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Article: Clinton Scandals
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CLINTON SCANDALS
CLINTON SCANDALS.
When President Bill Clinton took office in January 1993, he hoped to legislate a reform agenda. Having received only 43 percent of the popular vote in 1992 and facing difficult policy choices regarding such matters as the deficit, he also carried with him a history that was not easily put to rest. Rumors abounded during the 1992 campaign about his past philandering and his apparent draft dodging, but he over-came those liabilities and won his party's presidential nomination and the election that followed.
But one story that surfaced in 1992 had staying power even after Clinton became president. The story concerned a land deal and a failed savings and ...