean with an address to the nation. "indeed, i did have a realtionship with miss lewinsky that was not approrpriate. in fact, it was wrong. it constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which i am solely and completely responsible." "the american people aren't have done this seven months ago and it would have been much more acceptable then. they know that the reason, if he does it today, they know that the reason he's doing it is because he has to." but the president also chided starr for attacking his personal life turning, turning what clinton felt, was an issue between he and his wife into a national scandal. "i don't believe a word he says. he's a disingenuous president." "they should leave him alone and let him get on with his life." "allies of ken s news that starr already believes he has substantial evidence of impeachable offenses and that report may go to congress in as little as three to five weeks." after releasing most of starr's report to the public that fall, the house voted to impeach clinton on perjury and obstruction charges in december. but when the senate vote came up in february of 1999, the president snuck by as senators cleared him of both by slim margins. "i think what's interesting is how people will look back on it. i think they'll look back on it as a kind of national madness." in the end, bill clinton finished off his term with high approval ratings and hillary has continued her political ascent. bill maher was right. it was a time of national madness. it seemed as if the white house had turned into a reality show with all the drama. there was hardly anything else on newscasts. viewers were interested in only one thing - the affair. what did the president do with a young intern at the white house? i visited the white house to interview hillary clinton within a month of the initial announcement and the operation there was struggling to maintain normalcy. the strategy during political battles before. meantime, the business of the nation must be done. hillary was helping plan a state dinner, arranging the centerpieces at the tables showing an ability to focus while a hurricane raged around the white house. judged by the intensity of the political storm, one might expect that no one would be left standing but the final tally is amazing. left standing but the final tally is amazing. at the end of his second term, bill clinton's approval rating was 66%, the highest of any of the four presidents who served in the last quarter century. the early dream that hillary would follow her husband with a political career was not killed by the scandal. she would become senator from new york, secretary of state and head for the white house. vice president al gore didn't win the presidency but he shared the nobel prize for bringing the problem of climate world. the democrats would regain the presidency with barack obama and take credit for ending the recession. the lesson of monicagate for history? perhaps a strong stand and persistence is more admired than quitting. another lesson "through the decades." from the key legislation to the scandals, we continue our look back at the most memorable momentfr clinton's time in office. stay with us as we go back to the '90s for a "through the decades" moment in time that explores his plans for health now we look back to 1993 when president clinton outlined his plans for health care reform. "on a beautiful evening here on capitol hill, everyone's preparing for president clinton's address to congress and the nation delivering his vision for a sweeping reform of health care in america. there is a lot at stake for the president and for everyone in the country. white house correspondent, rita braver reports on the final build up to a defining moment in the clinton presidency." "it's game day as one white bill clinton was in his office rehearsing plays for one of the biggest events of his presidency. earlier, a huddle with congressional leaders to urge bi-partisan spirit for health care reform." "and i think now, you finally got everybody in the country focused on it and i think we can have a moment in history when we can seize it and move forward." "in fact, most democrats and republicans back the concept of the plan but a few charge it is too bureaucratic, too expensive." "the government is overloading itself a funding mechanisms are mysterious at best." "the president will not give specifics on funding. sources say he'll propose a sin tax on tobacco for example but not say what it will cost per cigarette pack." "the white house hopes this will be bill clinton's proudest domestic legacy like medicare was for lyndon johnson. a program can make or break a presidency according to writer and historian michael barrone." "and depending on whether it passed or whether it falls apart and then if it is passed, depending on what people think of it once it comes into effect that will help to determine to a considerable extent, the public's verdict on the clinton administration." "and the white house says the president will try to convey two important ideas - that the plan is open to negotiation, not carved in stone and that everything that came before was in preparation for a journey that begins tonight, dan." "rita braver. live at the white house. thanks." "rita braver. live at the white house. thanks." "critics complain that the clinton system is too complicated but the first lady says under the clinton plan, things would be much simpler than they are today." "our current system is a non- system. we do not have one that can be described in any simple term to anybody. we have a patchwork that has grown up kind of willy-nilly over the decades." "republicans are quick to point out that the clinton plan would require a new bureaucracy. a is trying to streamline the government. linda douglas. that'll do it for us today. i'm bill kurtis. as we leave, one last look back at the life and legacy of our forty second president of the united states. i'm robert de niro and new york is my home. and now it's the easiest, because now there are new tourism guides on the road, and on your phone that make it easier to find the places you love. find great dining, amazing history, and world-class entertainment, no matter where you are. take the ultimate road trip and see why i love new york. >> champions of the >> champions of the world, denver broncos. >> it is caught for the win! >> danny willett has won the masters. jason tay, major champion. >> derrick henry will win it. >> the "cbs sportsdesk" is presented by centurylink. bill: and hello, everyone. welcome to the "cbs sportsdesk" presented by centurylink. i'm bill macatee. the third round of the wyndham championship is coming up next here on cbs sports but first, track and field took center stage last night in rio. usain bolt ran the anchor leg

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