American Decades
Scandalous Administration
Campaign Rumors.
The Clinton administration was plagued by scandals and allegations of corruption. Women, money, and power led to the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1998 by the House of Representatives and trial by the Senate in 1999. From the beginning of his 1992 campaign, rumors swirled about Clinton's penchant for women. The first scandal concerned a woman named Gennifer Flowers, who alleged that she had a twelve-year affair with Clinton while he was the governor of Arkansas. She also claimed that he got her a job in the state government because of their relationship. Clinton refused to admit the affair and went on national television with his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, claiming that even though they had had problems in their then seventeen-year marriage, they loved and supported each other. The appearance defused the rumors and seemed to end Clinton's personal problems, at least until after the...
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1990's Government and Politics
