The following is a statement from the Senate’s closed deliberations on the Articles of Impeachment against President Clinton, excerpts of which senators were allowed to publish in the Congressional Record for Friday, February 12, 1999.
Senator Paul Sarbanes was a Democratic senator from Maryland. He served from 1977 until 2007.
Statement by Senator Paul Sarbanes (Democrat – Maryland)
Mr. Chief Justice and colleagues, in his award-winning book ‘The Making of the President, 1960,’ Theodore H. White refers to an American Presidential election as ‘the most awesome transfer of power in the world.’