I did not have sexual relations with that woman

On the 26th of January 1998, in a notorious but memorable pithy address broadcast on live television, millions across the globe heard the patently flustered Bill Clinton uttering the above words with the unambiguous air of moral and authoritative conviction.

I recall seeing him, blushing scarlet from a deserved avalanche of public opprobrium, flashing a chilling stare at his audience. Both hands solidly resting on the lectern.

Like an incensed general issuing a precursive signal to his firing squad to rain a fusillade of bullets on disgraced mutinous troops, he shook his head while indignantly dangling his index finger. Clinton asserted, “I’m gonna say this again, I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” In other words, ‘Let these words sink in.’

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