Title: Bill Clinton tells Republicans that he's not stepping down as President despite being impeached - New York Daily News
Headings: Bill Clinton tells Republicans that he's not stepping down as President despite being impeached
Bill Clinton tells Republicans that he's not stepping down as President despite being impeached
HOUSE VOTES TO IMPEACH PRES. CLINTON OVER LEWINKSY SCANDAL

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Bill Clinton tells Republicans that he's not stepping down as President despite being impeached
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
Dec 18, 2014 at 3:56 PM
President Clinton and wife Hillary were joined by VP Al Gore and Democratic leader Dick Gephardt for a pep rally after the Republican dominated House voted to impeach in 1998. ( Hamburg, Harry)
(Originally published by the Daily News on December 20, 1998. This story was written by Kenneth R. Bazinet and Thomas DeFrank.) WASHINGTON Defiant but red-eyed, President Clinton yesterday vowed "I will never step aside," throwing down the gauntlet to Republicans who impeached him. Advertisement
After meeting House Democrats in the White House's East Room, Clinton marched the entourage to a pep rally on the South Lawn, saying he intends to do the nation's business "until the last hour of the last day of my term." HOUSE VOTES TO IMPEACH PRES. CLINTON OVER LEWINKSY SCANDAL
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Flanked by about 80 cheering Democrats who earlier in the week backed a censure resolution harshly condemning his personal conduct Clinton took the impeachment high road in one of his three addresses to the nation in a single day. "We must stop the politics of personal destruction . . . the poisonous venom of excessive partisanship, obsessive animosity, and uncontrolled anger," he implored. " That is not what America deserves.