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- The presidency of William Jefferson Clinton will be remembered
for many things, not the least of which is a string of White House firsts
unequaled by any of his predecessors.,
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- With the lawsuit filed by the Arkansas' lawyer-discipline
committee on Friday, Clinton could be on the fast track to make history
as the first U.S. president to be disbarred while in office. The committee
has a near 100 percent record of winning its disbarment cases.,
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- But disbarment would merely be the latest in a long list
of White House precedents.
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- Clinton's remarkable record will also show that he is:
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- The first elected president in U.S. history to be impeached
-- Dec. 19, 1998.,
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- The first president to be found guilty of a crime while
still in office. (Leaking the private correspondence of Kathleen Willey
in violation of the Privacy Act),
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- The first U.S. president to be publicly accused of forcible
rape -- by Juanita Broaddrick, Feb. 24, 1999.,
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- The first U.S. president to approve the sale of sophisticated
weapons technology to a hostile power while its emmisaries contributed
to his campaign.,
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- The first president to be accused by multiple witnesses,
including one under oath before a federal grand jury, of using cocaine
while he was the chief law enforcement officer of his state.,
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- The first U.S. president to be accused of sexual assault
on White House property -- by Kathleen Willey, March 15, 1998.,
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- The first U.S. president to order a paramilitary operation
where a network television camera crew was punched, kicked, and forced
to the ground at gunpoint to prevent them from broadcasting live video
coverage. (Elian Gonzalez's abduction -- April 22, 2000),
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- The first sitting president to be the subject of a sexual
harassment lawsuit -- filed by Paula Jones, May 8, 1994.,
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- The first sitting president to be held in contempt of
court for lying under oath and fined by a federal judge (in the Jones lawsuit).,
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- The first U.S. president to order an armored assault
on a church, resulting in the deaths of 55 members of the congregation
along with 25 of their children. (Waco -- April 19, ,1993),
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- The first U.S. presidential candidate to accept financial
support from a KGB spy. (Aldrich Ames -- $7,000, 1991, 92),
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- The first sitting U.S. president to be named in a federal
criminal referral as a possible witness to and beneficiary of fraudulant
financial activity. (Whitewater),
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- The first president to consult with Congress about combat
troop deployment while simultaneously receiving oral sex -- according to
Monica Lewinsky and Rep. Sonny Callahan. (Starr Report -- Sept. 1998),
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- The first U.S. president to have two senior administration
officials die violently under mysterious circumstances while they were
being pressed for testimony on assorted White House scandals. (Vince Foster,
Ron Brown),
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- The first U.S. president to have a major cooperating
federal witness against him die in prison while waiting to give prosecutors
the testimony they later admitted would have led to first family indictments.
(James McDougal),
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- The first U.S. president to launch unprovoked missile
attacks on two sovereign nations. (Sudan, Afghanistan -- Aug. 20, 1998),
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- With more than six months of the Clinton administration
left, other equally impressive presidential firsts cannot be far off.
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