Video: 'The 1998 State of the Union (Address to a Joint Session of the Congress)'

(Tuesday, January 27, 1998, 9:12 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Bill Clinton, facing the gravest personal and political peril in a crisis-prone career over his reported sexual misconduct with a former White House intern, emerged from the darkness shrouding his presidency for more than an hour tonight to proclaim the state of the Union sound and to propose a plan to rescue Social Security.