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
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President Clinton admits to having an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky in 1998
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
Aug 18, 2015 at 10:37 AM
President Clinton sits in the Map Room of the White House in Washington. ( GREG GIBSON/AP)
(Originally published by the Daily News on August 18, 1998. This was written by Kathy Kiely and Thomas M. DeFrank.) WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton tried to save his presidency last night with an extraordinary TV speech confessing to an affair with Monica Lewinsky and "misleading" the nation and his wife for seven months. Advertisement
"Indeed, I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong," Clinton said. But he stopped short of a full apology and struck out at independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Advertisement
"It is time to stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on with our national life," Clinton said. He said he hoped for an end to the sordid sex scandal that has consumed the headlines since January with unprecedented fury. His presidency, however, could hang on the nation's reaction to the four-minute speech.