High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton

  126 Michael Kelly, “The 1992 Campaign: The Democrats,” New York Times, October 29, 1992.

  127 CNN’s Campaign USA ’92—Voters and Media Picked and Panned, November 1, 1992.

  128 Arguably, a president’s lies about official policy are worse than lies about his personal misconduct because they can have greater consequences for the nation. But distinguishing “lies” from, for example, “protecting vital national security information” would most likely boil down to partisan disputes about the underlying policy. For example, Arthur Schlesinger writes that Fidel Castro’s request for nuclear missiles from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was a direct response to President Kennedy’s CIA maneuvers against Cuba. Noting this fact, Garry Wills has written, “Kennedy, calling that move unprovoked, was lying to the American people: He had provoked it.” Garry Wills, “Son of Nixon. Oliver Stone’s film on Richard Nixon,” Esquire, January 1996. Should Kennedy have been expected to state that Castro’s build-up was, perhaps, a “little provoked” by the CIA’s covert operation against Cuba? There may be some lies that are so bald-faced and so distant from any serious national security interest that the policy/nonpolicy distinction is inapposite. It is enough to say that oral sex from the White House interns is not even vaguely, possibly related to Clinton’s function as the chief executive.

  129 James A. Barnes, “Flirting with Loyalties,” National Journal, March 28, 1998.

  130 Federalist No. 71, at 434 (Alexander Hamilton). Such vigor in the president, Hamilton said, was “essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction and of anarchy.” Federalist No. 70, at 423 (Alexander Hamilton).

  131 Federalist No. 57, (James Madison).

  132 Report of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, at 27 (August 1993) (quoting 2 The Records of the Constitutional Convention 65 [M. Farrand ed. 1911]).

  133 7 Edmund Burke, Works 11,14 (1839).

  134 Rodino Report at 17 [quoting 1 J. Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States sec. 764 at 559 (5th ed. 1905)].

  135 Rodino Report at 14.

  136 Report of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, at 30 (August 1993).

  137 Rodino Report at 10-11.

  138 2 The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, at 65 (M. Farrand ed. 1911) (from James Madison’s notes from the Constitutional Convention debates, July 20, 1787).

  139 Federalist No. 68, at 414 (Alexander Hamilton).

  140 Federalist No. 14, at 104-105 (James Madison).

  Index

  A

  accidents

  Adams, Cindy

  Albert, Carl

  Aldrich, Gary

  Americans with Disabilities Act

  Anderson, Mari

  Arkansas Industrial Development Commission

  Arlington cemetery

  Arnold, Truman

  attorneys, U.S.

  B

  Babbitt, Bruce

  Bacon, Kenneth H.

  Baker, James

  Barnett, Robert

  Begala, Paul

  Bennett, Bob

  Bennett, Jackie M.

  Berger, Raoul

  Bernath, Clifford

  bimbo

  Blackley, Ronald

  Blitzer, Wolf

  Blumenthal, Sidney

  Bourke, James

  Bowles, Erskine

  Bradley, Ed

  Brandeis, Louis

  Braun, Sergeant Cheryl

  Braver, Rita

  bribery

  British constitution; system; impeachments

  Brown, Kent Masterson

  Browning, Dolly Kyle

  Bruce, Carol Elder

  Buchanan, Pat

  Buford, Douglas

  Burke, Edmund

  Burton, Dan

  Bush, George

  C

  Cammarata, Joseph

  Campbell, Donovan

  Carter, Jimmy

  Carville, James

  Casey, Dennis

  Castle Grande

  Caudle, Charles

  Cerda, Clarissa

  Chinese

  Chippewa tribe

  Christian Coalition

  citizens, duties of

  Clarendon

  Clift, Eleanor

  Clinger, William

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham

  Cohen, William

  communist conspiracy

  Constitution, U.S.

  Consumer Support and Education Fund

  Corcoran, Thomas

  Cornelius, Catherine

  corruption: definition; nature of

  Cox, Archibald

  criminal acts

  Cronin, Robert

  Cuomo, Mario

  Currie, Betty

  D

  Dale, Billy

  Davie, William

  Davis, Lanny

  de la Pole, Michael

  Dean, John

  Declaration of Independence

  definitions

  Democratic National Committee

  Denton, H. Don

  Dinwiddie, Jacquelyn

  DNC. See Democratic National Committee

  Dole, Bob

  Donaldson, Sam

  Drudge, Matt

  duty, impeachment as

  E

  Eckstein, Paul

  EEOC. See Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

  Eisele, Albert

  Eller, Jeff

  Ellsberg, Daniel

  English law

  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

  executive privilege

  F

  Fabiani, Mark

  Faircloth, Lauch

  FBI files

  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

  Federalist Papers

  Ferguson, Danny

  Fifth Amendment

  Fisher, James

  Fiske, Robert

  Flowers, Gennifer

  Ford, Gerald

  Forrestal, James

  Foster, Vince

  Founding Fathers

  Fowler, Donald

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Friedman, Milton

  fund-raising

  G

  Garten, Jeffrey

  General Accounting Office

  Gingrich, Newt

  Ginsburg, William

  Gore, Al

  Gotti, John

  Gray, C. Boyden

  H

  Habibie, B.J.

  Hale, David

  Hamilton, Alexander

  hanging

  health care

  Hernreich, Nancy

  Heymann, Philip

  high Crimes and Misdemeanors, definition

  Hobbs Act

  Huang, John

  Hubbell, Webb

  I

  Ickes, Harold

  IDC

  immunity

  impeachment: historical acts

  process

  “Imperial Presidency,”

  Independent Counsel Reauthorization Act of 1994

  Iredell, James

  Ireland, Doug

  IRS audits

  Isikoff, Michael

  J

  Jay, John

  job assistance

  Johnson, Andrew

  Jones, Paula

  Jordan, Vernon

  K

  Kantor, Mickey

  Kelly, Michael

  Kendall, David

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, William

  Kerrey, Bob

  Kerry, John

  Kirk, Lauren

  kiss it

  Kissinger, Henry

  Knight, Peter

  L

  Lamberth, Judge Royce

  L
andow, Nathan

  Lasater, Dan

  Lau, Valerie

  Lawrence, Shelia

  Leaves of Grass

  legal defense: Nixon

  Clinton

  Leno, Jay

  Lenzner, Terry

  Lewinsky, Monica

  gifts to

  perjury

  affidavits

  visits to White House

  immunity

  Lewis, Ann

  Lewis, Anthony

  Li Dao

  libel

  Lieberman, Evelyn

  Lincoln bedroom

  Lindsey, Bruce

  Lippo Group

  Livingstone, Craig

  loyalty

  lying

  M

  MacAndrews & Forbes. See Revlon

  McAuliffe, Terry

  McCurry, Mike

  McDougal, James

  McDougal, Susan

  McLarty, Thomas “Mack,”

  Madison Guaranty

  Madison, James

  Maher, Bill

  Marceca, Anthony

  Massey, Richard

  Mayer, Jane

  Meddoff, R. Warren

  Meissner, Charles

  Mendoza, Patricia

  Mid-America Dairy Men’s Association

  misbehavior

  Moody, Jim

  moral character

  Morgan, Bill

  Morris, Dick

  Most Favored Nation Status

  Myers, Dee Dee

  N

  Nixon, Richard

  Nussbaum, Bernard

  Nynex

  O

  Occupational Safety and Health Act

  O’Connor, Patrick

  O’Neill, Henry

  obstruction of justice

  oral sex

  OSHA. See Occupational Safety and Health Act

  P

  Pacific Telesis Group

  Palladino, Jack

  partisan politics

  Patterson, Larry

  Peat Marwick

  Pentagon

  Perdue, Sally

  perjury

  phone tapping

  political commentary

  power, abuse of

  president: responsibility of

  nature of

  power of

  pardon

  Privacy Act

  providence

  punditry

  punishment of crime

  R

  Raines, Ashley

  Randolph, Edmund

  rape

  Raspberry, William

  Reagan, Ronald

  Reno, Janet

  Revlon

  Riady, Mochtar

  Richardson, Bill

  Richardson, Elliot

  Richardson, Margaret Milner

  Ritz Carlton

  Rodino Report

  Rometsch, Ellen

  Rose Law Firm

  Ruckelshaus, William

  Rutherford Institute

  S

  Sally Jessy Raphael

  Sanford Law Firm

  Schiavo, Mary

  Schmidt, Susan

  Scott, Marsha

  Sculimbrene, Dennis

  Secret Service

  Shaffer, Beverly Bassett

  Shaheen, Michael

  Shalala, Donna

  Shapiro, Howard

  Sibbison, Heather

  Simpson, O.J.

  Sixth Amendment

  Solomon, Gerald

  Souter, Justice David

  Springer, Jerry

  standards, absence of

  Starr, Kenneth

  state’s evidence

  Steele, Julie

  Steinem, Gloria

  Stephanopoulos, George

  Stewart, Jimmy

  stonewalling

  Story, Joseph

  Suharto, President

  SunAmerica, Inc.

  Supreme Court

  T

  Taiwan

  Taylor, Stuart

  Thomason, Harry

  Thomasson, Patsy

  Time Warner

  Title

  Travel Office

  Travelgate

  Tripp, Linda

  Troopers, Arkansas State

  trust

  Tucker, Jim Guy

  Tuttle, Rick

  U

  UltrAir

  Utah

  V

  Vietnam War

  virtue

  W

  Ward, Seth

  Watergate

  Watkins, David

  WAVES. See Workers And Visitors Entrance System

  Weiss, Melvyn

  Whitewater

  Willey, Kathleen

  Williams, Jack L.

  Williams, Maggie

  Wilson, James

  wiretaps

  witness tampering

  women, abuses toward

  Workers And Visitors Entrance System

  World Wide Travel

  Worthen Bank

  Wright, Betsey

  Wright, Susan Webber

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