President Bill Clinton pauses as he apologizes to the U.S. on Dec. 11, 1998 for his conduct in the Monica Lewinsky affair.

On December 15, 1998, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on
the Judiciary releases a 265-page report recommending the impeachment
of President Bill Clinton for high crimes and misdemeanors.     

The subsequent impeachment proceedings were the culmination of a slew
of scandals involving the president and first lady Hillary Clinton. 

Added to the mix were stories of Clinton’s extra-marital affairs and a sexual harassment claim filed against him. An independent counsel, Kenneth Starr,
was appointed to investigate the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and
the ensuing investigation led Starr to Monica Lewinsky, a former White
House intern who had been accused of having an affair with Clinton.

    
    
    
   

President Bill Clinton with Monica Lewinsky.     

The 1868 impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson.

Only two U.S. presidents have been formally impeached by Congress—
Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton—and no U.S. president has ever been
removed from office through impeachment.

ED  DANAHUE

On this day in 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered
by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was
unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to
Texas Gov. George W. Bush  the next day.

Broward County canvassing board member Judge Robert
Rosenberg looks over a questionable ballot, 25 November
2000.

President elect George W. Bush (left) meets with Vice President
Al Gore at the Naval Observatory December 19, 2000 in D.C.

MIKE GRACIA

On this day in 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (right) 
and City Supervisor Harvey Milk (left), a gay-rights activist, were
shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White (below), a former
supervisor.

CBS broadcast journalist and anchorman Walter Cronkite prepares
to announce the death of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the
United States.

   
   

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)

CAMILLE BOHANNON

    
    
    
President Richard M. Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors
meeting  in Orlando, FL, "people have got to know whether or not their
president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook."