AN ADMITTED PERJURER
Bill Clinton escaped indictment by surrendering his Arkansas law license for five years and admitting that he made false statements under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
"I hope my actions today will help bring closure and finality to these matters," he confessed in a statement read by his press secretary after the deal was cut.
It was an abrupt but fitting capper to the saga of investigations that led from a grubby land deal to a sordid Oval Office sex farce.
One last time, Clinton dodged real punishment.
The former President who swept into Washington amid a flurry of scandal headlines left the same way.
He admitted giving misleading answers to Paula Jones' lawyers when they asked him about Lewinsky in a 1998 deposition.
Clinton denied he was having sexual relations with the White House intern, figuring that because the affair was long over, and because they did not engage in intercourse, he was not technically lying.
The evasions ultimately led to his impeachment by the House on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
"I tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish that goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false," Clinton admitted.
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