Video: 'The President impeachment. Bill Clinton 1998 impeachment on CBS news with Dan Rather, a look back'

(Saturday, December 19, 1998, 1:22 p.m. EST; during the Impeachment of Bill Clinton) — U.S. President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice today by a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which recommended virtually along party lines that the Senate remove the nation’s 42nd President from office.

The case would be sent to the U.S. Senate for trial beginning Jan. 7, 1999.

Clinton was impeached on grounds of perjury to a grand jury (by a 228–206 vote) and obstruction of justice (by a 221–212 vote).

Two other articles of impeachment failed – a second count of perjury (by a 205–229 vote) and one accusing Clinton of abuse of power (by a 148–285 vote).

Clinton became only the second President in history to be impeached, after Andrew Johnson in 1868, and only the third against whom articles of impeachment had been brought before the full House for consideration (Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency in 1974, while an impeachment process against him was underway).

A few hours after the vote, Clinton, surrounded by Democrats, walked onto the South Lawn of the White House, his wife, Hillary, on his arm, and declared that he intended to serve “until the last hour of the last day of my term.”

Video: 'Remarks at Conclusion of House Impeachment Vote Results'