... end the political violence in Northern Ireland, but they came and went and ultimately ended in failure. During his first election campaign the then Governor Bill Clinton promised the Irish- American caucus something that they had sought for a long time, that as President, he would send a special US envoy ... A History of Northern Ireland, 2002, Dublin) On the 30th of November 1995, while on a state visit to Ireland, president Bill Clinton, accompanied by his wife, First Lady Hillary Clinton, became the first incumbent US President, to visit the state of Northern Ireland. During the visit...

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... a full blown "modern scandal" of our own. But a fundamental change separates modern-day presidential scandals from those in the past: publicity. Except for Cleveland's paternity case and recent allegations against Bill Clinton, presidential love scandals have "always come out after the fact," says James W. Davis, author of "The American Presidency." "Tongue-wagging" was kept to a minimum in the pre-Watergate era, he ... players in the presidential scandal. The media failed to turn up any new evidence and spent weeks broadcasting special reports that were nothing more than speculations. ...

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