On December 19, 1998, the House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton on the grounds of perjury and obstruction of justice. When the Lewinsky scandal broke earlier that year, political consultant Dick Morris gave the president prescient advice: "They will forgive the adultery, but they won't easily forgive that you lied." | American Experience | PBS

Bill Clinton, who was born on this day in 1946, was the 42nd president of the United States, and oversaw the country's longest peacetime economic expansion but his second term in the White House was dominated by the Monica Lewinsky scandal. | Biography

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