Bill Clinton's Impeachment (1998)

    In 1998 Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives. Bill Clinton's charges were perjury, obstruction of office, and malfeasance in office. He had been having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, and he was denying it. Also, Paula C. Jones came to Washington D.C. and sued Clinton for sexual harassment, when he was an Arkansas governor. When the government found out that the scandals had been true, the House of Representatives tried him for impeachment.

Bill Clinton

      First, the House of Representatives voted on if Bill Clinton should have been impeached, and when they voted yes, a trial in the Senate was set up for him. When the Senate voted to impeach him also, his second term was almost over; so he stayed in office until it was over. Polls taken in the late 1990's said that only one third of the American population agreed with the impeachment of Bill Clinton, but when they found out that he was going to stay in office, more than half of Americans agreed with the impeachment. Bill Clinton's impeachment process was a major event in political history because he is the second President to be impeached in the United States.