1998

Senator and veteran astronaut John Glenn becomes the oldest person to visit space. The senator is 77 when he boards the space shuttle Discovery.

The day the Monica Lewinsky story breaks, Robert Siegel and Mara Liasson conduct a previously scheduled live interview with President Clinton in the Oval Office.

On the Jan. 21 live broadcast, ATC's Siegel opened with a cordial "Mr. President, welcome to the program," followed directly by this question: "Many Americans woke to the news today that the Whitewater independent counsel is investigating an allegation that you, or you and Vernon Jordan, encouraged a young woman to lie to lawyers in the Paula Jones civil suit. Is there any truth to that allegation?"

Clinton: "No, sir. There's not. It's just not true."

Siegel: "Is there any truth to the allegation of an affair between you and the young woman?"

Clinton: "No. That's not true either... ."

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