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This Day in Legal History: Clinton Testifies Before the Grand Jury
On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton became the first sitting president to testify before a grand jury as the subject of its investigation. He gave his testimony via closed-circuit television from the White House to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s grand jury, concerning his relationship with a White House intern—and that same evening, he addressed the nation to admit he had misled the public about it.
The legal machinery that brought a president to that moment is worth understanding. It began, improbably, with a…
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