Clinton's Impeachment example essay topic

Interview: Views on Clinton's Impeachment The impeachment of Bill Clinton is one of the 'weirdest episodes'; in our political history. He is the only elected President of the United States ever to be resulted in the passage of impeachment (Johnson was not elected, Nixon resigned to prevent impeachment). The reason for his impeachment is that he lied under the oath during the testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, and to grand jury during Monica Lewinsky investigation. He even abused power and lied to the Congress in an attempt to cover up a series of indiscretions, which resulted in the passage of four articles of impeachment. These incidents later turned out to be a political soap opera and ended with Clinton's presidency preserved, but it is a soap opera that many believed it could be prevent from happening. Clinton's impeachment made headlines news across the nation ever since it was revealed to the public.

Unfortunately, many people still have a long way to know what went on behind the close door of the impeachment. The majority do not have an idea if the Congress is making the right move or not to impeach our President. Hence, many do not realize how the impeachment might affect our nation politically. To answer this, I conducted an interview with my high school physics instructor, Mr. Arnold Burkert. I interviewed him as a person who strongly dislikes the notion of Clinton's impeachment. My goal of this interview was to write a paper about the impeachment by using public opinion and attitude toward one of the 'weirdest episodes'; in our political history.

As a supplement to this interview and to write this paper, news magazine articles related to this assignment were also used as in a supporting role. The first remark my instructor made in this interview was that the Congress had made a bad judgement to pass the impeachment. He reasoned that Clinton managed a healthy economy and gained strong approval in the national polls. He believes Clinton's offenses were personal and minor. Although his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky was reckless behavior, the Constitution doesn't have anything that says one should be impeached for reckless conduct. The Constitution can only impeach President Clinton if he commits treason, bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors.

Therefore, he believed Clinton's impropriety is not related to the Congress or even us, the people, which means his faulty action is not impeachable according to the rules of the Constitution. (Burkert) (Mat alin, 41) Aside from the fact that the Constitution can only pledge impeachment for high crime, misdemeanor, treason, and bribery, President Clinton was unfairly investigated. My interviewee preached that the Congress needs to get their priority straight. He disliked that fact, when the world was in a global combat, when Russia was about to become Communist again, and India was about to stir up a nuclear war with Pakistan, the Congress only cared to bring Mr. Clinton down for a private sexual relationship, which kept the president from doing what he really should be doing to protect the Americans. This impeachment nightmare also weakened his confidence to extend health coverage and national programs to improve our nation. Worst of all, the publication of transcript, video, and audio-tapes from Clinton's testimony to the Grand Juries violated the law of privacy, human rights, and degraded his decency, which nearly embarrassed him out of office and embarrassed our nation, our people, and our leadership.

(Burkert) (Morrow, 48) In conclusion, Mr. Burkert's over view of President Clinton's impeachment is unconstitutional, as he said in the interview: 'We are crippling ourselves for no good reason before our enemies. ' ; The impeachment may cause us to enter an era of indiscretion. The impeachment is not helping the Americans, but it is only stopping Clinton from solving our national problems. This whole madness has damaged American's purity of justice and freedom. He theorized that the Congress had failed to recognize the obligation of leadership, and they had not thought of its' people's reaction, they shouldn't be so nosy on people's personal business.

(Burkert).