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The Clinton Presidency Americas Darkest Hour

kitchen.” (Ruddy). Fellow trooper of Ferguson’s, Larry Patterson, told theLambert’s that he remembers Ferguson telling him that Clinton wanted to know about hisand Kathy’s sex life. Clinton also said that his extracurricular activities never posed aproblem because as governor he could do as he pleased. He is quoted as having said,“Larry, I’m the governor of the state of Arkansas. I work really hard and the laws thatapply to everyone else shouldn’t apply to me.” (Ruddy). One could also look at his views on crime. He wanted to show he was “tough” oncrime, so in the midst of his 1992 presidential campaign, he flew back to Arkansas toapprove the execution of Ricky Ray Rector. Rector was so brain damaged that he had nosense of the difference between tomorrow and last year. He was accustomed to placinghis dessert in a corner of his cell to be eaten just before he went to bed. After he had beenled to his execution, guards found the dessert of his last meal set in the corner for “later.” He had no idea what being executed meant. But, as the facts show, Clinton wanted himdead during the primaries, to show how tough he was on crime. It was also Clinton, whosigned an anticrime bill into law naming over 60 different offenses as worthy of the deathpenalty. The most recent scandal, one could argue, would be that of Johnny Huang and theRiadys, and of how Clinton compromised U.S. security, for illegal campaign money. Inorder to gain and hold onto power, the Clinton administration has acted recklessly,allowing the wrong people to gain access to our most important political and economicsecrets. There is also evidence supporting that the “Clinton administration’s help to theChinese military and the cover-ups of Chinese proliferation were motivated by equal partscorruption and classic appeasement.” (Timperlake, p. 3) There are a few “stumbling...

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