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The Cost Of Error In The Scarlet Letter By Bill Clinton

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The Cost of Error
On January 20th 1993, Bill Clinton was elected as the forty-second president of the United States. Clinton was set to serve four years of presidency until the 1996 presidential election, where Clinton once again came across victorious over other candidates and was re-elected to serve another four years. However, Clinton’s respect as president was Hindered due to one person in particular who managed to not only have him impeached, but ruin his reputation among the world; his 22 year old intern formally known as Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky was fresh out of college when she was hired to work alongside Bill Clinton at the white house and as the two spent an innumerable amount of time together, feelings quickly started to rise for …show more content…

These women were blacklisted by society with both of their reputations being smothered, and although their actions have caused an external amount of agony to those around them their mistakes are forgivable and should not …show more content…

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