In 1998, the House of Representatives impeached President Clinton on charges of obstruction of justice and perjury.
Apart from the achievements and failures of his second presidential term, this was particularly marked by the extensive media coverage of the sexual scandal in which he was involved, mainly linking him to the White House Scholar, Monica Lewinsky, a graduate in Psychology, who had intimate relations with the president. On August 6, 1998, she became the first witness to refute the affidavit of a President of the United States, in which he denied having had sexual relations with her.
The prosecutor accused the president of eleven serious crimes worthy of an impeachment process, perjury, abuse of power and obstruction of justice.
On October 8, the Congress voted 258 to 176 votes in favor of the impeachment process. After a few months, Clinton admitted to having maintained an "improper physical behavior", although he denied having committed perjury.
On February 12, 1999, the upper house declared Clinton "not guilty" of the crime of perjury by 55 to 45 votes in favor, and of the crime of obstruction of justice with a tie to 50.
