Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [318]
Republican Speaker-designate Bob Livingston (R.-La.) directs jeering Democrats to halt as he calls upon President Clinton to resign, during the tense House impeachment vote on Saturday, December 19, 1998. Livingston then shocked his colleagues by announcing that he would resign from Congress, in the wake of revelations by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt that Livingston, too, had engaged in sordid extramarital affairs. AP Photo/APTN
President Clinton fixes his jaw and accepts a gracious introduction by Vice President Al Gore, just hours after becoming the second president in United States history to be impeached by the House of Representatives. First Lady Hillary Clinton made an appearance at the dreary Rose Garden gathering of Democrats, to show public support for her embattled husband. AP Photo/Doug Mills
Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois (right), who soon would become leader of the House Managers charged with prosecuting the case against President Clinton, delivers the articles of impeachment to Secretary of the Senate, Gary Sisco, as four Republican representatives look on. AP Photo/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Chief House Manager Henry Hyde reads the charges against President William Jefferson Clinton to the assembled senators, on January 7, 1999, flanked by his twelve fellow managers, all white males, and all Republicans. AP Photo/APTN
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist presides over the impeachment trial of President Clinton, as mandated by the Constitution. Rehnquist’s elaborate robe, bedecked with four gold stripes on each sleeve, sparked rumors that the Chief Justice was sending signals in code about his views on the impeachment trial. In fact, the stripes were inspired by a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Iolanthe, that Rehnquist had seen a year earlier, in which the singing Lord Chancellor wears a similar robe. AP Photo/APTN
The president’s legal team—led by White House Counsel Chuck Ruff (in wheel chair) and Clinton’s private counsel David Kendall (right)—return to the White House after the Senate votes to acquit President Clinton on February 12, 1999. Behind Ruff and Kendall are attorneys Cheryl Mills (back left) and Nicole Seligman, as well as Clinton advisers Bruce Lindsey (far left) and Lanny Breuer. AP Photo/Khue Bui
On the day before Bill Clinton leaves office, Ken Starr’s successor, Independent Counsel Robert Ray, announces a deal with President Clinton by which OIC will not pursue criminal charges against the outgoing president. In return, President Clinton and his lawyer agree that Clinton will admit that he “knowingly gave evasive and misleading answers” in his Paula Jones deposition, pay a $25,000 fine, and accept a five-year suspension of his Arkansas law license. Tom Mihalek/AFP/Getty Images
Former Independent Counsel Ken Starr, having become dean at Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, California, takes a break in 2004 to visit the scenic Napa Valley, far from the worries of Whitewater, the Monica Lewinsky affair, and special prosecutor investigations. Starr, a much-in-demand Supreme Court law yer, was preparing for a major case representing wineries that sought to challenge laws that pre vented them from shipping directly to consumers in certain states. Starr won the case 5–4 in the Supreme Court. AP Photo/Eric Risberg
Former President Clinton, newly elected Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), and their Labrador retriever, Buddy, enjoy a walk at their new home in Chappaqua, New York, on January 22, 2001, two days after moving out of the White House. The Clintons appeared rested and relieved to have put behind them eight years of