Title: President Clinton admits to having an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky in 1998 - New York Daily News
Headings: President Clinton admits to having an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky in 1998
President Clinton admits to having an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky in 1998
Content: President Bill Clinton admits to an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky, published August 18, 1998. ( New York Daily News)
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Clinton confessed to the affair looking sternly into the camera as he did in January, when he told the American people "I want you to listen to me. I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Clinton, who has been dogged by accusations of extramarital affairs throughout his presidency, admitted the relationship with Lewinsky was a "critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible." The President was at once contrite and defiant in his address from the White House Map Room, where he had been grilled for hours earlier in the day by Starr. The usual trappings of his high office the Presidential seal and the American flags were absent. Instead, the President had a simple bowl of flowers and a streak of light from a reading lamp for a backdrop. "I misled people, including even my wife," he said. " I deeply regret that." It was as close as he got to saying he was sorry for prolonging the ordeal that has cost his subordinates, who were hauled before Starr's grand jury, thousands of dollars in legal bills and untold personal pain.