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May 30, 2022 37 mins
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains content discussing explicit sexuality, sexual assault and harassment, violence, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.

In this public release of a Patreon bonus episode originally released in November 2018, Jaye goes back in time to tell the story of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998, and the scandals that led up to it. Clinton - and many of his supporters - believe that he was unfairly targeted by congressional Republicans for a consensual affair with a White House intern. But was that the case? And was Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky simply a "private" matter, an example of immorality unbecoming of the commander-in-chief, or perhaps something else?

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Citations:

H. Rept. 105-830 – Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States. 105th Congress (1997-1998). https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/105th-congress/house-report/830/1 

Isikoff, Michael, and Evan Thomas. 1998. "Clinton and the Intern." Newsweek. February 2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/nwcover012698.htm 

Leen, Jeff. 1998. "Lewinsky: Two Coasts, Two Lives, Many Images." The Washington Post. January 24. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/lewprofile.htm 

Lewinsky, Monica. 2018. "Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from 'The House of Gaslight' in the Age of #MeToo." Vanity Fair. March. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metoo 

"Key Events Leading to the Impeachment Trial." Los Angeles Times. January 31, 1999. http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jan/31/news/ss-3537 
"The Clinton Impeachment, a Basic Chronology." The City University of New York. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/clintontimeline.htm 

"Was Bill Clinton's Lewinsky Affair an 'Abuse of Power?'" October 15, 2018. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45865402 

Zelizer, Julian. 2016. "Bill Clinton's Nearly Forgotten 1992 Sex Scandal." CNN. April 6. https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/opinions/zelizer-presidential-election-campaign-scandals-bill-clinton/index.html 


Music:

Potstirrer Podcast Theme composed by Jon Biegen from Stranger Still http://strangerstillshow.com/ 

Ocean composed by THBD
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I Feel You composed by Kevin MacLeod
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Desert Sky composed by Silent Partner

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