On Dec. 19, 1998, President Bill Clinton became the second president in U.S. history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
Nearly 21 years to the date before President Trump was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, the former Democratic president faced a similar fate — but for something much more personal. Clinton, now 73, had engaged in an extramarital affair in the Oval Office with a White House intern and lied to Congress about it.
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