President Bill Clinton and The Lewinsky Scandal Essay -- William Jeffe

Clinton and The Lewinsky shiteOn January 17th, 1998, President Clinton videotaped a deposition for the Paula Jones wooing against him. December 19th, eleven months later, Bill Clinton became only the second president in our nations history to face imp from to each one onement from congress. The 1998-1999 was a tumultuous category for the President, the media, and the American people as a whole. Yet, the most intriguing and strike aspect of the scandal was not that Bill Clinton would ever cheat on his wife or that his administration would survive such a unnameable scandal. Nor was it a revelation that the media would be zealously intrigued by a shake scandal involving the President. The one aspect of the Lewinksy Scandal that was truly interesting was the solvent of the public. Despite the knowledge that Clinton had an affair with an intern and probably lied nearly it, Clintons job approval rating did not decrease or even stay the same his ratings rose to levels approac hing 70% all time a new damning piece of evidence came to light, media pundits all over believed that Clintons ratings would fall. Yet, they were wrong. The Republican Party believed that the scandal would finally bring stack Clinton and his popular support. They also were wrong and paid a considerable political price. How did this happen? To help understand and explain this phenomenon, I result probe three political actors -- the President, the media, and the public and their relationship with each other. I will discuss President Clintons past and his history of scandals. The way that each actor has dealt with Clintons scandal-ridden past has had an important effect on how each responded to and was affected by the Lewinsky Scandal. Each actors res... ...Wilcox, Public survey The Paradoxes of Clintons Popularity, ed. Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox, The Clinton Scandal and the proximo of American Government (Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press, 2000)p. 117. ibidem ibid. Molly W. Andolina and Clyde Wilcox, Public Opinion The Paradoxes of Clintons Popularity, ed. Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox, The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government (Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press, 2000) p.117. Michael J. Gerhardt, The Impeachment and Acquittal of William Jefferson Clinton, ed. Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox, The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government (Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press, 2000). Robert Busby, Defending the American President Clinton and Lewinsky Scandal (New York Palgrave, 2001) p.47. Ibid. p.213. Ibid.