Title: Bill Clinton: Why was he impeached? | CNN Politics
Headings: Why was Bill Clinton impeached?
Why was Bill Clinton impeached?
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The numbers
How a land deal inquiry became a sex scandal
The other Clinton sex scandal
The Republican impeachment push

Content: It was Starr who ultimately expanded his investigation to include a possible affair by the President after he was approached by Linda Tripp, a former White House secretary who had befriended Lewinsky and then recorded their phone conversations. The other Clinton sex scandal
In the midst of the Starr investigation, Clinton was also accused of sexual misconduct in a lawsuit by Paula Jones, a former employee for the Arkansas state government. Jones had sued Clinton in 1994 for sexual harassment and it set off a years-long legal battle that included an important Supreme Court decision in 1997 that made clear a President could face a civil lawsuit while in office. It was as part of that case that Clinton was asked during a grand jury proceeding about the Lewinsky affair. Clinton later reached an $850,000 out of court settlement with Jones a little more than a month before his impeachment and a month after Starr had published his report, which included 11 possible impeachable offenses, ranging from perjury and obstruction of justice to witness tampering and abuse of power. The Republican impeachment push
Republicans distilled those down into four articles of impeachment. Two of them – for perjury in depositions other than the grand jury and for obstructing Congress – didn’t make it out of the House of Representatives. But Clinton was impeached for perjury after he lied to the grand jury in the Jones case, and also for obstruction of justice. Clinton wasn’t the only one whose private failings were revealed. Rep. Bob Livingston, a Republican who supported impeachment and was in line to be speaker of the House, abruptly withdrew his name from running for that leadership position and admitted his own infidelity.