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Clinton cleared by Congress


Clinton avoids impeachment


Senate to have its final say in private


Clinton's lawyer tells Monica he's so sorry for all the trouble


Starr 'may take Clinton to criminal court trial'


Senate votes to extend Clinton trial and hear from Lewinsky


Clinton impeached


The prosecutors' case


Monica's depositions on live video
Monica takes her oath


How she found out about the growing scandal


Monica's job hunt


When Jordan asked her if she was in love


Denying a relationship during the Paula Jones trial


What about the gifts?


Changes to her testimony


Did they have sex?


Did she lie?


Vernon Jordan on getting a job for Monica


Sidney Blumenthal on talking with Clinton


Transcript: Lewinsky's deposition


Transcript: Blumenthal's deposition


Transcript: Jordan's deposition


State of the union
Clinton will bask in the State of the Union


Forward-looking Clinton gambles pensions on stock market boom


Martin Kettle reports on the annual State of the Union address


Comment: The split-screen president


State of the union address, part 1


State of the union address, part 2


State of the union address, part 3


State of the union address, part 4


State of the union address, part 5


State of the union address, part 6






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Monica's revenge - Lewinsky testifies against woman who exposed affair with Clinton
17 December: Monica Lewinsky finally had her moment of revenge yesterday when she gave evidence against her former friend Linda Tripp, who is on trial for illegally taping their telephone conversations about her affair with Bill Clinton.

Linda Tripp case 'a witchhunt'
14 December: What could be the final chapter in the Monica Lewinsky affair began in a county court in Maryland yesterday. Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded phone conversations with Ms Lewinsky led to President Bill Clinton's impeachment, is facing charges under the state's wiretapping laws.

The Hillary Clinton interview


Book revives Hillary Clinton infidelity story
4 August: Only hours after Hillary Clinton was in the headlines trying to rationalise her husband's sexual adventures, her own alleged infidelity became the centre of a new uproar with the publication yesterday of a book renewing claims that she had an affair with Vince Foster, the White House lawyer who committed suicide in 1995.

The last word from the first lady
3 August: Under attack for her independence during the presidential campaign of 1992, Hillary Rodham Clinton said: "I feel like there is this great national conversation going on of which I am but a part. It is not so much about me but about all the changes going on in the country, about women and our roles, the choices we make in our lives."

Hillary explains away Clinton's infidelity
2 August: Bill Clinton suffered childhood abuse which may have caused him to philander and experience "bimbo eruptions" later in life, according to his wife Hillary.

Magazine's scoop is talk of the town
2 August: In the words of its British expatriate editor, Tina Brown, Talk is designed to be "a magazine that will reflect and shape the American conversation".

Recent


White House rejoices as Starr returns to private practice
16 October: Kenneth Starr, whose report on the Monica Lewinsky affair made him one of the most controversial figures in modern American public life, and who brought President Bill Clinton to the brink of a historic dismissal from office earlier this year, is to quit his post in the next few days, sources in Washington say.

Clinton fined $90,000 for court sex lie
A federal judge yesterday fined Bill Clinton over $90,000 (£57,000) for denying under oath that he had had sex with Monica Lewinsky, in an unprecedented penalty imposed on an incumbent US president.

The First Couple


Clintons conjure another rebirth
11 July: There they are again. The constantly televised images of Bill and Hillary Clinton have loomed over the past decade like no others - as the ultimate power marriage, the shifty defendants, the endlessly troubled couple.

Recent stories


Starr threat to Hillary's chances
15 June: Hillary Clinton's increasingly likely run for the New York senate seat in next year's elections has come under threat from an all too familiar quarter: the independent counsel Kenneth Starr.

Hitchens on Clinton


Is he the most crooked President in history?
18 April: In his hot youth in the 1960s, Bill Clinton had been, on his own account, a strong supporter of the Civil Rights movement.

Monica has her say


'I seriously considered jumping... '
Watch Monica describing her near-suicide to Jon Snow in the Channel 4 interview.

Monica's first TV interview
See video footage from Barbara Walters' interview with Monica Lewinsky on ABC television.

Monica speaks
Selected transcripts from the ABC interview.

Morton's Monica: the book
Read excerpts from Andrew Morton's biography.

Post-trial developments


How much is a president worth?
25 May: The contenders for the US presidency in next year's elections have a further incentive to enter the race for the White House. In January 2001 the president of the United States could be due a hefty pay rise.

Justice department considers inquiry into Starr
20 February: The US justice department is considering appointing an independent counsel to investigate Kenneth Starr on charges of possible prosecutorial misconduct.

Clinton accused of 1978 hotel rape
20 February: Bill Clinton faces a fresh scandal about his past sexual conduct after a former campaign worker alleged that he raped her 21 years ago.

Hillary edges closer to bid for the Senate
18 February: The scene is set for America's most spectacular political clash in years, pitting the man who saved New York against the woman who could have destroyed Bill Clinton.

Clinton calls for reconciliation
13 February: President Clinton appeared last night before the cameras in the Rose Garden.

Comment from the crisis


The end of the Zipper
13 February: The people get their way.

Wounded, but erect
12 February:The US Senate concluded the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton with a gesture that seemed wholly superfluous.

Clinton's foes have only one thing on their minds
27 January: Barbara Ehrenreich mulls over the trial and concludes: yes, it is all about sex.

Never mind sex - it's the economy
17 January: In many respects life in the US has never been better. But there are four notable soft spots in the American utopia.

What the US papers say
16 January: Round-up of the American perspective.

Judging Clinton
5 January: The sexual McCarthyism swirls on through the gutter, even as the juggernaut of trial in the Senate rumbles along the high road.





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