Whitewater Trials and Impeachment of a President: 1994-99 - Clinton Admits Relationship

During the first seven months of 1998, President Clinton continually denied having a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. On August 17, during four hours of testimony to Starr's grand jury via closed-circuit TV, the president denied perjuring himself in his deposition to the Jones attorneys. But that evening, he appeared on national television. "I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate," he said. "In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part, for which I am solely and completely responsible."