An article by R. Drummond Ayres Jr. in The New York Times for December 15, 1998 contains the text of comments by authors Daniel J Ellsberg and Ward Just, Civil War historian Shelby Foote, Christian Coalition executive director Randy Tate and former US senator John C Danforth on the decision by the House Judiciary Committee to file articles of impeachment against President Clinton.

Sample: 'I'm all for Bill Clinton. I don't see that he's done anything that's impeachable. ... As for Bill Clinton and lying, I came up in a place and time when if the issue was a woman and what you did or didn't do with her, you did whatever you could to protect her reputation. It was called lying like a gentleman.' (Shelby Foote)

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