Apparently Bill Clinton's presidential library won't be covering his impeachment after all - at least not the way it's commonly understood by reporters and historians.
Instead, the ex-president has ordered that his "impeachment alcove" focus more on the so-called "vast right-wing conspiracy" that he and wife Hillary say "persecuted" him unfairly by practicing "the politics of personal destruction."
Story Continues Below
When it opens tomorrow, visitors to the $165 million complex will be treated to an exhibit entitled "The Fight for Power."
"It goes into the Arkansas Project, Whitewater, the investigations, the impeachment, and ultimately the acquittal," exhibit designer Robert Appelbaum tells the New York Sun.
The Arkansas Project refers to a set of long-ago discredited allegations by pro-Clinton partisans who claimed that most of the witnesses against Clinton had been bribed by his enemies to testify against him.
Rather than concentrate on Clinton's perjury before a federal judge and grand jury, his attempts to obstruct Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit and his affair with Monica Lewinsky, the exhibit will spotlight what Appelbaum described as the "new cultural confrontation, the politics of persecution and the politics of personal destruction."
"This is the president's library and it's the president's voice," the exhibit designer cautioned. "He approved every word, photo, and object that's in that place."
In previous incarnations, Clinton's "voice" on the events that turned him into the first elected U.S. president to ever be impeached has overlooked important details.
Missing from Clinton's memoir, "My Life," for instance, is any mention of the devastating testimony from key prosecution witness Kathleen Willey, who alleged that Mr. Clinton sexually attacked her in the Oval Office.
Another key impeachment player missing from Clinton's version of events is Juanita Broaddrick, whose allegation of sexual assault persuaded up to 40 wavering House Republicans to back impeachment at the 11th hour, according to reports at the time.
If Applebaum's comments to the Sun are any indication, Clinton has seen to it that his "Fight for Power" exhibit has thoroughly airbrushed both women out of the impeachment picture.
Editor's note:
Find out about George Soros’ coup and his plan to change America – get our Special Report – Click Here Now
Hillary’s White House Plans Unmasked! See Secret Story – Click Here Now!
"Hillary’s Secret War" – Coulter says "It’s required reading" – See It Here!
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Clinton Scandals
Sen. Hillary Clinton