1998: A Hard Knock Life for Monica and Bill - Spcl Gsts Carlissa, Ashley, and Terrence
Update: 2020-12-01
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Topics: Monica Lewinsky Scandal, Jay Z, Beloved (Film), 90's Tech (Bonus Artist: hidingtobefound and Luck Pacheco)
1998 General Snapshots
1. Bill Clinton President
2. Jan - Paula Jones accuses U.S. President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.
3. Jan - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants.
4. Jan - Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos become the first AFC team in 14 years to win the Super Bowl, as they defeat the Green Bay Packers
5. Jan - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, President Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The next day, Hillary Clinton appears on The Today Show, calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy".
6. Mar - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
7. Apr - The unemployment rate drops to 4.3%, the lowest level since February 1970.
8. Apr - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 9,000 for the first time.
9. Apr - Teletubbies begins its U.S. television debut on PBS.
10. Apr - Inflight smoking is banned on all commercial passenger flights in the United States,
11. Jun - The Chicago Bulls win their 6th NBA title in 8 years when they beat the Utah Jazz. This is also Michael Jordan's last game as a Bull, clinching the game in the final seconds on a fadeaway jumper.
12. Aug - The bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden. Two weeks later. The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan.
13. Oct - College student Matthew Shepard is found tied to a fence near Laramie, Wyoming. His death became a symbol of gay-bashing and sparked a national debate on homophobia in the U.S.
14. Nov - Jesse Ventura, former professional wrestler, is elected Governor of Minnesota.
15. Nov - America Online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications for $4.2B as the “Dot.com” bubble heats up. Between 1995 and 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose 400%.
16. Dec - Lewinsky scandal: President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives. (He was later acquitted of any wrongdoing.)
17. Open Comments
18. Top 3 Pop songs
19. #1 "Too Close", Next
20. #2 "The Boy Is Mine", Brandy and Monica
21. #3 "You're Still the One", Shania Twain
22. Record of the Year: "My Heart Will Go On", Celine Dion
23. Album of the Year: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Lauryn Hill
24. Song of the Year: "My Heart Will Go On", Celine Dion
25. Best New Artist: Lauryn Hill
26. Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: "Doo Wop (That Thing)”, Lauryn Hill
27. Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: "St. Louis Blues”, Stevie Wonder in Herbie Hancock's Gershwin's World
28. Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: "The Boy Is Mine", Brandy & Monica
29. Best R&B Song: "Doo Wop (That Thing)”, Lauryn Hill
30. Best R&B Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Lauryn Hill
31. Best Traditional R&B Vocal Album: Live! One Night Only, Patti LaBelle
32. Best Rap Solo Performance: "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It", Will Smith
33. Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: "Intergalactic", Beastie Boys
34. Best Rap Album: Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life, Jay-Z
35. Top 3 Movies
36. #1 Armageddon
37. #2 Saving Private Ryan
38. #3 Godzilla
39. Notables: Dr. Dolittle, Half Baked, The Wedding Singer, The Big Lebowski, Primary Colors, The Players Club, Suicide Kings, He Got Game, Bulworth, The Truman Show, Mulan, There's Something About Mary, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Blade, Rush Hour, Antz, Beloved, Belly, The Waterboy, A Bug's Life, A Simple Plan, You've Got Mail
40. Open Comments
41. Top 3 TV Shows
42. #1 ER
43. #2 Friends
44. #3 Frasier
45. Debuts: Judge Joe Brown, The Hughleys
46. Open Comments
47. Economic Snapshots
48. Income = 38.1 (Previously 37.5K)
49. House = 129.3 (124k)
50. Car = 17k (17k)
51. Rent = 619 (576)
52. Harvard = 30,080 (28.9)
53. Movie = 4.69 (4.59)
54. Gas = 1.15 (1.22)
55. Stamp = .32 (-)
56. Social Scene: Monica Lewinsky Scandal (Highlights)
57. Born in San Francisco in 1973, Monica Lewinsky was raised in a well-off family in the Los Angeles area. In the summer of 1995 (@ 22 yrs. old), after graduating from Lewis and Clark College, she landed an unpaid internship in the White House chief of staff’s office.
58. In November 1995, during a federal government shutdown, Lewinsky flirted with the president and the two had their first sexual encounter. Later that month, she took a paying job in the Office of Legislative Affairs.
59. They had seven more encounters in the White House and her visits started drawing notice from people. In April 1996, a deputy chief of staff had her transferred to a job at the Pentagon.
60. The president and Lewinsky had two more encounters, the last was in spring 1997, and stayed in touch by phone.
61. At the Pentagon, she befriended a coworker, Linda Tripp, and she confided details of her affair with the president. Tripp in turn shared the story with an anti-Clinton conservative literary agent she knew. That person urged Tripp to secretly, and in violation of taping laws, record hours of her phone conversations with Lewinsky.
62. Word of Tripp’s tapes made it to lawyers working on behalf of Paula Jones, a former government employee who had filed a lawsuit against the president for alleged sexual misconduct that took place in 1991, when he was governor of Arkansas.
63. In December 1997, Lewinsky was subpoenaed by Jones’ attorneys and, after the president allegedly suggested she be evasive, the former intern denied in an affidavit that she had had a sexual relationship with Clinton.
64. Around the same time, independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who had been investigating Clinton and his wife Hillary’s involvement in a failed business venture called Whitewater, found out about Tripp’s recordings. Soon afterward, FBI agents fitted Tripp with a hidden microphone so she could legally tape her conversations with Lewinsky.
65. Then Starr expanded his investigation to include the president’s relationship with Lewinsky and told her that if she did not cooperate with the investigation she would be charged with perjury.
66. When Clinton was deposed in January 1998 by Jones’ legal team, he claimed he had never had sexual relations with Lewinsky. (The Big Lie)
67. On January 17, 1998, the Drudge Report, a conservative online news site, published the accusations against the president and the next day revealed Lewinsky’s identity. The mainstream media picked up the story a few days later, and a national scandal Erup
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