This
paper explains that Clinton was able to amass a great deal of the international clout and
political capital over the
latter course of his first term and early in his second terms,
partly because of the relative strength of the American economy and partly due to his new vitality as a leader of substance. The paper states, however, that this was all undone by a series of various scandals of both a
political and personal kind that resulted in Clinton becoming the first president since Andrew Johnson to be impeached and tried.