Entry 014Aug 17, 1998
“what the meaning of the word 'is'”14
14Bill Clinton, President of the United States, Videotaped testimony to the Independent Counsel's federal grand jury, White House Map Room, August 17, 1998. Source
Why it’s on the record. The House cited this exchange in its report recommending impeachment for perjury before the grand jury (Article I). He was impeached in December 1998 and acquitted by the Senate in February 1999. In 2001 he admitted to giving false testimony in the Jones case and accepted a five-year suspension of his law license.
On the record
Asked under oath whether his lawyer's statement in the Paula Jones case ('there is no sex of any kind') was false, the President argued over the tense of the verb.
- Said by
- Bill Clinton, President of the United States
- Where
- Videotaped testimony to the Independent Counsel's federal grand jury, White House Map Room
- When
- Aug 17, 1998
- Source
- Videotaped testimony to the Independent Counsel's federal grand jury, White House Map Room, August 17, 1998