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Article: Annals of impeachment; Sex, lies and Federalist Papers.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- November 19, 1998
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As the House Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings today, News with a View takes a tour of the history of U.S. impeachment actions and reviews the modern-day lessons that Clinton bashers and defenders are likely to enlist to their cause.
Alexander Hamilton may have done Bill Clinton two favors - one in his role as constitutional salesman, and one in his role as cheatin' husband.
Hamilton was George Washington's right-hand man and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Along with James Madison and John Jay, he wrote the Federalist Papers, a series of essays that tried to explain and sell the Constitution to the voters of New York during ...