Political scandals
Political scandals and corruption are the headlines today over at the Milestone Documents blog. First, the Doc of the Day features the articles of impeachment of Bill Clinton from 1998. Clinton, who remains a political lightening rod even today, narrowly averted impeachment by the Senate on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. In addition, we have an “In the News” feature about the indictment of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges; the U.S. attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, believes that the governor sought to sell the open Senate seat of president-elect Barack Obama. Both posts feature links to relevant primary source documents in the two cases.
Meanwhile, over at MilestoneDocuments.com, we’ve added a new widget that offers history stories from the New York Times. The top stories at the moment include an obituary of a pioneering historian of African Americans, and a review of a book about medicine in the American West during the period of westward expansion.
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