MIKE GRACIA
On this day in 1998, President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, saying "I did not have sexual relations
with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." Denial of the affair lead to Clinton being only the second president to be impeached in US history.
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SANDY KOZEL
Horror author Stephen Edwin King is 72 today.
1980 1990
President Bill Clinton lies about his relationship with Monica
Lewinsky during his televised testimony before a grand jury.
DAVID MELENDY
On this day in 1933, the 32nd United States President, Franklin D.
Roosevelt (center) was sworn in and gave his inauguration speech
during the worst crisis America had faced since the Civil War. By
early 1933, the U.S. economy had sunk to its lowest point in the
period known at the Great Depression. In Roosevelt’s speech he
said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."
ROSS SIMPSON
At 12:18 p.m. et, a terrorist bomb exploded in a parking garage of the World
Trade Center in New York City, leaving a crater 60 feet wide and causing the collapse of several steel-reinforced concrete floors in the vicinity of the blast. Although the terrorist bomb failed to critically damage the main structure of
the skyscrapers, six people were killed, more than 1,000 were injured and
the World Trade Center itself suffered more than $500 million in damage.
After the attack, authorities evacuated 50,000 people from the buildings,
hundreds of whom were suffering from smoke inhalation. The evacuation
lasted the whole afternoon.
City authorities and the Federal Bureau of Investigation undertook a massive manhunt for suspects, and within days several radical Islamic fundamentalists
were arrested.
On this day in 1987, The Tower Commission rebuked President
Reagan for failing to control his national security staff in the wake
of the Iran-Contra Affair.
President Reagan (far right) with Caspar Weinberger, George Shultz,
Ed Meese and Don Regan discussing the President’s remarks on the Iran-Contra affair in the oval office.
MIKE GRACIA
(February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)
Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer and politician. He served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in
April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the Civil War, its bloodiest
war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the government,
and modernized the economy.
On May 18, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was
nominated as the Republican candidate
for President of the United States.
On this day in 1999, the U.S. Senate voted on whether to remove President Bill Clinton from office following an impeachment trial
which lasted five-weeks. Clinton was acquitted on both articles
of impeachment. On the first charge of perjury, 45 Democrats
and 10 Republicans voted “not guilty”and on the charge of
obstruction of justice the Senate was split 50-50.
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After the trial concluded, President Clinton said he was “profoundly sorry” for the burden his behavior imposed on Congress and the American people.
President Clinton heads back to the Oval Office after making his statement to the press.
