Bill Clinton (Presidents and Their Decisions)

Bill Clinton won the 1992 presidential election promising to lead from the center, rather than from the left or right, of American politics. However, he proved too liberal for most Republicans, whose attacks on the Democratic president's character finally culminated in his 1998 impeachment on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice regarding his testimony about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Topics in the volume include Clinton's failed proposal for universal health care, his lift of the ban on gays in the military, U.S. foreign policy under Clinton, and the Lewinsky scandal and subsequent impeachment.