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Monica Lewinsky meets with President ClintonA photograph showing former White House intern Monica Lewinsky meeting President Bill Clinton at a White House function submitted as evidence in documents by the Starr investigation and released by the House Judicary committee September 21, 1998.

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Monica Lewinsky Scandal

A Presidential Affair Born in San Francisco in 1973, Monica Lewinsky was raised in a well-off family in the Los Angeles area. In the summer of 1995, after graduating from Lewis and Clark College, she landed an unpaid internship in the White House chief of staff’s office, working out of the Old Executive Office Building. […]

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How a Murderer from Italy Remade Himself as an American Renaissance Man

Aeronautics expert. Historian. Scientist. Economist. Henry Woodhouse passed himself off as all these and more. In reality, he was a con artist—and a convicted killer.

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8 Very English Political Scandals

A king gets a messy divorce, a legislator fakes his death and a defense minister defends himself with: “surely all men patronize whores?”

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How a Petty Snub Led to Clinton’s Government Shutdown—and the Lewinsky Affair

Newt Gingrich was offended that Clinton hadn’t talked to him on Air Force One.

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The Salacious Letters That Helped Bring Down Mary, Queen of Scots

The casket letters were scandalous. But were they really written by Mary Stuart?

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2012

Cyclist Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles

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1927

Sacco and Vanzetti executed

Roaring Twenties
1974

Sex scandal leads to political fallout for Arkansas congressman

U.S. Government and Politics
1963

British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns amid sex scandal

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1984

Miss America resigns over nude photos

1980s
2005

Lance Armstrong wins seventh Tour de France

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