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: 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. 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.