I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Clinton watches the news from the Oval Office dining room after he had been impeached.

Clinton’s legal team.

Clinton was just the second American president to be impeached, following Andrew Johnson in 1868. He was acquitted by the Democratic-controlled Senate on February 12, 1999.

“I don’t know if I would say (the Clinton lawyers) thought they were going to win,” Shell recalled. “I always got the feeling that they were confident that the law and the Constitution were on their side. … I'm sure they felt a little more confident because they were the majority in the Senate.”

Photographs by Callie Shell