'This Was Litigated 20 Years Ago'
Twenty years on, Bill Clinton hasn’t figured out how to talk about impeachment and the investigation that nearly ousted him from office.
by Russell Berman
Jun 04, 2018
4 minutes
Somehow, Bill Clinton didn’t see the question coming.
The former president, now 20 years removed from the time congressional Republicans tried unsuccessfully to expel him from office, was sitting across from CBS’s Mo Rocca for one of several interviews he and James Patterson are doing to promote their co-authored new thriller, The President Is Missing. The book opens with the fictional president, Jonathan Lincoln Duncan, facing his own impeachment threat, so Rocca saw a natural segue to bring up the ordeal that sidetracked Clinton’s second term.
“How do you look back at your own impeachment?” Rocca asked.
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