Votes, Money, and the Clinton Impeachment

Votes, Money, and the Clinton Impeachment
Irwin L. Morris, the author of Votes, Money and the Clinton Impeachment, details the events that occurred during the Clinton impeachment and Lewinsky scandal.   He examines each party’s position on the ethics of the scandal as well as the legislative side.   He also discusses the public’s opinion versus the legislative actions that occurred, and the importance of the impeachment process itself.   The book does not include an ethical opinion on the scandal but rather an objective stance and summary of the events as a whole, both as a democrat and republican.   The book begins with a detailed account of what happened before and during the impeachment.
Monica Lewinsky began her White House internship in 1995.   Less than six months later she had been promoted to a full time, paid position within the Office of Legislative Affairs.   A few days before the end of her internship and beginning of her paid position, she and President Clinton shared their first sexual encounter.   Within a few months, the two shared many sexual encounters, and staff concerns about the relationship had many worried, thus Lewinsky was transferred out of the White House to the Pentagon.   In 1997, while at the Pentagon, Lewinsky met former secretary to the Bush and Clinton administrations and fellow White House exile, Linda Tripp.   During that summer, Lewinsky confided in Tripp about her relationship with the president, and eventually Tripp began secretly recording these conversations.   At the same time, anonymous telephone calls to the Rutherford Institute, the funding agency for the Paula Jones lawsuit against the president, suggested that a sexual relationship between the president and Lewinsky had occurred.   Jones was charging President Clinton with “on-the-job” sexual harassment during his time as the governor of Arkansas.
In January 1998, Linda Tripp contacted Kenneth Starr, the primary lawyer throughout the impeachment process, and the two agreed...