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No, that is actually not what happened unless by "they," you mean Paula Corbin Jones. Jones had sued Clinton on Jones filed a sexual harassment suit against Clinton on 5/6/94.

After Clinton's army of lawyers successfully denied Jones her day in court until the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Jones had the right to sue a sitting president on 1/13/97. On 11/13/98, Clinton agreed to settle the case with Jones for $850,000. In April, 1999, Clinton was found guilty of civil contempt of court and ordered to pay a fine of $90,000. The judge also contacted the Arkansas Bar about Clinton's disgraceful conduct in her presence. On 1/19/01, Clinton signed an agreement with the Arkansas Bar Association that stripped him of his license to practice law for 5 years.

BTW, it is also worth noting that the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal did not become known to the public until 1998.
I love how liberals always try to revise history by claiming that Clinton was impeached over sex, which they regard a private matter, unless the scandal involves a Republican. While it is true that other women besides Jones accused Clinton of groping them, sexual harassment, and rape, and it is true that he was rightly criticized and ridiculed by Republicans and Democrats over the Lewinsky affair - he was impeached because he lied under oath in the presence of a federal judge.

But, the republicans tried to make a big deal of the Lewinsky thing, which it was none of their business.
He wasn't impeached over sex, but he was impeached over trying to lie about the sex, of which the republicans were trying to make a big deal of, which wasn't their business. Word twist all you want, Hoot. He was acquitted, BTW. BY law, it didn't happen. I find it funny that of the two impeachments, it was the republicans trying to impeach the President, and neither stuck. As usual, the republicans are the dividers in things. For future reference, the republicans shouldn't try to impeach a President, unless they can make a case.

Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, on December 19, 1998. Two other impeachment articles, a second perjury charge and a charge of abuse of power, failed in the House. The charges arose from the Lewinsky scandal and the Paula Jones lawsuit.
Clinton was acquitted by the Senate on February 12, 1999. With a two-thirds majority required for conviction, only 45 senators (out of 100) voted guilty on the perjury charge and 50 on the obstruction charge.[1]
The voting in the House and Senate were largely partisan. In the House, only five Democratic Representatives voted to impeach. In the Senate, which had 55 Republican Senators, none of the Democratic Senators voted for conviction. It was only the second impeachment of a President in American history, the other being that of Andrew Johnson, who was also acquitted by the Senate.