{"id":17428,"date":"2015-05-31T13:23:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T12:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17428"},"modified":"2015-05-31T13:23:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T12:23:23","slug":"if-i-understand-history-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17428","title":{"rendered":"If I understand history correctly &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;If I understand the history correctly, in the late 1990s, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton\">the President was impeached<\/a> for lying about a sexual affair by a House of Representatives led by a man who was also <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=2937633\">then hiding a sexual affair<\/a>, who was supposed to be replaced by another Congressman who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/politics\/special\/clinton\/stories\/livingston122098.htm\">stepped down<\/a> when forced to reveal that he too was having a sexual affair, which led to the election of a new Speaker of the House who now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2015\/05\/28\/former-house-speaker-dennis-hastert-indic\">has been indicted<\/a> for lying about payments covering up his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-hastert-misconduct-20150529-story.html\">sexual contact with a boy<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2015\/05\/29\/if-i-understand-the-history-correctly\/\">observation<\/a> at the &#8220;Washington Post&#8221; by\u00a0Orin Kerr, the Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor at The George Washington University Law School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If I understand the history correctly, in the late 1990s, the President was impeached for lying about a sexual affair by a House of Representatives led by a man who was also then hiding a sexual affair, who was supposed to be replaced by another Congressman who stepped down when forced to reveal that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17428"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17436,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428\/revisions\/17436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}