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    Many people testified, some more than once. The "Lewinsky Scandal, sensation that enveloped the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1998-99, leading to his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives and acquittal by the Senate" (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 1). It all started when Monica Lewinsky became an unpaid intern at the White House in June of 1995. By November of that year, Lewinsky and Clinton had been having a sexual relationship. Lewinsky had eventually went from being an intern to becoming a paid employee at the White House in the time span of a month (cnn.com). The next summer, when Lewinsky was working at the Pentagon, she confided in Linda Tripp "...a friend of Lewinsky's who secretly tape-recorded telephone conversations…

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    to his usual antics, and declaring that he will fight for his wife 's protection. This political, single frame cartoon is about how Bill Clinton hears about the scandals that his wife is undergoing and how he wants to help her out while he is in bed with another woman. However, when you remove the covers this image becomes much larger than that. At first glance the viewer notices Bill Clinton lying next to a woman with a newspaper reading "EMAIL SCANDAL DEEPENS". What really catches the…

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    Authentic leadership Authentic leadership refers to the legitimacy of a leader, which is formed through honest relationships with their followers. Authentic leaders are said to be positive, open people who are also perceived as truthful. Politicians by stereotype are rarely referred to as authentic. Common adjectives for politicians usually include the words untrustworthy, conniving and misleading, all of which would not be characteristics of an authentic leader. Clinton has had many scandals…

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    Almost 16 years ago, in the year 1998, our loyal president, Bill Clinton, made headlines in nearly every newspaper across the nation: President Clinton had an affair with secretary, Monica Lewinsky. With the press pushing him into a corner, Clinton repeatedly denied such affairs, saying that he never had sex with that woman. Why? Why would he continue to deny the affair? Why would he commit such licentious actions in the first place? The answer is simple: incentives . He was driven to keep his…

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    com/document/d/1VOExPc9uO7Dw_H_fCx-Ob6kaJhBEB-f_o12j0B7arJQ/edit?usp=sharing First off, nice thesis, Lewinsky. “How does it feel to be America’s premier blow-job queen?” Shame and Survival could be the most bias “professional” writing I’ve read recently. When I first saw the title and the introduction of the writing, I thought to myself, “Wow, this is cool!” With the presidential madness going on, reading this article is the perfect time as it relates to our current presidential debacle.…

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    INTRO The Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton Scandal of the mid to late 1990’s sent a shockwave across the nation, and was the first time in American history where the personal life of a sitting President was deemed as fair game for a pending criminal investigation. When Lewinsky came on board as a trainee in 1995 to the White House, no time was wasted in establishing an inappropriate relationship with the most powerful man on the planet at the time, President Clinton. The situation was an utter…

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    Hillary Clinton should not be the next president, but unfortunately Klien did not use solid facts, he only wanted to prove his point making the rest of his book fallible. One of the statements made in Klein’s book was a quote from Monica Lewinsky while she was on trial concerning her affair with President Bill Clinton. The statement was, ““He had this big fiftieth birthday party at Radio City Music Hall," Monica recalled, "and [beforehand] there was a cocktail reception [at the Sheraton Hotel],…

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    On August 17, 1998 President Bill Clinton delivered a speech to the American public addressing an inappropriate relationship with a former White House Intern, Monica Lewinsky. In comparison to Robert M. Eisingers “The Political Non-Apology” Clinton 's public apology has some of the characteristics of a full apology but, is predominantly a non-apology. Although, acknowledges the offense committed, he minimizes his offense throughout the speech and plays the victim card in attempts to…

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    Monica Lewinsky is someone that I have only heard about. I didn’t even know who she was, or what she did, but I saw a lot of “memes” mocking her on the internet. I was born in 1999, so I wasn’t even alive at the time of her scandal with Bill Clinton. And my parents didn 't see a need to tell me about her scandal, as it was not going to affect me in any way. There was no reason for me to know. I wasn’t particularly interested in her story either. However, watching her TED talk clarified a lot of…

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    1998 is when it all started for Monica Lewinsky. The scandal changed her life forever, it made her the center of everyone's attention everywhere. All everyone thought was. “poor Hillary Clinton” or “I can't believe that Bill would cheat on her with That Woman”. No one actually knew Lewinsky's story, because no one dared to hear it, because as far as they knew, it was all her fault. In June of 2014, Monica Lewinsky posted an article called Shame and Survival. It told her story about everything…

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