Friday, September 30, 2005

The Clinton's are NUMBER ONE !!!

RECORDS SET-
  • The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance -
  • Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates* -
  • Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation -
  • Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify -
  • Most number of witnesses to die suddenly -
  • First president sued for sexual harassment. -
  • First president accused of rape. -
  • First first lady to come under criminal investigation-
  • Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case-
  • First president to establish a legal defense fund.-
  • First president to be held in contempt of court-
  • Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions -
  • Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
  • * According to our best information, 40 government officials were indicted or convicted in the wake of Watergate. A reader computes that there was a total of 31 Reagan era convictions, including 14 because of Iran-Contra and 16 in the Department of Housing & Urban Development scandal. 47 individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes with 33 of these occurring during the Clinton administration itself. There were in addition 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges. 14 persons were imprisoned. A key difference between the Clinton story and earlier ones was the number of criminals with whom he was associated before entering the White House.Using a far looser standard that included resignations, David R. Simon and D. Stanley Eitzen in Elite Deviance, say that 138 appointees of the Reagan administration either resigned under an ethical cloud or were criminally indicted. Curiously Haynes Johnson uses the same figure but with a different standard in "Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years: "By the end of his term, 138 administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."

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