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media and from republicans. people were horrified at this. it was overpowering. i want you to listen to me. i m going to say this again. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. i never told anybody to lie, not a single time. never. these allegations are false, and i need to go back to work for the american people, thank you. i think from the very beginning the people that knew him the best, if they were honest with themselves knew that something had happened. why do you think that in the face of the president s very strong denial, a lot of americans still apparently don t believe him? in part it s because many of you apparently don t. this theme that the press and
bosnia conflict. the end of the cold war caused the world to unravel. one is ugoslavia and people with dying by the thousands. we have to be disciplined and very careful where we do it. when president clinton came into office there was a reluctance to get american forces involved. we were trying to figure out what is america s moral responsibility? if, in fact, people are being killed and we know about it. stunning news from somalia. the deadliest battle yet involving u.s. forces. the battle began after this jeep carrying americans was blown up. two u.s. helicopters were shot down. president george bush sent in a mission to rescue the somalis.
president nixon tried, president carter tried. every time the special interests were powerful enough to defeat them, but not this time. it was a masterful performance and i think he has reengaged on the issue of health care. if we do not guarantee health insurance to every american then we have failed all americans. hillary clinton was given enormous responsibility by her husband to do this hard thing, to reform health care. in a political environment you don t come up with something this complicated and do it in public but the process always requires political input. and as a result congress got defensive. the president is asking you to trust the government more than you trust your doctor and
it was up to the house to decide whether there was grounds to impeach the president and then it is up to the senate to conduct the trial and act as essentially the jury. the said william jefferson clinton is hereby acquitted of the charges in the said articles. the president of the united states found not guilty. clinton lied under oath. he did not challenge the constitutional system of the united states. so, he s not removed from office. three out of four americans are saying, we know bill clinton is a scoundrel and yet we think he s effective as president. the really amazing thing is how bill clinton bounced back from that. he just kept climbing in the polls, notch, notch, notch, notch, notch. incredible. by the end of the 1990s, it looks like a different country for many americans. the economy is booming and our deficit is gone. 1999 was the longest peacetime economic expansion in u.s. history.