| | Bill Clinton should have enjoyed immense influence during this good time. But his personal immorality caught up with him, in what became known as the "Monica Lewinsky" sex scandal. Clinton had a sexual relationship with this young woman, who worked at the White House as an unpaid "intern". When Clinton was asked about this under oath during a lawsuit, he lied about it. That was perjury, a serious crime, and the House impeached Clinton near the end of 1998 for it. But as happened to President Andrew Johnson about 130 years earlier, the Senate did not reach the 2/3rd vote needed to remove Clinton from office. | | Bill Clinton should have enjoyed immense influence during this good time. But his personal immorality caught up with him, in what became known as the "Monica Lewinsky" sex scandal. Clinton had a sexual relationship with this young woman, who worked at the White House as an unpaid "intern". When Clinton was asked about this under oath during a lawsuit, he lied about it. That was perjury, a serious crime, and the House impeached Clinton near the end of 1998 for it. But as happened to President Andrew Johnson about 130 years earlier, the Senate did not reach the 2/3rd vote needed to remove Clinton from office. |
| − | In spring 1999 at a public high school in Columbine, Colorado, two anti-Christian bigoted high school students massacred 12 students, one for believing in God, and a teacher. Clinton and liberals seized on this event to push hard for gun control. But in the presidential election in 2000, voters in the pro-gun, rural states of West Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas remembered and voted against Democratic candidate Al Gore, causing him to lose the election. Democratic strategists admitted after the election that the gun control issue really hurt them, and no leading Democrat has pushed for gun control for most of the decade. | + | In spring 1999 at a public high school in Columbine, Colorado, two anti-Christian bigoted high school students massacred 12 students, one for believing in God, and a teacher. Clinton and liberals seized on this event to push hard for gun control. But in the presidential election in 2000, voters in the pro-gun, rural states of West Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas remembered and voted against Democratic candidate Al Gore, causing him to lose the election. Democratic strategists admitted after the election that the gun control issue really hurt them, and no leading Democrat pushed for gun control for the remainder of that decade. |