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...from Bob Dole: that Clinton had no time to lose in lobbying the Senate against conviction. That afternoon the President started making calls to Senate friends such as Ted Kennedy and Connecticut's Chris Dodd. Clinton accepted that he was going to be impeached but insisted he wouldn't resign or even admit to perjury because he did not believe he had lied. What he wanted now was assurance that there were enough secure votes to fend off conviction in a Senate in which ouster would require a dozen Democrats to join all the Republicans. That large a defection seemed...
...help; the story of his adulterous affairs was about to go public. At midday the two men began conferring on how to handle the impending blowup. Within a few hours, the Speaker-designate had decided to go public with his problems before anyone else did. Livingston considered offering to resign in the conference meeting; if he did, DeLay planned to stand up, praise Livingston for his courage and refuse his resignation...
...Republicans argued that Clinton had broken the law. Democrats shot back that even if he did, this did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense. But the real struggle was going on outside the debate. Republicans, including DeLay and Henry Hyde, had begun calling on Clinton to resign. At a press briefing, presidential spokesman Joe Lockhart complained bitterly that House leaders like DeLay, who had promoted impeachment to wavering moderates as nothing more serious than a kind of Super Censure, were now using it to demand that Clinton step aside...
...Saturday, the day of the impeachment vote, there was a resignation that stunned the capital, but it wasn't Clinton's. A slow-moving Livingston, head bowed, took the floor to deliver what his colleagues believed would be a speech about the President's transgressions and instead gave a speech about his own. Then Livingston made his way to the now common Republican argument that if Clinton truly wanted to avoid the nightmare of a Senate trial, he should do the honorable thing. "You sir," he addressed the President, "may resign your post." Democrats hissed and moaned. Waters of California...
...Livingston announced that he would not stand for Speaker and would even resign his House seat within six months. When he finished, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle rose and applauded. Republicans surged toward Livingston and slapped him on the shoulders or hugged him. Florida Representative Mark Foley, sitting just a few feet from where Livingston spoke, wept openly. Republicans like Ed Bryant, a Judiciary Committee member, were dizzy. When he goes home to Tennessee, he said, "I will be taking my phone off the hook...