Clinton
Peter Jennings, ABC News (Archival audio): We interrupt your regular program for quite an extraordinary moment in the history of the United States.
彼得·詹宁斯，美国广播公司新闻（档案音频）：我们中断了您的常规节目，因为这是美国历史上一个非同寻常的时刻。
A short while ago President Clinton's staff came to tell us that he was going to come to the Rose Garden now and make some remarks.
不久前，克林顿总统的幕僚来告诉我们，他现在要去玫瑰园发表讲话。
Reporter (archival audio): Peter, the president will make another attempt to say he's sorry about what he's caused.
记者（档案音频）：彼得，总统将再次尝试对他造成的后果表示歉意。
Narrator: Bill Clinton had come into office with notions of an heroic Presidency -- to inscribe his name in history alongside FDR and JFK.
旁白：比尔·克林顿就任总统时抱有英雄的理想——将自己的名字与罗斯福和肯尼迪一起载入史册。
Narrator: But on the afternoon of December 11, 1998, he came to the Rose Garden of the White House to apologize to the American people.
旁白：但是1998年12月11日下午，他来到白宫玫瑰园向美国人民道歉。
Bill Clinton (archival): I am profoundly sorry for all I have done wrong in words and deeds.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我对我在言语和行为上所做的一切错误深表歉意。
I never should have misled the country, the congress, my friends or my family.
我绝不应该误导国家、国会、我的朋友或我的家人。
Quite simply, I gave in to my shame.
很简单，我屈服于我的耻辱。
Joe Klein, Journalist: It's almost as it all of this was just too easy for him.
Joe Klein，记者：几乎所有这一切对他来说都太容易了。
It's almost as if he had to set up these barriers that he could then leap across, or stagger across, but get across in any event, always.
就好像他必须设置这些障碍，然后他可以跳跃或摇摇晃晃地跨越，但无论如何，总是能够跨越。
Bill Clinton (archival): I'm going to give you this election back and if you'll give it to me I won't be like George Bush, I'll never forget who gave me a second chance and I'll be there for you till the last dog dies.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我会把这次选举还给你，如果你把它还给我，我就不会像乔治·布什那样，我永远不会忘记谁给了我第二次机会，我会一直在你身边，直到最后一只狗死去。
And I want you to remember that.
我希望你记住这一点。
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: : How many second chances, right?
Dee Dee Myers，新闻秘书：有多少第二次机会，对吗？
How many second chances does any one person deserve?
一个人应该有多少次机会？
Clinton's view is as many second chances as a person is willing to try to take.
克林顿的观点是，一个人愿意尝试多少次第二次机会。
You know, I mean, as many times as you fail, don't you deserve the chance to redeem yourself?
你知道，我的意思是，只要你失败了很多次，你难道不应该有机会救赎自己吗？
Isn't history loaded with people who have fallen and gotten up, and fallen and gotten up, and fallen and gotten up and done great things?
历史不是充满了跌倒又爬起来、跌倒又爬起来、跌倒又爬起来创造伟大事业的人吗？
Bill Clinton (archival): We will together build a bridge to the 21st century wide enough and strong enough to take us to America's best days.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我们将共同搭建一座通向 21 世纪的桥梁，这座桥梁足够宽、足够坚固，带我们进入美国最好的时代。
Will you do that?
你会这么做吗？
Max Brantley, Journalist: There's a stick-to-itiveness about him that's just phenomenal.
马克斯·布兰特利（Max Brantley），记者：他有一种非凡的坚持不懈的精神。
An abiding belief that if he can just have enough time, he can win over just about anybody.
他坚信，只要有足够的时间，他就能赢得几乎任何人的支持。
David Maraniss, Writer: The central repetitive theme of Bill Clinton's life is loss and recovery.
大卫·马拉尼斯（David Maraniss），作家：比尔·克林顿一生的中心重复主题是失落与恢复。
Never count him out because, always, he will find his way back.
永远不要指望他，因为他总会找到回来的路。
Bill Clinton (archival): I end tonight where it all began for me.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：今晚我将在一切开始的地方结束。
I still believe in a place called Hope.
我依然相信有一个地方，叫做希望。
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: Where does it come from?
新闻秘书 Dee Dee Myers：它来自哪里？
The unwillingness to quit on himself, on the things he believed in, on the people he cared about.
不愿意放弃自己、放弃自己相信的事情、放弃自己关心的人。
He disappoints them every time on some level, but he always gets up and tries to make it better.
他每次都会在某种程度上让他们失望，但他总是站起来并努力让事情变得更好。
You know, what else can you ask from a sinner?
你知道，你还能向罪人要求什么呢？
John Harris, Journalist: : Success, misjudgment, in some cases catastrophe, followed by comeback: that resilience is central to who he is as a politician.
约翰·哈里斯（John Harris），记者：：成功，误判，在某些情况下是灾难，然后卷土重来：韧性是他作为政治家的核心。
I think it's central to who he is as a man.
我认为这是他作为一个男人的核心。
Narrator: He would emerge from the political backwaters of Arkansas, "like a country tornado," one newspaper wrote: a political natural unlike anyone had seen in a generation.
旁白：一份报纸写道，他将从阿肯色州的政治死水中脱颖而出，“就像一场乡村龙卷风”：他是一代人中从未见过的政治天才。
But in the winter of 1992 as Bill Clinton began campaigning for President in New Hampshire he was still a relative unknown, eager to win over voters and his young campaign staff.
但 1992 年冬天，当比尔·克林顿 (Bill Clinton) 开始在新罕布什尔州竞选总统时，他仍然相对默默无闻，渴望赢得选民和年轻竞选团队的支持。
James Carville, Campaign Strategist: It was just so clear that he was exceptionally talented politician from the kind of get go.
竞选策略师詹姆斯·卡维尔：很明显，他从一开始就是一位非常有才华的政治家。
Bill Clinton (archival): How do you get the ideas we develop in America in the manufacturing jobs here?
比尔·克林顿（档案）：您如何将我们在美国发展起来的创意运用到这里的制造业工作中？
There are literally --
从字面上看有——
James Carville, Campaign Strategist: His ability to adapt, his ability to walk into a room, to size up an issue, to understand.
詹姆斯·卡维尔，竞选策略师：他的适应能力，他走进房间、判断问题和理解的能力。
I've never seen a candidate, I've never seen a human being who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.
我从未见过一个候选人，我从未见过一个人能够在最有限的情况下了解任何政策或政治问题的维度、参数和细微差别。
Bill Clinton (archival): If we had a broad-based national health policy, it would never be in anyone's interest not to hire you.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：如果我们有基础广泛的国家卫生政策，那么不雇用你就不符合任何人的利益。
Narrator: In a Primary field crowded with Democratic candidates, Clinton's determination and skill quickly distinguished him from his rivals.
旁白：在挤满民主党候选人的初选领域，克林顿的决心和技巧很快使他从竞争对手中脱颖而出。
His aides nicknamed him after a legendary racehorse: Secretariat.
他的助手以一匹传奇赛马的名字给他起了个绰号：秘书处。
Joe Klein, Journalist: There was a famous instance just before the New Hampshire primary a woman started talking about that she couldn't afford the drugs that she needed to survive.
记者乔·克莱因：在新罕布什尔州初选之前，有一个著名的例子，一名妇女开始谈论她买不起生存所需的药物。
And she started to cry.
她开始哭泣。
And Clinton's reflex action was to get down on his knees, put his arms around her, and he's crying, too!
克林顿的条件反射动作是跪下来，用双臂搂住她，他也哭了！
Bill Clinton (archival): I'm really sorry, it isn't right, it isn't right...
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我真的很抱歉，这是不对的，这是不对的......
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: The story that I heard from people over and over was, "for that one moment, he looked me in the eye, he touched me on the arms, he listened to my story, and I felt like I was the only person in the world." And he did it over and over and over.
迪迪·迈尔斯，新闻秘书：我从人们那里一遍又一遍地听到的故事是，“那一刻，他看着我的眼睛，他抚摸我的手臂，他听我的故事，我觉得我是世界上唯一的人。”他一遍又一遍地这样做。
And the only way you can have that moment over and over and over if you really are interested.
如果你真的感兴趣的话，这是你可以一遍又一遍地拥有那一刻的唯一方法。
Narrator: Throughout New Hampshire -- in union halls, truck stops, and diners -- Clinton heard stories of depressed wages and vanishing jobs, as the state and the nation struggled to emerge from a recession.
旁白：在整个新罕布什尔州，在工会大厅、卡车停靠站和餐馆里，克林顿听到了工资低迷和工作岗位消失的故事，而该州和国家正在努力摆脱经济衰退。
Bill Clinton (archival): Ten years ago, we had the highest wages in the world now we're tenth, and we're dropping.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：十年前，我们的工资是世界上最高的，现在我们排名第十，而且还在下降。
What else do you think we ought to do?
你认为我们还应该做什么？
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: He knew these people, knew what they were thinking, knew their concerns and felt that government in Washington in large measure was just not addressing those concerns.
哈罗德·伊克斯，副参谋长：他了解这些人，知道他们在想什么，知道他们的担忧，并认为华盛顿政府在很大程度上没有解决这些担忧。
Narrator: The mostly white working class voters Clinton met in New Hampshire, like those in his own state of Arkansas, had been fleeing the Democratic Party for years.
旁白：克林顿在新罕布什尔州遇到的大多数白人工人阶级选民，就像他自己的阿肯色州的选民一样，多年来一直在逃离民主党。
John Harris, Journalist: Bill Clinton knew that the Democrats were not going to regain the presidency until they re-established a connection with these middle class and lower-middle class voters who had been attracted for various reasons to Republican politicians and to conservative ideas.
记者约翰·哈里斯：比尔·克林顿知道，民主党不会重新获得总统宝座，除非他们与这些因各种原因被共和党政客和保守派思想所吸引的中产阶级和中下阶层选民重新建立联系。
Narrator: For nearly a decade, as he rose through the ranks of Democratic politics, Clinton had been honing a message to win back these so-called 'Reagan Democrats'.
旁白：近十年来，随着克林顿在民主党政治中的地位不断提升，他一直在打磨自己的信息，以赢回这些所谓的“里根民主党人”。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: The entire thrust of the traditional Democratic Party was based on entitlements and endowments.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：传统民主党的全部主旨都是基于权利和捐赠。
They would bestow money on people.
他们会给人们捐钱。
Bill Clinton's incredibly bold idea was to change the grant to a transaction, we'll give you something but we demand something back, the way he would phrase it is 'we'll give you opportunity but you have to take responsibility'.
比尔·克林顿（Bill Clinton）极其大胆的想法是将赠款改为交易，我们会给你一些东西，但我们要求回报，用他的话说就是“我们会给你机会，但你必须承担责任”。
Bill Clinton (archival): If you want the right to receive welfare benefits, you have to assume the responsibility to get educated to have job training and to go to work if you can do it....
比尔·克林顿（档案）：如果你想获得领取福利的权利，你就必须承担接受教育、接受职业培训的责任，如果你能做到的话，就必须去工作……
Michael Waldman, Speechwriter: When he went out and said, "We need opportunity for all, but responsibility from all Americans," that was different from what Democrats had been saying.
迈克尔·沃尔德曼（Michael Waldman），演讲撰稿人：当他出去说：“我们需要所有人都有机会，但所有美国人都需要承担责任”时，这与民主党人的说法不同。
Narrator: Preaching his "New Democrat" message in New Hampshire, Clinton began to catch fire.
旁白：克林顿在新罕布什尔州宣扬他的“新民主党”信息，开始火热起来。
Bill Clinton (archival): People say I'm not a real Democrat and I say I'm against brain dead policies in both parties.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：人们说我不是真正的民主党人，我说我反对两党的脑死亡政策。
Narrator: By mid-January, he'd pulled ahead of his strongest competitors and into the lead.
旁白：到一月中旬，他已经超越了最强大的竞争对手，成为领先者。
Then, with just weeks to go, it all seemed to fall apart.
然后，只剩下几周的时间，一切似乎都崩溃了。
Connie Chung, CBS News (Archival): Democratic Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton is again denying a report of an extra-marital affair.
康妮·钟（Connie Chung），哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（档案）：民主党总统候选人比尔·克林顿再次否认有关婚外情的报道。
The report is in the Star , the supermarket tabloid.
这篇报道刊登在超市小报《星报》上。
Joe Klein, Journalist: The first time I heard of Gennifer Flowers was a rumor.
Joe Klein，记者：我第一次听说 Gennifer Flowers 是一个谣言。
I mean the rumors of his messing around were out there.
我的意思是，关于他胡作非为的谣言已经流传开来。
And the stories were out there.
故事就在那里。
And it was something that his handlers talked about.
这是他的上司谈论的事情。
You know, "how are we going to deal with this if it actually happens?"
你知道，“如果真的发生了，我们将如何处理？”
Lawyer, press release (archival): ...I would like to introduce my client to you, Gennifer Flowers.
律师新闻稿（档案）：……我想向您介绍我的客户，Gannifer Flowers。
Joe Klein, Journalist: At first, no one was really that worried about it.
Joe Klein，记者：一开始，没有人真正担心这个问题。
But then, the woman appeared.
可就在这时，那个女人却出现了。
And not only did the woman appear, but she was a lounge singer.
而且这个女人不仅出现了，而且还是一名酒廊歌手。
And everybody thought, 'oh yeah, absolutely.' And she had tapes.
每个人都想，“哦，是的，绝对如此。”她还有录音带。
Gennifer Flowers (archival audio): I didn't think it would start this quickly...
Gennifer Flowers（档案音频）：我没想到它会这么快开始......
but I think you're being naïve if you think that these other shows, a Current Affair --
但如果你认为这些其他节目是时事，我认为你太天真了——
Bill Clinton (archival audio): I expect them to come looking into it and interview you and everything, but I think that if everyone is on record denying it, you got no problem.
比尔·克林顿（档案音频）：我希望他们能够调查此事并采访你和一切，但我认为如果每个人都公开否认这一点，那么你就没有问题。
Narrator: At first, Clinton's response to the scandal was evasive.
旁白：起初，克林顿对丑闻的反应是回避的。
Bill Clinton (archival): She did call me, I never initiated any calls to her, and whenever she called me she basically wanted reassurance....
比尔·克林顿（档案）：她确实给我打电话，我从来没有给她打过任何电话，每当她打电话给我时，她基本上都想得到安慰......
Joe Klein, Journalist: There was this growing sense and skepticism in the press that this guy was just a big phony.
乔·克莱因（Joe Klein），记者：媒体上越来越多的人认为这家伙只是一个大骗子。
I mean, he was too slick.
我的意思是，他太狡猾了。
He was too smooth and he would lawyer answers to questions.
他太圆滑了，他会律师回答问题。
Bill Clinton (archival): I said, that's not true.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我说过，那不是真的。
Even if your name gets used in the absence of proof, nobody can prove you're guilty, don't worry about it, just tell the truth...
即使你的名字在没有证据的情况下被使用，没有人能证明你有罪，不用担心，只要说实话......
Narrator: The press called him 'Slick Willie' -- and it stuck.
旁白：媒体称他为“狡猾的威利”——这种称呼一直沿袭至今。
Joe Klein, Journalist: The general thinking was that he was dead.
乔·克莱因（Joe Klein），记者：普遍认为他已经死了。
Politicians didn't survive this thing.
政客们没能幸免于难。
Narrator: As many began to abandon Clinton, one person rose strongly to his defense.
旁白：当许多人开始抛弃克林顿时，有一个人强烈站出来为他辩护。
Carol Willis, Political Advisor: Bill Clinton is a smart guy, a very smart guy.
卡罗尔·威利斯，政治顾问：比尔·克林顿是一个聪明人，一个非常聪明的人。
But he will tell you that Hillary is much smarter than he is.
但他会告诉你希拉里比他聪明得多。
She's much tougher than he is.
她比他坚强得多。
She is more of a pragmatist.
她更像是一个实用主义者。
If Clinton is a dreamer, Hillary is Miss Reality.
如果说克林顿是梦想家，那么希拉里就是现实小姐。
She raised him up, and said, 'look, get that pity out of your body, and all that defeatism out of your back.
她把他扶了起来，说道：‘听着，把你身上的怜悯去掉，把你背后所有的失败主义去掉。
And let's deal with this issue.
让我们来解决这个问题。
And let's move on to the next issue.'
让我们继续讨论下一期。
Narrator: At the height of the scandal, millions tuned in to see Bill Clinton answer questions on the CBS program 60 Minutes .
旁白：丑闻最严重时，数百万人收看比尔·克林顿在哥伦比亚广播公司 (CBS) 节目《60 分钟》中回答问题。
But it was Hillary who stole the show.
但抢尽风头的是希拉里。
Hillary Clinton (archival): You know, I'm not sitting here, some little woman, standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：你知道，我不是坐在这里，像塔米·怀内特那样站在我男人身边的小女人。
I'm sitting here because I love him and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through, and what we've been through together, and you know if that's not enough for people then heck, don't vote for him!
我坐在这里是因为我爱他，我尊重他，我尊重他所经历的一切，以及我们一起经历的一切，你知道，如果这对人们来说还不够，那就不要投票给他！
Gail Sheehy, Writer: By praising him, defending him, attacking the press, she brought Clinton back from the dead.
盖尔·希伊，作家：通过赞扬他、为他辩护、攻击媒体，她让克林顿起死回生。
Reporter (archival): How do you think it went, Governor?
记者（档案）：州长，您认为进展如何？
You think you answered the questions?
你认为你回答了这些问题吗？
Bill Clinton (archival): We did our best.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我们尽力了。
We feel good about it.
我们对此感觉很好。
The American people are the judges now, we're going to let them judge.
美国人民现在是法官，我们将让他们来评判。
Gail Sheehy, Writer: So you can see why he was so attached to her because she had the power to save him.
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：所以你可以明白为什么他如此依恋她，因为她有能力拯救他。
Narrator: The partnership of Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham began at Yale Law School in 1971.
旁白：比尔·克林顿和希拉里·罗德姆的合作始于 1971 年耶鲁大学法学院。
Clinton was fresh from a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford University in England and already planning a career in politics.
克林顿刚刚获得英国牛津大学的罗德奖学金，并已经计划从政。
Robert Robert Reich, Labor Secretary: Bill loved to discuss issues.
罗伯特·罗伯特·赖克，劳工部长：比尔喜欢讨论问题。
He loved to be in the center of discussions.
他喜欢成为讨论的中心。
He, in a way, loved to perform.
在某种程度上，他喜欢表演。
He wasn't a great student.
他不是一个优秀的学生。
He didn't care about being a student, he was not there for being a student.
他不在乎自己是一名学生，他来这里也不是为了当一名学生。
He was there to make connections.
他来这里是为了建立联系。
Hillary was so much more obviously intellectual.
希拉里显然更聪明。
Her power was so much more disciplined than his.
她的力量比他的要严密得多。
She was a leader.
她是一位领导者。
She was a doer.
她是一个实干家。
Narrator: Bill eyed Hillary for weeks before the two finally met during one of his rare visits to the library.
旁白：比尔盯着希拉里看了好几个星期，最后两人在他罕见的一次图书馆之旅中见面。
Gail Sheehy, Writer: He was totally blown away by how confident and challenging she was.
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：她的自信和挑战性让他完全震惊。
Here he is this tall, gorgeously handsome hick with Elvis sideburns and high water pants.
在这里，他是一个高大、英俊的乡巴佬，留着猫王般的鬓角，穿着高筒裤。
She's the one who crosses the room, holds out her hand and says 'if you're gonna keep staring at me and I'm gonna keep looking back at you we better get to know each other.'
她穿过房间，伸出手说：“如果你继续盯着我看，我也继续看着你，我们最好互相了解一下。”
John Harris, Journalist: : Bill Clinton who always had lots of girlfriends, looked at Hillary and said, 'I've never had a girlfriend like that.
约翰·哈里斯，记者：比尔·克林顿总是有很多女朋友，他看着希拉里说：“我从来没有过这样的女朋友。”
I can't believe that somebody is as smart and as virtuous as Hillary that she wants to be with me.' Hillary looked at Bill Clinton, outgoing, popular, successful and thinks, 'I can't believe that somebody like that wants to be with me.' And I think they're both kind of mystified that the other person is attracted to them.
我不敢相信有人像希拉里一样聪明、善良，竟然想和我在一起。”希拉里看着比尔·克林顿，他外向、受欢迎、成功，心想：“我不敢相信这样的人愿意和我在一起。”我认为他们都对对方被他们所吸引感到困惑。
Narrator: Hillary graduated from Yale in 1973, and soon landed a coveted job in Washington with the House committee investigating the Watergate scandal.
旁白：希拉里 1973 年从耶鲁大学毕业，很快就在华盛顿找到了一份令人垂涎的工作，在负责调查水门事件的众议院委员会工作。
Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel: One night, she said she wanted to introduce me to somebody who's going to come up to visit her the next day, I think.
白宫法律顾问伯纳德·努斯鲍姆：一天晚上，她说她想把我介绍给一个第二天会来看她的人，我想。
She says, 'His name is Bill Clinton.' I said, 'Oh, you know, what does he do?' She said, 'Well, he graduated Yale Law School and he's from Arkansas -- and he's going back to Arkansas.' I said, 'Oh, well, that's fine.
她说，“他的名字是比尔·克林顿。”我说：“哦，你知道，他是做什么的？”她说，“嗯，他毕业于耶鲁大学法学院，来自阿肯色州——他要回到阿肯色州。”我说，‘哦，好吧，那好吧。
What law firm is he going to?' She said, 'Oh, no, no, he's not going to really go to a law firm.
他要去哪家律师事务所？她说，‘哦，不，不，他不会真的去律师事务所。
He's thinking of running for office.' I said, 'He just graduated Yale Law School.
他正在考虑竞选公职。我说，‘他刚刚从耶鲁大学法学院毕业。
What's he thinking of running for?' 'He's running for Congress.' I said 'Well it's kind of premature, how old is he, 26, 27?' She said, 'Oh, no, no, he's going to run for Congress and he thinks he's gonna win and I think he's gonna win.
他为什么要竞选？ “他正在竞选国会议员。”我说：“好吧，这有点为时过早，他多大了，26、27 岁？”她说，‘哦，不，不，他要竞选国会议员，他认为他会赢，我认为他会赢。
In fact, Bernie, he's going to go past Congress.
事实上，伯尼，他将通过国会。
He's going to be a senator or a governor.
他将成为一名参议员或州长。
He's going to be President of the United States.'
他将成为美国总统。
Narrator: That Bill Clinton would make politics his life's work had never been in doubt to anyone who knew him.
旁白：任何认识比尔·克林顿的人都毫不怀疑他会把政治作为他一生的工作。
Carol Willis, Political Advisor: : I think he was born with political ambition.
政治顾问卡罗尔·威利斯：我认为他生来就有政治野心。
And I think that he was using every step of his life as a classroom to build the foundation to where he ultimately wanted to go.
我认为他正在利用自己人生的每一步作为课堂，为他最终想去的地方打下基础。
Narrator: William Jefferson Clinton was born in Hope Arkansas on August 19, 1946.
旁白：威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿 1946 年 8 月 19 日出生于阿肯色州霍普。
His mother Virginia Cassidy was a nurse, outgoing and vivacious; his father, Bill Blythe, a charming traveling salesman whom he would never know.
他的母亲弗吉尼亚·卡西迪是一名护士，性格外向、活泼。他的父亲比尔·布莱斯 (Bill Blythe) 是一位迷人的旅行推销员，他永远不会认识他。
When Virginia was six months pregnant, her husband's car flipped over on a rain-slicked highway.
当维吉尼亚怀孕六个月时，她丈夫的汽车在被雨水打湿的高速公路上翻了。
The accident killed him.
这场事故杀死了他。
"My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people," Clinton would write, "If I did well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had."
“我的父亲给我留下了一种感觉，我必须为两个人而活，”克林顿写道，“如果我做得足够好，我可以以某种方式弥补他本应拥有的生活。”
David Maraniss, Writer: I think that the notion of the fleeting nature of life was one of the currents of Bill Clinton's ambition from the very beginning.
大卫·马拉尼斯，作家：我认为生命转瞬即逝的观念从一开始就是比尔·克林顿的野心之一。
He would intensely focus on how quickly life could go.
他会全神贯注于生活能过得有多快。
And I think that much of his urgency comes from that sensibility.
我认为他的紧迫感很大程度上来自于这种敏感性。
Narrator: Four years after her husband's death, Virginia married a raffish Buick salesman named Roger Clinton.
旁白：丈夫去世四年后，弗吉尼亚与一位名叫罗杰·克林顿的别克推销员结婚。
The couple moved with six-year-old Billy to Roger's hometown -- Hot Springs, Arkansas.
这对夫妇带着六岁的比利搬到了罗杰的家乡——阿肯色州温泉城。
If Hope was a sleepy Baptist town, Hot Springs was the opposite: a rollicking resort, attracting people from across the country to its mineral pools and gambling parlors.
如果说霍普是一个沉睡的浸信会小镇，那么温泉城则恰恰相反：一个热闹的度假胜地，吸引着来自全国各地的人们来到这里的矿泉池和赌场。
Virginia took to Hot Springs as if she'd been born to it.
弗吉尼亚对温泉城情有独钟，就好像她生来就喜欢这里一样。
Carolyn Staley, Friend: She was exuberant in her living, she pushed the envelope a little bit in her dramatic make-up and hairstyles and jewelry.
卡罗琳·斯塔利（Carolyn Staley），朋友：她的生活充满活力，她戏剧性的化妆、发型和珠宝都有点挑战极限。
She was fun!
她很有趣！
Narrator: Outwardly, Clinton enjoyed a happy small town American childhood.
旁白：表面上看，克林顿在美国小镇度过了快乐的童年。
But inside his gabled house on Park Avenue, he was leading a far more turbulent life.
但在他位于公园大道的山墙房子里，他过着更加动荡的生活。
His parents' relationship had deteriorated into serial affairs, and screaming matches that reverberated through the thin walls.
他父母的关系已经恶化为一系列的风流韵事，尖叫声在薄薄的墙壁中回荡。
As Roger Clinton descended into alcoholism, he grew more and more violent, beating Virginia in front of Bill and young Roger, Jr.
随着罗杰·克林顿陷入酗酒，他变得越来越暴力，在比尔和年轻的小罗杰面前殴打弗吉尼亚。
My life was "full of uncertainty and anger," Clinton would recall, "and a dread of ever-looming violence."
克林顿回忆道，我的生活“充满了不确定性和愤怒，以及对不断迫近的暴力的恐惧”。
David Maraniss, Writer: Most of his buddies had no clue.
大卫·马拉尼斯（David Maraniss），作家：他的大多数朋友都不知道。
They saw Bill Clinton as a happy-go-lucky guy.
他们认为比尔·克林顿是一个无忧无虑的人。
They didn't see the turmoil that was raging within that family.
他们没有看到那个家庭内部正在肆虐的动荡。
Joe Purvis, Friend: As a child of an alcoholic, there's a part of your world that is so shaken, that's filled with so much pain, that you don't want to share it with anybody.
乔·普维斯（Joe Purvis），朋友：作为一个酗酒者的孩子，你世界的一部分受到了如此的震动，充满了如此多的痛苦，以至于你不想与任何人分享。
If you wallow in it, then you're dealing with self-pity and you ruin yourself.
如果你沉迷其中，那么你就是在自怜，你会毁了自己。
The only way you can really deal with it is to block it off.
你真正能处理它的唯一方法就是阻止它。
Narrator: Bill Clinton became adept at keeping secrets, living, he remembered, 'an external life that takes its natural course and an internal life where the secrets are hidden.
旁白：比尔·克林顿变得善于保守秘密，他回忆道，“外在生活顺其自然，内在生活则隐藏着秘密”。
No one can live parallel lives with complete success.'
没有人能够完全成功地过着平行的生活。”
Nigel Hamilton, Writer: He decided to pretend it didn't exist.
奈杰尔·汉密尔顿，作家：他决定假装它不存在。
To pretend that everything was all right.
假装一切都好。
To go to church, you know, with his bible under his arm, and be sunny and energetic, and positive, and simply not accept it.
去教堂，你知道，腋下夹着圣经，阳光明媚、精力充沛、积极向上，只是不接受而已。
Narrator: With fierce enthusiasm, Clinton threw himself into his life outside his home.
旁白：克林顿怀着极大的热情投入到了家庭以外的生活中。
Hot Springs High had never seen anything like him: National merit scholar semi-finalist, first chair in the Arkansas State Band, student government leader.
温泉高中从未见过像他这样的人：全国优秀学者半决赛选手、阿肯色州乐队第一主席、学生会领袖。
By his senior year, he held so many honors that the principal barred him from running for class president.
到了高四那年，他获得了如此多的荣誉，以至于校长禁止他竞选班长。
William Chafe, Historian: Bill Clinton always found himself trying to redeem and rescue his family.
威廉·查夫（William Chafe），历史学家：比尔·克林顿总是发现自己在努力拯救和拯救他的家人。
Part of doing that is to sort of put yourself in the position of rescuing not just your family, but everybody, including yourself, by doing good.
这样做的一部分是通过做好事，让自己不仅可以拯救家人，还可以拯救每个人，包括你自己。
Narrator: By the early 1960s, Bill Clinton's generation had a new hero.
旁白：到了 20 世纪 60 年代初，比尔·克林顿这一代有了一位新英雄。
President John F.
总统约翰·F.
Kennedy's youth and charisma reached all the way to Arkansas and sparked the teenager's idealism with a call to public service.
肯尼迪的青春和魅力一路传到了阿肯色州，并通过呼吁公共服务激发了这位少年的理想主义。
John F.
约翰·F.
Kennedy (archival): Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
肯尼迪（档案）：不要问你的国家能为你做什么，而要问你能为你的国家做什么。
Carolyn Staley, Friend: We loved living in a time when JFK was president.
卡罗琳·斯塔利（Carolyn Staley），朋友：我们喜欢生活在肯尼迪担任总统的时代。
He was so young, he made public service seem accessible so if we had ever entertained thoughts of a life in public service he made it seem all the more possible.
他是如此年轻，他让公共服务变得触手可及，所以如果我们曾经想过从事公共服务生活，他会让这一切看起来更有可能。
Narrator: In 1963, Bill Clinton travelled to Washington as a delegate to Boys Nation, a program for aspiring future leaders.
旁白：1963 年，比尔·克林顿作为“男孩国家”的代表前往华盛顿，该计划是一个针对有抱负的未来领导人的计划。
During a visit to the White House, he rushed to the front of the line to shake his idol's hand.
在访问白宫期间，他冲到队伍前面与偶像握手。
Carolyn Staley, Friend: It's a moment that is just emblazoned in your mind.
卡罗琳·斯塔利（Carolyn Staley），朋友：这是一个铭刻在你脑海中的时刻。
To have a President of the United States look you in the eye, take your hand, speak to you -- the world stops.
如果有一位美国总统看着你的眼睛，握住你的手，对你说话——世界就停止了。
Bill said to me, "We will never forget that, will we?
比尔对我说：“我们永远不会忘记这一点，不是吗？
We will never forget that."
我们永远不会忘记这一点。”
Narrator: A decade later, after leaving Arkansas to study at Georgetown, Oxford, and Yale, Clinton returned home to begin his own long march to the White House.
旁白：十年后，克林顿离开阿肯色州，在乔治敦大学、牛津大学和耶鲁大学学习后，回到家乡，开始了自己的白宫长征。
David Maraniss, Writer: Bill Clinton went back to Arkansas for politics, pure and simple.
大卫·马拉尼斯，作家：比尔·克林顿回到阿肯色州是为了政治，纯粹而简单。
He knew the people there, and he was of that place.
他认识那里的人，他也是那个地方的人。
He could see his political future.
他可以看到自己的政治前途。
And that he was destined for something much larger than Hot Springs or Arkansas.
他注定要去比温泉城或阿肯色州更大的地方。
Narrator: In his first political race at age 28, Clinton took on a Conservative Republican Congressman named John Paul Hammerschmidt.
旁白：在 28 岁那年的第一次政治竞选中，克林顿与一位名叫约翰·保罗·哈默施密特的保守共和党国会议员展开了较量。
Bill Clinton (archival): I know that I can make a big difference for our district and for our people if I can have the opportunity to serve them in Congress.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我知道，如果我有机会在国会为我们的选区和人民服务，我就能为他们带来巨大的改变。
Paul Fray, Campaign Manager: People are saying, 'Hey, he's smart, but why does this guy want to be a Congressman?
保罗·弗雷（Paul Fray），竞选经理：人们说，‘嘿，他很聪明，但是为什么这个人想成为国会议员呢？
He's too young, he hasn't been elected to anything, he doesn't know what he's really doing.'
他太年轻了，他还没有当选过任何职务，他不知道自己真正在做什么。”
Narrator: It wasn't just his inexperience; many worried that in his time away, Clinton had lost touch with Arkansas and its values.
旁白：这不仅仅是他缺乏经验；而是他缺乏经验。许多人担心克林顿在离开期间与阿肯色州及其价值观失去了联系。
John Brummett, Journalist: There always has been with him a suspicion that this guy is not to be trusted.
约翰·布鲁米特（John Brummett），记者：他一直怀疑这个人不值得信任。
This guy's too liberal for us.
这家伙对我们来说太自由了。
And he encountered that.
而他也遇到了这样的情况。
But, initially in Arkansas he just totally overpowered it with his charm, with his political skill, with his ability to connect and relate.
但是，最初在阿肯色州，他凭借自己的魅力、政治技巧以及沟通和联系的能力完全压倒了它。
In this small state, politics is art and it's entertainment.
在这个小州，政治是艺术，也是娱乐。
And he was the best we had seen.
他是我们见过的最好的。
Man singing (archival): There's a fellow here been talking some, about being our next Congressman, he's a new man Bill Clinton is his name...
男子歌唱（档案）：这里有一个人一直在谈论成为我们的下一任国会议员，他是一个新人，比尔·克林顿是他的名字......
Narrator: For weeks on end, Clinton drove the back roads of northwest Arkansas sleeping on couches, waking up at dawn to catch the shift-change at nearby factories.
旁白：连续几个星期，克林顿开车在阿肯色州西北部的小路上睡觉，睡在沙发上，黎明时分醒来，赶去附近工厂换班。
Man singing (archival): Bill Clinton's ready, he's fed up too.
男子唱歌（档案）：比尔·克林顿已经准备好了，他也受够了。
He's a lot like me, he's a lot like you.
他很像我，也很像你。
Bill Clinton wants....
比尔·克林顿想要……
Bobby Roberts, Campaign Aide: He's got an extra battery.
鲍比·罗伯茨，竞选助手：他有一块额外的电池。
After about four or five days with him, I was ready to go home.
和他在一起大约四五天后，我准备回家了。
I had all the fun I could stand and he would just keep going.
我享受了我能忍受的所有乐趣，而他会继续前进。
We might stop at a service station or a restaurant or whatever -- he would want to meet the cooks, he would go back in the kitchen and meet everybody back there.
我们可能会在服务站或餐馆或其他地方停下来——他会想见见厨师，他会回到厨房和那里的每个人见面。
He would not leave a place, I think, where he had not met everyone.
我想，他不会离开一个他没有见过每个人的地方。
Carol Willis, Political Advisor: Sometimes people say, "Won't this guy go home?" Because we do, we don't want to embarrass him by just leaving.
卡罗尔·威利斯，政治顾问：有时人们会说，“这家伙不回家吗？”因为我们这样做，所以我们不想因为离开而让他难堪。
But he won't leave!
但他不会离开！
Man singing (archival): Bill Clinton's ready, he's fed up too.
男子唱歌（档案）：比尔·克林顿已经准备好了，他也受够了。
He's a lot like me, he's a lot like you.
他很像我，也很像你。
Bill Clinton wants to get things done, so we're going to send him to Washington.
比尔·克林顿想要把事情做好，所以我们要派他去华盛顿。
Make Bill a U.S. Congressman, got to get those food prices down.
让比尔成为美国国会议员，必须降低食品价格。
You remember, and vote for that.
你记得，并投票支持。
Narrator: As Bill Clinton campaigned for Congress, Hillary Rodham left her high-powered job in Washington and decided to follow him to Arkansas.
旁白：比尔·克林顿竞选国会议员时，希拉里·罗德姆辞去了华盛顿的高位职位，决定追随他前往阿肯色州。
Gail Sheehy, Writer: She could have had lots of jobs in Washington instead she elects to go, not even to Little Rock, but Fayetteville, Arkansas?
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：她本可以在华盛顿找到很多工作，但她选择去了，甚至不是小石城，而是阿肯色州的费耶特维尔？
You know, her friends thought she was absolutely mad, 'he's just a country lawyer, what do you see in him?'
你知道，她的朋友们认为她完全疯了，“他只是一个乡村律师，你在他身上看到了什么？”
Narrator: When Hillary arrived in Arkansas -- a Chicago-born feminist in the Deep South -- she felt unwelcomed by Bill's campaign staff.
旁白：当希拉里——一位出生于芝加哥的南方腹地的女权主义者——抵达阿肯色州时，她感到比尔的竞选工作人员不欢迎她。
Max Brantley, Journalist: She had big glasses and curly hair, she had a Midwestern accent.
马克斯·布兰特利（Max Brantley），记者：她戴着大眼镜，卷发，有中西部口音。
She just seemed different.
她只是看起来不一样了。
There was just something about her that put people off.
她身上有一种让人望而却步的东西。
Paul Fray, Campaign Manager: I said 'Look, you know, we got enough problems here as it is.' She comes in here and I say, 'I don't mind her being on the inside doing everything she does cause she's sharp as a tack,' but I said 'Taking her out on the road,' I said 'That's going to create a little bit of a question.' And he said 'Why?' And I said, 'Well she's got outcroppings of where she grew up in Chicago and her parents all came from Pennsylvania.' I said, 'You know, she's never really overcome all of that to get involved in what we're doing here in Arkansas.'
保罗·弗雷（Paul Fray），竞选经理：我说，“看，你知道，我们这里的问题已经够多了。”她来到这里，我说，‘我不介意她在里面做她所做的一切，因为她很敏锐，’但我说‘带她出去路上’，我说‘这会产生一点问题。’他说：“为什么？”我说，“嗯，她有她在芝加哥长大的地方的露头，她的父母都来自宾夕法尼亚州。”我说，‘你知道，她从来没有真正克服所有这些困难来参与我们在阿肯色州所做的事情。’
Narrator: To make matters worse, Hillary had to deal with Bill's constant womanizing.
旁白：更糟糕的是，希拉里还得应对比尔不断沉迷于女色的问题。
Paul Fray, Campaign Manager: I mean you got to understand at one time there was at least 25 women per day coming through there trying to find him, and I'd tell them he's out on the road, you know and they'd get out the door, but lord it was bad.
Paul Fray，竞选经理：我的意思是，你必须明白，每天至少有 25 名女性经过那里试图找到他，我会告诉他们他在路上，你知道，他们会出门，但天哪，这很糟糕。
Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
不好，不好，不好，不好，不好。
Marla Crider, Campaign Aide: He draws women in and they are literally mesmerized by this man.
玛拉·克里德（Marla Crider），竞选助手：他吸引了女性，她们真的被这个男人迷住了。
It was absolutely like fly to honey.
这绝对就像飞向蜂蜜一样。
And he needed that.
他需要那个。
He needed that kind of adoration.
他需要那种崇拜。
I don't think there's any question that Hillary was hurt, whether it was me or anyone else.
我认为毫无疑问希拉里受到了伤害，无论是我还是其他人。
Narrator: Despite Bill's infidelities, Hillary decided to stay in Arkansas and dedicate herself to their mutual goals.
旁白：尽管比尔不忠，希拉里还是决定留在阿肯色州并致力于他们的共同目标。
William Chafe, Historian: A common sense of commitment to social justice, of working on improving the lives of families, of being concerned about the disenfranchised.
历史学家威廉·查夫（William Chafe）：对社会正义的承诺、致力于改善家庭的生活、关注被剥夺权利的人的共同意识。
But ultimately all along, thinking about going to the top.
但最终还是想着要登上顶峰。
That there's no question that there's a sense of the possibilities being unlimited.
毫无疑问，有一种无限的可能性的感觉。
The highest you can achieve, obviously, is to be president and first lady.
显然，你能达到的最高目标就是成为总统和第一夫人。
Narrator: On October 11, 1975 the couple wed in a simple ceremony in their living room.
旁白：1975年10月11日，这对夫妇在自家客厅举行了简单的婚礼。
John Harris, Journalist: Most of the people I know who have been around the Clintons for a long time come to the conclusion that I've come to: The two of them are in love.
记者约翰·哈里斯：我认识的长期与克林顿夫妇相处的大多数人都得出了我得出的结论：他们两个相爱了。
Walter Lippmann, the great columnist, said 'Love endures when the lovers love not just each other, but love many things together.' That, I think, is the essence of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
伟大的专栏作家沃尔特·李普曼（Walter Lippmann）说过：“当恋人不仅彼此相爱，而且共同热爱许多事物时，爱情就会持久。”我认为，这就是比尔·克林顿和希拉里·克林顿的本质。
They had a common love, which is for politics, for the game.
他们有一个共同的爱好，那就是对政治、对游戏。
They love it.
他们喜欢它。
It's their life.
这是他们的生活。
Narrator: With Hillary firmly behind him, there was no stopping Bill Clinton.
旁白：有希拉里的坚定支持，比尔·克林顿是无法阻挡的。
Though he narrowly lost his Congressional bid, he had positioned himself as a rising star.
尽管他以微弱优势落败国会竞选，但他已将自己定位为一颗冉冉升起的新星。
David Maraniss, Writer: The morning after he lost that Congressional race in 1974 he was out in the town square, shaking hands again.
作家戴维·马拉尼斯 (David Maraniss)：1974 年国会竞选失败后的第二天早上，他在城镇广场上再次握手。
Every Democratic figure in the state knew that he was the next big figure in Arkansas politics.
该州的每个民主党人物都知道他是阿肯色州政坛的下一个重要人物。
Narrator: Two years later, he was easily elected Attorney General.
旁白：两年后，他轻松当选司法部长。
Two years after that, he ran for Governor, brimming with youthful confidence and ambition.
两年后，他满怀青春的自信和雄心，竞选州长。
Bill Clinton (archival): I'm Bill Clinton and one of the reasons I want to be governor is to make sure that every child in this State has a chance to go to kindergarten.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我是比尔·克林顿，我想成为州长的原因之一是确保这个州的每个孩子都有机会上幼儿园。
Narrator: Clinton won with more than 60% of the vote.
旁白：克林顿以超过60%的选票获胜。
Bill Clinton (archival): I believe that if you and I together can practice what we preach about government, I know that you and I together want to do what is right for our people...
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我相信，如果你和我一起能够实践我们所宣扬的政府理念，我知道你和我一起想要为我们的人民做正确的事情......
Narrator: In the late 1970s, most of Arkansas was poor and undeveloped.
旁白：20世纪70年代末，阿肯色州大部分地区贫穷且不发达。
Bill Clinton was determined to turn that around.
比尔·克林顿决心扭转这一局面。
David Maraniss, Writer: He did love his state.
大卫·马拉尼斯（David Maraniss），作家：他确实热爱他的州。
And he knew, growing up there, how many troubles it had.
他知道，在那里长大，那里有多少麻烦。
The saying in Arkansas was, 'Thank God for Mississippi.' Because Mississippi ranked 50th in everything, and Arkansas 49th.
阿肯色州有句俗话：“感谢上帝赐予密西西比州。”因为密西西比州各项指标排名第 50，阿肯色州排名第 49。
Ernie Dumas, Journalist: Not much had been done for 150 years in Arkansas.
厄尼·杜马斯 (Ernie Dumas)，记者：150 年来，阿肯色州并没有做多少事情。
Spending on education, per capita income, our highway system was one of the worst in the country.
我们的教育支出、人均收入和高速公路系统是全国最差的之一。
So Bill Clinton comes in and he has all these ideas.
所以比尔·克林顿进来了，他有所有这些想法。
He's gonna transform the state at once.
他将立即改变这个国家。
Narrator: Feeling, as he recalled, 'an urgent sense to do everything,' Clinton and his staff took on entrenched interests in Arkansas.
旁白：正如他回忆的那样，克林顿和他的工作人员感到“有一种要做一切事情的紧迫感”，因此开始关注阿肯色州根深蒂固的利益。
He created new regulations, revamped rural health care, reorganized school districts, and took on utilities.
他制定了新的法规，改革了农村医疗保健，重组了学区，并接管了公用事业。
Max Brantley, Journalist: They were young and they were full of themselves, and they thought they could change the world.
马克斯·布兰特利（Max Brantley），记者：他们很年轻，充满了自我，他们认为自己可以改变世界。
Well you know, and they could stop clear-cutting of timber, and clean up poultry practices and those sorts of things.
嗯，你知道，他们可以停止砍伐木材，清理家禽养殖等等。
And that was, that was perhaps a little overly optimistic.
那就是，这也许有点过于乐观了。
Narrator: Most ambitious of all was a project to fix Arkansas roads.
旁白：其中最雄心勃勃的是修复阿肯色州道路的项目。
It was paid for by a steep hike in taxes on car licenses and was a political disaster.
这是通过大幅提高汽车牌照税来支付的，这是一场政治灾难。
Ernie Dumas, Journalist: And so every month 1/12 of the people of Arkansas went down to the courthouse to get their, renew their license plates for the following year and instead of being $19 it was $36.
Ernie Dumas，记者：所以每个月 1/12 的阿肯色州人都会去法院领取、更新下一年的车牌，价格不再是 19 美元，而是 36 美元。
That became extremely unpopular, and he realized that late in the election of 1980, he's go early in the morning to a factory gate and all these guys refused to shake his hand and they said "no you raised my truck tag and I'm not going to vote for you."
这变得非常不受欢迎，他意识到，在 1980 年选举后期，他一大早走到一家工厂门口，所有这些人都拒绝与他握手，他们说“不，你举起了我的卡车标签，我不会投票给你。”
Narrator: After one term, Clinton ran for reelection against an obscure Republican businessman named Frank White, who pounded away at Clinton's youth and arrogance.
旁白：一届任期结束后，克林顿竞选连任，对手是一位名叫弗兰克·怀特的不起眼的共和党商人，后者痛斥克林顿的年轻和傲慢。
Frank White (archival): He tells you he can create jobs; he's never had a job!
弗兰克·怀特（档案）：他告诉你他可以创造就业机会；他告诉你他可以创造就业机会。他从来没有工作过！
Narrator: To Clinton's dismay, White's tactic worked.
旁白：令克林顿沮丧的是，怀特的策略奏效了。
Bill Clinton (archival): I regret that I will not have two more years to serve as Governor because I have loved it.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我很遗憾我不能再担任州长两年了，因为我很喜欢它。
I have probably loved it as much as any person who's ever held this office.
我可能和任何担任过这个职位的人一样喜欢它。
Narrator: Since he was a teenager, Bill Clinton had prepared himself to be president.
旁白：比尔·克林顿从十几岁起就为成为总统做好了准备。
Now, just 34, with his new baby Chelsea to support, he feared his political career might already be over.
现在，年仅 34 岁的他要抚养刚出生的孩子切尔西，他担心自己的政治生涯可能已经结束。
John Brummett, Journalist: He took it incredibly hard.
约翰·布鲁梅特（John Brummett），记者：他对此感到非常艰难。
He knew those folks and he thought they loved him and it turned out they didn't.
他认识那些人，他以为他们爱他，但事实证明他们并不爱他。
He was totally out of sorts.
他完全不舒服。
And when you see him, he wants to talk about one thing.
当你看到他时，他想谈谈一件事。
'What'd I do wrong?' That's...
“我做错了什么？”那是...
you see him at the Forest Height's track where he's jogging.
你会看到他在森林高地的跑道上慢跑。
'Hey, lemme talk to you.
‘嘿，让我跟你谈谈。
What did I do wrong?' See him at the aisle in the grocery store, 'What'd I do wrong?' One day, I'm driving to the state capitol back to the Arkansas Gazette to pass him walking along the street, and I rolled down the window, and I said, 'Where you going?' And he said, 'Car is in the shop down here at Bale Chevrolet' and I said, 'I'll give you a ride.' He hops in.
我做错了什么？在杂货店的过道上看到他，“我做错了什么？”有一天，我开车去州议会大厦，回到《阿肯色州公报》，与他在街上行走时擦身而过，我摇下车窗，问道：“你要去哪里？”他说，“车就在贝尔雪佛兰店里”，我说，“我送你一程。”他跳了进去。
We drive three blocks, but then we just park in front of there and we talk for 45 minutes, about what?
我们开车三个街区，然后就停在前面，我们聊了 45 分钟，聊什么？
'What'd I do wrong?'
“我做错了什么？”
David Maraniss, Writer: Hillary was as devastated by that defeat as Bill was, and as determined to make amends and figure out a way back.
大卫·马拉尼斯（David Maraniss），作家：希拉里和比尔一样对那次失败感到震惊，并决心弥补并找到出路。
I mean, here she had devoted her life and given up a lot to go out to Arkansas for their rise together.
我的意思是，她在这里奉献了自己的一生，并放弃了很多，才来到阿肯色州，与他们一起崛起。
And at this very early age, it seemed like it was all vulnerable.
而且在这么小的年纪，似乎一切都很脆弱。
So she was not going to allow that to happen.
所以她不会允许这样的事情发生。
Narrator: Hlllary traded in her thick glasses for contact lenses and her unkempt hair for a fashionable blonde bob.
旁白：希拉里把厚厚的眼镜换成了隐形眼镜，把蓬乱的头发换成了时尚的金发鲍勃。
To quiet some of her critics, she took her husband's last name.
为了平息一些批评者的声音，她改用了丈夫的姓氏。
Hillary Clinton (archival): And just to put it to rest, I will forever be known as Hillary Rodham Clinton.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：为了让它平息，我将永远被称为希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿。
Narrator: Frustrated by what she regarded as poor advice, she took over her husband's reelection campaign.
旁白：她对自己认为糟糕的建议感到沮丧，于是接管了丈夫的连任竞选活动。
Ernie Dumas, Journalist: Hillary was the mastermind of that comeback.
厄尼·杜马斯（Ernie Dumas），记者：希拉里是这次东山再起的策划者。
Most of his people advised him at the time, 'Don't run again, wait two years.' Hillary says, 'You can come back and you can do it again.' He didn't trust himself as much as he trusted her.
当时他的大多数人都建议他，“别再竞选了，等两年。”希拉里说：“你可以回来，你可以再做一次。”他不像相信她那样相信自己。
Narrator: Determined never to lose again, Clinton studied the results of his defeat precinct by precinct.
旁白：克林顿决心不再失败，他逐个选区研究了他失败的结果。
He resolved to win back every single one.
他决心赢回每一个人。
John Brummett, Journalist: I remember one day, we leave Fayetteville in a little plane and a storm is coming in.
记者约翰·布鲁梅特：我记得有一天，我们乘坐一架小飞机离开费耶特维尔，一场暴风雨即将来临。
And he said, 'Fly fast,' cause we can see the cloud coming behind us.
他说，“飞快点”，因为我们可以看到身后的云彩。
By the time we get 20 minutes away to the mountain town of Harrison, the pilot says, 'Can't put it down.
当我们距离山城哈里森还有 20 分钟路程时，飞行员说：“爱不释手。”
The fog is too thick.' 'Got to,' says Clinton, 'I understand from the office that I got 150 people there.
雾太浓了。” “必须，”克林顿说，“我从办公室了解到，我那里有 150 名员工。”
I've got a chance to get some votes here.' I'm sitting across from him thinking, 'This is it.
我有机会在这里获得一些选票。我坐在他对面，心想：‘就是这样了。
I'm gonna die, and I'm gonna be the last paragraph of the obituary, after all about him.' He says, 'This is gonna get hairy.
我会死，我会成为讣告的最后一段，毕竟是关于他的。”他说，‘这会变得毛茸茸的。
I'm going to sleep.' And he leans back and appears to go to sleep, and the third time we made it.
我要去睡觉。'他向后靠去，似乎睡着了，这是我们第三次成功了。
And before the plane stops taxing, he opens the door and jumps out, cause he's already an hour late.
在飞机停止运行之前，他打开门跳了出去，因为他已经晚点了一个小时。
That's madness.
这太疯狂了。
Newscaster (archival): The crowd has waited, they're ready to celebrate.
新闻播音员（档案）：人群已经等待，他们准备庆祝。
It's been a long two years.
已经过去了漫长的两年。
Bill Clinton (archival): If victory is ours tonight I have been given something that few people get in life: a second chance to serve the people of Arkansas.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：如果今晚胜利属于我们，我就得到了一生中很少有人能得到的东西：为阿肯色州人民服务的第二次机会。
Narrator: Clinton had learned from his mistakes.
旁白：克林顿从错误中吸取了教训。
Rather than take on every problem in Arkansas in his second term, he narrowed his focus to a single issue that he knew would serve the people and his political future: education.
他没有在第二个任期内解决阿肯色州的所有问题，而是将注意力集中在一个他知道将为人民和他的政治未来服务的问题上：教育。
Bill Clinton (archival): I still believe that until we have a system which guarantees competence in basic learning skills we will never be able to prepare our people for higher level of achievements, I don't care what else we do.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我仍然相信，除非我们拥有一个保证基本学习技能能力的体系，否则我们永远无法让我们的人民为取得更高水平的成就做好准备，我不在乎我们还能做什么。
John Brummett, Journalist: It's a winning issue.
约翰·布鲁梅特（John Brummett），记者：这是一个成功的问题。
The people are willing to go that way.
人们愿意走这条路。
And it's something we can get done if we focus on that.
如果我们专注于此，我们就能完成这件事。
He has settled on the strategy.
他已经确定了策略。
Now, who's the right person?
现在，谁是合适的人？
Who's my point person?
谁是我的重点人物？
Hillary.
希拉里。
Hillary Clinton (archival): We know it's a huge task, but we're very optimistic that we're going to be able to make a substantial improvement in what our students receive.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：我们知道这是一项艰巨的任务，但我们非常乐观地认为我们将能够大幅改善学生的学习成绩。
Max Brantley, Journalist: She went from town to town all over Arkansas, and met with civic groups and PTAs and school groups, and talked about what they wanted to do about improving schools in Arkansas.
马克斯·布兰特利（Max Brantley），记者：她从阿肯色州的一个城镇到另一个城镇，会见了民间团体、家长教师协会和学校团体，并讨论了他们想为改善阿肯色州的学校做些什么。
By the time it was over, I think she was one of the most popular people in the state.
当一切结束时，我认为她是该州最受欢迎的人之一。
Ernie Dumas, Journalist: One legislator popped up at a hearing one day and said 'We elected the wrong Clinton.'
厄尼·杜马斯（Ernie Dumas），记者：有一天，一位立法者突然出现在一场听证会上，他说“我们选错了克林顿”。
Bobby Roberts, Campaign Aide: It just resurrected him.
鲍比·罗伯茨（Bobby Roberts），竞选助手：这让他复活了。
He needed a success and it made him the education governor at a time when education was a vital issue in the country, and he was able to use that to open all kinds of doors for him.
他需要成功，这使他成为教育州长，当时教育是该国的一个至关重要的问题，他能够利用这一点为他打开各种大门。
Narrator: Over the next few years, Clinton began to catch the attention of the media and national Democratic leaders desperate to find a candidate who could loosen Republicans' grip on the Presidency.
旁白：在接下来的几年里，克林顿开始引起媒体和全国民主党领导人的关注，他们迫切希望找到一位可以放松共和党对总统职位的候选人。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: : He would spend a huge amount of time meeting with impressing and charming his fellow Governors and other elected officials, and after a day and a night with him talking about philosophy and politics, you came away with the impression this was the smartest guy in the class, and that essentially if you were going to have a President, it probably should be this guy.
迪克·莫里斯（Dick Morris），政治顾问：他会花大量的时间与他的州长同事和其他民选官员见面，给他留下深刻的印象和魅力，在与他谈论哲学和政治一天一夜之后，你会得到这样的印象：他是班上最聪明的人，而且基本上，如果你要选出一位总统，那可能就应该是这个人。
Narrator: In 1987, during his fourth term as Arkansas governor, Bill Clinton was finally ready to leap onto the national stage with a long-shot run for the presidency.
旁白：1987年，在担任阿肯色州州长的第四个任期内，比尔·克林顿终于准备好登上国家舞台，竞选总统。
In July, he summoned the national media to Little Rock for the big announcement.
7月，他召集全国媒体到小石城宣布这一重大消息。
Then, abruptly, he sent them home with hardly an explanation.
然后，他突然把他们送回家，几乎没有任何解释。
Bill Clinton (archival): I need some family time, I need some personal time.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我需要一些家庭时间，我需要一些个人时间。
Narrator: Behind the scenes, an old weakness had come back to haunt him.
旁白：在幕后，一个古老的弱点再次困扰着他。
Gail Sheehy, Writer: Just the day before the press conference when he was going to announce that he was going to run, Betsey Wright, his ferociously protective campaign manager, sat him down with a list of names of women and went through one after the other: how many times, where did you meet her, how likely is she to talk?
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：就在新闻发布会的前一天，当他准备宣布参选时，他的竞选经理贝特西·赖特（Betsey Wright）极力保护他，让他坐下来，拿着一份女性名单，一个接一个地问：有多少次，你在哪里遇见她的，她说话的可能性有多大？
Nigel Hamilton, Writer: For each name he said, 'Oh, she'll never say anything.' And Betsey Wright said, 'But you don't know that.
奈杰尔·汉密尔顿，作家：对于每个名字，他都说，“哦，她永远不会说什么。”贝西·赖特说：“但你不知道这一点。”
You don't understand on a national scale, people will investigate -- your opponents will investigate it.
你不明白在全国范围内，人们会调查——你的对手会调查它。
The media will investigate it.
媒体将对此进行调查。
And the problem is, we're not just talking about you.
问题是，我们谈论的不仅仅是你。
We're talking about your wife, Hillary; we're talking about your child, Chelsea.' She said, 'I don't think you can run.'
我们正在谈论你的妻子希拉里；我们正在谈论你的孩子，切尔西。”她说：“我认为你跑不了。”
Betsey Wright, Chief of Staff: I mean, it just became clear that night it was not the time for him to do it.
贝西·赖特（Betsey Wright），参谋长：我的意思是，那天晚上就很明显，现在不是他这样做的时候。
It just was not the time.
只是时机未到。
He felt for quite a while that, that probably was the last real chance he would ever have to run for president.
在很长一段时间里，他都觉得这可能是他竞选总统的最后一次真正机会。
That was it, it was over.
就这样，一切都结束了。
You know, where would he go now that he wasn't gonna run for president?
你知道，既然他不竞选总统了，他会去哪里？
What could he do in the future?
未来他能做什么？
I think that over the next few months that became a tough time for them.
我认为接下来的几个月对他们来说是一段艰难的时期。
Narrator: With Hillary and Bill's mutual dream in tatters thanks to his extra-marital affairs, their relationship hit rock bottom.
旁白：希拉里和比尔的共同梦想因比尔的婚外情而破灭，他们的关系跌入谷底。
Gail Sheehy, Writer: It did put into question their whole marriage.
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：这确实让他们的整个婚姻受到质疑。
And it was very unnerving to Hillary because she had put everything on the line for him to pursue the presidency, and if he had too much of a record of reckless behavior to do that, than what had she been doing for the last 15 years?
这让希拉里感到非常不安，因为她为希拉里投入了一切以争取总统职位，如果他有太多鲁莽行为的记录而无法做到这一点，那么她在过去 15 年里一直在做什么呢？
Man (archival): It is now time to place the name in nomination for President of the United States, Michael Dukakis.
曼（档案）：现在是时候提名美国总统迈克尔·杜卡基斯了。
Narrator: Just when it seemed things couldn't get worse, Clinton was asked to give the speech nominating Michael Dukakis at the 1988 Democratic convention.
旁白：就在事情似乎不能变得更糟的时候，克林顿被要求在 1988 年民主党全国代表大会上发表提名迈克尔·杜卡基斯的演讲。
Bill Clinton (archival): I'm honored to be here tonight to nominate my friend Michael Dukakis for President of the United States.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：今晚我很荣幸能够提名我的朋友迈克尔·杜卡基斯竞选美国总统。
Harry Thomason, Friend: That piece was supposed to be the set piece to launch him on the national stage and it turned out to be something that almost killed his career before it got started.
哈里·托马森（Harry Thomason），朋友：那部作品本来应该是让他登上全国舞台的定点作品，但结果却在它开始之前就差点毁掉了他的职业生涯。
Bill Clinton (archival): I'd like to talk a little about Mike Dukakis, the man....
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我想谈谈迈克·杜卡基斯，这个人......
Bill Clinton (archival): Mike's old fashioned, all right.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：迈克很老式，好吧。
He's the kind of man who plays it straight, who keeps his word.
他是那种行事正直、信守诺言的人。
Carol Willis, Political Advisor: The crowd was just getting restless.
卡罗尔·威利斯，政治顾问：人群变得焦躁不安。
And we said, 'Oh, man, we dead.' Right?
我们说，‘哦，伙计，我们死定了。’正确的？
He is going by the script that the Dukakis folks has approved.
他正在按照杜卡基斯人批准的剧本进行。
And he has to carry it out.
他必须执行它。
Bill Clinton (archival): Now, I want you all to calm down so I can tell the rest of the country why they should want Mike.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：现在，我希望你们都冷静下来，这样我就可以告诉全国其他人为什么他们应该想要迈克。
Max Brantley, Journalist: Of course, the famous thing is when he said "in conclusion..." he got a round of applause, finally.
马克斯·布兰特利（Max Brantley），记者：当然，著名的事情是当他说“结论是……”时，他终于获得了热烈的掌声。
Harry Thomason, Friend: Linda my wife and I are at our house and we're looking on in disbelief.
哈里·托马森（Harry Thomason），朋友：琳达，我的妻子和我正在家里，我们难以置信地看着。
Sometime in the wee hours Linda wakes me up, and she says 'Look, he's got to go on the Carson show to make this right.'
凌晨的某个时候，琳达把我叫醒，她说：“听着，他必须去参加卡森秀才能纠正这件事。”
Johnny Carson, (archival): My first question is, 'How are you?' Fine.
约翰尼·卡森（档案）：我的第一个问题是，“你好吗？”美好的。
I watched the speech and as a performer, I kind of felt for you in a way.
我观看了演讲，作为一名表演者，我在某种程度上对你有感觉。
What happened?
发生了什么？
Bill Clinton (archival): It just didn't work, I mean, I dunno, what can I tell you?
比尔·克林顿（档案）：它根本不起作用，我的意思是，我不知道，我能告诉你什么？
I really, my sole goal was achieved, however.
不过，我真的，我唯一的目标已经实现了。
I wanted so badly to make Michael Dukakis look great and I succeeded beyond my wildest expectations.
我非常想让迈克尔·杜卡基斯看起来很棒，而我的成功超出了我最疯狂的预期。
Harry Thomason, Friend: In an instant, he had turned it around, because the next day papers were full of good things and had kind things to say about him and so it erased almost all of it in one day and made him more visible than he had ever been.
哈利·托马森，朋友：一瞬间，他扭转了局面，因为第二天的报纸上充满了关于他的好话和好话，所以一天之内几乎所有的内容都被抹去了，让他比以往任何时候都更加引人注目。
Betsey Wright, Chief of Staff: He recovers better than anybody I have ever known.
贝西·赖特（Betsey Wright），幕僚长：他的恢复情况比我认识的任何人都好。
It's extraordinary.
这是非凡的。
I mean he can have horrible things crash down upon his head, but he crawls out from under it and keeps on going.
我的意思是，他可能会遇到可怕的事情砸在他的头上，但他会从它下面爬出来并继续前进。
Narrator: Bill and Hillary Clinton were back on the map.
旁白：比尔·克林顿和希拉里·克林顿又回到了人们的视野中。
Having faced a crossroads in their personal and political lives, they decided that whatever the costs, they would stay together and continue to pursue the goal they'd shared for 20 years: the presidency of the United States.
在面临个人和政治生活的十字路口后，他们决定无论付出什么代价，都要团结起来，继续追求 20 年来的共同目标：成为美国总统。
Four years later, in the snows of New Hampshire, Clinton held a comfortable lead in the Democratic primary.
四年后，在新罕布什尔州的大雪中，克林顿在民主党初选中轻松领先。
With the Gennifer Flowers scandal behind him, he was campaigning with the confidence of a front-runner.
随着詹妮弗·弗劳尔斯丑闻的结束，他以领先者的信心参加竞选。
'Unless a second shoe drops to indicate he's a liar,' declared the New York Times, 'Clinton has emerged more clearly as the Democrats' likely nominee.'
《纽约时报》宣称，“除非第二只鞋子掉下来表明他是个骗子，否则克林顿将更加明显地成为民主党可能的提名人。”
But just 12 days before the primary, the second shoe not only dropped, it nearly shattered the campaign.
但就在初选前 12 天，第二只鞋不仅掉了下来，还差点毁掉了竞选活动。
An old letter had surfaced, written by Bill Clinton more than 20 years earlier when facing the possibility of being drafted to fight in Vietnam.
一封旧信浮出水面，是比尔·克林顿 20 多年前在面临应征入伍参加越南战斗时写的。
In the letter, Clinton thanked his local ROTC commander, Col.
在信中，克林顿感谢了当地后备军官训练队指挥官、上校。
Eugene Holmes, for 'saving me from the draft.' Though he never took the ROTC deferment offered him by Col.
尤金·霍姆斯，“让我免于选秀”。尽管他从未接受过上校为他提供的后备军官训练队延期。
Holmes, Clinton's letter sounded to many like the confession of a draft dodger, and sparked a second round of attacks against his character.
霍姆斯先生，克林顿的信对许多人来说听起来就像是一个逃避兵役的人的自白，并引发了针对他性格的第二轮攻击。
James Carville, Campaign Strategist: The Friday story in the Wall Street Journal appears about the ROTC and Colonel Holmes and the polling numbers just started collapsing.
詹姆斯·卡维尔，竞选策略师：《华尔街日报》周五刊登了关于后备军官训练队和霍姆斯上校的报道，民意调查数字刚刚开始崩溃。
Reporter (archival): Governor, are you a draft dodger?
记者（档案）：州长，您是逃兵吗？
Did you burn your draft card?
你烧了你的征兵卡吗？
Bill Clinton (archival): No, I had a lock-cinch four-year deferment.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：不，我有四年的延期。
I gave it up after less than two months because I didn't think it was right.
不到两个月我就放弃了，因为我觉得不合适。
I went back into the draft, then this lottery came along.
我重新参加了选秀，然后抽签就出现了。
I got a high number and I wasn't called.
我的电话号码很高，但没有被叫到。
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: Stan Greenberg, our pollster, came in and said, 'The bottom's fallen out.' You know, we dropped 18 points in a weekend and we didn't have that many points to start with.
迪迪·迈尔斯，新闻秘书：斯坦·格林伯格，我们的民意调查专家，进来说，“底部已经塌陷了。”你知道，我们在一个周末丢了 18 分，而我们一开始并没有那么多分。
Bill Clinton (archival): Of course I've had some problems in the polls.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：当然，我在民意调查中遇到了一些问题。
All I've been asked about in the press are a woman I didn't sleep with and a draft I didn't dodge...
我在媒体上被问到的只是一个没有和我睡过的女人以及我没有回避的草案......
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: I think a lot of us thought, you know, 'This is over.' But I mean, Clinton, Clinton, he never flinched.
迪迪·迈尔斯，新闻秘书：我想我们很多人都想，“一切都结束了。”但我的意思是，克林顿，克林顿，他从不退缩。
You know, he willed himself back into that race.
你知道，他自愿回到那场比赛。
Narrator: For the next week, Clinton campaigned 20 hours a day, pushing himself to the limits of his endurance.
旁白：接下来的一周，克林顿每天竞选20个小时，把自己逼到了忍耐力的极限。
Bill Clinton (archival): I don't have another speech in me.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我没有其他演讲了。
I can barely talk.
我几乎无法说话。
We have to reject the political philosophy that gripped this country in the 1980s...
我们必须拒绝 20 世纪 80 年代主导这个国家的政治哲学......
Narrator: With only days left, his voice ragged, Clinton spoke at an Elks Lodge in Dover, New Hampshire.
旁白：只剩下几天的时间，克林顿的声音沙哑，在新罕布什尔州多佛尔的麋鹿小屋发表讲话。
Jonathan Alter, Journalist: These were Yankees who had been really beaten down by the loss of manufacturing jobs in that part of the country, and they didn't seem to have other opportunities.
乔纳森·阿尔特（Jonathan Alter），记者：这些洋基队确实因该地区制造业工作岗位的流失而遭受重创，而且他们似乎没有其他机会。
Bill Clinton (archival): I'll tell you something, I'm going to give you this election back, and if you'll give it to me I won't be like George Bush, I'll never forget who game me a second chance and I'll be there for you till the last dog dies.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我告诉你一件事，我会把这次选举还给你，如果你把选举还给我，我就不会像乔治·布什那样，我永远不会忘记谁给了我第二次机会，我会一直在你身边，直到最后一只狗死去。
And I want you to remember that.
我希望你记住这一点。
Jonathan Alter, Journalist: "I'll be there for you until the last dog dies." And we knew we'd seen one of those astonishing political performances.
记者乔纳森·阿尔特：“我会一直在你身边，直到最后一只狗死去。”我们知道我们已经看到了一场令人惊叹的政治表演。
Bill Clinton (archival): I don't promise you a miracle, I promise you a movement.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我不向你承诺奇迹，我向你承诺一场运动。
Lets take our country back, and see this country win again.
让我们夺回我们的国家，并看到这个国家再次获胜。
Thank you very much!
非常感谢！
And God bless you!
上帝保佑你！
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: How many second chances, right?
Dee Dee Myers，新闻秘书：有多少第二次机会，对吗？
How many second chances does any one person deserve?
一个人应该有多少次机会？
Clinton's view is as many second chances as a person is willing to try to take.
克林顿的观点是，一个人愿意尝试多少次第二次机会。
As many times as you fail, don't you deserve the chance to redeem yourself?
你失败了多少次，难道不应该有一次救赎自己的机会吗？
Uh, isn't history loaded with people who have fallen and gotten up, and fallen and gotten up, and fallen and gotten up and done great things?
呃，历史上不是充满了跌倒又爬起来、跌倒又爬起来、跌倒又爬起来并做出伟大事迹的人吗？
You know, who's to say?
你知道，谁能说？
Bill Clinton (archival): Thank you.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：谢谢。
I need you tomorrow, thank you.
明天我需要你，谢谢。
Narrator: On Feb.
旁白：2月。
18, the voters of New Hampshire went to the polls.
18日，新罕布什尔州选民前往投票站。
Despite the one-two punch of Gennifer Flowers and the draft, Clinton finished a strong second behind former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas.
尽管詹妮弗·弗劳尔斯（Gennifer Flowers）打出一记二拳并参加选秀，克林顿仍以第二名的成绩落后于前马萨诸塞州参议员保罗·特松加斯（Paul Tsongas）。
Bill Clinton (archival): Let me say that while the evening is young and we don't know yet what the final tally will be, I think we know enough to say with some certainty that New Hampshire tonight has made Bill Clinton "The Comeback Kid."
比尔·克林顿（档案）：让我说，虽然今晚还很早，我们还不知道最终的计票结果是多少，但我想我们已经有足够的信息可以肯定地说，新罕布什尔州今晚让比尔·克林顿成为“东山再起的孩子”。
Narrator: In the weeks to come, Clinton rolled up primary victory after primary victory.
旁白：在接下来的几周里，克林顿在初选中取得了一个又一个的胜利。
Bill Clinton (archival): In Florida, in Tennessee, in Mississippi....
比尔·克林顿（档案）：在佛罗里达州、田纳西州、密西西比州......
Narrator: In early June, he surpassed the number of delegates needed for the Democratic nomination by winning the California primary.
旁白：六月初，他赢得了加州初选，超过了民主党提名所需的代表人数。
Bill Clinton (archival): The election for America's future begins tomorrow.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：关系美国未来的选举明天开始。
It is not about me, it's about all of you.
这不是关于我，而是关于你们所有人。
Stanley Greenberg, Political Strategist: Even though he's winning voters over, and winning these primaries with bigger and bigger margins, the news coverage, you know, for the general electorate, is one of a politician you would never make president of the United States.
政治策略师斯坦利·格林伯格：尽管他赢得了选民的支持，并以越来越大的优势赢得了这些初选，但你知道，对于广大选民来说，新闻报道是你永远不会让他成为美国总统的政治家之一。
You could not possibly trust this guy.
你不可能相信这个人。
The polls would ask the question whether he has the honesty and the character to be president and the numbers got worse and worse and worse.
民意调查将询问他是否具有担任总统的诚实和品格，而数字变得越来越糟。
We reached a point where we said, 'We can't just allow that to be the narrative, the route to the convention.
我们已经到了这样的地步：‘我们不能让这成为叙事，成为大会的途径。
Let's restore a sense of trust.'
让我们恢复信任感。”
Narrator: A team of top campaign aides planned a complete overhaul of Clinton's image, culminating in a nostalgic film shown during the Democratic National Convention in New York.
旁白：一个由高级竞选助手组成的团队计划对克林顿的形象进行彻底改造，最终在纽约民主党全国代表大会期间放映了一部怀旧电影。
It was called "A Man From Hope."
它被称为“来自希望的人”。
Bill Clinton (archival film): I was born in a little town called Hope, Arkansas, three months after my father died.
比尔·克林顿（档案电影）：在我父亲去世三个月后，我出生在阿肯色州一个名叫霍普的小镇。
I remember living in that old two-story house where I lived with my grandparents....
我记得住在我和祖父母一起住的那个老两层楼的房子里......
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: The film, I think brought people back, 'Okay, here's who this guy is, here's what we're really about and we really have a strong candidate.'
副参谋长哈罗德·伊克斯：我认为这部电影让人们回想起，“好吧，这就是这个人，这就是我们真正要做的事情，我们确实有一个强有力的候选人。”
Bill Clinton (archival): My fellow Americans, I end tonight where it all began for me.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我的美国同胞们，我今晚将在一切开始的地方结束。
I still believe in a place called hope.
我仍然相信一个叫做希望的地方。
God bless you, and God bless America.
上帝保佑你们，上帝保佑美国。
Narrator: With a rock anthem from the 1970s as the campaign theme song, Clinton staffers positioned their candidate as the young, dynamic face of a new generation.
旁白：克林顿的工作人员以一首 20 世纪 70 年代的摇滚歌曲作为竞选主题曲，将他们的候选人定位为新一代年轻、充满活力的面孔。
To complete the image, Clinton chose as his running mate the youthful senator from Tennessee, Al Gore.
为了完成这一形象，克林顿选择了来自田纳西州的年轻参议员阿尔·戈尔作为他的竞选搭档。
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: It turned the conventional wisdom on its head.
Dee Dee Myers，新闻秘书：它颠覆了传统观念。
He believed you don't dilute your message, you put a big underline and exclamation point and this is a new generation, new ideas, a new Democratic party.
他相信你不要淡化你的信息，只要加上一个大下划线和感叹号，这就是新一代、新思想、新民主党。
Totally energized the general election campaign.
为大选活动注入了十足的活力。
Narrator: Heading into the fall, Clinton had surged ahead of President George H.
旁白：进入秋季，克林顿的支持率飙升至乔治·H·布什总统之前。
W.
W.
Bush and third-party candidate Ross Perot.
布什和第三方候选人罗斯·佩罗。
With the economy still faltering, Clinton had found his issue and his voice.
在经济仍然步履蹒跚的情况下，克林顿找到了自己的问题和自己的声音。
Bill Clinton (archival): The crowd that's running Washington today has had 12 years to test their economic theory and it's failed.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：今天统治华盛顿的人们用了 12 年的时间来检验他们的经济理论，但失败了。
Narrator: The decisive event came in mid-October, at the second Presidential debate in Richmond, Virginia, when Clinton turned a question from the audience into a defining political moment.
旁白：决定性的事件发生在十月中旬，在弗吉尼亚州里士满举行的第二场总统辩论中，克林顿将观众提出的问题变成了决定性的政治时刻。
Michael Waldman, Speechwriter: A woman stood up and asked a question that was on a lot of people's minds.
迈克尔·沃尔德曼（Michael Waldman），演讲撰稿人：一位女士站起来，提出了一个很多人都关心的问题。
Woman (archival): How has the national debt personally affected each of your lives?
女（档案）：国债对你们每个人的个人生活有何影响？
And if it hasn't, how can you honestly find a cure for the economic problems of the common people if you have no experience in what's ailing them?
如果没有，如果你没有解决普通民众经济问题的经验，你怎么能诚实地找到解决普通民众经济问题的方法呢？
Michael Waldman, Speechwriter: And President Bush said, 'I don't get it, I don't get the question.'
迈克尔·沃尔德曼（Michael Waldman），演讲撰稿人：布什总统说，“我不明白，我不明白这个问题。”
George H.W.
乔治·H.W.
Bush (archival): Are you suggesting that if a person has means that the national debt doesn't affect them?
布什（档案）：您是否认为如果一个人有债务就意味着国家债务不会影响他们？
I'm not sure I get it.
我不确定我明白了。
Help me with the question and I'll try to answer it.
帮我解决这个问题，我会尽力回答。
Joe Klein, Journalist: Clinton understood that she wasn't talking about the deficit or the debt.
乔·克莱因（Joe Klein），记者：克林顿明白她不是在谈论赤字或债务。
What she was talking about was the economy.
她谈论的是经济。
And the recession.
还有经济衰退。
And the body language was absolutely crucial at that point.
肢体语言在这一点上绝对至关重要。
He took two steps toward her.
他朝她走了两步。
Bill Clinton (archival): Tell me how it's affected you again?
比尔·克林顿（档案）：告诉我这对你有何影响？
You know people who've lost their jobs and lost their homes.
你知道有人失去了工作、失去了家园。
Bill Clinton (archival): Well I tell you how it's affected me.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我告诉你这对我有何影响。
I've seen people in my state, middle class people, their taxes have gone up in Washington and their services have gone down while the wealthy have gotten tax cuts.
我看到我州的人们，中产阶级，在华盛顿他们的税收增加了，他们的服务却下降了，而富人却得到了减税。
I have seen what's happened in these last four years when, in my state, when people lose their jobs, there's a good chance I'll know them by their names....
我亲眼目睹了过去四年里发生的事情，在我所在的州，当人们失业时，我很有可能会叫出他们的名字......
Joe Klein, Journalist: That was giving the American public precisely what they wanted at that point.
记者乔·克莱因：这正是为美国公众提供了他们当时想要的东西。
They had this brilliant foreign policy president.
他们有一位出色的外交政策总统。
What they needed was someone who cared about them and who were as scared about the economy as they were.
他们需要的是一个关心他们并且像他们一样担心经济的人。
And in that moment, he encapsulated that.
在那一刻，他概括了这一点。
Bill Clinton (archival): I think what we have to do is invest in American jobs, American education.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我认为我们要做的是投资于美国的就业、美国的教育。
Joe Klein, Journalist: He was on his way to winning.
Joe Klein，记者：他正在走向胜利。
But that was the deal-closer.
但这是最接近的交易。
He closed the deal.
他完成了交易。
Narrator: Like a marathon runner nearing the finish line, Clinton spent the final 24 hours of the campaign in an all-out sprint, touching down in nine states.
旁白：就像一位接近终点线的马拉松运动员一样，克林顿在竞选的最后24小时里全力冲刺，在九个州落地。
His voice gone, he could only wave at adoring crowds.
他的声音消失了，他只能向崇拜的人群挥手致意。
Tom Brokaw, NBC News (archival): Sometime during the course of this half hour the man who likes to call himself the Comeback Kid, Bill Clinton of a town called Hope in Arkansas will be projected the winner of the presidential candidacy of 1992.
汤姆·布罗考 (Tom Brokaw)，NBC 新闻（档案）：在这半小时的某个时间里，来自阿肯色州霍普镇的、喜欢自称为“东山再起小子”的比尔·克林顿将被预测为 1992 年总统候选人的获胜者。
Man (archival): Ladies and gentleman, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton!
男士（档案）：女士们先生们，比尔·克林顿和希拉里·克林顿！
Carolyn Staley, Friend: It was just unbelievable, such a moment of pride, happiness.
卡罗琳·斯塔利（Carolyn Staley），朋友：这真是令人难以置信，这是一个自豪、幸福的时刻。
It felt like we had a new opportunity to seize the day for America with fresh ideas from a man who had the right heart, the right spirit, loved service, and could face anything that life was about to throw at him
感觉就像我们有了一个新的机会，用来自一个有正确的心、正确的精神、热爱服务、能够面对生活将要抛给他的任何事情的人的新鲜想法，为美国抓住这一天。
Bill Clinton (archival): My fellow Americans, on this day, with high hopes and brave hearts and in massive numbers, the America people have voted to make a new beginning.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我的美国同胞们，在这一天，怀着厚望和勇敢的心，大批美国人民投票创造了一个新的开始。
David Gergen, Adviser: There was this joy and buoyancy and he had so much promise about him.
大卫·格根（David Gergen），顾问：他充满了喜悦和快乐，他对自己充满了希望。
Those of us who believed in Bill Clinton, and I did, had a sense of, 'Wow, this is going to be really, really good for the country.'
我们这些相信比尔·克林顿的人，我也相信，有一种感觉，‘哇，这对国家来说真的非常好。’
Narrator: After 20 years of thrilling highs and gut-wrenching falls, Bill and Hillary had at last achieved their highest goal.
旁白：在经历了 20 年惊心动魄的巅峰和痛苦的跌倒之后，比尔和希拉里终于实现了他们的最高目标。
But, if they had won the Presidency, the Clintons had yet to win over the country.
但是，即使克林顿夫妇赢得了总统职位，他们也还没有赢得全国的支持。
And in this moment of triumph, few could imagine the turmoil that lay ahead.
在这胜利的时刻，很少有人能想象接下来会发生什么混乱。
Michael Waldman, Speechwriter: He got 43% of the vote but none of us thought about that.
Michael Waldman，演讲撰稿人：他获得了 43% 的选票，但我们没有人想到这一点。
To us, it felt like a landslide.
对我们来说，这感觉就像是山崩地裂。
Clinton believed in a strong government; he wanted to be a big president.
克林顿相信强大的政府；他想成为一名大总统。
He revered Kennedy, he revered Roosevelt, he thought about the heroic presidents and he wanted to use the presidency that way.
他尊敬肯尼迪，他尊敬罗斯福，他想到英雄的总统，他想以这种方式利用总统职位。
But the country was turning away from government, it was skeptical that government could work, and there were these roiling undercurrents of anger, that we knew were there but we didn't realize how they could quickly consume even us.
但这个国家正在远离政府，人们对政府能否发挥作用持怀疑态度，而且还有这些翻腾的愤怒暗流，我们知道它们在那里，但我们没有意识到它们如何能很快吞噬我们。
Man (archival): Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States of America, William Jefferson Clinton.
男士（档案）：女士们、先生们，美利坚合众国总统威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿。
Narrator: On a crisp January morning in 1993, Bill Clinton took the oath of office as the 42nd President of the United States.
旁白：1993 年 1 月一个清爽的早晨，比尔·克林顿宣誓就任美国第 42 任总统。
Promising a new start, he sounded the themes of change and optimism that had won him the White House.
他承诺一个新的开始，提出了变革和乐观的主题，正是这些主题为他赢得了白宫。
Bill Clinton (archival): Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world, but the engine of our own renewal.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我们的民主不仅要让世界羡慕，而且要成为我们自身革新的引擎。
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
美国没有什么问题是不能用美国正确的做法来治愈的。
David Gergen, Adviser: He did have heroic visions of what he might do as president.
大卫·格根（David Gergen），顾问：他确实对自己作为总统可能做的事情抱有英雄般的愿景。
He felt that the winds of change were blowing heavily at his back and that he could ride them to great, magnificent victories.
他感到变革之风正猛烈地吹在他的背后，他可以驾驭这股变革之风，取得伟大而辉煌的胜利。
The harder reality was that he only won with 43% of the vote in a three-man race and that's not exactly a heady mandate for governing.
更残酷的现实是，他在三人竞选中仅以 43% 的选票获胜，这对于执政来说并不是一个令人兴奋的任务。
Narrator: Clinton's victory had come despite a deep divide in the country.
旁白：尽管国内存在严重分歧，克林顿还是取得了胜利。
Millions had responded to his campaign message of change.
数百万人响应了他的变革竞选信息。
But millions of others feared where the country was heading, and did not trust their inexperienced new president to lead them through uncertain times.
但还有数百万人担心这个国家的发展方向，并且不相信缺乏经验的新总统能够带领他们度过不确定的时期。
John Harris, Journalist: There was a group of people who had a visceral dislike for Bill Clinton.
约翰·哈里斯，记者：有一群人本能地不喜欢比尔·克林顿。
They felt that he had stayed just one step ahead of the posse with his personal problems, they thought that he represented a 1960s generation that was always trying to pull a fast one and not playing by traditional rules.
他们认为他在个人问题上只领先了一步，他们认为他代表了 20 世纪 60 年代的一代人，他们总是试图快速行事，不遵守传统规则。
They despised him and thought there was something illegitimate about his presidency.
他们鄙视他，认为他的总统职位有些不合法。
Lucianne Goldberg, Literary Agent: There's a sense of him being a used car salesman, there's a sense of a guy being a charming hick.
Lucianne Goldberg，文学经纪人：给人一种二手车推销员的感觉，给人一种迷人乡巴佬的感觉。
He was loathed because, in the first place I think we've all known somebody like Bill Clinton and we don't want them to be president of our country.
他之所以令人厌恶，是因为首先我认为我们都认识像比尔·克林顿这样的人，我们不希望他们成为我们国家的总统。
And the wife was terrifying as well.
而且妻子也很可怕。
She was pushy, she was humorless, she couldn't get her hair figured out.
她很爱出风头，缺乏幽默感，无法理清自己的头发。
There were just so many things about Hillary that we didn't like.
希拉里有太多我们不喜欢的地方。
Narrator: Despite all their education and experience, the Clintons were unprepared for their reception in Washington.
旁白：尽管克林顿夫妇受过教育，经验丰富，但他们对华盛顿的接待毫无准备。
Mike McCurry, Press Secretary: He still labored under the assumption that he could bring people together under powers of persuasion.
迈克·麦凯里，新闻秘书：他仍然认为自己可以通过说服的力量将人们聚集在一起。
It was stunning to him that Republicans would just very blatantly tell him that we're not here to cooperate with you and this is going to be open warfare from the very beginning.
令他震惊的是，共和党人会非常公然地告诉他，我们不是来与你合作的，这从一开始就将是一场公开的战争。
David Gergen, Adviser: It's a big leap, from the state capital to the nation's capital and to the world's capital, and I think the Clintons, found that Washington was a shock for them, the rules were very different, people weren't as friendly, people had other agendas, a lot of knives were out, people played behind curtains, you just never knew what was going to come out and strike you.
大卫·格根，顾问：这是一个巨大的飞跃，从州首府到国家首都，再到世界首都，我认为克林顿夫妇发现华盛顿对他们来说是一个冲击，规则非常不同，人们不那么友好，人们有其他议程，很多刀子都出来了，人们在幕后玩弄，你永远不知道会发生什么袭击你。
Bill Clinton (archival): Is there a teleprompter?
比尔·克林顿（档案）：有提词器吗？
What are we going to do about the teleprompter?
我们要对提词器做什么？
Lawrence O'Donnell, Senate Aide: He had no comprehension of the rules of the road in Washington; no governor ever elected to the presidency has ever understood what they were getting into.
劳伦斯·奥唐纳，参议院助手：他不了解华盛顿的交通规则；当选总统的州长从来没有了解过他们将面临什么。
And he looked more unprepared than most.
而且他看起来比大多数人都更没有准备。
Bill Clinton (archival): Wait a minute, how long are you going to have to wait...
比尔·克林顿（档案）：等一下，你要等多久......
Lawrence O'Donnell, Senate Aide: His first address from the Oval Office, sitting behind the desk, it looked like a big mistake had happened, some little kid had been allowed in there with his $12 digital watch.
劳伦斯·奥唐纳 (Lawrence O'Donnell)，参议院助手：他在椭圆形办公室第一次发表讲话，坐在桌子后面，看起来发生了一个大错误，一个小孩带着他 12 美元的数字手表被允许进入那里。
Everything about him suggested he was not up to this.
他的一切都表明他不适合这样做。
Narrator: Clinton ran his White House as if it were an extension of the campaign, filling his staff with 30-year-olds with little Washington experience.
旁白：克林顿管理白宫就好像它是竞选活动的延伸一样，他的幕僚中都是 30 岁、几乎没有华盛顿经验的人。
He wanted to be part of the hurly burly -- to hear every opinion, weigh in on every decision.
他想成为喧嚣的一部分——听取每一个意见，权衡每一个决定。
Robert Reich, Labor Secretary: The atmosphere in the White House in that first year was chaos.
劳工部长罗伯特·赖克：第一年白宫的气氛很混乱。
He wanted to do everything.
他什么都想做。
He wanted to deal with every problem.
他想解决每一个问题。
He was in the middle of every conflict.
他身处每一次冲突之中。
Jonathan Alter, Journalist: They would have these college bull sessions that would go on, you know, late into the night.
乔纳森·阿尔特（Jonathan Alter），记者：他们会举办这些大学牛市会议，你知道，一直持续到深夜。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: The meetings were endless, especially if Clinton was in the meeting, it would go on and on and on.
副幕僚长哈罗德·伊克斯：会议没完没了，特别是如果克林顿参加会议，会议就会一直持续下去。
John Harris, Journalist: He was often thinking out loud, making decisions on the fly, making a decision tentatively at midnight and then waking up the next morning and saying, 'let's rethink this.'
约翰·哈里斯（John Harris），记者：他经常大声思考，匆忙做出决定，在午夜临时做出决定，然后第二天早上醒来说，“让我们重新考虑一下。”
Narrator: The West Wing was littered with pizza boxes and Coke cans, as staffers wandered freely in and out of meetings.
旁白：西翼散落着披萨盒和可乐罐，工作人员可以自由地进出会议。
Joe Klein, Journalist: It wasn't the kind of orderly process that Republicans brought to the table.
乔·克莱因（Joe Klein），记者：这并不是共和党提出的那种有序程序。
It was all these discordant voices, informal voices, people who didn't even wear ties and jackets when they went into the Oval Office, my God!
都是这些不和谐的声音，非正式的声音，那些进入椭圆形办公室时甚至不打领带和夹克的人，天哪！
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: You gotta be a little grand.
Dee Dee Myers，新闻秘书：你得有点伟大。
Because the American people want it, it's the biggest job in the world, and I think we underestimated that.
因为美国人民想要它，这是世界上最大的工作，我认为我们低估了这一点。
People felt like, 'What is it a fraternity house over there?'
人们的感觉是，“那边的兄弟会会所是什么？”
Narrator: As Clinton took office in the winter of 1993, the economic crisis that had propelled him into office showed few signs of abating.
旁白：1993年冬天，克林顿上任后，推动他上台的经济危机几乎没有减弱的迹象。
Robert Rubin, Treasury Secretary: We had had a recession.
财政部长罗伯特·鲁宾：我们经历了经济衰退。
We had high unemployment.
我们的失业率很高。
And it was a lot of uncertainty about whether the United States was going to get on its feet again or whether we could be in for a prolonged period of real difficulty.
美国是否会再次站稳脚跟，或者我们是否会长期陷入真正的困难，存在很大的不确定性。
So he came into a very difficult environment.
于是他就陷入了一个非常困难的环境。
Narrator: During the transition, Clinton had promised to focus on the economy "like a laser beam." But he quickly discovered how easily his focus could be deflected by an unscripted comment to a reporter.
旁白：在过渡期间，克林顿承诺“像激光束一样”关注经济。但他很快发现，他的注意力很容易因为对记者的即兴评论而转移。
Reporter (archival): Do you intend to keep your commitment to lift the ban on gays in the military?
记者（档案）：您是否打算履行解除同性恋入伍禁令的承诺？
Bill Clinton (archival): Yes.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：是的。
I want to -- I have -- You know what my issue on this is: number one, we've got a study that says that a lot of gays have performed with great distinction in the military.
我想——我有——你知道我的问题是什么：第一，我们有一项研究表明，很多同性恋在军队中表现出色。
I don't think status alone in the absence of some destructive behavior should disqualify people.
我认为，在没有一些破坏性行为的情况下，仅仅凭地位不应该取消人们的资格。
Joe Klein, Journalist: Now, Bill Clinton, with his wits about him, would have said, 'Oh, yes, I'm going to stick to my campaign pledge and in furtherance of that, we're going to appoint a blue-ribbon commission that will report back to my successor 100 years from now,' but he didn't.
记者乔·克莱因：现在，比尔·克林顿（Bill Clinton）凭借他的智慧，会说，“哦，是的，我将坚持我的竞选承诺，为了促进这一点，我们将任命一个蓝丝带委员会，该委员会将在 100 年后向我的继任者报告，”但他没有。
He just said the first part.
他只说了第一部分。
You know, 'I'm going to keep my campaign pledge.' And all of a sudden, the laser-like focus on the economy was derailed to a, you know, a lurid issue in the minds of many people.
你知道，“我将信守我的竞选承诺。”突然之间，对经济的高度关注变成了许多人心目中一个可怕的问题。
Reporter (archival): Mr. President, would you consider backing down on your ban on gays in the Military?
记者（档案）：总统先生，您会考虑放弃对军队中同性恋的禁令吗？
Bill Clinton (archival): We haven't -- We're not here to discuss that.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我们没有——我们不是来讨论这个问题的。
We're here to discuss the economy, which is all I discussed yesterday with congressional leadership contrary to the press reports.
我们来这里是为了讨论经济问题，这就是我昨天与国会领导层讨论的全部内容，与媒体报道相反。
Narrator: Trapped by his own promise, Clinton attempted to lift the ban, but ran into heavy resistance from two allies: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell and Democratic Senator Sam Nunn.
旁白：受困于自己的承诺，克林顿试图解除禁令，但遭到两个盟友的强烈抵制：参谋长联席会议主席科林·鲍威尔和民主党参议员萨姆·纳恩。
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: So, you have the military leadership bucking him, the Democratic Congressional leaders, led by, you know, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee saying no, and the president is powerless to do anything about it.
迪迪·迈尔斯，新闻秘书：所以，军事领导层反对他，民主党国会领导人在军事委员会主席的领导下表示不，而总统对此无能为力。
And so he's now put into a position where he has to try to negotiate some kind of a resolution to this that will save face.
因此，他现在不得不尝试通过谈判达成某种解决方案，以挽回面子。
Bill Clinton (archival): Therefore, the practice now six months old....
比尔·克林顿（档案）：因此，这种做法现在已有六个月了......
Narrator: After weeks of fruitless wrangling, Clinton announced a compromise -- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- that few could even understand.
旁白：经过几周徒劳的争论后，克林顿宣布了一项妥协方案——“不问，不说”——但很少有人能理解。
Bill Clinton (archival): An open statement by a service member that he or she is a homosexual will create a rebuttable presumption that he or she intends to engage in prohibited conduct, but the service member will be given an opportunity to refute that presumption...
比尔·克林顿（档案）：军人公开声明他或她是同性恋，这将产生一个可反驳的推定，即他或她打算从事禁止的行为，但军人将有机会反驳该推定......
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: Nobody was particularly happy with 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell', but it was the best you could do to get it off the table so you could move on.
Dee Dee Myers，新闻秘书：没有人对“不问，不说”感到特别满意，但这是你能做的最好的事情，让它离开桌面，这样你就可以继续前进。
Narrator: Other capitulations quickly followed.
旁白：其他投降很快也随之而来。
He dropped a stimulus bill, and campaign finance reform in the face of Congressional opposition.
面对国会的反对，他放弃了刺激法案和竞选财务改革。
Robert Reich, Labor Secretary: It became very apparent very soon that Bill Clinton as President was not going to be an LBJ.
劳工部长罗伯特·赖克：很明显，比尔·克林顿作为总统不会成为林登·约翰逊。
He was not going to assert his authority, make deals, crack heads, push his weight around, say to any members of Congress in the leadership that if you don't follow me, you're going to pay for this, because I'm going to remember it.
他不会维护自己的权威，达成交易，开动脑筋，发挥自己的影响力，对领导层中的任何国会议员说，如果你不听我的话，你就会为此付出代价，因为我会记住它。
You're not going to get this, you're not going to get that.
你不会得到这个，你也不会得到那个。
You know, LBJ knew how to use power.
你知道，林登·约翰逊知道如何使用权力。
Bill Clinton knew much of that, but he also wanted to be liked.
比尔·克林顿对此深有体会，但他也希望被人喜欢。
Narrator: When Attorney General nominee Zoe Baird got into hot water over her failure to pay taxes for household help, Clinton hardly put up a fight.
旁白：当司法部长候选人佐伊·贝尔德因未缴纳家庭帮助税而陷入困境时，克林顿几乎没有反抗。
Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel: The first day I was in the White House the President said to me, 'We're having problems with Zoe Baird.'
伯纳德·努斯鲍姆，白宫法律顾问：我入主白宫的第一天，总统对我说，“我们与佐伊·贝尔德之间存在问题。”
Senator (archival): To me this is a big deal, personally, and I suspect it is to a lot of Americans....
参议员（档案）：对我个人而言，这是一件大事，而且我怀疑对很多美国人来说也是如此......
Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel: He says, 'well, I'm hearing from Democratic senators that it's really going to be a problem, and the press is on my back.' My position was, look you've already nominated her, she's an excellent person we should stick with Zoe Baird,' and he decided: 'No!'
白宫法律顾问伯纳德·努斯鲍姆：他说，“好吧，我从民主党参议员那里听说这确实会成为一个问题，而且媒体也支持我。”我的立场是，看你已经提名了她，她是一个优秀的人，我们应该坚持佐伊·贝尔德，”他决定：“不！”
Bill Clinton (archival): I feel very badly about it, but I'm responsible for it and I'm going to start this afternoon looking for an Attorney General.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我对此感到非常难过，但我对此负有责任，我将从今天下午开始寻找司法部长。
Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel: In order to placate the opposing party's criticisms and media criticisms, which began on day one, the Clinton administration kept folding, kept giving in.
白宫法律顾问伯纳德·努斯鲍姆：为了安抚从第一天开始的反对党和媒体的批评，克林顿政府不断屈服、不断让步。
I think that undermined his presidency, it showed he could be rolled.
我认为这损害了他的总统职位，这表明他可能会被推翻。
Narrator: The media, which had embraced Clinton during the campaign, now began to turn on him.
旁白：在竞选期间曾支持克林顿的媒体现在开始攻击他。
When his nomination of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court took a tortuous course, reporters pounced.
当他对最高法院法官露丝·巴德·金斯伯格的提名经历了曲折的过程后，记者们纷纷发起攻击。
Brit Hume, Reporter (archival): Your turn late it seems to Judge Ginsberg may have created an impression, perhaps unfair, of a certain zig-zag quality in the decision-making process here.
布里特·休姆，记者（档案）：在金斯伯格法官看来，你的发言迟到了，这可能给这里的决策过程留下了某种曲折的印象，也许是不公平的。
I wonder, sir, if you could walk us through it and kind of disabuse us of any notions we might have along those lines.
先生，我想知道您是否可以引导我们经历这一切，并纠正我们可能有的任何类似想法。
Thank you.
谢谢。
Bill Clinton (archival): I have long since given up the thought that I could disabuse some of you of turning any substantive decision into anything but political process.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我早已放弃了这样的想法：我可以劝阻你们中的一些人将任何实质性决定变成除政治进程之外的任何东西。
How you can ask that question after the statement she just made is beyond me.
我无法理解在她刚刚发表的声明之后你怎么能问这个问题。
John Harris, Journalist: What he wanted people to do is just look at the result, 'Did I make a good decision or not?' But as president every decision that Bill Clinton makes, and not just the decisions, but how he makes these decisions, is receiving merciless scrutiny.
约翰·哈里斯（John Harris），记者：他希望人们做的只是看结果，“我是否做出了正确的决定？”但作为总统，比尔·克林顿所做的每一个决定，不仅仅是这些决定，还有他如何做出这些决定，都受到无情的审查。
The messiness of the process became part of the story and Bill Clinton found it maddening.
这个过程的混乱成为故事的一部分，比尔·克林顿发现它令人抓狂。
Narrator: The Clintons arrived in Washington in the midst of a media revolution.
旁白：克林顿夫妇在媒体革命期间抵达华盛顿。
The advent of cable television, and the 24-hour news cycle, created an insatiable appetite for colorful coverage of Washington.
有线电视和 24 小时新闻周期的出现，引发了人们对华盛顿丰富多彩的报道的无尽胃口。
Joe Klein, Journalist: Cable television was beginning to become a force.
Joe Klein，记者：有线电视开始成为一股力量。
And the competition among cable news became a vicious fact of Bill Clinton's life.
有线新闻之间的竞争成为比尔·克林顿生活中的一个恶性事实。
Sex sold.
性出卖。
Corruption sold.
腐败出卖了。
Narrator: Throughout the spring of 1993, a series of scandals, including "Travelgate" and "Hairgate," flared in the press.
旁白：1993年春天，媒体报道了包括“旅行门”和“发门”在内的一系列丑闻。
Hillary found it hard to shrug off the negative press.
希拉里发现很难摆脱负面媒体的影响。
Stories -- like the one alleging that she broke a lamp during a heated argument with the President -- embarrassed and humiliated her.
一些故事——比如声称她在与总统激烈争吵时打碎了一盏灯的故事——让她感到尴尬和羞辱。
"I've always believed in a zone of privacy," she said, "but I guess I've been rezoned."
“我一直相信有一个隐私区，”她说，“但我想我已经被重新划分了。”
Gail Sheehy, Writer: She had an agenda, changes in the country, in the world, that she wanted to see done.
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：她有一个议程，她希望看到这个国家和世界的变化。
She couldn't understand why the media was focusing constantly on their private life, but the more she fought it the more she drew attention to it.
她不明白为什么媒体总是关注他们的私生活，但她越是反抗，就越引起人们的注意。
Narrator: The lawyer chosen to lead the Clintons' defense was their close friend and deputy White House Counsel, Vince Foster.
旁白：被选为克林顿夫妇辩护的律师是他们的密友、白宫副法律顾问文斯·福斯特。
Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel: Vince, he got very upset with the attacks.
白宫法律顾问伯纳德·努斯鲍姆：文斯，他对这些袭击感到非常不安。
He felt we couldn't stop these attacks -- and yes, no, we couldn't stop these attacks.
他觉得我们无法阻止这些攻击——是的，不，我们无法阻止这些攻击。
You know, this is the nature of the game down here.
你知道，这就是这里游戏的本质。
This is the partisan game down here.
这是这里的党派游戏。
And I kept trying to calm him down but I did see him getting sadder and sadder.
我一直试图让他平静下来，但我确实看到他变得越来越悲伤。
And then, then that day came when he took his own life.
然后，他结束了自己的生命的那一天到来了。
Narrator: On the afternoon of July 20, Vince Foster told an assistant that he was going out for a few minutes.
旁白：7月20日下午，文斯·福斯特告诉助手他要出去几分钟。
That evening, his body was found in a secluded park 10 miles from the White House, a bullet hole through his head.
那天晚上，他的尸体在距离白宫 10 英里的一个僻静的公园里被发现，他的头部有一个弹孔。
A torn-up note was found a few days later at the bottom of Foster's briefcase.
几天后，在福斯特公文包的底部发现了一张撕碎的纸条。
"I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington," it read.
信中写道：“我不适合这份工作，也不适合成为华盛顿公共生活的焦点。”
"Here, ruining people is considered sport."
“在这里，毁掉别人被认为是一种运动。”
David Gergen, Adviser: I was very concerned that knowing how close that Vince Foster was to both Bill and Hillary, that it would be sort of the final straw for Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton in Washington.
大卫·格根，顾问：我非常担心知道文斯·福斯特与比尔和希拉里的关系有多密切，这将成为压垮比尔·克林顿和希拉里·克林顿在华盛顿的最后一根稻草。
They would just think, 'This town's impossible,' you know, 'We've lost one of our best friends, he's taken his life in the midst of this melee,' and that something very intangible would be lost.
他们只会想，“这个小镇是不可能的”，你知道，“我们失去了一位最好的朋友，他在这场混战中结束了自己的生命”，并且会失去一些非常无形的东西。
Bill Clinton's one of the most resilient people I've ever met.
比尔·克林顿是我见过的最有韧性的人之一。
The pain goes deeper with Hillary, and it can stay there longer.
希拉里的痛苦会更深，而且会持续更长时间。
She's strong but she's also vulnerable.
她很坚强，但她也很脆弱。
Narrator: Far from destroying the Clintons, Foster's death steeled them against their adversaries.
旁白：福斯特的死非但没有摧毁克林顿夫妇，反而让他们更加坚强地对抗对手。
For Hillary, there could be no more illusions: this would be a war with only one winner.
对于希拉里来说，不能再有任何幻想：这将是一场只有一个胜利者的战争。
Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel: They were toughening up by this time.
白宫法律顾问伯纳德·努斯鲍姆：此时他们已经强硬起来了。
They were seeing now that we're in a blood sport, that people are trying to kill you and nothing is going to make them happy.
他们现在看到我们正在进行一场血腥运动，人们试图杀死你，但没有什么能让他们高兴。
Narrator: Foster's suicide only fueled the media's fascination with scandal.
旁白：福斯特的自杀只会加剧媒体对丑闻的迷恋。
Within days of the discovery of his body, there was speculation about the "real cause" of his death.
在他的尸体被发现后几天内，人们就开始猜测他死亡的“真正原因”。
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: The immediate reaction to Vince Foster's death was, 'What happened here and were the Clintons involved?
法律学者肯·葛姆雷：对文斯·福斯特之死的第一反应是，“这里发生了什么？克林顿夫妇是否参与其中？”
Were they covering something up?' There begins bubbling up this notion that there's a conspiracy.
他们是在掩盖什么吗？人们开始认为这是一个阴谋。
That Vince Foster's been murdered.
文斯·福斯特被谋杀了。
You know, on one account, his body rolled up in a rug, he's having an affair with Hillary, all of these terrible things.
你知道，一方面，他的身体卷在地毯上，他与希拉里有染，所有这些可怕的事情。
Narrator: Attention focused mostly on some files mysteriously removed from Foster's office after his death, including documents related to an old Arkansas land deal: Whitewater.
旁白：人们的注意力主要集中在福斯特去世后从他的办公室神秘移走的一些文件，其中包括与阿肯色州旧土地交易：白水有关的文件。
Whitewater -- the scandal that would haunt Clinton's presidency longer than any other -- had its roots in the late 1970s.
白水丑闻——这一丑闻在克林顿总统任期内困扰的时间比任何其他丑闻都要长——根源于 20 世纪 70 年代末。
At the time, Bill Clinton was a young Attorney General making just over $25,000 a year.
当时，比尔·克林顿 (Bill Clinton) 是一位年轻的司法部长，年薪刚刚超过 25,000 美元。
Hillary, an associate at the Rose law firm in Little Rock, was the family's main breadwinner.
希拉里是小石城罗斯律师事务所的律师，是这个家庭的主要经济支柱。
When an old friend named Jim McDougal approached her with a plan to build vacation homes along the White River, Hillary decided to invest.
当一位名叫吉姆·麦克杜格尔的老朋友向她提出在怀特河沿岸建造度假屋的计划时，希拉里决定投资。
Joe Purvis, Friend: Here's a guy, McDougal, that comes to him and says, 'Put a little money into this thing.' He said, 'Boy, you'll be rich and you'll make money, and this is going to be great.' Well, I guess in hindsight, every person promoting any sort of land scheme thinks it's going to be a world-beater and we're going to be rich as Midas by the time it's over.
Joe Purvis，朋友：有一个人，McDougal，来找他说，“投入一点钱到这件事上。”他说，“孩子，你会变得富有，你会赚钱，这会很棒。”好吧，我想事后看来，每个推动任何土地计划的人都认为这将是一个世界级的计划，当它结束时我们将像迈达斯一样富有。
Narrator: Like many of McDougal's real estate projects, Whitewater went belly-up.
旁白：像麦克杜格尔的许多房地产项目一样，白水项目也破产了。
To prop up his scheme, he made illegal transfers from his own Savings and Loan, Madison Guaranty.
为了支持他的计划，他从自己的储蓄和贷款麦迪逊担保公司进行非法转账。
McDougal was charged with fraud.
麦克杜格尔被指控犯有欺诈罪。
Reporter (archival): President Clinton, you just mentioned James McDougal, your former business partner.
记者（档案）：克林顿总统，您刚才提到了您的前商业伙伴詹姆斯·麦克杜格尔。
A lot of questions have been raised about his business practices.
人们对他的商业行为提出了很多质疑。
Can you tell us....
你能告诉我们吗......
Narrator: Fifteen years later, President Clinton was asked by reporters what he and Hillary knew about McDougal's illegal activities.
旁白：十五年后，克林顿总统被记者问到他和希拉里对麦克杜格尔的非法活动了解多少。
Bill Clinton (archival): To the best of my knowledge he was honest in his dealings with me and that's all I can comment on...
比尔·克林顿（档案）：据我所知，他在与我打交道时很诚实，这就是我能评论的一切......
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: The White House was totally unprepared for it.
副幕僚长哈罗德·伊克斯：白宫对此完全没有准备。
There was no memo on it, there was no defense group.
上面没有备忘录，也没有防御小组。
Bill Clinton (archival): I had nothing to do with the management of Whitewater.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我与白水的管理无关。
Hillary had nothing to do with it.
希拉里与此事无关。
We didn't keep the books or the records...
我们没有保留书籍或记录...
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: There were some of us who said, 'Keep the walls up, keep it back, you know, it's none of their business, uh, nothing happened.
哈罗德·伊克斯（Harold Ickes），副参谋长：我们中有些人说，‘把墙竖起来，保留它，你知道，这不关他们的事，呃，什么也没发生。
It's a little deal down in Arkansas, it's nothing to do with the presidency uh and it'll go away.'
这在阿肯色州是件小事，与总统职位无关，嗯，它会消失的。
It didn't go away but that built up a suspicion, and as new things leaked out, as inconsequential as they might be, the press would say, 'Oh the Clintons have been hiding stuff.' And there was built up relatively quickly that the Clintons were just stonewalling.
它并没有消失，但却增加了怀疑，当新的事情泄露出来时，尽管它们可能无关紧要，但媒体会说，“哦，克林顿夫妇一直在隐瞒一些东西。”很快人们就发现克林顿夫妇只是在阻挠。
Narrator: The emergence of the Whitewater scandal couldn't have come at a worse time for President Clinton.
旁白：对于克林顿总统来说，白水丑闻的出现实在是太糟糕了。
In the late summer of 1993, he needed broad political support, as his first major piece of legislation -- the federal budget -- was headed for a showdown in Congress.
1993 年夏末，他需要广泛的政治支持，因为他的第一项主要立法——联邦预算——即将在国会摊牌。
Robert Reich, Labor Secretary: We knew that if Bill Clinton lost that vote, the signal would be he can't get the Democrats in the House and the Senate to go along with him.
劳工部长罗伯特·赖克：我们知道，如果比尔·克林顿输掉了那次投票，则发出的信号是他无法让众议院和参议院的民主党人支持他。
That means he doesn't have power.
这意味着他没有权力。
That's the definition of lacking power.
这就是缺乏权力的定义。
And if this early in the administration our new President lacks power, where do we go next?
如果我们的新总统在执政初期缺乏权力，我们下一步该何去何从？
Narrator: Abandoning his campaign promise to cut taxes and invest in the middle class, Clinton instead took the advice of the administration's deficit hawks to reduce spending and raise taxes.
旁白：克林顿放弃了减税和投资中产阶级的竞选承诺，转而采纳了政府赤字鹰派的建议，减少支出并提高税收。
Joe Klein, Journalist: Bill Clinton's first big decision was an intellectual act of faith.
乔·克莱因（Joe Klein），记者：比尔·克林顿的第一个重大决定是明智的信仰行为。
Bill Clinton (archival): We're on the eve of historic action.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我们正处于历史性行动的前夜。
Without deficit reduction, we can't have sustained economic growth.
如果不削减赤字，我们就不可能实现持续的经济增长。
Joe Klein, Journalist: He gambled in the midst of a recession that he'd get more economic growth if he was fiscally conservative, and if he began to reduce the deficit, that would convince the bond market to start reducing interest rates, and the economy would grow.
乔·克莱因（Joe Klein），记者：他在经济衰退期间赌博，如果他在财政上保持保守，他会获得更多的经济增长，如果他开始减少赤字，这将说服债券市场开始降低利率，经济就会增长。
That was just a theory.
那只是一个理论。
No one knew it would work.
没有人知道它会起作用。
Narrator: More than anything, Clinton had wanted to invest in the middle class.
旁白：最重要的是，克林顿想投资于中产阶级。
The realization that he couldn't, left him deeply disappointed.
当他意识到自己做不到时，他感到非常失望。
John Harris, Journalist: He didn't become president to say no. He didn't become president to administer pain.
约翰·哈里斯，记者：他成为总统并不是为了说不。他成为总统并不是为了控制痛苦。
He didn't become president because he wanted to placate Wall Street.
他当总统并不是因为他想安抚华尔街。
But in fact, his agenda did require to some extent doing all those things.
但事实上，他的议程确实需要在某种程度上做所有这些事情。
Narrator: As the budget reached congress, Clinton knew it was on a knife-edge.
旁白：当预算到达国会时，克林顿知道它正处于刀刃上。
With Republicans unanimously opposed, the President needed nearly every Democratic vote to pass the bill, but the Party -- like the administration -- was in disarray.
由于共和党人一致反对，总统几乎需要民主党人的每一张选票才能通过该法案，但该党——就像政府一样——陷入了混乱。
Liberal Democrats complained about the cuts in spending, while conservatives opposed the tax hikes.
自由民主党抱怨削减开支，而保守派则反对增税。
David Boren (archival): I think that the President will fail, the Party will fail, and the country will fail if we enact this budget.
大卫·博伦（档案）：我认为，如果我们颁布这份预算，总统将会失败，党将会失败，国家将会失败。
Narrator: Faced with the possibility of a catastrophic defeat, Clinton got down to work.
旁白：面对灾难性失败的可能性，克林顿开始工作。
"I knew if I didn't get the economy going," he said, "nothing else would matter."
“我知道，如果我不让经济发展起来，”他说，“其他一切都不重要了。”
Sen.
参议员。
Tom Daschle, (D) South Dakota: There wasn't anything he wasn't willing to do.
汤姆·达施勒（Tom Daschle），（D）南达科他州：没有什么是他不愿意做的。
He would call, he would meet.
他会打电话，他会见面。
He would grovel, he would strong-arm.
他会卑躬屈膝，他会用强力手段。
He would use every tactic any leader has at his disposal to try to get this thing done.
他会使用任何领导者可以使用的一切策略来尝试完成这件事。
Narrator: But the days when a president could command votes, even from members of his own party, were long over.
旁白：但是总统可以控制选票（甚至是他自己党派成员的选票）的日子早已一去不复返了。
Leon Panetta, Chief of Staff: Bill Clinton was used to Arkansas.
莱昂·帕内塔，幕僚长：比尔·克林顿已经习惯了阿肯色州。
You know, he knew the good old boys, he knew who he had to go to.
你知道，他认识那些好老伙计，他知道他必须去找谁。
He could walk on the floor of the legislature and basically, you know, with a smile and a pat on the back he could get any vote he wanted.
他可以走在立法机关的地板上，基本上，你知道，只要微笑着拍拍他的背，他就可以获得他想要的任何选票。
That wasn't true, here in Washington.
在华盛顿，事实并非如此。
In many ways it was frustrating for him because he really felt that he knew what was best for the country and that by the sheer power of his personality and his words and his smile, that somehow he could make it work.
从很多方面来说，这对他来说都是令人沮丧的，因为他真的觉得自己知道什么对国家最有利，并且凭借他的个性、言语和微笑的纯粹力量，他可以以某种方式实现这一目标。
Narrator: The budget wended its way through a series of committee and floor votes in the House and Senate.
旁白：预算通过了众议院和参议院的一系列委员会和全体投票。
Stanley Greenberg, Political Strategist: We went to some of these votes not having the votes.
政治策略师斯坦利·格林伯格：我们参加了一些没有选票的投票。
Getting calls during the voting process that someone had turned, someone had moved, these things are being won by one vote.
投票过程中接到电话说有人转了，有人搬了，这些东西都是一票胜出的。
Imagine that.
想象一下。
This is the budget, this is like his entire presidency goes down if he fails, and you're up to one vote each time.
这就是预算，这就像如果他失败了，他的整个总统任期就会垮台，而你每次只能投一票。
Narrator: In early August, the final budget bill reached the floor of the House.
旁白：八月初，最终的预算法案到达众议院。
With the vote still in doubt, all eyes turned to a freshman Democratic from a historically Republican district, Marjorie Margolis Mezvinsky.
由于投票结果仍悬而未决，所有人的目光都转向了来自历史上共和党选区的民主党新人马乔里·马戈利斯·梅兹文斯基(Marjorie Margolis Mezvinsky)。
Leon Panetta, Chief of Staff: We had her down as voting yes, and she votes no, early on.
幕僚长莱昂·帕内塔：我们很早就让她投了赞成票，而她投了反对票。
And so we said, 'Go in there, find out what the hell's going on, try to turn her vote around.' First of all, as a former member, if you're going to vote against the leadership, vote and get the hell out of there.
所以我们说，‘进去看看到底发生了什么，试着扭转她的投票。’首先，作为一名前成员，如果你要投票反对领导层，那就投票并离开那里。
She didn't do that, she stayed there.
她没有那样做，她留在那里。
So suddenly these guys are all pouring on her, and she's standing there, and they're saying, 'Come on, you've got to change your vote, this is important to the administration.'
突然间，这些人都涌向她，她站在那里，他们说，‘来吧，你必须改变你的投票，这对政府来说很重要。’
She then says something like, 'I'll do this, but the president has to come into my district.' So they call me, back in the office, and they say, 'Will the president come into her district to do-' And I say, 'Absolutely!
然后她会说，“我会这么做，但总统必须进入我的选区。”所以他们打电话给我，回到办公室，他们说，‘总统会到她的选区来做——’我说，‘当然！
Whatever it takes, we're gonna do it.'
无论需要什么，我们都会去做。
Narrator: With the vote, and his presidency on the line, Clinton paced nervously in a small office in the West Wing.
旁白：投票结果和他的总统职位都岌岌可危，克林顿在西翼的一间小办公室里紧张地踱着步。
Robert Rubin, Treasury Secretary: We're all crowded around this little television set, really with quite a high level of uncertainty .
财政部长罗伯特·鲁宾：我们都挤在这台小电视机周围，确实具有相当高的不确定性。
Narrator: Finally, Mezvinsky cast her vote 'yes' and the budget passed.
旁白：最后，梅兹文斯基投了“赞成”票，预算案获得通过。
With an equally narrow victory in the Senate, Clinton's final budget became law.
克林顿在参议院同样以微弱优势获胜，最终预算成为法律。
Not even he foresaw the economic boom it would set off.
就连他也没有预见到这会引发经济繁荣。
Robert Rubin, Treasury Secretary: It contributed enormously to what turned out to be the longest economic expansion in the nation's history.
财政部长罗伯特·鲁宾：它为美国历史上最长的经济扩张做出了巨大贡献。
Twenty two million new jobs were created, productivity went up.
创造了 2200 万个新就业岗位，生产率提高了。
Incomes rose at all levels.
各个层面的收入都有所增加。
And, for the first time in 30 years, we had a federal surplus.
而且，三十年来我们首次出现联邦盈余。
Narrator: By the fall of 1993, there were glimmers of a turn-around in Clinton's fortunes.
旁白：1993年秋天，克林顿的命运出现了好转的迹象。
After passing his budget, Congress approved the North American Free Trade Agreement with overwhelming Republican support.
在通过预算后，国会在共和党的压倒性支持下批准了北美自由贸易协定。
The same month, he signed the Brady Bill, instituting background checks for anyone purchasing a firearm.
同月，他签署了《布雷迪法案》，对购买枪支的人进行背景调查。
NAFTA and Brady culminated 10 months of intense focus on domestic affairs, but beyond America's shores, a troubled world would wait no longer for the president's attention.
北美自由贸易协定和布雷迪将十个月来对国内事务的高度关注达到了顶峰，但在美国之外，一个陷入困境的世界将不再等待总统的关注。
Richard A.
理查德·A.
Clarke, National Security Coordinator: The Cold War had kept a lot of tensions quiet and a lot of groups quiet.
国家安全协调员克拉克：冷战使许多紧张局势和许多团体保持沉默。
And now with that over, all of the old animosities, all of the old hatreds -- ethnic hatreds, regional tensions that had been under that iceberg of the Cold War were now popping-out, and were real problems.
现在，随着这一切结束，所有旧有的敌意、所有旧有的仇恨——种族仇恨、冷战冰山下的地区紧张局势现在都浮出水面，成为真正的问题。
Joe Klein, Journalist: How much did the United States want to get involved in problems in the rest of the world, which tended to be localized problems?
记者乔·克莱因：美国有多想介入世界其他地区的问题，这些问题往往是局部问题？
Were those worthy of our time and attention?
这些值得我们花时间和关注吗？
This was uncharted territory.
这是未知的领域。
Richard Clarke, National Security Coordinator: We were all reaching for, all searching for some new grand unifying theory.
理查德·克拉克，国家安全协调员：我们都在努力寻求某种新的大统一理论。
Give us a new way of looking at the world.
给我们一种看待世界的新方式。
Narrator: Clinton had little to offer in the realm of foreign affairs.
旁白：克林顿在外交领域几乎没有什么贡献。
The first president since World War II who had not worn a military uniform, he lacked confidence as a Commander in Chief.
作为二战以来第一位不穿军装的总统，他作为三军统帅缺乏自信。
Joe Klein, Journalist: Clinton came to the White House with very little knowledge of the U.S. military.
记者乔·克莱因：克林顿入主白宫时对美国军队知之甚少。
Famously, he didn't even know how to salute.
众所周知，他甚至不知道如何敬礼。
To a great many people in this country, that was legitimately something to be worried about.
对于这个国家的很多人来说，这确实是值得担心的事情。
Narrator: Clinton's first major foreign policy crisis came in the African nation of Somalia, where a warlord named Mohamed Farah Aidid was terrorizing the local population in an effort to suppress his opponents in a civil war.
旁白：克林顿的第一次重大外交政策危机发生在非洲国家索马里，那里的军阀穆罕默德·法拉赫·艾迪德在内战中恐吓当地民众，以镇压对手。
Clinton inserted U.S. Special Forces into Somalia to capture Aidid.
克林顿派遣美国特种部队进入索马里抓捕艾迪德。
During a mission on October 3rd, two Blackhawk helicopters were shot down.
10月3日的一次任务中，两架黑鹰直升机被击落。
American forces sent in to assist, were pinned down by overwhelming firepower.
派去援助的美国军队被压倒性的火力压制。
Before they could be extracted, 18 U.S. soldiers were killed with 84 more wounded.
在他们被撤离之前，18 名美国士兵被杀，另有 84 人受伤。
Around the world, images of a dead American soldier being dragged through the streets enflamed public opinion.
在世界各地，一名死去的美国士兵被拖过街道的画面激起了公众舆论。
John Harris, Journalist: Although George H.W.
约翰·哈里斯，记者：尽管乔治·H·W·布什
Bush had initiated that intervention, it had expanded on Bill Clinton's watch, so when things turned bad it was hugely unpopular, and Bill Clinton bore the brunt of that.
布什发起了这次干预，并在比尔·克林顿(Bill Clinton)任内扩大了干预范围，因此当情况恶化时，它非常不受欢迎，而比尔·克林顿(Bill Clinton)首当其冲。
Kofi Annan, U.
科菲·安南，U.
N.
N。
Secretary-General: You need to understand the average citizen.
秘书长：你需要了解普通公民。
In their minds, we have gone there on a humanitarian mission to offer a helping hand, and we get attacked and humiliated.
在他们看来，我们是去那里执行人道主义使命，伸出援助之手，但我们却遭到攻击和羞辱。
'Why are we there?
'我们为什么在那里？
Why should we continue to help?
为什么我们要继续提供帮助？
Why are you keeping the boys there?
你为什么把孩子们留在那里？
Bring the boys home' -- that sort of political pressure that President Clinton and his team had to deal with.
把孩子们带回家”——克林顿总统和他的团队必须应对这种政治压力。
Narrator: The backlash in public opinion contained what seemed a clear lesson for the young president: military intervention, without a compelling national interest, came with unforeseeable risks and costs.
旁白：公众舆论的强烈反对似乎给这位年轻总统一个明确的教训：没有令人信服的国家利益的军事干预会带来不可预见的风险和成本。
John Harris, Journalist: It sent a chill through the administration and made them much more reluctant to intervene in other parts of the world, and where that came home in the most profound way and one that Bill Clinton came to deeply, deeply regret was in Rwanda.
约翰·哈里斯，记者：这让政府感到一阵寒意，让他们更加不愿意干预世界其他地区，而这一点以最深刻的方式体现出来，比尔·克林顿对此深感遗憾的是卢旺达。
Narrator: Rwanda, an African nation 1,000 miles to the west of Somalia, was suffering through its own civil war between two tribes -- Hutus and Tutsis.
旁白：卢旺达是一个位于索马里以西 1000 英里的非洲国家，正在经历胡图族和图西族两个部落之间的内战。
In early April, 1994, the Rwandan president's plane was shot down.
1994年4月初，卢旺达总统专机被击落。
The Hutu government blamed Tutsi rebels.
胡图族政府指责图西族叛乱分子。
Kofi Annan, U.
科菲·安南，U.
N.
N。
Secretary-General: When the plane was shot down, all hell broke loose and that became the trigger which set off this mass killing
秘书长：当飞机被击落时，一切都乱了套，成为引发大规模屠杀的导火索
Narrator: The killing caught the Clinton administration entirely by surprise.
旁白：这起谋杀案让克林顿政府完全措手不及。
Gen.
将军
Wesley K.
韦斯利·K.
Clark, Military Advisor: That night, I was leaving the office and I noticed on CNN, on the television screen there was shooting going on.
克拉克，军事顾问：那天晚上，我正要离开办公室，我注意到 CNN 的电视屏幕上正在发生枪击事件。
And I, and I said to my assistant, 'What's going on?
我，我对我的助理说，‘发生了什么事？
What is that?' He said, 'Oh, it's a, it's a, it's R-wanda, it's there's some kind of operation going on over there.' I said, 'Is that real?
那是什么？他说，“哦，这是一个，这是一个，这是 R-wanda，那里正在进行某种操作。”我说，‘这是真的吗？
Is that on time?' He said, 'Yes, sir.'
准时吗？他说：“是的，先生。”
Narrator: Ultimately, some 800,000 Tutsis would be killed.
旁白：最终，大约80万图西族人将被杀害。
But with the Black Hawk Down incident still fresh, the Clinton administration did virtually nothing to stop the slaughter.
但由于黑鹰坠落事件仍历历在目，克林顿政府几乎没有采取任何措施来阻止这场屠杀。
Kofi Annan, U.
科菲·安南，U.
N.
N。
Secretary-General: We needed international support in Rwanda, but the will to intervene was not there.
秘书长（以英语发言）：我们需要卢旺达的国际支持，但没有干预的意愿。
They knew what was happening, but they were not about to take the risks.
他们知道发生了什么，但他们不打算冒险。
Rwanda lived in the shadow of Somalia, and paid the price for what had happened in Somalia.
卢旺达生活在索马里的阴影下，并为索马里发生的事情付出了代价。
Narrator: Clinton's foreign policy was trapped in a kind of no man's land.
旁白：克林顿的外交政策陷入了一种无人区。
If Somalia had demonstrated the risks of military intervention, Rwanda proved the costs of doing nothing.
如果说索马里证明了军事干预的风险，那么卢旺达则证明了不采取行动的代价。
Gen.
将军
Wesley Clark, Military Advisor: I know the president felt awful afterwards.
韦斯利·克拉克，军事顾问：我知道总统事后感觉很糟糕。
Awful.
可怕。
As it came out, and we understood the scale, the enormity, we realized that there are sins of omission, as well as sins of commission.
当它出来时，我们了解了规模和严重性，我们意识到存在疏忽之罪，以及作为之罪。
This was a horrible omission.
这是一个可怕的遗漏。
Narrator: Battered by a year Hillary described as "hellish," the Clintons were looking forward to their first Christmas in Washington.
旁白：克林顿夫妇经历了希拉里形容为“地狱般”的一年，他们期待着在华盛顿度过的第一个圣诞节。
Escaping the White House, they visited close friends and even shopped at a local mall.
逃离白宫后，他们拜访了亲密的朋友，甚至在当地的一家购物中心购物。
Bill and Hillary had always been doting parents to Chelsea, trying to keep her life as normal as possible.
比尔和希拉里一直都很溺爱切尔西的父母，试图让她的生活尽可能正常。
Gail Sheehy, Writer: Both Hillary and Bill in their own way were fabulous parents -- very protective of Chelsea and managed to keep a cordon of privacy around her, let her grow up more or less naturally.
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：希拉里和比尔都以自己的方式成为了出色的父母——非常保护切尔西，并设法在她周围保持隐私警戒线，让她或多或少自然地成长。
Narrator: For the most part, the press respected Chelsea's privacy, but showed no such consideration for her parents.
旁白：在很大程度上，媒体尊重切尔西的隐私，但对她的父母却没有表现出这样的考虑。
In mid-December, the first Family's hopes for a quiet Christmas were dashed when a call from the Washington Post once again plunged them into the roiling currents of the Whitewater scandal.
12月中旬，当《华盛顿邮报》的电话再次让第一家庭陷入白水丑闻的漩涡时，他们对平静圣诞节的希望破灭了。
David Gergen, Adviser: I got a call from Bob Kaiser, who was then the number two editor at the Washington Post.
大卫·格根（David Gergen），顾问：我接到鲍勃·凯泽（Bob Kaiser）的电话，他当时是《华盛顿邮报》的二号编辑。
And he said, 'David, you know, we've known each other a long time, and we've made numerous requests to the White House for some Whitewater-related documents, that we're getting stonewalled, and we're about to go on the attack.'
他说，“大卫，你知道，我们认识很久了，我们多次向白宫请求提供一些与白水事件相关的文件，但我们遭到了阻挠，我们即将发起攻击。”
Narrator: Many on his staff counseled the President to turn over his private papers on Whitewater to the Post.
旁白：他的许多幕僚建议总统将有关白水的私人文件交给《华盛顿邮报》。
David Gergen, Adviser: I said, 'Mr. President, this is a flagship newspaper, they're gonna put a team of investigative reporters on this if you don't give these documents over and no one, no one knows where that's gonna go, why don't we just do it now and just, you know, do the fair and square thing.' He said, 'I agree, let's do it,' he said, 'but there's one problem,' he said, 'I'm in this with Hillary.
大卫·格根（David Gergen），顾问：我说，‘先生。总统先生，这是一份旗舰报纸，如果你不交出这些文件，他们就会派出一组调查记者来调查此事，没有人，没有人知道这些文件会去哪里，我们为什么不现在就做，你知道，公平公正地做事。”他说，‘我同意，我们就这么做吧，’他说，‘但是有一个问题，’他说，‘我和希拉里在一起。
You've got to go convince Hillary'.
你必须去说服希拉里。”
Gail Sheehy, Writer: Hillary's attitude toward the press and thus towards the Washington Post was to pull back, to reveal nothing, to keep the media or anybody else who's asked questions about their inside life at bay, so she's locked down.
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：希拉里对媒体以及《华盛顿邮报》的态度是退缩，不透露任何内容，不让媒体或任何其他人询问他们的内心生活，所以她被封锁了。
David Gergen, Adviser: Finally after about two weeks, I got a call from the counsel's office saying, 'By the way David, we have now sent a letter to the Washington Post and we'll read it to you' and I said, 'Fine, let me hear the letter,' and basically it said: 'Dear Washington Post, screw you.
大卫·格根，顾问：最后大约两周后，我接到律师办公室的电话，说：“顺便说一句，大卫，我们现在已经给《华盛顿邮报》发了一封信，我们会读给你听。”我说，“好吧，让我听听这封信，”基本上它说：“亲爱的华盛顿邮报，操你的。”
No documents.'
没有文件。
Narrator: Clinton's refusal to turn over his private Whitewater records was a red flag to many of his political enemies.
旁白：克林顿拒绝交出他的私人白水记录，这对他的许多政敌来说是一个危险信号。
In early January, Republican Senator Robert Dole demanded the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Whitewater.
一月初，共和党参议员罗伯特·多尔要求任命一名特别检察官来调查白水事件。
Bob Dole (archival): If there's nothing to hide, why not lay it all out there, but every day there's another little drip coming from somewhere.
鲍勃·多尔（档案）：如果没有什么可隐藏的，为什么不把它全部放在那里，但每天都有来自某个地方的另一滴小滴。
Narrator: Dole's demand reignited the argument inside the White House.
旁白：多尔的要求再次引发了白宫内部的争论。
Most of Clinton's advisors urged him to appoint a special prosecutor, but Hillary and White House counsel Bernie Nussbaum argued against it.
克林顿的大多数顾问都敦促他任命一名特别检察官，但希拉里和白宫法律顾问伯尼·努斯鲍姆表示反对。
Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel: I said to the President they'll investigate you - and they won't find anything because you did nothing in Whitewater - but they'll investigate.
伯纳德·努斯鲍姆，白宫法律顾问：我对总统说过，他们会调查你——他们不会找到任何东西，因为你在白水镇什么也没做——但他们会调查。
Somebody did something in Arkansas in the last 20 years.
过去 20 年有人在阿肯色州做了一些事情。
They will try to find that person.
他们会尽力找到那个人。
Then they will try to get that person to save their neck -- to remember something that you did in Arkansas in the last 20 years which was illegal.
然后他们会试图让那个人保住自己的脖子——记住过去 20 年来你在阿肯色州所做的非法事情。
This will last, Mr. President, as long as you're president and beyond.
总统先生，只要您担任总统及之后，这种情况就会持续下去。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: The contrary argument was, we're trying to run a presidency and a White House here, this is not going to go away.
副参谋长哈罗德·伊克斯：相反的论点是，我们正在努力在这里管理总统职位和白宫，这不会消失。
Yes, you can stave it off for a while, but at some point everything is going to come out.
是的，你可以暂时推迟它，但到了某个时候，一切都会水落石出。
Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel: And that's when Clinton said, 'I can't take it anymore.
白宫法律顾问伯纳德·努斯鲍姆：就在那时，克林顿说：“我再也受不了了。”
Tell me what to do.
告诉我该怎么做。
You got to, got to give me -- tell me what to do,' he screams at me.
你必须，必须给我——告诉我该怎么做，”他对我尖叫道。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: We finally persuaded Hillary much against her better instincts, to call the President and say that we wanted him to authorize Attorney General Reno to appoint a special counsel.
哈罗德·伊克斯，副参谋长：我们最终说服了希拉里，她违背了她更好的直觉，打电话给总统，说我们希望他授权司法部长里诺任命一名特别检察官。
Narrator: Exhausted and heartsick over the recent death of his mother, Clinton did not put up a fight.
旁白：克林顿因母亲最近去世而精疲力尽、心痛不已，但他没有反抗。
On January 20, 1994, Attorney General Janet Reno, acting on Clinton's authorization, appointed lawyer Robert Fiske as special counsel in the Whitewater matter.
1994年1月20日，司法部长珍妮特·雷诺根据克林顿的授权，任命律师罗伯特·菲斯克为白水事件的特别检察官。
Bill Clinton (archival): Most of the newspapers in the country asked me to have a special counsel appointed.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：国内大多数报纸都要求我任命一名特别顾问。
That's what I have done.
这就是我所做的。
I did it so that I could go on with my work.
我这样做是为了继续我的工作。
I want a full investigation.
我想要进行全面调查。
I want this thing to be done, fully, clearly and to be over with.
我希望这件事能够彻底、清晰地完成并结束。
Narrator: Years later, Clinton would say, "It was the worst mistake of my presidency..."
旁白：多年后，克林顿会说，“这是我总统任期内最严重的错误……”
By the spring of 1994, Bill Clinton had endured 18 months of attacks by his political enemies, the press, and even other Democrats.
到 1994 年春天，比尔·克林顿已经忍受了政敌、媒体、甚至其他民主党人长达 18 个月的攻击。
Tired of playing defense, he set out to reclaim his Presidency with one grand gesture.
他厌倦了防守，开始以一种宏伟的姿态夺回总统宝座。
Joe Klein, Journalist: Clinton understood that very few presidents create their own greatness.
乔·克莱因（Joe Klein），记者：克林顿明白，很少有总统能创造自己的伟大。
Greatness is usually thrust upon them by a crisis.
伟大通常是由危机强加给他们的。
Abe Lincoln had the Civil War, Franklin Roosevelt had the Depression and World War II.
安倍·林肯经历了内战，富兰克林·罗斯福经历了大萧条和第二次世界大战。
And so that was a challenge for Clinton.
这对克林顿来说是一个挑战。
'What am I going to do that's going to make me remembered?'
“我要做什么才能让人们记住我？”
Bill Clinton (archival): For 60 years, this country has tried to reform health care.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：60 年来，这个国家一直在尝试改革医疗保健。
President Roosevelt tried, President Truman tried, President Nixon tried, President Carter tried.
罗斯福总统尝试过，杜鲁门总统尝试过，尼克松总统尝试过，卡特总统尝试过。
Every time, the special interests were powerful enough to defeat them, but not this time.
每次，特殊利益集团都强大到足以击败他们，但这次不行。
Lawrence O'Donnell, Senate Aide: : Healthcare was to be the giant monument of the Clinton presidency.
劳伦斯·奥唐纳 (Lawrence O'Donnell)，参议院助手：：医疗保健将成为克林顿总统任期内的一座巨大纪念碑。
Bill Clinton (archival): Under our plan every American would receive a healthcare security card.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：根据我们的计划，每个美国人都会收到一张医疗保障卡。
Lawrence O'Donnell, Senate Aide: : Bill Clinton held up this healthcare card that we were all gonna get, every one of us were gonna get this card from the government, you know, certifying that we had healthcare coverage, and we were all certain that we were absolutely going to get this done.
劳伦斯·奥唐纳，参议院助手：比尔·克林顿举起了这张我们都会得到的医疗卡，我们每个人都会从政府那里得到这张卡，你知道，证明我们有医疗保险，我们都确信我们绝对会完成这件事。
Narrator: To lead the signature initiative of his presidency, Clinton turned as he always did, to the person he trusted most.
旁白：为了领导其总统任期内的标志性举措，克林顿一如既往地求助于他最信任的人。
Hillary Clinton (archival): This is a crucial moment in the fight for healthcare reform in our nation.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：这是我们国家医疗改革斗争的关键时刻。
We all know our nation needs health security that's decent, affordable for every American.
我们都知道我们的国家需要每个美国人都能负担得起的体面的健康保障。
Joe Klein, Journalist: There are those who would cynically say that he owed her for standing by her man, despite Gennifer Flowers and all the rest during the campaign.
乔·克莱因，记者：有些人会愤世嫉俗地说，尽管詹妮弗·弗劳尔斯和其他人在竞选期间支持了她的男人，但他还是欠她一个人情。
But I think it was something else.
但我认为这是另一回事。
Clinton adores her.
克林顿很崇拜她。
And he especially adores her mind.
他特别崇拜她的思想。
Hillary Clinton (archival): We cannot provide primary preventive health care in America if we don't make better use of our nurses.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：如果我们不更好地利用我们的护士，我们就无法在美国提供初级预防性医疗保健。
Joe Klein, Journalist: Bill Clinton really believed that if anybody was going to come up with the answer to the most vexing public policy problem out there, it was going to be Hillary.
乔·克莱因（Joe Klein），记者：比尔·克林顿确实相信，如果有人能为最棘手的公共政策问题找到答案，那一定是希拉里。
It was one of the stupidest political decisions that Bill Clinton ever made.
这是比尔·克林顿做过的最愚蠢的政治决定之一。
Hillary Clinton (archival): And now it's time for everybody to board their buses.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：现在是每个人上车的时间了。
We're going....
我们要去....
Narrator: Hillary Clinton took to her new job with all the energy and determination pent up during the previous year.
旁白：希拉里·克林顿带着去年压抑的全部精力和决心开始了她的新工作。
In forums and town meetings across the country, she heard stories of insurance abuse, exorbitant health care bills and poor quality care.
在全国各地的论坛和城镇会议上，她听到了滥用保险、高昂的医疗费用和低质量护理的故事。
But once back in Washington, she shut out nearly every outside voice, relying on a tight circle of advisors to write a 1,300-page plan that would radically reshape the nation's health care system.
但回到华盛顿后，她排除了几乎所有外部声音，依靠一小群顾问编写了一份 1,300 页的计划，该计划将从根本上重塑国家的医疗保健系统。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: There was a rigidity and an unwillingness to really listen.
哈罗德·伊克斯（Harold Ickes），副参谋长：人们很僵化，不愿意真正倾听。
The mark of a good politician is to listen and to be able to understand what's really being said.
优秀政治家的标志是倾听并能够理解真正所说的内容。
The frailty of Hillary was it was too cloistered, too walled off, and she really thought what she perceived as the public opinion in favor of healthcare would override the resistance in Congress and of the special interests and it was a big mistake.
希拉里的弱点在于它太与世隔绝、太封闭了，她真的认为她所认为的支持医疗保健的公众舆论会压倒国会和特殊利益集团的阻力，这是一个很大的错误。
Harry and Louise (archival commercial): This was covered under our old plan...
哈利和路易丝（档案广告）：这是我们旧计划涵盖的......
Oh, yeah, that was a good one wasn't it?
哦，是的，那是一件好事，不是吗？
Narrator: By the summer, Hillary's plan was being pilloried by the health insurance industry as a big government take-over of health care.
旁白：到了夏天，希拉里的计划被健康保险行业嘲笑为政府对医疗保健的大规模接管。
Lawrence O'Donnell, Senate Aide: : We spent more than a year trying to legislate something the country didn't want.
劳伦斯·奥唐纳（Lawrence O'Donnell），参议院助手：我们花了一年多的时间试图立法制定国家不想要的东西。
Harry and Louise (archival commercial): Having choices we don't like is no choice at all.
哈利和路易丝（档案广告）：做出我们不喜欢的选择根本就没有选择。
They choose.
他们选择。
We lose.
我们输了。
Lawrence O'Donnell, Senate Aide: : We scared people by saying, 'the healthcare system isn't working, and here comes the government to fix it.' And Ronald Regan had been schooling this public for many years now that the government is the problem.
参议院助手劳伦斯·奥唐纳：我们说“医疗保健系统不起作用，政府来解决它”，这让人们感到害怕。罗纳德·里根（Ronald Regan）多年来一直在教育公众，因为政府才是问题所在。
People didn't think, 'Oh great, here comes the government.' Reagan had won that argument.
人们不会想，“哦，太棒了，政府来了。”里根赢得了这场争论。
Narrator: Clinton did nothing to hedge Hillary's "all or nothing" bet or avert the looming political catastrophe.
旁白：克林顿没有采取任何措施来对冲希拉里“全有或全无”的赌注，也没有采取任何措施来避免迫在眉睫的政治灾难。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: In the President's mind this was something that he had given to Hillary and he was very, very reluctant to override her.
哈罗德·伊克斯，副参谋长：在总统看来，这是他给希拉里的东西，他非常非常不愿意推翻她。
I think that because of the husband-wife relationship that it was not something that he was willing to take on.
我想，因为夫妻关系，这不是他愿意承担的事情。
John Harris, Journalist: It inhibited Bill Clinton from following his own independent judgment, his own best instincts of when to compromise.
约翰·哈里斯，记者：它阻碍了比尔·克林顿遵循自己的独立判断，以及他自己关于何时妥协的最佳直觉。
He found it difficult to defy her very powerful wishes and that's not a position a president wants to be in.
他发现很难违抗她非常强烈的愿望，这不是总统想要的职位。
Group at rally (archival): Socialized medicine makes me sick.
集会小组（档案）：社会化医疗让我生病。
Socialized medicine makes me sick.
社会化医疗让我生病。
Narrator: Throughout the summer of 1994, as lawmakers heard from their frightened constituents, Hillary's health care bill lost support.
旁白：1994 年整个夏天，当立法者们听到惊慌失措的选民的声音时，希拉里的医疗保健法案失去了支持。
By Labor Day, before it even came up for a vote in Congress, the Clinton health care bill was dead.
到了劳动节，在国会投票之前，克林顿的医疗保健法案就宣告失败。
Robert Reich, Labor Secretary: The defeat of healthcare was a huge defeat.
劳工部长罗伯特·赖克：医疗保健的失败是一次巨大的失败。
It was the number-one objective, and to have it defeated was a repudiation in a sense.
这是首要目标，失败从某种意义上来说就是一种否定。
Or at least felt like a repudiation of the Clinton administration.
或者至少感觉像是对克林顿政府的否定。
Narrator: By the fall of 1994, the Clinton presidency was at its lowest ebb.
旁白：1994年秋天，克林顿总统任期正处于最低潮。
Weakened by scandal and the defeat of health care, Clinton was about to be challenged by a new and formidable rival.
由于丑闻和医疗保健的失败，克林顿的实力受到了削弱，她即将面临一个新的、强大的竞争对手的挑战。
Newt Gingrich (archival): I am a genuine revolutionary, they are the genuine reactionaries, we are going to change their world they will do anything to stop us.
纽特·金里奇（档案）：我是一个真正的革命者，他们是真正的反动派，我们要改变他们的世界，他们会做任何事情来阻止我们。
Narrator: Brimming with self-confidence, Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich had spent more than a decade planning his assault on the Democratic Party.
旁白：佐治亚州众议员纽特·金里奇充满自信，花了十多年的时间策划对民主党的进攻。
Sen.
参议员。
Trent Lott, (R) Mississippi: He was a giant personality.
特伦特·洛特（Trent Lott），（R）密西西比州：他是一个伟大的人物。
He was one of the best policy wonks and thinkers of new ideas around, but his style was very different from mine.
他是最好的政策专家和新思想思想家之一，但他的风格与我的非常不同。
His personality and approach was -- if it's not arrogance at least it's overconfidence.
他的性格和做法是——如果不是傲慢，至少也是过度自信。
Joe Klein, Journalist: You know, Clausewitz said that 'war is politics by other means.' Newt thought the reverse was true.
乔·克莱因（Joe Klein），记者：你知道，克劳塞维茨说过“战争是另一种方式的政治”。纽特认为事实恰恰相反。
That politics was war by other means.
政治是另一种形式的战争。
Narrator: Gingrich's ultimate goal was nothing less than a dismantling of what he called the "liberal welfare state." He would begin by trying to break the Democrats' 40-year stranglehold on the House of Representatives in the upcoming mid-term elections.
旁白：金里奇的最终目标无非是废除他所谓的“自由福利国家”。他首先将试图在即将到来的中期选举中打破民主党对众议院长达 40 年的束缚。
Sen.
参议员。
Trent Lott, (R) Mississippi: We had some people that were not satisfied to just passively go along with being an abused, mistreated minority.
特伦特·洛特（Trent Lott，R）密西西比州：我们有些人不满足于仅仅被动地接受被虐待、虐待的少数群体的生活。
And there were a lot of republicans that had been in the minority for so long they thought, 'This is where we belong and this is ok, if they'll just give us a crumb or two.' Newt started rockin' the boat.
有很多共和党人长期以来一直处于少数派地位，他们认为，“这就是我们所属的地方，只要他们能给我们一两块面包屑就可以了。”纽特开始搅局。
Narrator: Gingrich decided that the best way to achieve a Republican victory in the mid-terms was to run against Clinton.
旁白：金里奇认为，共和党在中期选举中取得胜利的最佳途径就是与克林顿竞选。
Republican candidates across the country morphed their Democratic opponents into the President.
全国各地的共和党候选人将民主党对手变成了总统。
Television commercial (archival): Look at congressman Tim Johnson's voting record.
电视广告（档案）：看看国会议员蒂姆·约翰逊的投票记录。
It looks just like Bill Clinton's liberal agenda.
它看起来就像比尔·克林顿的自由主义议程。
Tony Blankley, Republican strategist: The plan was to nationalize the election.
共和党策略师托尼·布兰克利：该计划是将选举国有化。
Newt saw fundamental flaws in the Democratic Party's relationship with the American electorate.
纽特看到了民主党与美国选民关系中的根本缺陷。
And he wanted to develop and exploit those, and run a campaign based on that.
他想开发和利用这些，并以此为基础开展一场活动。
Narrator: As the elections approached, Clinton hit the campaign trail, hoping that his old magic could hold back the Republican tide.
旁白：随着选举的临近，克林顿踏上了竞选之路，希望他的老魔法能够阻挡共和党的浪潮。
Max Brantley, Journalist: Part of Bill Clinton's persona is an abiding belief that if he can just have enough time, he can win over just about anybody.
马克斯·布兰特利（Max Brantley），记者：比尔·克林顿性格的一部分是一种坚定的信念，即如果他有足够的时间，他几乎可以赢得任何人的支持。
Narrator: Clinton was sure his record could yet win over the American people.
旁白：克林顿确信他的记录仍能赢得美国人民的支持。
By the fall of 1994, the economy was growing again.
到1994年秋天，经济再次增长。
In September, he added a new ban on assault weapons to his list of accomplishments.
9月，他在自己的成就清单中添加了一项新的攻击性武器禁令。
But scandals, the failure of health care, and foreign policy missteps weighed heavily on public opinion.
但丑闻、医疗保健失败和外交政策失误严重影响了公众舆论。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: I remember him saying to me on God knows how many speeches, 'Harold if I can just communicate to enough Americans what we have done and where we want to take the country, we'll win this.'
哈罗德·伊克斯，副参谋长：我记得他在天知道有多少场演讲中对我说，“哈罗德，如果我能向足够多的美国人传达我们所做的事情以及我们想要把这个国家带到哪里，我们就会赢得这场胜利。”
Peter Jennings, ABC News (archival): One of the big questions of the day is whether the Republicans have been successful in turning this election into a referendum on Bill Clinton as they had wanted.
彼得·詹宁斯（Peter Jennings），美国广播公司新闻（档案）：今天的一个大问题是，共和党是否成功地将这次选举变成了他们所希望的对比尔·克林顿的公投。
Connie Chung, CBS News (archival): Our Exit polls are turning up bad news all over the country for President Clinton and his Party.
康妮·钟（Connie Chung），哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（档案）：我们的出口民意调查在全国各地都出现了对克林顿总统及其政党不利的消息。
Tony Blankley, Republican strategist: I had called a friend at NBC to find out what the 1:30 exit polls looked like and she told me, 'Well, Tony, I actually haven't seen the exit-- the 1:30 exit polls, they're holding them back.
托尼·布兰克利，共和党策略师：我给 NBC 的一位朋友打电话，想了解 1 点 30 分的出口民意调查是什么样子，她告诉我，‘好吧，托尼，我实际上还没有看到出口——1 点 30 分的出口民意调查，他们正在阻止他们。
Apparently you guys are doing so well that there must be something wrong with the polling and that was the beginning of a hopeful evening that turned into a glorious one.
显然你们做得这么好，民意调查一定有问题，这是一个充满希望的夜晚的开始，后来变成了一个光荣的夜晚。
Newt Gingrich (archival): This is a truly a wildly historic night.
纽特·金里奇（档案）：这确实是一个具有历史意义的夜晚。
I mean, this is just --
我的意思是，这只是——
Dan Rather, CBS News (archival): The Republican Revolution of election '94 shook capitol hill like an earthquake today.
丹·拉瑟 (Danrath)，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（档案）：94 年的共和党选举革命今天像地震一样震动了国会山。
Its reverberations went into state houses and moved the whole political landscape sharply to the right.
它的反响进入了州议会大厦，使整个政治格局急剧向右转。
Narrator: By the end of the night, Republicans had picked up 54 seats in the House and eight in the Senate, winning control of both chambers of Congress.
旁白：截至当晚，共和党在众议院获得了54个席位，在参议院获得了8个席位，赢得了参众两院的控制权。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: The longest walk I took in my life was from my, I was still in the basement in the West Wing, over to the second floor of the residence to tell him what he already knew, that we had lost the House and the Senate.
哈罗德·伊克斯，副参谋长：我一生中走过的最长的一次步行是从我的，我还在西翼的地下室，到官邸的二楼告诉他他已经知道的事情，我们已经失去了众议院和参议院。
Narrator: That Christmas was another dismal one.
旁白：那个圣诞节又是一个令人沮丧的圣诞节。
Clinton wandered the corridors of the White House obsessing about his defeat.
克林顿在白宫走廊里徘徊，沉迷于自己的失败。
The old question haunted him: what did I do wrong?
老问题一直困扰着他：我做错了什么？
Leon Panetta, Chief of Staff: Politics is about wanting to be loved.
参谋长莱昂·帕内塔：政治就是想要被爱。
And suddenly there's a message that maybe they don't love you.
突然有一条消息表明他们可能不爱你。
And how do, how do you deal with that?
你如何处理这个问题？
He really went through a lot of, you know, of kind of internal conflicts.
你知道，他确实经历了很多内部冲突。
But again, typical Bill Clinton, you know he was angry, he was mad, he was you know, kind of, what went wrong?
但同样，典型的比尔·克林顿，你知道他很生气，他很生气，他是你知道的，有点，出了什么问题？
But at the same time, he was asking himself, 'How do I fix it?'
但与此同时，他也在问自己，“我该如何解决这个问题？”
Robert Reich, Labor Secretary: There was no doubt in my mind that Bill Clinton could come back or would come back.
劳工部长罗伯特·赖克：在我看来，毫无疑问比尔·克林顿能够回来或将会回来。
He always came back.
他总是会回来。
Bill Clinton was constitutionally incapable of not coming back.
比尔·克林顿从体质上来说不可能不回来。
The real question was, how?
真正的问题是，如何？
In what form?
以什么形式？
Bill Clinton (archival): Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, my fellow Americans.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：总统先生、议长先生、我的美国同胞们。
Again, we are here in the sanctuary of democracy and once again our democracy has spoken.
我们再次来到民主的庇护所，我们的民主再次发声。
Narrator: On January 24, 1995, President Bill Clinton addressed Congress and the American people.
旁白：1995 年 1 月 24 日，比尔·克林顿总统向国会和美国人民发表讲话。
Two years into his presidency and just months after suffering the worst mid-term election defeat in modern history, he was chastened and humble.
就任总统两年后，就在遭受现代历史上最严重的中期选举失败几个月后，他受到了磨练，变得谦虚起来。
Bill Clinton (archival): Now all of us, Democrats and Republicans alike, must say, 'We hear you.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：现在我们所有人，无论是民主党人还是共和党人，都必须说，‘我们听到了你的声音。
We will work together to earn the jobs you have given us.'
我们将共同努力赢得您给我们的工作。”
Mark Penn, Pollster: After the mid-terms, the President I think felt that he was almost a hostage in his own White House.
马克·佩恩（Mark Penn），民意调查者：中期选举后，我认为总统感觉他几乎是自己白宫的人质。
He was unhappy with the White House staff, he was unhappy with the policy direction, and so he actually began a very quiet operation to begin to change his administration.
他对白宫工作人员不满意，对政策方向不满意，因此他实际上开始了一项非常安静的行动，开始改变他的政府。
Narrator: Beginning in early 1995, White House staffers began to notice a change in the president: his speeches contained unfamiliar language and cadences.
旁白：从1995年初开始，白宫工作人员开始注意到总统的变化：他的演讲包含了陌生的语言和节奏。
In meetings, he'd get up abruptly and leave the room.
在会议上，他会突然起身离开房间。
Many aides felt he was no longer listening to them.
许多助手觉得他不再听他们的了。
Robert Reich, Labor Secretary: I recall a meeting that the President's economic advisors and political advisors were having about how he was going to spend the next three weeks.
劳工部长罗伯特·赖克（Robert Reich）：我记得总统的经济顾问和政治顾问召开了一次会议，讨论他将如何度过接下来的三周。
What themes he was going to emphasize and I remember somebody from the back of the room, I think it was Erskine Bowles, then the President's Chief of Staff, saying, 'This is all irrelevant.'
他要强调的主题是什么，我记得房间后面的一个人，我认为是厄斯金·鲍尔斯，当时的总统办公厅主任，他说，“这完全无关紧要。”
Irrelevant?
无关紧要？
We're the staff.
我们是工作人员。
We are the people who help the President.
我们是帮助总统的人。
Why are we irrelevant?
为什么我们无关紧要？
And he didn't exactly say.
而且他也没有具体说。
He said there was some other force in the White House.
他说白宫还有其他一些力量。
And again and again there seemed to be instances, it was almost like in astronomy, there's a black hole and you can only tell it's there because planets begin moving into its gravitational orbit.
似乎一次又一次地出现了这种情况，就像在天文学中一样，有一个黑洞，你只能说它在那里，因为行星开始进入它的引力轨道。
But you look, and there's nothing there.
但你看，那里什么也没有。
That was Dick Morris.
那是迪克·莫里斯。
Dick Morris was the black hole.
迪克·莫里斯就是黑洞。
Bill Clinton (archival): Dick Morris, an abrasive political consultant from New York had a history with the Clintons that went all the way back to Arkansas.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：迪克·莫里斯是一位来自纽约的粗暴政治顾问，他与克林顿家族的一段历史可以追溯到阿肯色州。
John Harris, Journalist: Other than Hillary Clinton, he was the most important political advisor that Bill Clinton had had over the course of his career.
约翰·哈里斯，记者：除了希拉里·克林顿之外，他是比尔·克林顿职业生涯中最重要的政治顾问。
He was there for the very first election to governor in 1978, and had been with Bill Clinton for most of the Arkansas gubernatorial years.
1978 年，他在那里参加了第一次州长选举，并在阿肯色州州长任期的大部分时间里与比尔·克林顿 (Bill Clinton) 在一起。
Narrator: Morris set up shop in the White House and began to chair weekly strategy meetings that were attended by most of the president's senior staff.
旁白：莫里斯在白宫开设了办事处，并开始主持每周一次的战略会议，总统的大多数高级幕僚都参加了会议。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: Clinton typically dominates any group or discussion that he's in.
哈罗德·伊克斯，副参谋长：克林顿通常在他所在的任何团体或讨论中占据主导地位。
In the meetings on the second floor of the residence, which we had every week, Clinton would literally sit there for an hour sometimes hardly saying a word, listening to Morris.
在我们每周在官邸二楼举行的会议中，克林顿实际上会坐上一个小时，有时几乎不说一句话，听莫里斯讲话。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: When I first started to work for Clinton in the White House he had two big negatives, a third of the country thought he was immoral and a third of the country thought he was weak, and I basically went to him and I said I can't do much about the immoral, but we sure can solve the weak.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：当我第一次开始在白宫为克林顿工作时，他有两大负面因素，三分之一的人认为他不道德，三分之一的人认为他软弱，我基本上去找他，我说我对不道德的人无能为力，但我们确实可以解决弱者。
And therefore we embarked on a conscious strategy of making sure people saw Clinton as strong.
因此，我们采取了有意识的策略，确保人们认为克林顿很强大。
Narrator: The heart of Morris' operation was his polling, which he used to diagnose where Clintons' weaknesses lay and how he could correct them.
旁白：莫里斯行动的核心是他的民意调查，他用民意调查来诊断克林顿的弱点所在以及他如何纠正这些弱点。
John Harris, Journalist: Polling became absolutely central.
约翰·哈里斯（John Harris），记者：民意调查成为绝对中心。
How do we present ourselves as an alternative to Newt Gingrich?
我们如何将自己展示为纽特·金里奇的替代者？
How are people seeing the president?
人们如何看待总统？
What sort of policies would make them feel better about Bill Clinton?
什么样的政策会让他们对比尔·克林顿感觉更好？
Joe Klein, Journalist: They polled everything.
记者 Joe Klein：他们对一切进行了民意调查。
They polled every last word that came out of his mouth.
他们调查了他嘴里说的每一个字。
They polled where he should go on vacation!
他们投票选出他应该去哪里度假！
Instead of going to Martha's Vineyard, that elite island off the coast of Massachusetts, they had him riding a horse in Wyoming.
他们没有去马萨诸塞州海岸附近的玛莎葡萄园岛，而是让他在怀俄明州骑马。
I mean, I think Bill Clinton's allergic to horses.
我的意思是，我认为比尔·克林顿对马过敏。
But that's what the focus group said would be a more acceptable vacation.
但这就是焦点小组所说的更容易接受的假期。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: One of the big problems was the relationship between Bill and Hillary.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：最大的问题之一是比尔和希拉里之间的关系。
Voters thought that it was a zero sum game, that for Hillary to be strong Bill would have to be weak, and as a result the perception of Hillary's strength became a perception of Bill's weakness.
选民认为这是一场零和游戏，希拉里要强大，比尔就必须弱，结果，对希拉里强势的看法变成了对比尔弱势的看法。
The polling made me understand that, and when I came back to work for Clinton, one of the first things I did was to tell Hillary you can be as influential as you want to be but do it in private.
民意调查让我明白了这一点，当我回来为克林顿工作时，我做的第一件事就是告诉希拉里，你可以随心所欲地发挥影响力，但要私下进行。
Don't sit in on the strategy meetings, don't make the appointments, don't make everybody be cleared with you.
不要旁听战略会议，不要进行约会，不要让每个人都与你打交道。
At the bedroom at night tell him what to do but don't let it be seen in public.
晚上在卧室告诉他该怎么做，但不要让它在公共场合看到。
Narrator: Morris' advice hit home.
旁白：莫里斯的建议击中了要害。
After the stunning defeat in the mid-term elections, Hillary had received a large share of the blame.
中期选举惨败后，希拉里受到了很大的指责。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: She was outspoken, she was smart, she was hard driving, and some people resented her.
哈罗德·伊克斯（Harold Ickes），副参谋长：她直言不讳，她很聪明，她干劲十足，但有些人讨厌她。
Remember during the campaign, it was two for the price of one, well people aren't electing two for the price of one.
请记住，在竞选期间，以一名的价格选举两名，但人们不会以一名的价格选举两名。
They're electing the president .
他们正在选举总统。
Gail Sheehy, Writer: She had been caught out trying to be a co-President.
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：她因试图担任联合总统而被发现。
That just wasn't gonna fly, and that's when she had to begin to really reexamine, again as she did as Governor's wife, what does the public want from me in this role and to take on gradually a little bit more of the traditional role of First Lady.
那是不可能的，那时她必须开始真正重新审视，就像她作为州长妻子所做的那样，公众对我这个角色的期望是什么，并逐渐承担更多的第一夫人的传统角色。
Hillary Clinton (archival): Well, Welcome to the White House and the beginning of the Christmas Season, here.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：好吧，欢迎来到白宫，圣诞节季节就在这里开始。
Narrator: Unsatisfied by her ceremonial role as first lady, Hillary began working on issues important to her, but not alarming to the public.
旁白：希拉里对自己作为第一夫人的礼仪角色不满意，开始致力于解决对她来说很重要但不会引起公众恐慌的问题。
She began writing a book about children and traveled abroad with Chelsea to advocate for women's rights.
她开始写一本关于儿童的书，并与切尔西一起出国倡导妇女权利。
She wrote a weekly syndicated column, and even consulted a psychic in the White House.
她每周撰写一篇联合专栏，甚至咨询了白宫的通灵者。
But, it wasn't enough.
但是，这还不够。
Gail Sheehy, Writer: She felt for one of the rare times in her life completely depressed.
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：这是她一生中罕见的完全沮丧的时刻之一。
She said everything that she was doing wasn't working, she just didn't know what to do anymore, 'cause she really wanted to be in there right at Bill Clinton's side, fighting all the political battles that he was doing.
她说她所做的一切都不起作用，她只是不知道该做什么了，因为她真的很想站在比尔·克林顿一边，参加他正在进行的所有政治斗争。
Newt Gingrich (archival): The president wants to defend Washington bureaucracy, Washington red tape, and Washington spending, and higher taxes to pay for less out of Washington!
纽特·金里奇（档案）：总统想要捍卫华盛顿的官僚机构、华盛顿的繁文缛节、华盛顿的支出以及华盛顿的高税收！
Narrator: While the Clintons struggled to find their way back from the political wilderness, their rival, Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, was dominating politics in Washington.
旁白：当克林顿夫妇努力从政治荒野中寻找出路时，他们的对手、共和党众议院议长纽特·金里奇正在主导华盛顿的政治。
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参议员。
Trent Lott, (R) Mississippi: I think Newt felt like he had led a great revolution and led the House and the Senate for that matter to victory, and that he could, we could be the, you know, the driving force in this city, and that he was, in effect, comparable or equal to the President.
密西西比州特伦特·洛特（Trent Lott，R）：我认为纽特感觉自己领导了一场伟大的革命，并领导众议院和参议院取得了胜利，他可以，我们可以成为这个城市的驱动力，而且他实际上可以与总统相媲美或平等。
Narrator: Gingrich and his newly elected army of Republican representatives, quickly passed bill after bill from their "Contract with America." Sensing his strength, Gingrich was intent on drawing Clinton into a political showdown that would determine -- once and for all -- who was in charge.
旁白：金里奇和他新当选的共和党代表大军迅速通过了《与美国的契约》中的一项又一项法案。金里奇感受到了自己的力量，一心想把克林顿拉入一场政治摊牌，从而一劳永逸地决定谁是掌权者。
In the Spring of 1995, Gingrich picked his battleground.
1995年春天，金里奇选择了他的战场。
Tony Blankley, Republican Strategist: I think the central issue that we challenged the Clinton administration on was the budget.
共和党策略师托尼·布兰克利：我认为我们向克林顿政府提出挑战的核心问题是预算。
We wanted to balance the budget.
我们想要平衡预算。
We thought that was the most important domestic policy issue that existed in the country, and it was gonna be ugly, as all deficit fights inevitably are.
我们认为这是该国存在的最重要的国内政策问题，而且它会很丑陋，因为所有赤字斗争都不可避免地如此。
Newt Gingrich (archival): What you currently have is a system designed to be a centralized bureaucracy.
纽特·金里奇（档案）：你们目前拥有的是一个旨在成为中央集权官僚机构的系统。
Narrator: In May, Gingrich unveiled a plan to eliminate the federal budget deficit in seven years through huge cuts in government spending.
旁白：五月，金里奇公布了一项计划，通过大幅削减政府支出，在七年内消除联邦预算赤字。
Most of the cuts would be concentrated in two government health insurance programs: Medicare and Medicaid.
大部分削减将集中在两个政府健康保险计划：医疗保险和医疗补助。
Gingrich had managed to shift the focus of power and media attention from Clinton to himself.
金里奇成功地将权力和媒体关注的焦点从克林顿身上转移到了自己身上。
Chris Jennings, Health Care Advisor: Washington and the media is all about the new flavor of the month.
克里斯·詹宁斯 (Chris Jennings)，医疗保健顾问：华盛顿和媒体都在关注本月的新口味。
And the new flavor of the month was not the Clinton administration.
这个月的新风尚不是克林顿政府。
I mean, you had Newt Gingrich.
我的意思是，你有纽特·金里奇。
I mean, he was a powerful, charismatic figure who had an answer to every question.
我的意思是，他是一个强大、有魅力的人物，对每个问题都有答案。
Newt Gingrich (archival): There are three themes that define where we are right now.
Newt Gingrich（档案）：三个主题定义了我们现在所处的位置。
Chris Jennings, Health Care Advisor: And he not only wasn't afraid to talk, he longed to talk.
克里斯·詹宁斯（Chris Jennings），医疗保健顾问：他不仅不害怕说话，而且渴望说话。
His problem was, over time he talked too much.
他的问题是，随着时间的推移，他说得太多了。
Narrator: With Gingrich in the spotlight, Clinton seemed increasingly peripheral.
旁白：随着金里奇成为众人瞩目的焦点，克林顿似乎变得越来越边缘化。
Joe Klein, Journalist: April 18th, 1995.
Joe Klein，记者：1995 年 4 月 18 日。
Bill Clinton gives a press conference, and we're all over him about his lack of power.
比尔·克林顿（Bill Clinton）召开新闻发布会，我们都在关注他缺乏权力。
Newt's running the town!
纽特正在管理这个小镇！
Newt's in control!
纽特掌控一切！
Jean, Reporter (archival): President Clinton, Republicans have dominated political debate in this country since they took over Congress in January, and even tonight two of the major television networks declined to broadcast this event live.
记者吉恩（档案）：克林顿总统，自从一月份接管国会以来，共和党人一直主导着这个国家的政治辩论，甚至今晚两家主要电视网络都拒绝现场直播这一活动。
Do you worry about making sure that your voice is heard in the coming months?
您是否担心在接下来的几个月里确保您的声音被听到？
Joe Klein, Journalist: Clinton is forced to say that the President is still relevant here.
乔·克莱因（Joe Klein），记者：克林顿被迫说总统在这里仍然具有重要意义。
Bill Clinton (archival): The Constitution gives me relevance, the power of our ideas give me relevance, the record we have built up over the last two years and the things we are trying to implement it give it relevance.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：宪法赋予了我相关性，我们的想法的力量赋予了我相关性，我们在过去两年中建立的记录以及我们正在努力实施的事情赋予了它相关性。
The President is relevant here.
总统在这里很重要。
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: : It was awful.
Dee Dee Myers，新闻秘书： ：太糟糕了。
You know, 'The President is still relevant.' Just the fact that he felt compelled to say those words says everything?
你知道，“总统仍然具有重要意义。”他觉得有必要说这些话就说明了一切吗？
Bill Clinton (archival): I am willing to work with Republicans.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我愿意与共和党人合作。
The question is, what happens now?
问题是，现在会发生什么？
Newscaster (archival): About a third of the building has been blown away.
新闻播音员（档案）：大约三分之一的建筑物被炸毁。
Sidney Blumenthal, Advisor: The next day, on April 19th, the bomb went off at Oklahoma City.
顾问西德尼·布卢门撒尔：第二天，即 4 月 19 日，炸弹在俄克拉荷马城爆炸。
It was the largest domestic terrorist event in American history.
这是美国历史上最大规模的国内恐怖事件。
That changed everything.
这改变了一切。
Bill Clinton (archival): The bombing in Oklahoma City was an attack on innocent children and defenseless citizens.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：俄克拉荷马城的爆炸事件是对无辜儿童和手无寸铁的公民的袭击。
It was an act of cowardice and it was evil.
这是一种懦弱的行为，也是一种邪恶的行为。
The United States will not tolerate it, and I will not allow the people of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards.
美国不会容忍，我也不会允许这个国家的人民被邪恶的懦夫恐吓。
Narrator: Within 48 hours of the incident, the FBI arrested 26-year-old Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier with a burning hatred for the government.
旁白：事件发生后 48 小时内，FBI 逮捕了 26 岁的蒂莫西·麦克维 (Timothy McVeigh)，他是一名对政府怀有强烈仇恨的退伍军人。
His massive truck bomb, detonated outside the Murrah Federal Building, killed 149 workers, along with 19 children.
他的大型卡车炸弹在默拉联邦大楼外引爆，造成 149 名工人和 19 名儿童死亡。
Four days after the bombing, Clinton traveled to Oklahoma City to console the mourners.
爆炸发生四天后，克林顿前往俄克拉荷马城安慰哀悼者。
Don Baer, Speechwriter: I went with him down to Oklahoma City for that Sunday morning on the flight, we worked on the speech some more.
唐·贝尔（Don Baer），演讲撰稿人：周日早上我和他一起去俄克拉荷马城，在飞机上，我们又做了一些演讲。
He was very focused on what to say.
他非常专注于要说什么。
I remember we went into what I think they call the Cow Palace, and I've never been in a setting that was as eerily silent as that one was except for the sound of sobbing.
我记得我们进入了我认为他们称之为“牛宫”的地方，我从来没有去过一个像那里一样安静得可怕的地方，除了抽泣的声音。
Robert McNeely: He stood there for hours and met with every single person and talked to everybody.
罗伯特·麦克尼利：他在那里站了几个小时，会见了每一个人，并与每个人交谈。
It's kind of a throwaway line now, I feel your pain, but he literally could.
现在这已经是一句废话了，我能感受到你的痛苦，但他确实能感受到。
I mean he could take people and just hug them and connect to them in a way and really listen to them.
我的意思是，他可以带人拥抱他们，以某种方式与他们联系，真正倾听他们的声音。
Bill Clinton (archival): You have lost too much, but you have not lost everything.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：你失去了太多，但你并没有失去一切。
And you have certainly not lost America, for we will stand with you.
你们当然没有失去美国，因为我们将与你们站在一起。
Peter Baker, Journalist: He really found a way to embrace the country to help them channel their grief, their confusion.
记者彼得·贝克（Peter Baker）：他确实找到了一种拥抱这个国家的方法，帮助他们缓解悲伤和困惑。
It gets him out of the mode of reacting to Congress and into the mode of being a national leader, the person that the country can look to for assurance and reliance and strength.
这让他摆脱了对国会做出反应的模式，进入了成为国家领导人的模式，成为国家可以寻求保证、依赖和力量的人。
Bill Clinton (archival): To all my fellow Americans beyond this hall, I say, one thing we owe those who have sacrificed is the duty to purge ourselves of the dark forces which gave rise to this evil.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：对于在这个大厅之外的所有美国同胞，我想说，我们欠那些牺牲者的一件事就是有责任清除导致这种邪恶的黑暗势力。
Michael Waldman, Speechwriter: He spoke to the country as a unifying, a healing figure.
迈克尔·沃尔德曼（Michael Waldman），演讲撰稿人：他对这个国家来说是一个团结、治愈的人物。
But, very subtly and appropriately, he also drew attention to the fact that the rhetoric Timothy McVeigh was using was not all that different from the rhetoric that the talk show hosts and the militias and even some of the members of congress were using.
但是，他也非常巧妙而恰当地提请人们注意这样一个事实：蒂莫西·麦克维所使用的言论与脱口秀主持人、民兵甚至一些国会议员所使用的言论并没有太大不同。
Bill Clinton (archival): Let us teach our children that the God of comfort is also the God of righteousness: Those who trouble their own house will inherit the wind.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：让我们教导我们的孩子，安慰的神也是公义的神：那些给自己的房子添麻烦的人将继承风。
Don Baer, Speechwriter: Here was a President who had been by many people deemed not to be strong, who suddenly was being viewed as both sensitive and strong which was a great and very powerful combination.
唐·贝尔（Don Baer），演讲撰稿人：这位总统曾被许多人视为不坚强，但突然被视为既敏感又坚强，这是一个伟大而强大的组合。
At that moment, perhaps for the first moment, he inhabited the presidency.
在那一刻，也许是他第一次担任总统。
Narrator: Bill Clinton had begun to find his voice at home, but he commanded little respect on the international stage.
旁白：比尔·克林顿开始在国内发出自己的声音，但他在国际舞台上几乎没有受到尊重。
For two years, Clinton had stumbled through a series of foreign policy mishaps.
两年来，克林顿遭遇了一系列外交政策失误。
An ill-considered action in Somalia had cost the lives of 18 U.S. soldiers and deterred the President from asserting American military power around the world.
在索马里的一次考虑不周的行动导致 18 名美国士兵丧生，并阻止了总统在世界各地宣扬美国军事力量。
Without strong U.S. leadership, the world's problems were reaching a critical state.
如果没有美国的强有力领导，世界问题将达到危急状态。
In central Europe, Bosnian Serbs had begun wiping out the largely Muslim population in their own country.
在中欧，波斯尼亚塞族人已经开始消灭本国境内以穆斯林为主的人口。
Christiane Amanpour, Journalist: In 1995, the massacres in Bosnia were in full swing -- daily rivers of blood.
记者 Christiane Amanpour：1995 年，波斯尼亚的大屠杀如火如荼地进行着——每天都是血流成河。
Really, it was appalling.
真的，这太可怕了。
After two years of this kind of savagery, Bill Clinton had a disaster on his hands.
经过两年的这种野蛮行径后，比尔·克林顿面临着一场灾难。
This was genocide in Europe.
这是欧洲的种族灭绝。
Narrator: Since becoming president, Clinton had deferred to European countries with soldiers in Bosnia as part of the United Nations peacekeeping operation.
旁白：自就任总统以来，克林顿一直听从欧洲国家在波斯尼亚派遣士兵的建议，作为联合国维和行动的一部分。
Kofi Annan, U.N.
科菲·安南，联合国
Secretary-General: One has to understand that when you are in a peace-keeping operation, which is an international effort, one president cannot call the shots.
秘书长（以英语发言）：人们必须明白，当你参与一项国际努力的维和行动时，一个总统不能发号施令。
One president cannot take the decision.
一位总统不能做出决定。
Particularly when the president's country has no troops on the ground.
特别是当总统的国家没有驻军的时候。
Narrator: Clinton's reluctance to send American soldiers to Bosnia collided with growing calls for U.S. intervention.
旁白：克林顿不愿派遣美国士兵前往波斯尼亚，这与要求美国干预的呼声日益高涨相冲突。
Elie Wiesel (archival): Mr. President, I cannot not tell you something.
埃利·维塞尔（档案）：总统先生，我不能不告诉你一些事情。
I have been in the former Yugoslavia.
我去过前南斯拉夫。
You must do something to stop the bloodshed in that country!
你必须做点什么来阻止那个国家的流血事件！
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: The ongoing scenes of this horrific genocidal slaughter going on by the Serbs against the Muslims was just undermining Clinton's image day after day.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：塞尔维亚人对穆斯林进行的可怕种族灭绝屠杀的场面日复一日地损害着克林顿的形象。
Clinton would complain, 'The media's trying to force me into a war and I don't want it, I'm not going to go into my own Vietnam.' And every night these images came on the screen.
克林顿会抱怨说，“媒体试图迫使我参加战争，但我不希望这样，我不会参加我自己的越南。”每天晚上这些图像都会出现在屏幕上。
Narrator: The violence in Bosnia reached a climax in the summer of 1995.
旁白：1995年夏天，波斯尼亚的暴力事件达到了高潮。
A new set of European leaders implored Clinton to act.
新一届欧洲领导人恳求克林顿采取行动。
"The position of leader of the free world," complained French President Jacques Chirac "is vacant."
法国总统雅克·希拉克抱怨说，“自由世界领袖的职位空缺”。
Privately, Clinton had begun to rethink his policy.
私下里，克林顿已经开始重新考虑他的政策。
Haunted by his failure to stop a genocide in Rwanda the previous year, he could no longer stand idly by.
前一年未能阻止卢旺达发生的种族灭绝事件让他深受困扰，他不能再袖手旁观。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: Finally the President set up a trip wire where if the Bosnian Serbs attacked it would trigger a massive NATO military response.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：最后，总统设置了一条绊线，如果波斯尼亚塞族人发动袭击，就会引发北约的大规模军事反应。
Narrator: On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb soldiers overran the city of Srebrenica and murdered more than 8,000 defenseless men and boys.
旁白：1995年7月11日，波斯尼亚塞族士兵占领了斯雷布雷尼察市，杀害了8000多名手无寸铁的男子和男孩。
Kofi Annan, U.N.
科菲·安南，联合国
Secretary-General: That was a real shock for everyone.
秘书长：这对每个人来说都是一个真正的震惊。
And for that to happen in Europe, many decades after World War II, was something that nobody could sit back and swallow.
二战后数十年，这种情况在欧洲发生，是任何人都无法袖手旁观的事情。
Narrator: For Clinton, the wire had been tripped.
旁白：对于克林顿来说，电线已经被绊倒了。
On August 30th, fighter planes from NATO bases across Europe, acting on the president's go-ahead, launched a massive attack against Serbs in Bosnia called "Operation Deliberate Force."
8月30日，来自欧洲各地北约基地的战斗机在总统的批准下，对波斯尼亚的塞族人发动了名为“蓄意部队行动”的大规模攻击。
Richard A.
理查德·A.
Clarke, National Security Coordinator: He didn't blink.
国家安全协调员克拉克：他没有眨眼。
And there wasn't tension on him, there wasn't pressure on him, he wasn't sweating and worrying about did I do the right thing?
他没有紧张，没有压力，他没有出汗，也没有担心我做对了吗？
And we knew then, we knew that day, that we had a commander-in-chief who was rational and comfortable with the use of force.
我们当时就知道，那天我们就知道，我们有一位理性且乐于使用武力的总司令。
Narrator: For the next two weeks, NATO pilots flew 3,500 sorties, as millions around the world watched the air war unfold on television.
旁白：在接下来的两周里，北约飞行员飞行了 3,500 架次，全世界数百万人通过电视观看了空战。
Reporter (archival audio): The NATO action began early this morning, the harsh light of fires and explosions coloring the night sky.
记者（档案音频）：北约的行动今天凌晨开始，刺眼的火焰和爆炸的光芒照亮了夜空。
Some people watched the bombardment from their houses, but after more than 10,000 deaths here in the last few years most Sarajevans had given up any hope of outside intervention.
有些人在家中观看了轰炸，但在过去几年里，这里有超过 10,000 人死亡，大多数萨拉热窝人已经放弃了任何外部干预的希望。
Last night it came on a scale, which could yet change the course of this war.
昨晚，其规模之大可能会改变这场战争的进程。
Narrator: On September 14, Serbian guns ringing Sarajevo fell silent.
旁白：9月14日，萨拉热窝的塞尔维亚枪声归于沉寂。
Two months later, Clinton convened the warring parties in Dayton, Ohio to negotiate an end to hostilities.
两个月后，克林顿在俄亥俄州代顿召集交战各方谈判结束敌对行动。
Bill Clinton (archival): The parties have agreed to put down their arms and roll up their sleeves and work for peace...
比尔·克林顿（档案）：各方已同意放下武器，卷起袖子，为和平而努力……
Christiane Amanpour, Journalist: Finally when you got tough and you said, "enough already, we don't accept genocide at the end of the 20th century in our backyard," they got serious and it stopped, and then the United States, not the Europeans led the Dayton Peace Process.
克里斯蒂安·阿曼普尔（Christiane Amanpour），记者：最后，当你表现得强硬起来，说“已经够了，我们不接受20世纪末在我们后院发生的种族灭绝”时，他们变得严肃起来，事情就停止了，然后是美国，而不是欧洲人领导了代顿和平进程。
And to this day, imperfect as it may be, it has held.
直到今天，尽管它可能不完美，但它仍然有效。
Narrator: The Dayton Peace Accords were a triumph for Clinton's foreign policy and restored his standing as leader of the free world.
旁白：《代顿和平协议》是克林顿外交政策的胜利，恢复了他作为自由世界领袖的地位。
The same month, he visited the troubled country of Northern Ireland where crowds hailed him as a peacemaker.
同月，他访问了陷入困境的北爱尔兰国家，那里的人们称赞他是和平缔造者。
Bill Clinton (archival): The young people of Northern Ireland -- Catholic and Protestant alike -- made it clear to me not only with their words, but by the expressions on their faces that they want peace.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：北爱尔兰的年轻人——无论是天主教徒还是新教徒——不仅通过言语，而且通过他们脸上的表情向我表明，他们想要和平。
Narrator: After three years as president, he had developed a new vision of America's interests abroad.
旁白：担任总统三年后，他对美国的海外利益制定了新的愿景。
It would come to be known as "The Clinton Doctrine."
它后来被称为“克林顿主义”。
Bill Clinton (archival): It's easy to say that we really have no interests in who lives in this or that valley in Bosnia, or who owns a strip of brush land in the Horn of Africa, or some piece of parched earth by the Jordan River.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：很容易说，我们真的对谁住在波斯尼亚的这个或那个山谷里，或者谁拥有非洲之角的一片灌木丛，或者约旦河边的一块干涸的土地没有兴趣。
But the true measure of our interests lies not in how small or distant these places are, or in whether we have trouble pronouncing their names.
但衡量我们兴趣的真正标准并不在于这些地方有多小或多远，或者我们是否难以发音它们的名字。
The question we must ask is, what are the consequences to our security of letting conflicts fester and spread?
我们必须问的问题是，如果任由冲突恶化和蔓延，会对我们的安全造成什么后果？
We cannot, indeed, we should not, do everything or be everywhere.
我们不能，事实上，我们不应该做所有事情或无处不在。
But where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must be prepared to do so.
但当我们的价值观和利益受到威胁时，当我们能够发挥作用时，我们必须做好准备。
Gen.
将军
Wesley K.
韦斯利·K.
Clark, Military Advisor: There was a Clinton Doctrine, but it wasn't purely a military doctrine: it was a national security doctrine.
克拉克，军事顾问：有一个克林顿主义，但它不仅仅是一个军事主义：它是一个国家安全主义。
President Clinton thought the United States is an indispensible nation.
克林顿总统认为美国是一个不可或缺的国家。
You can't do things without the United States.
没有美国，你就无法做事。
It may not be only the United States, and it's certainly not doing it alone.
可能不仅仅是美国，而且肯定不是单独这样做的。
But it's the United States that brings the decisive edge in being able to get things done.
但美国在完成任务方面具有决定性优势。
And, that where you can make a difference, you should.
而且，在你可以做出改变的地方，你应该这样做。
Newt Gingrich (archival): In the latest poll I saw, 86 percent of the American people said, 'Balance the budget now: don't wait, don't postpone, don't give us promises.'
纽特·金里奇（档案）：在我看到的最新民意调查中，86％的美国人说，“现在就平衡预算：不要等待，不要推迟，不要给我们承诺。”
Narrator: Even as Clinton brought peace to Europe, the ideological war at home was heating up: Speaker Newt Gingrich was standing by his balanced budget proposal, daring the president to veto it.
旁白：即使克林顿给欧洲带来了和平，国内的意识形态战争也在升温：议长纽特·金里奇坚持他的平衡预算提案，敢于让总统否决它。
Once again, Clinton hoped to use his powers of persuasion to end the impasse.
克林顿再次希望利用自己的说服力来结束僵局。
Leon Panetta, Chief of Staff: He was thinking, 'What I'm gonna do, is I'm gonna capture these guys.
莱昂·帕内塔，参谋长：他在想，‘我要做的就是抓住这些人。
Because A, I'm smarter than they are, and B, that's my whole life's learning, is how to capture people.
因为A，我比他们聪明，B，那就是我一生的学习，就是如何俘获别人的心。
And I'm gonna do it through sheer force of personality.
我将通过纯粹的个性力量来做到这一点。
I can sit down with Newt Gingrich, I can sit down with the devil himself, and I can cut a deal.'
我可以和纽特·金里奇坐下来，我可以和魔鬼本人坐下来，我可以达成协议。
Narrator: Gingrich would not yield to Clinton's charms.
旁白：金里奇不会屈服于克林顿的魅力。
Unless the president agreed to huge cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, Congress would refuse to appropriate money for the federal government, shutting it down.
除非总统同意大幅削减医疗保险和医疗补助，否则国会将拒绝为联邦政府拨款，从而导致联邦政府关闭。
Tony Blankley, Republican Strategist: The one thing that the House of Representatives has is the power of the purse.
托尼·布兰克利，共和党策略师：众议院拥有的一件事就是财力。
We can deny money.
我们可以拒绝金钱。
It is the only thing that the House of Representatives alone can do, can refuse to vote an appropriation.
这是众议院唯一可以做的事情，可以拒绝对拨款进行投票。
So inevitably, whatever the fight was going to be, it was going to come down to us denying the White House money.
因此，无论这场斗争是什么，都不可避免地会归结为我们拒绝向白宫提供资金。
Narrator: Clinton seemed caught between two toxic political choices: if he opposed Gingrich's balanced budget plan, he would be portrayed as a defender of big government deficits; if he gave in, he would effectively cede control of the government to Gingrich and the Republicans.
旁白：克林顿似乎陷入了两个有毒的政治选择：如果他反对金里奇的平衡预算计划，他就会被描绘成巨额政府赤字的捍卫者；如果他反对金里奇的平衡预算计划，他就会被描绘成巨额政府赤字的捍卫者；如果他屈服，他实际上会将政府控制权让给金里奇和共和党。
But there was a third option.
但还有第三种选择。
Dick Morris had been polling the Republicans' proposed budget cuts and believed he had found an opening.
迪克·莫里斯一直在对共和党提议的预算削减进行民意调查，并相信他找到了一个机会。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: I did a poll for Clinton where I tested each of those cuts and its impact, and I said to him, 'Do you want the four hour briefing or the one word briefing?' And he said start with the one word, I said 'Medicare.' I said you, none of the other cuts are nearly as important as the cut they're proposing in Medicare.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：我为克林顿做了一项民意调查，测试了每一项削减及其影响，然后我对他说，“你想要四小时的简报还是一个字的简报？”他说从一个词开始，我说“医疗保险”。我对你说，其他任何削减都没有他们提议的医疗保险削减那么重要。
Narrator: The public supported a balanced budget, Morris argued, but not at the expense of their most cherished federal program.
旁白：莫里斯认为，公众支持平衡预算，但不会以牺牲他们最珍视的联邦计划为代价。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: I said that's what's important is that you take away from the Republicans the balanced budget issue.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：我说过，重要的是你要从共和党手中夺走平衡预算问题。
If you can show how you can balance the budget without cutting Medicare but by cutting everything else then you can call their bluff, and then all of a sudden it becomes a question of what do we cut not do we cut.
如果你能展示如何在不削减医疗保险的情况下平衡预算，但通过削减其他一切，那么你就可以揭穿他们的虚张声势，然后突然之间，问题就变成了我们削减什么而不是削减什么。
Narrator: Morris called his strategy: "triangulation." Clinton seized on it as a way to regain the initiative from the Republicans.
旁白：莫里斯称他的策略为“三角测量”。克林顿抓住这一机会，从共和党手中夺回主动权。
In June, over the strong objections of liberals on his staff, he announced his own balanced budget plan, protecting Medicare and Medicaid.
六月，他不顾幕僚中自由派的强烈反对，宣布了自己的平衡预算计划，保护医疗保险和医疗补助。
Bill Clinton (archival): There is an alternative, a way to balance this budget.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：还有一种替代方案，一种平衡预算的方法。
It's not that we shouldn't balance the budget.
这并不是说我们不应该平衡预算。
We should balance the budget.
我们应该平衡预算。
I strongly support it.
我强烈支持。
We ought to do that.
我们应该这样做。
I believe we're going to do that.
我相信我们会这么做的。
But we don't have to do it in a draconian way that hurts the American people.
但我们不必采取伤害美国人民的严厉方式。
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: : You know whether or not to balance the budget, we can't win that fight.
新闻秘书迪迪·迈尔斯 (Dee Dee Myers)：：你知道是否要平衡预算，但我们无法赢得这场战斗。
We're going to lose, but once you accept that we're going to balance the budget now let's have a fight about what we're going to cut and what we're going to protect.
我们将会失败，但是一旦你接受我们现在要平衡预算，我们就应该就我们要削减什么以及我们要保护什么进行斗争。
That's a fight we can win.
这是一场我们能够获胜的战斗。
Are you going to protect Medicare?
你会保护医疗保险吗？
Are you going to protect Social Security?
你要保护社会保障吗？
You want to shut down the government over that?
你想因此关闭政府吗？
Let's go.
我们走吧。
Narrator: In mid-November, with the issue of Medicare cuts still dividing the two sides, the federal government ran out of money and shut down.
旁白：11月中旬，由于医疗保险削减问题双方仍存在分歧，联邦政府资金耗尽并关闭。
Nearly a million federal employees were instantly furloughed; government offices closed; all but the most essential services ground to a halt.
近百万联邦雇员立即休假；政府办公室关闭；除最基本的服务外，所有服务都陷入停滞。
Voice recordings (archival audio): The Washington passport agency is closed for lack of funding...
录音（档案音频）：华盛顿护照机构因缺乏资金而关闭......
social security...
社会保障...
Library of Congress...
国会图书馆...
the National Park Service is closed indefinitely.
国家公园管理局无限期关闭。
Reporter (archival): If it ends soon the shutdown will have been a temporary inconvenience, but if prolonged it could cost the country a lot of anguish and many millions of dollars.
记者（档案）：如果很快结束，关闭将是暂时的不便，但如果延长，可能会给国家带来巨大的痛苦和数百万美元。
Peter Baker, Journalist: Clinton took a gamble, the biggest gamble of his presidency to that point in saying, 'No, I'm going to let the government shut down rather than accept the cuts that you're proposing here.'
记者彼得·贝克：克林顿赌了一把，这是他总统任期内最大的一场赌博，他说：“不，我会让政府关门，而不是接受你在这里提议的削减。”
Peter Jennings, NBC News (archival audio): Day three and nobody moves, least of all the 800,000 federal workers forced to stay home.
Peter Jennings，NBC 新闻（档案音频）：第三天，没有人搬家，尤其是 80 万名被迫呆在家里的联邦工作人员。
Bill Clinton (archival): The American people should not be held hostage any more to the Republican budget priorities.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：美国人民不应再受制于共和党预算优先事项。
Protest (archival): Work, work, put the government back to work.
抗议（档案）：工作，工作，让政府恢复工作。
Narrator: Through a first shutdown in November and then a longer one in December, neither Clinton nor Gingrich blinked.
旁白：经历了 11 月份的第一次政府停摆和 12 月份更长的停摆时间，克林顿和金里奇都没有眨眼。
It was high-stakes poker: whichever side was blamed for the shutdown would probably lose the next presidential election.
这是一场高风险的扑克游戏：无论哪一方因政府关门而受到指责，都可能会输掉下一次总统选举。
Tony Blankley, Republican Strategist: Our conviction was, ultimately, a president is held responsible for his government.
共和党策略师托尼·布兰克利：我们的信念是，最终，总统应对他的政府负责。
And that if we didn't blink, at some point the public would say, 'the president needs to get this government functioning.'
如果我们不眨眼，在某个时候公众会说，“总统需要让这个政府运转起来。”
Narrator: The pressure on the president was enormous.
旁白：总统的压力很大。
Every day, the political damage mounted: almost a billion dollars in lost wages, new Medicare and Social Security claims going unprocessed; the federal government unable to discharge even its most basic functions.
政治损失每天都在增加：近十亿美元的工资损失、新的医疗保险和社会保障索赔未得到处理；联邦政府甚至无法履行其最基本的职能。
And the confrontation played out on television every night.
这场对抗每晚都会在电视上播出。
Jane Pauley, NBC News (archival): Day 13 of the federal budget crisis and the shutdown that's brought parts of the government to a dead stop.
Jane Pauley，NBC 新闻（档案）：联邦预算危机和政府关门已经进入第 13 天，部分政府部门陷入了瘫痪。
The major players were all assembled in Washington today, and they were talking, but not to each other.
今天主要参与者都聚集在华盛顿，他们正在交谈，但不是互相交谈。
Newt Gingrich (archival): Now, one of the major problems we have in America is we have a President who doesn't mind playing, he doesn't mind talking, but he seems to hate working.
纽特·金里奇（档案）：现在，美国面临的主要问题之一是我们有一位不介意玩耍、不介意说话的总统，但他似乎讨厌工作。
We're working.
我们正在工作。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: This was all sui generis, this was completely new, nobody knew the temperament of the country, how it was going to play out.
副参谋长哈罗德·伊克斯：这都是自成一体的，这是全新的，没有人知道这个国家的气质，以及它将如何发展。
And it was literally hour by hour, certainly day by day.
这确实是一个小时一个小时，当然是一天一天。
Chris Jennings, Health Care Advisor: There was a fear by many Democrats, even some within the White House, who just thought, 'You know, he's not going to be able to say 'no' to them.
克里斯·詹宁斯，医疗保健顾问：许多民主党人，甚至白宫内部的一些人，都感到恐惧，他们只是想，‘你知道，他无法对他们说‘不’。
He wants to get along with them.
他想和他们和睦相处。
He thinks that's the way to save his Presidency.'
他认为这是挽救他总统职位的方法。
Narrator: With the government closed, Clinton prowled the empty halls of the White House, deprived of the human contact that he craved.
旁白：随着政府关闭，克林顿在白宫空荡荡的大厅里徘徊，他渴望的人际接触被剥夺了。
Among the few people permitted to come to work were the White House interns, including a 22-year-old named Monica Lewinsky.
白宫实习生是少数获准来上班的人之一，其中包括 22 岁的莫妮卡·莱温斯基 (Monica Lewinsky)。
The daughter of a Beverly Hills doctor and his socialite wife, Lewinsky was a graduate of Oregon's Lewis and Clarke College.
莱温斯基是比佛利山庄医生和名流妻子的女儿，毕业于俄勒冈州刘易斯和克拉克学院。
She had an air of confidence, even boldness that set her apart from her fellow interns.
她有一种自信，甚至大胆的气质，这使她与其他实习生区别开来。
On November 15th, the second day of the shut down, Clinton and Lewinsky struck up a conversation, in which Lewinsky confessed, "I have a huge crush on you."
11月15日，也就是政府关门的第二天，克林顿和莱温斯基进行了交谈，莱温斯基在谈话中坦言：“我非常迷恋你。”
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: There were, almost these sparks flying between them from that first moment when they saw each other, and as Monica said, 'He gave me the full Bill Clinton and undressed me with his eyes.'
法律学者肯·葛姆雷：从他们第一次见到对方的那一刻起，他们之间几乎就擦出了火花，正如莫妮卡所说，“他给了我完整的比尔·克林顿，并用他的眼睛脱下了我的衣服。”
Narrator: Hours later, the two had their first sexual encounter.
旁白：几个小时后，两人发生了第一次性接触。
William Chafe, Historian: It's almost as if there was a part of Bill Clinton that he had no control over.
历史学家威廉·查夫（William Chafe）：就好像比尔·克林顿的某个部分是他无法控制的。
That whenever it had the opportunity to come out, was gonna come out.
只要有机会出来，就会出来。
And with no forethought, with no calculation, with no sense of the consequences, it was simply gonna happen.
没有深思熟虑，没有计算，没有意识到后果，这一切就自然而然地发生了。
And that's terrifying.
这太可怕了。
Newscaster (archival): At this hour, U.S. President Bill Clinton is meeting with top Congressional leaders in another attempt to resolve their budget stand-off.
新闻播音员（档案）：此时，美国总统比尔·克林顿正在与国会高层领导人会面，试图解决他们的预算僵局。
Narrator: As Clinton recklessly pursued his affair with Lewinsky, he and Gingrich were locked in their own high-wire embrace.
旁白：当克林顿鲁莽地追求与莱温斯基的风流韵事时，他和金里奇陷入了他们自己的钢丝拥抱中。
The president compromise after compromise, but Gingrich would not budge.
总统不断妥协，但金里奇不肯让步。
Unless, Clinton agreed to his formula of budget and tax cuts, he would keep the government closed.
除非克林顿同意他的预算和减税方案，否则他将继续关闭政府。
Sidney Blumenthal, Adviser: They believed that he was soft, that he could be pushed around, and that they could have their way.
西德尼·布卢门撒尔（Sidney Blumenthal），顾问：他们相信他很软弱，可以任人摆布，他们可以为所欲为。
They believed that he lacked the confidence to stand up to them.
他们认为他缺乏与他们对抗的信心。
They believed they understood his psychology, and they thought that they had the political upper hand.
他们相信自己了解他的心理，并且认为自己在政治上占据了上风。
Narrator: Clinton sensed that his political enemies had overreached and were out of step with the American people.
旁白：克林顿意识到他的政敌做得太过分了，与美国人民格格不入。
Mark Penn, Pollster: It was our theory that we were gonna win if it got to this point.
马克·佩恩（Mark Penn），民意调查者：我们的理论是，如果达到这一点，我们就会获胜。
The polling showed it, we felt confident about it, we thought we had a winning hand.
民意调查显示了这一点，我们对此充满信心，我们认为我们有胜算。
People don't really hate the government; they just don't want the government spending too much money.
人们并不是真的憎恨政府；而是真正憎恨政府。他们只是不希望政府花太多钱。
They want the government doing the right things.
他们希望政府做正确的事。
And they don't want the government shutdown.
他们不希望政府关闭。
Bill Clinton (archival): As long as they insist on plunging ahead with a budget that violates our values, in a process that is characterized more by pressure than constitutional practice, I will fight it.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：只要他们坚持大力推行违反我们价值观的预算，而且这个过程更多地是通过压力而不是宪法实践，我就会与之抗争。
I am fighting it today, I will fight it tomorrow.
今天我要战斗，明天我也要战斗。
I will fight it next week, and next month.
我将在下周和下个月与之斗争。
I will fight it until we get a budget that is fair to all Americans.
我将与之抗争，直到我们获得对所有美国人都公平的预算。
Leon Panetta, Chief of Staff: There is a moment I will never forget in the Oval Office.
办公厅主任莱昂·帕内塔：在椭圆形办公室里有一个我永远不会忘记的时刻。
We had been going through negotiations on the budget.
我们一直在就预算进行谈判。
And there were some of us that were nervous that.
我们中有些人对此感到紧张。
President Clinton might go too far.
克林顿总统可能走得太远了。
That he might want to go so far in compromising that he might hurt himself politically.
他可能想要走得太远，以至于可能在政治上伤害自己。
And so we kept putting different offers on the table, and they kept coming back and saying, 'Not good enough, not good enough.'
所以我们不断地提出不同的报价，他们不断地回来说，“不够好，不够好。”
And we finally reached a day where he wanted to do one more compromise, one more step.
我们终于有一天，他想再做出一次妥协，再迈出一步。
And Newt Gingrich said, 'No.' And Bill Clinton basically looked at them and said, 'You know, Newt, I can't do what you want me to do.
纽特·金里奇说：“不。”比尔·克林顿基本上看着他们说，‘你知道，纽特，我不能做你想让我做的事。
I don't believe it's right for the country.
我认为这不适合这个国家。
And it may cost me the election, but I can't do it.'
这可能会让我失去选举机会，但我做不到。
And my first reaction was: he's drawn a line that he had to draw.
我的第一反应是：他已经画了一条他必须画的线。
He understood that he would have to take a risk of not winning, and winning was what he was always about.
他明白他必须冒着无法获胜的风险，而胜利就是他一直以来的追求。
From that moment I think in many ways it became a renewal of Bill Clinton, in terms of who he was, both within himself and with the American people.
从那一刻起，我认为从很多方面来说，这都成为了比尔·克林顿的更新，无论是在他本人还是在美国人民中。
Peter Jennings, NBC News (archival): As of last night, the public appeared to be more sympathetic to Mr. Clinton's position -- 46% blamed the Republicans, 27% Mr. Clinton.
彼得·詹宁斯，NBC 新闻（档案）：截至昨晚，公众似乎对克林顿先生的立场更加同情——46% 的人指责共和党，27% 的人指责克林顿先生。
Rep.
代表。
Peter King, (R) New York: Many traditional Americans, including some Republicans were outraged that a Speaker of the House would shut down the government.
彼得·金（右）纽约：许多传统美国人，包括一些共和党人，对众议院议长关闭政府感到愤怒。
You know, Newt Gingrich is not the president, he shouldn't be acting like he's the president.
你知道，纽特·金里奇不是总统，他不应该表现得像个总统。
Suddenly, Bill Clinton became the embodiment of traditional America.
突然之间，比尔·克林顿成为了传统美国的化身。
He's the president of the United States.
他是美国总统。
Whether you agree with him or not, no one had the right to shut down the government when he's the president.
无论你是否同意他的观点，当他担任总统时，没有人有权关闭政府。
Narrator: Finally, Senator Bob Dole -- worried that the shutdown would hurt his presidential campaign -- corralled the necessary votes in the Senate to reopen the government.
旁白：最后，参议员鲍勃·多尔（Bob Dole）担心政府关门会损害他的总统竞选活动，在参议院争取到了重新开放政府所需的投票。
Clinton had won.
克林顿赢了。
In the weeks that followed, Clinton staked out a middle ground between the two parties with a vision of government that was neither enemy, nor savior.
在接下来的几周里，克林顿在两党之间确立了中间立场，其愿景是政府既不是敌人，也不是救世主。
Bill Clinton (archival): The era of big government is over.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：大政府的时代已经结束。
But we cannot go back to the time when our citizens were left to fend for themselves.
但我们不能回到让我们的公民自生自灭的时代。
Michael Waldman, Speechwriter: It was a real change in his vision of how the presidency could work.
迈克尔·沃尔德曼（Michael Waldman），演讲撰稿人：这是他对总统职位如何运作的看法的真正改变。
He had started with this heroic notion of the presidency -- passing big laws, doing grand things, and then the public just rejected it.
他一开始就提出了总统任期的英雄理念——通过重大法律，做伟大的事情，然后公众就拒绝了。
It hit a brick wall of what the public thought of government.
它触及了公众对政府的看法。
And he realized that he had to change how he was president, and he had to re-build that public trust in government.
他意识到他必须改变他担任总统的方式，他必须重建公众对政府的信任。
Narrator: Capitalizing on his momentum, Clinton announced a stream of initiatives designed to show middle-class Americans that he understood -- and could improve -- their lives.
旁白：利用自己的势头，克林顿宣布了一系列举措，旨在向美国中产阶级表明他理解并能够改善他们的生活。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: After the government shutdown we adopted a political strategy based on one word, 'values,' and our concept was that we would help you raise your child better.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：政府关门后，我们采取了一项基于“价值观”一词的政治策略，我们的理念是我们将帮助您更好地抚养您的孩子。
Bill Clinton (archival): We have worked very hard to help communities fight crime.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我们非常努力地帮助社区打击犯罪。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: I'll provide you with drug free school zones, school uniforms, medical leave for your children.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：我将为您的孩子提供无毒学区、校服、病假。
Bill Clinton (archival): Reduce teen smoking by raising the price of cigarettes, putting into place tough restrictions on advertising.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：通过提高香烟价格、对广告实施严格限制来减少青少年吸烟。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: I'll give you all of these weapons to raise better children.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：我会给你所有这些武器来培养更好的孩子。
Bill Clinton (archival): This is a v-chip, and it will be required to be put in all new television sets.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：这是一个 v 芯片，所有新电视机都需要安装它。
Narrator: Not even the Republicans could stand in Clinton's way.
旁白：即使是共和党也无法阻止克林顿。
Sen.
参议员。
Trent Lott, (R) Mississippi: After trying to move heaven and earth, big swaths in his first two years, he started feeding us up small pieces of bills, and he'd get into our knickers with ideas that we really could not vote against: a hundred thousand cops on the street.
密西西比州特伦特·洛特（Trent Lott，R）：在他的头两年里，他试图改变天地，大范围地行动，之后他开始给我们喂小张的钞票，他会用我们真的无法投票反对的想法渗透到我们的内裤中：街上有十万名警察。
A Republican gonna' vote against more law enforcement officers?
共和党人会投票反对更多执法人员吗？
Narrator: It was a politics of the possible, not the things he dreamed of doing, but the things he could do.
旁白：这是一种可能性的政治，不是他梦想做的事情，而是他可以做的事情。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: He crafted a whole new view in American politics, literally a third way, a moderate way, and achieved the results the American people wanted.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：他在美国政治中提出了一种全新的观点，实际上是第三条道路，一种温和的道路，并实现了美国人民想要的结果。
Narrator: Three years into his first term, Clinton had pulled one of the greatest Houdini Acts in presidential history.
旁白：克林顿第一个任期三年后，就完成了总统历史上最伟大的胡迪尼法案之一。
With approval ratings on the rise, he could once again call himself "The Comeback Kid."
随着支持率的上升，他可以再次称自己为“东山再起的孩子”。
But as with nearly every Bill Clinton comeback it was soon followed by yet another scandal.
但就像比尔·克林顿几乎每一次复出一样，紧接着又发生了另一起丑闻。
Newscaster (archival): Yesterday a trove of documents from Mrs. Clinton's old law firm that various investigators issued subpoenas for months ago were suddenly discovered in the office of one of the Clinton's aides.
新闻播音员（档案）：昨天，在克林顿的一位助手的办公室里突然发现了克林顿夫人以前的律师事务所的大量文件，这些文件是几个月前各种调查人员发出传票的。
Narrator: In January, 1996, a sheaf of Hillary's old billing records was discovered in the private residence of the White House.
旁白：1996年1月，在白宫私人住宅中发现了一叠希拉里的旧帐单记录。
The documents showed that she had done legal work for her old friend Jim McDougal while he was engaged in fraudulent real estate deals in Arkansas.
文件显示，当她的老朋友吉姆·麦克杜格尔在阿肯色州从事欺诈性房地产交易时，她曾为他做过法律工作。
The Whitewater inquiry, which had receded from the front pages, suddenly came roaring back.
原本从头版消失的白水调查突然又卷土重来。
Reporter (archival): There is the issue of why it took the White House so long to turn up the billing records.
记者（档案）：有一个问题是白宫为什么花了这么长时间才公布账单记录。
Man (archival): This is a pattern: delay, deception, withhold.
男子（档案）：这是一种模式：拖延、欺骗、隐瞒。
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: The discovery of the billing records for Hillary Clinton's work for Jim McDougal and Madison Guaranty, was explosive.
法律学者肯·葛姆雷：希拉里·克林顿为吉姆·麦克杜格尔和麦迪逊担保公司工作的账单记录的发现是爆炸性的。
Everyone had been looking for those billing records.
每个人都在寻找那些账单记录。
There were subpoenas all over the place to turn those over.
到处都有传票要求交出这些文件。
And then all of a sudden, they just show up.
然后突然间，他们就出现了。
Ken Starr (archival): Our job is to get at the truth and the truth will speak for itself so thank you very much.
肯·斯塔尔（档案）：我们的工作是了解真相，而真相会不言而喻，所以非常感谢。
Narrator: The Whitewater inquiry was now in the hands of a new independent counsel.
旁白：白水事件的调查现在由新的独立律师负责。
Kenneth Starr had been appointed by a panel of conservative judges to replace Robert Fiske.
保守派法官小组任命肯尼思·斯塔尔接替罗伯特·菲斯克。
Starr was a respected jurist and former official in the Bush Administration.
斯塔尔是一位受人尊敬的法学家，也是布什政府的前官员。
At first, his appointment caused little consternation in the White House.
起初，他的任命并没有在白宫引起什么惊愕。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: The jury was out initially because Starr had quite a sterling reputation.
哈罗德·伊克斯（Harold Ickes），副参谋长：陪审团最初没有做出决定，因为斯塔尔享有很高的声誉。
He was well known in judicial circles.
他在司法界很有名。
He was not rabid.
他并不狂热。
He was considered a very good conservative but very good court of appeals justice, so people were hopeful.
他被认为是一位非常优秀的保守派但非常出色的上诉法院法官，因此人们充满希望。
Narrator: In fact, however, Starr would prove to be a far more aggressive independent counsel than his predecessor.
旁白：然而，事实证明，斯塔尔是一位比他的前任更具进取心的独立律师。
Unlike Fiske, who determined to finish his work quickly, Starr would follow his investigation wherever it led, no matter the cost in time or money.
与菲斯克决心迅速完成工作不同，斯塔尔会跟随他的调查，无论调查结果如何，无论时间或金钱成本如何。
Max Brantley, Journalist: I came to believe it was a persecution, not a prosecution.
马克斯·布兰特利（Max Brantley），记者：我开始相信这是一场迫害，而不是起诉。
It was an investigation in search of a crime, which is not how investigations are supposed to work.
这是一次寻找犯罪行为的调查，这不是调查应有的方式。
They were not investigating an allegation of a crime.
他们不是在调查犯罪指控。
They were looking for a crime.
他们正在寻找犯罪行为。
Narrator: To Starr, the sudden appearance of Hillary's billing records seemed anything but accidental.
旁白：对于斯塔尔来说，希拉里账单记录的突然出现似乎绝非偶然。
Ken Starr, Independent Counsel: The discovery of the Rose Law Firm Records was a very significant event.
肯·斯塔尔（Ken Starr），独立律师：罗斯律师事务所记录的发现是一件非常重要的事件。
It was a significant event because there had been a subpoena outstanding for those law firm records for a long, long time, and the Rose Law Firm said we don't have them, and they were taken away, and there were issues as to, well why would law firm records leave the law firm?
这是一个重大事件，因为对于这些律师事务所记录的传票已经等待了很长一段时间，而罗斯律师事务所说我们没有这些记录，它们被拿走了，还有一个问题是，为什么律师事务所记录会离开律师事务所？
They weren't individual records.
它们不是个人记录。
They were law firm records.
它们是律师事务所的记录。
So, why wouldn't they be there?
那么，他们为什么不在那里呢？
Where are they?
他们在哪里？
Reporter (archival): Mrs. Clinton, how important is this week in terms of turning your image around?
记者（档案）：克林顿夫人，本周对于扭转你的形象有多重要？
Hillary Clinton (archival): Oh, I think it's important to talk about the book I've written about America's children, and that's what I'm going to try to do.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：哦，我认为谈论我写的关于美国儿童的书很重要，这就是我要尝试做的事情。
Plus answer all the questions on children!
另外还回答所有关于孩子的问题！
Narrator: The discovery of her missing billing records undermined Hillary's efforts to recede from the public spotlight.
旁白：她失踪的账单记录的发现破坏了希拉里退出公众聚光灯的努力。
Man (archival audio): The Rose Law Firm records were found in the living quarters of the White House in August.
男子（档案音频）：玫瑰律师事务所的记录于八月在白宫的生活区被发现。
Narrator: As she set out on a national tour to promote her book on children, she could not escape questions about Whitewater.
旁白：当她开始全国巡回宣传她的儿童书时，她无法回避有关白水的问题。
Man (archival audio): It's an important question, Mrs Clinton, because Republicans on the....
男子（档案音频）：克林顿夫人，这是一个重要的问题，因为共和党人......
Gail Sheehy, Writer: She was totally under siege, and so was the President, but he allows this kind of thing much more easily to roll off his back.
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：她完全被围困了，总统也是如此，但他更容易让这种事情从他的背上滚下来。
Hillary becomes obsessed.
希拉里变得痴迷。
She has an enemy, the enemy is the Special Prosecutor, and one or the other is going to be killed.
她有一个敌人，这个敌人就是特别检察官，其中一个就要被杀。
Narrator: In Ken Starr, though, Hillary had met her match.
旁白：不过，在肯·斯塔尔身上，希拉里遇到了对手。
Behind his avuncular smile, he was relentless and implacable.
在他慈祥的微笑背后，是冷酷无情、毫不留情的。
On January 19, Starr subpoenaed Hillary, the only First Lady ever to have been forced to testify before a grand jury.
1 月 19 日，斯塔尔传唤希拉里，她是唯一一位被迫在大陪审团面前作证的第一夫人。
Rather than take her testimony in the White House, he insisted that she come to the federal courthouse in downtown Washington.
他没有在白宫接受她的证词，而是坚持让她来到华盛顿市中心的联邦法院。
John Podesta, Chief of Staff: I think the idea that they would make her come to the courthouse and to the grand jury was intended to humiliate her.
约翰·波德斯塔，参谋长：我认为他们让她来到法院和大陪审团的想法是为了羞辱她。
Reporter (archival): Would you rather have been somewhere else today?
记者（档案）：您今天宁愿去别的地方吗？
Hillary Clinton (archival): Oh, about a million other places today indeed.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：哦，今天确实有大约一百万个其他地方。
Narrator: In the end, Hillary's billing records proved little.
旁白：最终，希拉里的账单记录证明不了多少。
They showed that she had represented Jim McDougal, but didn't prove she'd known he had used fraudulent loans to prop up the failing Whitewater development.
他们表明她曾代表吉姆·麦克杜格尔，但没有证明她知道他使用欺诈性贷款来支撑失败的白水开发项目。
Though many urged him to drop the investigation, Starr redoubled his efforts.
尽管许多人敦促他放弃调查，斯塔尔还是加倍努力。
John Podesta, Chief of Staff: He re-opened all the files that Fiske had closed; he chased down and challenged every privilege that had been afforded not just to President Clinton but to previous presidents, he decided to re-interview everybody, bring 'em all back to the grand jury.
参谋长约翰·波德斯塔：他重新打开了菲斯克关闭的所有文件；他追寻并挑战了不仅给予克林顿总统而且给予前任总统的每一项特权，他决定重新采访每个人，将他们全部带回大陪审团。
Narrator: The independent counsel focused much of his energy on finding witnesses in Arkansas who could testify to the Clintons' participation in fraudulent real estate deals 15 years before.
旁白：独立律师将大部分精力集中在阿肯色州寻找证人，证明克林顿夫妇 15 年前参与了欺诈性房地产交易。
Max Brantley, Journalist: People at the lowest level were hurt.
记者马克斯·布兰特利：最低层的人们受到了伤害。
People's lives were ruined.
人们的生活被毁了。
People were left in debt that they took years to get out of.
人们负债累累，需要数年时间才能摆脱。
They broke people.
他们伤了人。
I mean, investigators invaded high school campuses to put the thumb-screws on high school kids for information.
我的意思是，调查人员侵入高中校园，对高中生进行指压以获取信息。
Narrator: In May, Starr was able to convict Jim McDougal of loan fraud.
旁白：五月，斯塔尔判定吉姆·麦克杜格尔犯有贷款欺诈罪。
Under the threat of imprisonment, McDougal agreed to cooperate.
在监禁的威胁下，麦克杜格尔同意合作。
Suddenly, he claimed that Bill Clinton had known about his illegal loans.
突然，他声称比尔·克林顿知道他的非法贷款。
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: After Jim McDougal is convicted, everything changes.
肯·戈姆利（Ken Gormley），法律学者：吉姆·麦克杜格尔（Jim McDougal）被定罪后，一切都发生了变化。
Up until that point, he never pointed the finger at the Clintons.
在那之前，他从未将矛头指向克林顿夫妇。
He never indicated that they were involved in wrong doing.
他从未表示他们参与了错误的行为。
But once he's convicted all of a sudden he begins coming up with stories that implicate the Clintons.
但一旦他突然被定罪，他就开始编造涉及克林顿夫妇的故事。
Narrator: McDougals testimony was confused and contradictory; few believed him.
旁白：麦克道格尔的证词混乱且矛盾；很少有人相信他。
Unable to find other credible evidence, Starr felt stymied and increasingly determined to find something that would stick to the President.
由于无法找到其他可信的证据，斯塔尔感到受阻，并越来越决心找到一些能坚持总统的东西。
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: There's no question at all that at this point the Starr prosecutors believe that the Clintons are hiding evidence and lying when they deny that they had involvement in some of McDougal's enterprises.
法律学者肯·葛姆利：毫无疑问，斯塔尔检察官目前认为克林顿夫妇在否认参与麦克杜格尔的一些企业时隐藏了证据并撒谎。
And conversely, the White House believes that these Starr prosecutors have shifted, and now all they're doing is a president hunt.
相反，白宫认为这些斯塔尔检察官已经转变，现在他们所做的只是追捕总统。
Narrator: As Starr scoured the President's past for evidence of crimes, Clinton's prospects for the future were looking brighter than ever.
旁白：当斯塔尔在总统的过去寻找犯罪证据时，克林顿的未来前景看起来比以往任何时候都更加光明。
Peter Baker, Journalist: By the time that he is heading into summer, looking toward the fall for his reelection, President Clinton is a new man again.
记者彼得·贝克：当克林顿总统进入夏季并展望秋季连任时，他又是一个新人了。
He's no longer the figure of ridicule -- the weak figure he had become in 1994.
他不再是人们嘲笑的对象——1994年时的那个弱者。
He's standing strong again with the public.
他再次坚强地站在公众面前。
And his opponents are looking weak.
而他的对手看起来很弱。
Narrator: Clinton's Republican opponent in the presidential election that fall was Kansas Senator Robert Dole.
旁白：那年秋天的总统选举中，克林顿的共和党对手是堪萨斯州参议员罗伯特·多尔。
With the economy strong, and Clinton resurgent, Dole could do little but characterize the president as a free-spending liberal.
随着经济的强劲和克林顿的复兴，多尔无能为力，只能将总统描述为一个挥霍无度的自由派。
Bob Dole (archival): The federal government is too big and spends too much of your money, your money.
鲍勃·多尔（档案）：联邦政府太大了，花了太多你的钱，你的钱。
Narrator: To force the issue, the Republican Congress in August sent Clinton a welfare reform bill he had already vetoed twice.
旁白：为了强制解决这个问题，共和党国会在八月份向克林顿提交了一项他已经两次否决的福利改革法案。
Welfare reform had been a key part of Clinton's "New Democrat" philosophy, but he was aware of how much liberals in his own Party hated the bill.
福利改革一直是克林顿“新民主党”哲学的关键部分，但他知道自己党内的自由派有多么讨厌这项法案。
John Harris, Journalist: Bill Clinton authentically believed in welfare reform: that's welfare reform in the abstract.
约翰·哈里斯，记者：比尔·克林顿真诚地相信福利改革：这就是抽象的福利改革。
He wasn't being asked to sign welfare reform in the abstract, and so the question was, do you sign it, and proclaim a victory knowing that to do so, is to leave many in your own party's base hugely demoralized?
他并没有被要求签署抽象的福利改革，所以问题是，你是否签署它并宣布胜利，因为你知道这样做会让你自己党内的许多人士气极度低落？
Or do you veto it and accept the consequences of vetoing popular legislation just a few months before the election?
或者你会否决它并接受在选举前几个月否决大众立法的后果吗？
It was an agonizing choice for Bill Clinton.
对于比尔·克林顿来说，这是一个痛苦的选择。
Narrator: In August, the President signed the welfare reofrm bill.
旁白：8月，总统签署了福利改革法案。
Bill Clinton (archival): When I ran for President four years ago, I pledged to 'end welfare as we know it.' I have worked very hard for four years to do just that.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：四年前竞选总统时，我承诺“结束我们所知的福利”。为了做到这一点，我已经努力工作了四年。
Today, the Congress will vote on legislation that gives us a chance to live up to that promise.
今天，国会将对立法进行投票，使我们有机会兑现这一承诺。
Narrator: Clinton's decision was the last straw for many on the left.
旁白：克林顿的决定是压垮许多左派的最后一根稻草。
Several of his closest political allies resigned in protest.
他的几个最亲密的政治盟友辞职以示抗议。
Lawrence O'Donnell, Senate Aide: It made him someone who was capable of anything.
劳伦斯·奥唐纳，参议院助手：这使他成为一个无所不能的人。
And it no longer mattered what party he was in.
他参加哪个派对已经不再重要了。
You couldn't tell what he would do, and what he would be willing to go along with.
你无法判断他会做什么，以及他愿意配合什么。
Narrator: With welfare reform behind him, Clinton solidified his grip on the race.
旁白：随着福利改革的支持，克林顿巩固了他对竞选的控制。
Deprived of his last best campaign issue, Bob Dole waged an anemic race.
鲍勃·多尔(Bob Dole)失去了最后一个最好的竞选机会，他的竞选活动乏善可陈。
Clinton, meanwhile, campaigned with gusto.
与此同时，克林顿满怀热情地竞选。
Bill Clinton (archival): We will together build a bridge to the 21st century wide enough and strong enough to take us to America's best days.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我们将共同搭建一座通向 21 世纪的桥梁，这座桥梁足够宽、足够坚固，带我们进入美国最好的时代。
Will you do that?
你会这么做吗？
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: He was in his element.
哈罗德·伊克斯，副参谋长：他如鱼得水。
He was sort of shorn of this great burden that had been over him in '94.
他似乎摆脱了 94 年压在他身上的巨大负担。
He was out making the case in the best, most positive and toughest way he could, and he was loving it.
他以他能做到的最好、最积极和最强硬的方式来阐述这个案子，而且他很喜欢这样。
Rep.
代表。
Peter King, (R) New York: Clinton was no longer the issue.
彼得·金（Peter King，右）纽约：克林顿不再是问题了。
People were not asking, how he became President, or 'this guy's illegitimate.' He was now looked upon as the president.
人们并没有问他是如何成为总统的，或者“这个人是私生子”。他现在被视为总统。
Narrator: In November, Clinton won by a margin that had once seemed inconceivable, taking 31 states and 70% of the electoral votes.
旁白：11月，克林顿以一度看似不可思议的优势获胜，拿下了31个州和70%的选举人票。
Bill Clinton (archival): I, William Jefferson Clinton do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我，威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿，庄严宣誓，我将忠实地履行美国总统的职务。
Peter Baker, Journalist: The re-election in 1996 is obviously one of the great comebacks in American politics.
记者彼得·贝克：1996 年的连任显然是美国政坛的伟大复兴之一。
A president who had been written off as, as road kill just two years earlier, managed to come back to a very convincing re-election in 1996, the first Democrat to win a second term since Franklin Roosevelt.
一位两年前还被认为是道路杀手的总统，在 1996 年成功地再次当选，令人信服，成为自富兰克林·罗斯福以来第一位赢得连任的民主党人。
Narrator: Clinton had survived.
旁白：克林顿活了下来。
Some believed by selling his soul; others, by finding it again.
有人出卖灵魂而相信；其他人，通过再次找到它。
As he gave his second inaugural address, Bill Clinton sought to turn the page on the ugly partisan battles of the last four years.
在发表第二次就职演说时，比尔·克林顿试图翻开过去四年丑陋的党派之争的新一页。
Bill Clinton (archival): The American people returned to office a President of one party and a Congress of another.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：美国人民重新担任一个政党的总统和另一个政党的国会。
Surely they did not do this to advance the politics of petty bickering and extreme partisanship they plainly deplore.
当然，他们这样做并不是为了推进他们所明显谴责的琐碎争吵和极端党派之争的政治。
Don Baer, Speechwriter: The one part of that speech that I think mattered more to him than any other was his reference to this scriptural phrase, to be the 'repairer of the breech,' from Isaiah.
唐·贝尔（Don Baer），演讲撰稿人：我认为那次演讲中对他来说最重要的部分是他引用了《以赛亚书》中的这句经文，即“臀位修理者”。
Bill Clinton (archival): They call on us instead to be repairers of the breach.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：他们呼吁我们成为漏洞的修复者。
Don Baer, Speechwriter: He really felt like he had come through this trial by fire and storm and that the country had too and that now we could repair the breach and move forward together, he felt, he really believed that he had this chance to build this bridge to the 21st century, and that we had to do certain things that would help all people to get there.
唐·贝尔（Don Baer），演讲撰稿人：他真的觉得自己经历了这场烈火和风暴的考验，国家也经历了这场考验，现在我们可以修复缺口并共同前进，他觉得，他真的相信他有机会建造这座通向 21 世纪的桥梁，我们必须做一些事情来帮助所有人到达那里。
Narrator: As Clinton strode triumphantly down Pennsylvania Avenue flush with victory, there was no hint that he had already set in motion events that would soon divide the country as never before and nearly destroy his Presidency.
旁白：当克林顿胜利地大步走上宾夕法尼亚大道时，没有任何迹象表明他已经引发了一些事件，这些事件很快就会使国家出现前所未有的分裂，并几乎摧毁他的总统任期。
Buoyed by his convincing reelection, Bill Clinton sailed confidently into his second term.
受到令人信服的连任的鼓舞，比尔·克林顿满怀信心地进入了他的第二个任期。
The economy was booming, lifting millions of people into better jobs, better homes, and better lives.
经济蓬勃发展，使数百万人获得了更好的工作、更好的家庭和更好的生活。
Bill Clinton (archival): We have much to be thankful for.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我们有很多值得感激的事情。
With four years of growth, we have won back the basic strength of our economy.
经过四年的发展，我们经济已经恢复了基本面。
With crime and welfare rolls declining, we are winning back our optimism -- the enduring faith that we can master any difficulty.
随着犯罪和福利人数的下降，我们正在重新赢得乐观情绪——我们能够克服任何困难的持久信念。
Narrator: Around the world, American prestige and power had never been higher.
旁白：在世界各地，美国的威望和实力从未如此之高。
Even Clinton's longing to "repair the breach" with Republicans seemed possible.
就连克林顿也渴望与共和党“修复裂痕”，这似乎也是可能的。
Rep.
代表。
Peter King, (R) New York: It was two different worlds: 1997, beginning Bill Clinton's second term was totally different from the first term.
彼得·金（右）纽约：这是两个不同的世界：1997 年，比尔·克林顿第二个任期开始时与第一个任期完全不同。
It was American politics the way it should be.
这就是美国政治应有的样子。
A Republican Congress working with the Democratic president, trying to find areas they would agree on, the hatred toward Bill Clinton was gone, the hatred toward Hillary Clinton was gone.
共和党国会与民主党总统合作，试图找到他们能够达成共识的领域，对比尔·克林顿的仇恨消失了，对希拉里·克林顿的仇恨也消失了。
Things had finally quieted down.
事情终于平静下来。
But in Bill Clinton's life things never stay quiet for long.
但在比尔·克林顿的一生中，事情永远不会平静太久。
Narrator: By early 1997, at great risk to himself and his presidency, Bill Clinton had been carrying on his affair with Monica Lewinsky for over a year.
旁白：到 1997 年初，比尔·克林顿冒着自己和总统职位的巨大风险，与莫妮卡·莱温斯基的恋情已经持续了一年多。
Robert Reich, Labor Secretary: I've asked myself a number of times why he put himself and his presidency in jeopardy in such a careless way.
劳工部长罗伯特·赖克（Robert Reich）：我多次问自己，为什么他如此粗心地将自己和总统职位置于危险之中。
The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America.
总统职位可能是美国最孤独的办公室。
Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.
无论你的朋友如何，无论你的婚姻有多好，无论发生什么，你都是独自一人站在顶端。
And maybe Bill Clinton, who so much needed and wanted to be loved, couldn't say no to someone who was going to give him affection and wanted affection back.
也许比尔·克林顿如此需要并渴望被爱，却无法对那些给予他爱并希望得到爱的人说不。
Marla Crider, Campaign Aide: There is something in his being that needs that adoration, and she was forthcoming with it, and she, Monica Lewinsky just gave him something that he needed at that time.
玛拉·克里德（Marla Crider），竞选助手：他的存在中有些东西需要这种崇拜，而她很乐意接受，而她，莫妮卡·莱温斯基（Monica Lewinsky）只是给了他当时需要的东西。
To be adored.
被人崇拜。
Narrator: The previous spring, Lewinsky's superiors in the White House had begun to notice her attraction to the president.
旁白：去年春天，莱温斯基在白宫的上级开始注意到她对总统的吸引力。
Quietly, she was transferred to a job across town at the Pentagon.
她悄悄地被调到城另一边的五角大楼工作。
There, Lewinsky befriended a career civil servant named Linda Tripp.
在那里，莱温斯基结识了一位名叫琳达·特里普的职业公务员。
Like Lewinsky, Tripp had come to the Pentagon after years working at the White House, first in the Bush administration and then -- less happily -- in Clinton's.
和莱温斯基一样，特里普在白宫工作了多年之后来到了五角大楼，先是在布什政府，然后——不太愉快地——在克林顿政府工作。
Jeffrey Toobin, Journalist: Linda Tripp didn't like the Clinton people.
杰弗里·图宾，记者：琳达·特里普不喜欢克林顿家族。
She didn't like their politics, she didn't like their personalities, she didn't like their social lives, and she simmered with resentments.
她不喜欢他们的政治，她不喜欢他们的个性，她不喜欢他们的社交生活，她内心充满怨恨。
And she finds this young woman, a couple cubicles away, Monica Lewinsky, who decides to cry on her shoulder.
她找到了几个隔间外的年轻女子莫妮卡·莱温斯基，她决定靠在她的肩上哭泣。
Lucianne Goldberg, Literary Agent: It was very much a big sister-little sister, mother-daughter relationship.
卢西安·戈德堡（Lucianne Goldberg），文学经纪人：这在很大程度上是一种姐姐与小妹妹、母女的关系。
Monica would tell her everything.
莫妮卡会告诉她一切。
Linda genuinely cared about Monica, but there was one overriding emotion and that was what Bill Clinton was doing and I'm telling you, this was an angry woman.
琳达真诚地关心莫妮卡，但有一种压倒一切的情感，那就是比尔·克林顿正在做的事情，我告诉你，这是一个愤怒的女人。
Narrator: Shortly before meeting Lewinsky, Tripp had approached conservative literary agent Lucianne Goldberg about writing a tell-all book on the Clinton White House, but the project had gone nowhere.
旁白：在会见莱温斯基之前不久，特里普曾与保守派文学经纪人卢西安·戈德堡接洽，希望写一本有关克林顿白宫的真相书籍，但该项目毫无进展。
In the fall of 1997, she contacted Goldberg with a new project: the true story of an ongoing affair between a White House intern and the President of the United States.
1997 年秋天，她联系了戈德堡，提出了一个新项目：讲述一名白宫实习生与美国总统之间正在进行的风流韵事的真实故事。
Lucianne Goldberg, Literary Agent: She called me and she said he's having an affair with a girl who's 23 years old.
Lucianne Goldberg，文学经纪人：她打电话给我，说他和一个 23 岁的女孩有染。
And I said, 'Yeah, yeah.' You know the kind of agenting that I did I heard a lot of wild stuff and people have to prove things.
我说：“是啊，是啊。”你知道我所做的那种代理，我听到了很多疯狂的事情，人们必须证明一些事情。
So she said, 'No I'm not kidding you he's having an affair with a -- and I know the girl and I talk to her every day.'
所以她说，“不，我不是在开玩笑，他和一个女孩有染——我认识那个女孩，我每天都和她说话。”
And I said, 'Well can you prove this, do you have pictures, is she willing to step forward, is she willing to go on the Today Show and say...?' And she said, 'Well no, I'm sure she wouldn't.
我说，‘你能证明这一点吗？你有照片吗？她是否愿意站出来，她是否愿意在今日秀上说……？’她说，‘好吧，不，我确信她不会。
This is a big secret.' I said, 'Well you got to, you got to do something to prove to me so I can prove to a publisher that this, this wild story was true.' And I said, 'You say you talk to her every day, how about taping your phone conversations?' And she agreed that that would be a cool idea and she went to Radio Shack and bought a tape recorder and plugged it into her phone.
这是一个大秘密。我说，‘好吧，你必须这样做，你必须做一些事情来向我证明，这样我就可以向出版商证明，这个疯狂的故事是真实的。’我说，“你说你每天都和她说话，把你的电话谈话录下来怎么样？”她同意这是一个很酷的主意，然后她去了 Radio Shack 买了一台录音机并将其插入她的手机。
Monica Lewinsky (archival audio): Linda, I don't know why I have these feelings for him.
莫妮卡·莱温斯基（档案音频）：琳达，我不知道为什么我对他有这些感觉。
I never expected to feel this way about him.
我从没想过会对他有这样的感觉。
And the first time I ever looked into his eyes close up and was with him alone, I saw someone totally different than I had expected to see.
当我第一次近距离观察他的眼睛并单独和他在一起时，我看到了一个与我预想完全不同的人。
And that's the person I fell in love with.
这就是我爱上的人。
Lucianne Goldberg, Literary Agent: Linda wanted the world to know about this, and I think the motivation was no, you know, no deeper no more shallow than that.
卢西安·戈德堡（Lucianne Goldberg），文学经纪人：琳达希望全世界都知道这一点，我认为动机不是，你知道，不比这更深也不浅。
That was it.
就是这样。
She wanted the world to know about this relationship.
她希望全世界都知道这段关系。
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: She came to believe that fate did call her to expose these defects in this president to the country.
法律学者肯·葛姆雷：她开始相信命运确实召唤她向全国揭露这位总统的这些缺陷。
On the other hand, she becomes entwined in a scandal that she helped to create.
另一方面，她卷入了她参与制造的丑闻中。
Monica Lewinsky (archival audio): He was supposed to call me again, but I wasn't home and I was afraid to call.
莫妮卡·莱温斯基（档案音频）：他本来应该再次给我打电话，但我不在家，我不敢打电话。
Monica Lewinsky (archival audio): I mean we hug, and I gave him the paperweight.
莫妮卡·莱温斯基（档案音频）：我的意思是我们拥抱，然后我给了他镇纸。
Lucianne Goldberg, Literary Agent: I knew if the story broke huge that people would start calling Linda, and Linda would say, "Call my agent.' And they would call her agent, and her agent would make a book deal, and then would make some money, and she would get a little money and I would get 10 percent of it and that's the way the world works.
卢西安·戈德堡（Lucianne Goldberg），文学经纪人：我知道如果这个故事引起轰动，人们就会开始给琳达打电话，琳达会说，“给我的经纪人打电话。”他们会打电话给她的经纪人，她的经纪人会做一笔图书交易，然后赚一些钱，她会得到一点钱，我会得到其中的 10%，这就是世界运作的方式。
Narrator: Goldberg suggested Tripp reach out to Newsweek's Michael Isikoff.
旁白：戈德堡建议特里普联系《新闻周刊》的迈克尔·伊西科夫。
Before long, the two were having regular conversations.
没过多久，两人就开始正常交谈。
Michael Isikoff, Journalist: She would kind of tease me and she told me early on that there was a woman, who had been an intern.
迈克尔·伊西科夫（Michael Isikoff），记者：她会取笑我，她很早就告诉我有一个女人，她是实习生。
And that she was having an ongoing affair with Bill Clinton.
并且她与比尔·克林顿有持续的恋情。
I was taken aback as anybody would be.
我和任何人一样大吃一惊。
So, I wanted to get Linda Tripp to tell me as much as she could.
所以，我想让琳达·特里普尽可能多地告诉我。
And, so, I kept talking to her.
所以，我一直和她说话。
Narrator: Linda Tripp was not just talking to Isikoff.
旁白：琳达·特里普不仅仅是在和伊西科夫说话。
She had also begun sharing her story with the independent counsel investigating the Clintons.
她还开始与调查克林顿夫妇的独立律师分享她的故事。
By 1997, after more than two years, Kenneth Starr's investigation into Whitewater had stalled.
到了 1997 年，两年多后，肯尼思·斯塔尔 (Kenneth Starr) 对白水事件的调查陷入了停滞。
Short on evidence or reliable witnesses, he had too little to bring charges against the president or first lady.
由于缺乏证据或可靠的证人，他无法对总统或第一夫人提出指控。
Max Brantley, Journalist: We know that they were running out of gas, and running out of rope, and had just about completely failed, until Monica came along.
马克斯·布兰特利（Max Brantley），记者：我们知道他们的汽油已经用完了，绳子也用完了，几乎完全失败了，直到莫妮卡出现。
Narrator: In early January, 1998, Starr's office received a phone call from Tripp.
旁白：1998年1月初，斯塔尔的办公室接到了特里普的电话。
She revealed the existence of her tape recordings of Monica Lewinsky.
她透露了莫妮卡·莱温斯基的录音带的存在。
At first, Starr saw little value in the tapes -- a presidential affair, no matter how sordid, was not illegal.
起初，斯塔尔认为这些录音带没什么价值——总统事件无论多么肮脏，都不违法。
But there was something in Tripp's story that caught Starr's attention: the president had asked his friend Vernon Jordan to help find Lewinsky a job in the private sector.
但特里普的故事中有一些内容引起了斯塔尔的注意：总统要求他的朋友弗农·乔丹帮助莱温斯基在私营部门找到一份工作。
Could this be an attempt, Starr wondered, to buy Lewinsky's silence?
斯塔尔想知道，这是否是为了收买莱温斯基的沉默？
Monica Lewinsky (archival audio): I'm just-- I'm starting to get a little nervous about Vernon.
莫妮卡·莱温斯基（档案音频）：我只是——我开始对弗农有点紧张。
Monica Lewinsky (archival audio): I just want everything to be easy.
莫妮卡·莱温斯基（档案音频）：我只是希望一切都变得简单。
I want him to call me and say, "You know, how does this amount of money, doing this here sound?" And I say, "That sounds great." He says, "Okay.
我希望他打电话给我说：“你知道，在这里做这件事听起来怎么样？”我说：“听起来很棒。”他说：“好吧。
Consider it a done deal."
就认为这件事已经完成了。”
Narrator: Clinton had good reason to worry about whether Lewinsky would keep their affair secret.
旁白：克林顿有充分的理由担心莱温斯基是否会保守他们的恋情秘密。
She had just been supboenaed to testify in court in a sexual harassment lawsuit against the president brought by a former Arkansas state worker named Paula Jones.
她刚刚被传唤出庭作证，在前阿肯色州工作人员保拉·琼斯对总统提起的性骚扰诉讼中出庭作证。
Tipped off to the affair, Jones' lawyers believed the president's relationship with Lewinsky would demonstrate a pattern of behavior.
得知这件事后，琼斯的律师相信总统与莱温斯基的关系会表现出一种行为模式。
James Fisher, Attorney: I thought it showed President Clinton's proclivity to make sexual advances to extremely young, low-level employees, and President Clinton had obtained jobs for Monica Lewinsky as part of his effort to control her.
詹姆斯·费希尔（James Fisher）律师：我认为这表明克林顿总统倾向于对极其年轻的低级别雇员进行性挑衅，而克林顿总统为莫妮卡·莱温斯基（Monica Lewinsky）找到了工作，作为他控制她的努力的一部分。
Highly relevant to Paula Jones' case
与宝拉·琼斯的案件高度相关
Narrator: Ken Starr was watching the Jones' lawsuit with great interest.
旁白：肯·斯塔尔饶有兴趣地观看着琼斯夫妇的诉讼。
If Clinton was trying to influence Lewinsky's testimony, he would be committing a major crime.
如果克林顿试图影响莱温斯基的证词，他将犯下重大罪行。
Suddenly, Starr glimpsed a bridge from Whitewater to a potentially more fruitful area of investigation.
突然，斯塔尔瞥见了一座从白水镇通往可能更富有成果的调查区域的桥梁。
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: The bridge is that the president and those close to him may be encouraging Monica to lie in the Paula Jones case and therefore suborning perjury.
肯·戈姆利，法律学者：桥梁是总统和他身边的人可能鼓励莫妮卡在宝拉·琼斯案中撒谎，从而收买伪证。
That's the little connection they make, it's tenuous at this point, but they go for it.
这就是他们建立的微小联系，目前还很脆弱，但他们会努力做到这一点。
Narrator: With Starr's determined efforts, three seemingly unrelated threads from Clinton's past and present -- Whitewater, Paula Jones, and Monica Lewinsky -- had suddenly come together in one potentially devastating investigation.
旁白：在斯塔尔坚定的努力下，克林顿的过去和现在的三个看似无关的线索——怀特沃特、保拉·琼斯和莫妮卡·莱温斯基——突然在一项可能具有毁灭性的调查中聚集在一起。
And a single reporter threatened to upend the whole thing.
一名记者威胁要颠覆整个事情。
Michael Isikoff, Journalist: I knew we had a blockbuster of a story.
迈克尔·伊西科夫（Michael Isikoff），记者：我知道我们有一个轰动一时的故事。
And, of course, I had to call Starr's team.
当然，我还得给斯塔尔的团队打电话。
And fair to say that when I did, they freaked out.
公平地说，当我这样做时，他们吓坏了。
Because they realized that were I to publish a story, it would blow their investigation wide open.
因为他们意识到，如果我发表一个故事，他们的调查就会大白于天下。
Narrator: Starr hoped to convince Lewinsky to secretly tape record the president before Isikoff's story tipped him off.
旁白：斯塔尔希望在伊西科夫的故事向他透露之前说服莱温斯基秘密录制总统的录音。
On January 16, he sent Linda Tripp to meet with Lewinsky at a food court at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
1月16日，他派琳达·特里普在丽思卡尔顿酒店的美食广场与莱温斯基会面。
Before the friends sat down, FBI agents swooped in.
朋友们还没坐下，联邦调查局探员就突然介入。
Jeffrey Toobin, Journalist: The FBI grabs Monica in front of the Cinnabon and takes her upstairs in the Ritz-Carlton, and tries to get her to flip.
杰弗里·图宾（Jeffrey Toobin），记者：联邦调查局在 Cinnabon 餐厅前抓住莫妮卡，并将她带上丽思卡尔顿酒店的楼上，并试图让她翻转。
But Monica basically just drives 'em crazy with her histrionics, with her refusal to talk.
但莫妮卡的表演和拒绝说话基本上让他们抓狂。
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: They felt like one of these scenes in a movie where a bunch of grown men are trying to change the diapers of a baby and don't know how to do it.
法律学者肯·葛姆雷：感觉就像电影中的场景之一，一群成年男子试图给婴儿换尿布，但不知道该怎么做。
Monica's crying, she's kind of wailing out loud.
莫妮卡在哭，她大声哭泣。
What they weren't counting on, what they hadn't figured out was, 'So what to do we do when Monica is not going to tell us whether she had an affair with Bill Clinton?'
他们没有指望、没有弄清楚的是，“那么，当莫妮卡不肯告诉我们她是否与比尔·克林顿有染时，我们该怎么办？”
Narrator: Unable to secure Lewinsky's cooperation against the president, Starr still had a card to play.
旁白：斯塔尔无法确保莱温斯基与总统合作，但他还有牌可打。
The next day, January 17, 1998, Clinton was scheduled to give his deposition under oath in the Paula Jones lawsuit: If he lied about his affair with Lewinsky, Starr would be able to bring a charge of perjury.
第二天，即 1998 年 1 月 17 日，克林顿按计划在保拉·琼斯诉讼中宣誓作证：如果他在与莱温斯基的风流韵事上撒谎，斯塔尔将能够提出伪证指控。
Lucianne Goldberg, Literary Agent: He was about to testify, and they knew he was going to lie about Monica and that was, if you want to call it, the trap.
卢西安·戈德堡，文学经纪人：他正要作证，他们知道他会在莫妮卡的问题上撒谎，如果你想称之为陷阱的话，那就是。
Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel: And when a man is asked about this, when a married man is asked about this, he's going to lie.
伯纳德·努斯鲍姆，白宫法律顾问：当一个男人被问到这个问题时，当一个已婚男人被问到这个问题时，他就会撒谎。
and once he lies, we got him.
一旦他撒谎，我们就抓住了他。
We got him!
我们抓到他了！
The whole purpose is to get the President.
整个目的就是要当选总统。
If you're not out to get the President, you should say to the President, 'You know, you're going to testify in this lawsuit.
如果你不想去找总统，你应该对总统说，‘你知道，你将在这场诉讼中作证。
You know, we know about your relationship with Monica Lewinsky.' They're trying to trap him into committing perjury.
你知道，我们知道你和莫妮卡·莱温斯基的关系。他们试图诱使他作伪证。
Woman (archival audio): You may show the witness the definition number 1.
女士（档案音频）：您可以向证人展示定义编号 1。
Narrator: Barred from questioning the president himself, Starr had to rely on Paula Jones' lawyers.
旁白：斯塔尔被禁止询问总统本人，他不得不依靠保拉·琼斯的律师。
Lead attorney Jim Fisher began the deposition by introducing a definition of sexual relations taken from a federal statute.
首席律师吉姆·费舍尔在证词开始时介绍了取自联邦法规的性关系定义。
James Fisher, Attorney: In an effort to avoid ambiguity, I thought I would use a definition that was well grounded in federal law.
詹姆斯·费希尔（James Fisher）律师：为了避免歧义，我想我会使用一个以联邦法律为基础的定义。
So I thought that there could be no doubt that these were unambiguous definitions for which the law had a well-recognized meaning.
因此，我认为毫无疑问，这些都是明确的定义，法律对其具有公认的含义。
Narrator: Fisher's efforts to avoid ambiguity had the opposite effect, leaving Clinton a loophole through which to escape.
旁白：费舍尔为避免歧义而做出的努力却产生了相反的效果，给克林顿留下了可逃的漏洞。
James Fisher, Attorney (archival audio): Lawyer: so the record is completely clear, have you ever had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky as that term is defined in deposition Exhibit 1?
詹姆斯·费舍尔 (James Fisher) 律师（档案音频）： 律师：所以记录完全清楚，您是否曾与莫妮卡·莱温斯基发生过性关系，正如证词附件 1 中定义的那样？
Bill Clinton (archival): I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我从未与莫妮卡·莱温斯基发生过性关系。
I never had an affair with her.
我和她从来没有发生过关系。
Jeffrey Toobin, Journalist: If they had simply asked him, 'Did Monica Lewinsky ever perform oral sex on you?' The gig would have been up.
杰弗里·图宾，记者：如果他们只是问他，“莫妮卡·莱温斯基曾经对你进行过口交吗？”演出本来就结束了。
Instead, they gave him this ridiculously complicated, hard to understand definition of sex, which allowed him to parse.
相反，他们给了他这个极其复杂、难以理解的性别定义，这让他能够解析。
James Fisher, Attorney: If I could have done it over again, I would have just asked the salacious questions.
詹姆斯·费希尔（James Fisher）律师：如果我能重来一次，我就会问那些淫秽的问题。
I would have let him have it.
我会让他拥有它。
I was trying to be respectful, and I paid a price for it.
我试图表现出尊重，但我也为此付出了代价。
Having said that, he clearly didn't answer the questions honestly.
话虽如此，他显然没有诚实地回答问题。
James Fisher, Attorney (archival audio): If she told someone that she had a sexual affair with you beginning in November of 1995, would that be a lie?
James Fisher，律师（档案音频）：如果她告诉某人她从 1995 年 11 月开始与您发生性关系，那会是谎言吗？
Bill Clinton (archival): It's certainly not the truth.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：这当然不是事实。
It would not be the truth.
这不是事实。
James Fisher, Attorney: The turning point was when I started asking about gifts that he had given to her and she had given to him.
詹姆斯·费舍尔，律师：转折点是当我开始询问他送给她和她送给他的礼物时。
And I described some of them quite specifically.
我非常具体地描述了其中一些。
There was a book of poetry by Walt Whitman for example.
例如，沃尔特·惠特曼有一本诗集。
I thought his mood changed visibly at that point.
我认为他的情绪在那一刻发生了明显的变化。
His face became bright red, there was tension in his face.
他的脸色涨得通红，脸上写满了紧张。
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: He knew at this point there was a mole.
肯·葛姆雷（Ken Gormley），法律学者：他此时就知道有内奸。
There was a rat in the woodpile.
木料堆里有一只老鼠。
Someone has given all of this damning information to these people.
有人向这些人提供了所有这些该死的信息。
He was in trouble.
他有麻烦了。
Narrator: Clinton's secret affair with Monica Lewinsky was now hurtling toward public exposure.
旁白：克林顿与莫妮卡·莱温斯基的秘密恋情现在正在迅速向公众曝光。
The very day that the President was deposed in the Jones lawsuit, Michael Isikoff filed his story on the Lewinsky affair.
就在总统因琼斯诉讼而被废黜的当天，迈克尔·伊西科夫提交了有关莱温斯基事件的故事。
But at the last minute, his editors at Newsweek backtracked and decided to kill the story.
但在最后一刻，《新闻周刊》的编辑们改变了主意，决定终止这篇报道。
Michael Isikoff, Journalist: Obviously, we had an enormous scoop here that was going to shake Washington.
迈克尔·伊西科夫（Michael Isikoff），记者：显然，我们这里有一个巨大的独家新闻，它将震动华盛顿。
Some of my colleagues and some of the editors agreed, but at the end of the day the brass at Newsweek just were not willing to pull the trigger.
我的一些同事和一些编辑同意了，但最终《新闻周刊》的高层却不愿意扣动扳机。
Lucianne Goldberg, Literary Agent: Michael told me.
卢西安·戈德堡，文学经纪人：迈克尔告诉我的。
He said, 'They aren't gonna run with it.
他说，‘他们不会就此罢休。
They're afraid of it, they don't like it.
他们害怕它，他们不喜欢它。
Nasty stuff, they don't want to do it.' And I said, 'Well what am I gonna do, I'm sitting on this thing.'
肮脏的事情，他们不想做。”我说，‘那我该怎么办，我就坐在这东西上。’
Narrator: In her frustration, Goldberg turned to an internet gossip columnist named Matt Drudge.
旁白：在沮丧中，戈德堡向一位名叫马特·德拉吉的互联网八卦专栏作家求助。
Lucianne Goldberg, Literary Agent: A couple of people said, 'Call that Drudge.' Or, I said, 'Well tell him to call me.' So at 11:00 that night he called me and that was it.
卢西安·戈德堡，文学经纪人：有几个人说，“那就叫苦工吧。”或者，我说，“好吧，让他给我打电话。”那天晚上 11:00 他给我打电话，就这样了。
It went kaboom!
它爆炸了！
Tom Brokaw, NBC News (archival): The President, the intern, the accusations and the denials.
汤姆·布罗考 (Tom Brokaw)，NBC 新闻（档案）：总统、实习生、指控和否认。
Reporter, NBC News (archival): The allegations that the President had an illicit affair with a 21-year-old intern and then attempted to cover it up blasted through the White House today.
NBC 新闻记者（档案）：有关总统与一名 21 岁实习生发生不正当关系并随后试图掩盖的指控今天在白宫引起了轩然大波。
This scandal could unravel the administration.
这一丑闻可能会瓦解政府。
Narrator: Over the next 72 hours, the story made its way around the world.
旁白：在接下来的72小时里，这个故事传遍了全世界。
Caught unawares, Clinton's cabinet members rushed to his defense.
克林顿的内阁成员措手不及，纷纷为他辩护。
Madeline Albright (archival): I believe that the allegations are completely untrue.
马德琳·奥尔布赖特（档案）：我认为这些指控完全不真实。
Peter Baker, Journalist: Aides who had worked for him for 5-6 years at this point are just on the floor.
记者彼得·贝克（Peter Baker）：为他工作了 5 到 6 年的助手们此时都已经在场了。
They, they can't figure out what there's supposed to think about this, much less what they're supposed to do about this.
他们不知道应该怎么想这件事，更不知道他们应该对此做什么。
Robert Reich, Labor Secretary: I was convinced that Bill Clinton had been set up.
劳工部长罗伯特·赖克：我确信比尔·克林顿是被陷害的。
He's got all these enemies who are out to get him.
所有这些敌人都想抓他。
He wouldn't be so stupid as to jeopardize his entire Presidency.
他不会愚蠢到危及他的整个总统职位。
For what?
为了什么？
No, that was not the Bill Clinton I knew.
不，那不是我认识的比尔·克林顿。
Narrator: Clinton did confide in the one person he knew would not judge him.
旁白：克林顿确实向一个他知道不会评判他的人吐露了心声。
Dick Morris, Political Consultant: When the Lewinsky scandal broke the President paged me and I returned the call.
迪克·莫里斯，政治顾问：当莱温斯基丑闻爆发时，总统给我打电话，我回了电话。
And he said, 'Ever since I got here to the White House I've had to shut my body down sexually I mean, but I screwed up with this girl.
他说，“自从我来到白宫以来，我的意思是，我不得不关闭我的身体，但我和这个女孩搞砸了。”
I didn't do what they said I did, but I may have done so much that I can't prove my innocence.'
我没有做他们所说的事情，但我可能做了太多事情，以至于我无法证明自己的清白。”
And I said to him, 'The problem that Presidents have is not the sin, it's the cover up and you should explore just telling the American people the truth.' He said, 'Really, do you think I could do that?' And I said, 'Let me test it, let me run a poll.'
我对他说，‘总统面临的问题不是罪恶，而是掩盖，你应该尝试告诉美国人民真相。’他说：“真的，你认为我能做到吗？”我说，‘让我测试一下，让我进行一次民意调查。’
So I took a poll and I tested popular attitudes on that and I called him back and I said, 'They will forgive the adultery, but they won't easily forgive that you lied.'
所以我进行了一项民意调查，测试了民众对此的态度，然后我给他回了电话，我说，“他们会原谅通奸，但他们不会轻易原谅你撒谎。”
Narrator: Clinton disregarded Morris' advice.
旁白：克林顿无视莫里斯的建议。
In interviews days after the story broke, he continued to hide his relationship with Lewinsky.
在事件曝光几天后的采访中，他继续隐瞒自己与莱温斯基的关系。
Jim Lehrer, PBS News Hour (archival): The news of this day is that Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel, is investigating allegations that you suborned perjury by encouraging a 24-year-old woman, a former White House intern, to lie under oath in a civil deposition about her having had an affair with you.
吉姆·莱勒 (Jim Lehrer)，PBS 新闻一小时（档案）：今天的消息是，独立律师肯尼思·斯塔尔 (Kenneth Starr) 正在调查有关你怂恿一名 24 岁女性（前白宫实习生）在民事证词中宣誓就她与你有染而收买伪证的指控。
Bill Clinton (archival): That is not true.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：事实并非如此。
That is not true.
那不是真的。
I did not ask anyone to tell anything other than the truth.
我没有要求任何人说实话以外的任何事情。
There is no improper relationship.
不存在不正当关系。
And I intend to cooperate with this inquiry.
我打算配合这项调查。
But that is not true.
但事实并非如此。
Peter Baker, Journalist: He says, quite indignantly, 'There is no relationship with Monica Lewinsky.' And people begin to focus on the words.
记者彼得·贝克（Peter Baker）：他非常愤怒地说，“与莫妮卡·莱温斯基没有任何关系。”人们开始关注文字。
He said 'is,' didn't he?
他说“是”，不是吗？
He didn't say was.
他没说是。
What is he trying to say?
他想说什么？
Is he parsing here?
他在这里解析吗？
Mike McCurry, Press Secretary: I didn't notice the peculiar tense issue until later.
迈克·麦凯里（Mike McCurry），新闻秘书：我直到后来才注意到这个特殊的紧张问题。
But I did think to myself, I said, 'Boy, there's got to be a stronger denial of this.
但我确实对自己说，‘孩子，必须更强烈地否认这一点。
And I think some group of us said, 'Look you're denying this, you've gotta be strong.
我想我们中的一些人会说，‘看你在否认这一点，你必须坚强。
You've gotta get out there and say, you know, how outrageous this is.' And of course, I think that was dreadful advice in retrospect.
你必须站出来说，你知道，这有多么令人愤慨。”当然，现在回想起来，我认为这是一个可怕的建议。
Bill Clinton (archival): I want you to listen to me: I'm gonna say this again.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我希望你听我说：我要再说一遍。
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
我没有与莱温斯基女士发生性关系。
I never told anybody to lie.
我从来没有告诉任何人撒谎。
Not a single time.
一次也没有。
Never.
绝不。
These allegations are false, and I need to go back to work for the American people.
这些指控都是错误的，我需要回去为美国人民工作。
Thank you.
谢谢。
Lucianne Goldberg, Literary Agent: I was watching with a friend in my office and I said, 'That is it, this man is dead meat.
卢西安·戈德堡，文学经纪人：我和一位朋友在办公室里观看，我说，‘就是这样，这个人已经死了。
That is it, because I know that he's lying and if I know that he's lying then the rest of the world is gonna know he's lying.'
就是这样，因为我知道他在撒谎，如果我知道他在撒谎，那么世界其他地方就会知道他在撒谎。
James Fisher, Attorney: When he went on the air and shook his finger and said, 'I never had sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky,' and we knew he had, we realized then that this had the potential to literally change the course of American history.
詹姆斯·费舍尔，律师：当他在广播中摇动手指说，“我从未与那个女人，莱温斯基女士发生过性关系，”我们知道他有过，我们意识到这有可能真正改变美国历史的进程。
Kenneth Starr, Independent Counsel: The one thing that we can't deal with are lies.
肯尼斯·斯塔尔（Kenneth Starr），独立法律顾问：我们无法处理的一件事就是谎言。
Lies are impossible to deal with, so please, simply tell us the truth.
谎言是无法应对的，所以请告诉我们真相。
The truth has a very powerful way of coming out, so let's get it out.
真相有一种非常强大的方式可以揭露出来，所以让我们把它说出来。
But clearly that was not the road that we were on.
但显然那不是我们所走的路。
Narrator: Having set off on a course of deception, there was no turning back.
旁白：走上了欺骗之路，就没有回头路了。
Clinton continued to press his lie, even to Hillary.
克林顿继续撒谎，甚至对希拉里也是如此。
Peter Baker, Journalist: He tells her it's not true.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：他告诉她这不是真的。
He tells her that Monica Lewinsky was a troubled young woman, that he had just tried to be nice to her, to mentor her in some ways, and that's a story that Hillary Clinton hangs onto like a life raft.
他告诉她，莫妮卡·莱温斯基是一个陷入困境的年轻女子，他只是试图对她好，在某些方面指导她，而希拉里·克林顿就像救生筏一样紧紧抓住这个故事。
Narrator: The day after Clinton's denial, Hillary appeared on national television.
旁白：克林顿否认后的第二天，希拉里出现在国家电视台上。
Hillary Clinton (archival): I just think that a lot of this is deliberately designed to sensationalize charges against my husband because everything else they've tried has failed.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：我只是认为，其中很多都是故意设计的，目的是为了耸人听闻对我丈夫的指控，因为他们尝试的其他一切都失败了。
Peter Baker, Journalist: She focused her energy and her anger and her ire at the external enemies.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：她把精力、愤怒和愤怒集中在外部敌人身上。
At Ken Starr, at the press, at the Republicans in Congress.
在肯斯塔尔，在媒体，在国会共和党。
They were the ones who were doing this, not her husband.
做这件事的是他们，而不是她的丈夫。
Hillary Clinton (archival): The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：对于任何愿意找到它、写下它并解释它的人来说，这是一个伟大的故事，这是一个巨大的右翼阴谋，自从我丈夫宣布竞选总统那天起，这个阴谋就一直在密谋反对他。
Peter Baker, Journalist: She says, 'this is all about the vast right-wing conspiracy,' and in that moment sort of sets the tone for the defense of the president against these charges.
记者彼得·贝克：她说，“这都是关于巨大的右翼阴谋”，在那一刻，她为总统针对这些指控的辩护定下了基调。
Narrator: To the Clintons, the Lewinsky scandal was just the latest front in a war waged by their political enemies to destroy them.
旁白：对于克林顿夫妇来说，莱温斯基丑闻只是政敌为摧毁他们而发动的战争的最新战线。
Mark Penn, Pollster: The Lewinsky scandal was not really the Lewinsky scandal.
马克·佩恩（Mark Penn），民意调查者：莱温斯基丑闻并不是真正的莱温斯基丑闻。
It was really an attempt by the Republican Party to have a coup d'etat based on having discovered the president's personal behavior.
这实际上是共和党在发现总统个人行为的基础上发动政变的企图。
Narrator: This time, however, even some allies of the Clintons found their protestations hollow.
旁白：然而，这一次，就连克林顿夫妇的一些盟友也发现他们的抗议毫无意义。
Lawrence O'Donnell, Senate Aide: You can never blame your enemies for doing what your enemies will predictably do.
劳伦斯·奥唐纳，参议院助手：你永远不能责怪你的敌人做了你的敌人会做的事情。
You can only blame yourself for what you have given to your enemies.
你只能为自己给予敌人的东西而责怪自己。
If you've given them absolutely nothing, guess what they're gonna be able to do?
如果你什么也没给他们，猜猜他们能做什么？
Nothing.
没有什么。
Narrator: As the scandal raged around him, Clinton did his best to focus, he said, "On the job the American people hired me to do."
旁白：当丑闻在他周围肆虐时，克林顿竭尽全力集中注意力，他说，“专注于美国人民雇用我去做的工作。”
Peter Baker, Journalist: He's coming to work every day, he says, and he's going to do the job that's in front of him.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：他说，他每天都会来上班，并且会完成摆在他面前的工作。
Privately, behind the scenes, it's a completely different story.
私下里，在幕后，这是一个完全不同的故事。
Of course he's obsessed by this.
当然，他对此很着迷。
Of course he's consumed by this.
当然，他为此而消耗精力。
Of course he's distracted.
当然，他心烦意乱。
He has a meeting with the President of the World Bank for instance, who goes back to his office, calls Clinton's chief of staff, and says, 'It's like he wasn't even there.'
例如，他与世界银行行长会面，行长回到自己的办公室，给克林顿的幕僚长打电话，说：“就好像他根本不在那里一样。”
Narrator: The president swung wildly between emotional extremes, from fear to fury.
旁白：总统在极端情绪之间摇摆不定，从恐惧到愤怒。
Joe Klein, Journalist: I think that there was always a part of him that wondered about the dark side.
记者乔·克莱因：我认为他内心总有一部分对黑暗面感到好奇。
And about whether he was really a bad person and whether he was going to be taken down.
以及他是否真的是一个坏人以及他是否会被拿下。
But he also had, and it's possible to have these two feelings simultaneously, an overpowering sense of his own righteousness.
但他也有，而且可能同时有这两种感觉，一种压倒性的自我正义感。
Narrator: "I feel like a character in the novel Darkness at Noon," Clinton told an aide.
旁白：“我感觉自己就像小说《正午的黑暗》中的角色，”克林顿对一名助手说。
"I am surrounded by an oppressive force that is creating a lie about me and I can't get the truth out."
“我被一种压迫性的力量包围着，这种力量正在制造关于我的谎言，而我无法说出真相。”
Peter Baker, Journalist: All he can do is buy time.
记者彼得·贝克：他能做的就是争取时间。
All he can do is hope Starr doesn't have the goods, doesn't have the evidence, that there is no physical evidence that could prove it.
他能做的就是希望斯塔尔没有货物，没有证据，没有物证可以证明这一点。
Narrator: Before long, Starr had his physical evidence.
旁白：不久之后，斯塔尔就拿到了物证。
In July, Monica Lewinsky reached a deal to give her testimony in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
7月，莫妮卡·莱温斯基达成协议，提供证词以换取免于起诉的权利。
As part of the deal, she turned over a blue dress stained with Clinton's semen.
作为交易的一部分，她交出了一件沾有克林顿精液的蓝色裙子。
The next day, seeing no way out, Clinton himself agreed to answer questions before Starr's grand jury.
第二天，在没有出路的情况下，克林顿本人同意在斯塔尔的大陪审团面前回答问题。
Before the president faced Starr, however, he had to face Hillary.
然而，在总统面对斯塔尔之前，他必须面对希拉里。
That morning, Clinton awoke the first lady from a deep sleep.
那天早上，克林顿把第一夫人从熟睡中叫醒。
Pacing the room, he finally confessed he had lied.
他在房间里踱来踱去，最终承认自己撒了谎。
Gail Sheehy, Writer: It was probably the most shattering moment in her life.
盖尔·希伊（Gail Sheehy），作家：这可能是她一生中最心碎的时刻。
He'd lied to her and he'd used her, he let her go out and essentially make alibis for him.
他对她撒了谎，他利用了她，他让她出去，实质上是为他制造了不在场证明。
And it not only jeopardized everything they'd worked for all their lives but totally humiliated her and Chelsea and she couldn't trust him anymore.
这不仅危及了他们一生努力的一切，还彻底羞辱了她和切尔西，她再也不能相信他了。
Narrator: Later that day, Clinton's deposition was scheduled to take place in the Map Room of the White House.
旁白：当天晚些时候，克林顿的证词定于白宫地图室进行。
The President's lawyers had won an important concession from Ken Starr: the interrogation could not last longer than four hours.
总统的律师赢得了肯·斯塔尔的一项重要让步：审讯时间不能超过四个小时。
Man (archival audio): Could you please state your full name for the record, sir.
男士（档案音频）：先生，请您说出您的全名以供记录。
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: Bill Clinton's strategy was to run out the clock.
肯·葛姆雷，法律学者：比尔·克林顿的策略是争取时间。
And so, he would start talking about little stories from Arkansas, he would, you know, take an aside and give a lecture about justice and the American Dream.
因此，他会开始谈论阿肯色州的小故事，你知道，他会站在一边，发表有关正义和美国梦的演讲。
And all along, the clock is ticking out.
自始至终，时间都在滴答作响。
Bill Clinton (archival): Let me begin with the correct answer -- I don't know for sure....
比尔·克林顿（档案）：让我从正确答案开始——我不确定......
Well it would depend upon the facts.
嗯，这取决于事实。
I think on the whole people in the uniformed secret service....
我认为穿制服的特工部门的全体人员......
If we circle number one -- this is my circle here.
如果我们圈出第一个圈子——这就是我的圈子。
I remember doing it so I could focus only on those two lines....
我记得这样做是为了让我可以只关注这两行......
It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
这取决于“是”这个词的含义是什么。
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: The Starr prosecutors walked out of that grand jury testimony totally demoralized.
法律学者肯·葛姆雷：斯塔尔检察官在大陪审团作证后彻底士气低落。
They knew they had been clobbered by President Clinton.
他们知道自己遭到了克林顿总统的重创。
And even though it was just, obvious what he was doing, it was a masterful performance on Clinton's part.
尽管他所做的事情是显而易见的，但克林顿的表现却非常出色。
Narrator: If Clinton could finagle his way out of Starr's legal trap, he could not, he knew, escape the judgment of the American people.
旁白：克林顿知道，如果克林顿能够摆脱斯塔尔的法律陷阱，他就无法逃脱美国人民的审判。
Narrator: That night, President Bill Clinton addressed the nation in one of the most unusual and anticipated broadcasts in American history.
旁白：那天晚上，比尔·克林顿总统向全国发表了美国历史上最不寻常和最受期待的广播之一。
Bill Clinton (archival): Good evening.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：晚上好。
This afternoon in this room, from this chair, I testified before the Office of Independent Counsel and the grand jury.
今天下午，我在这个房间里，坐在椅子上，向独立检察官办公室和大陪审团作证。
I answered their questions truthfully, including questions about my private life, questions no American citizen would ever want to answer.
我如实回答了他们的问题，包括有关我私生活的问题，这些问题是任何美国公民都不愿意回答的。
Still, I must take complete responsibility for all my actions, both public and private.
尽管如此，我必须对我的所有行为承担全部责任，无论是公共行为还是私人行为。
And that is why I am speaking to you tonight.
这就是我今晚向你们讲话的原因。
Indeed I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate.
确实，我和莱温斯基女士确实有过不恰当的关系。
In fact it was wrong.
事实上这是错误的。
Narrator: For many of those closest to Clinton, this was the first time they'd heard him admit the affair and they were deeply hurt.
旁白：对于许多与克林顿最亲近的人来说，这是他们第一次听到他承认这件事，他们深受伤害。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: People just shook their heads, they couldn't believe it.
副参谋长哈罗德·伊克斯：人们只是摇头，他们不敢相信。
They literally could not believe it.
他们简直不敢相信。
What a squandering of talent and promise and possibility.
这是对才华、承诺和可能性的浪费。
Betsey Wright, Chief of Staff, Arkansas: Yes, I felt betrayed.
贝西·赖特（Betsey Wright），阿肯色州参谋长：是的，我感到被背叛了。
He lied to me, yeah.
他骗了我，是的。
He lied to a lot of people about that, not least of whom was himself.
他在这件事上对很多人撒了谎，尤其是他自己。
Peter Baker, Journalist: The morning after his grand jury testimony and his speech to the nation, he and Hillary and Chelsea head off to Martha's Vineyard for their annual vacation.
记者彼得·贝克：在大陪审团作证并向全国发表演讲后的第二天早上，他和希拉里和切尔西前往玛莎葡萄园岛享受一年一度的假期。
It may be the worst timed family vacation in the history of the world, but there they are, heading out to the helicopter on the South Lawn.
这可能是世界历史上最糟糕的家庭度假时机，但他们就在那里，前往南草坪的直升机。
And the staff is sitting in the White House thinking, 'What are we going to do about the walk to the helicopter?' They decided they can't do anything.
工作人员坐在白宫里思考，“我们该怎么办才能步行到直升机？”他们决定什么也做不了。
They can't orchestrate it, they can't spin it; they are powerless to affect it.
他们无法编排它，也无法操纵它；他们无力影响它。
And in the end it falls to Chelsea Clinton, a teenager, to take both of their hands, on her own initiative, take her father's hand in one and her mother's hand in the other and walk across the lawn, literally the bridge between her parents at this moment of crisis between them.
最终，青少年切尔西·克林顿主动牵起他们的双手，一只手牵着父亲的手，另一只手牵着母亲的手，走过草坪，在这危机时刻，草坪实际上是她父母之间的桥梁。
Narrator: As the Clintons spent a tense vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Washington was abuzz with talk of resignation or even impeachment.
旁白：当克林顿夫妇在玛莎葡萄园度过一个紧张的假期时，华盛顿议论纷纷，纷纷提出辞职甚至弹劾。
Ken Gormley, Legal Scholar: At this moment he was in maximum peril.
肯·葛姆雷，法律学者：此刻他处于最大的危险之中。
Clinton's advisors, were acutely aware that President Nixon was driven out of office not by the opposing party, but by his own party, when the Republicans came to him, and said, 'Enough, you have to leave.' That's when President Nixon resigned.
克林顿的顾问们敏锐地意识到，当共和党人找到尼克松总统并说“够了，你必须离开”时，尼克松总统不是被对手赶下台的，而是被他自己的政党赶下台的。就在那时，尼克松总统辞职了。
And so there was real concern that Democrats were going to begin bolting and they were not returning President Clinton's calls.
因此，人们真正担心民主党将开始逃跑，而他们不会回应克林顿总统的电话。
They were not happy with this.
他们对此并不满意。
There was a real concern that that -- this could be the beginning of the end.
人们真正担心的是——这可能是终结的开始。
Narrator: It had been a quarter of a century since Richard Nixon had resigned the presidency rather than endure an impeachment.
旁白：理查德·尼克松没有忍受弹劾而辞去总统职务，已经过去四分之一个世纪了。
Now, many were urging Clinton to do the same.
现在，许多人敦促克林顿也这样做。
But Clinton had no such intentions.
但克林顿并没有这样的意图。
Michael Isikoff, Journalist: There were the inevitable comparisons between Nixon and Clinton.
迈克尔·伊西科夫（Michael Isikoff），记者：尼克松和克林顿之间不可避免地存在着比较。
I always thought there was a fundamental difference.
我一直认为这是有本质区别的。
Both Nixon and Clinton were convinced that it was their political enemies that were responsible for all their troubles.
尼克松和克林顿都坚信，他们的所有麻烦都是他们的政治敌人造成的。
The difference is that Nixon always suspected that his political enemies were better than him.
不同的是，尼克松总是怀疑他的政敌比他更好。
Clinton hated his political enemies and were convinced they were beneath him.
克林顿憎恨他的政敌，并坚信他们比他低下。
And, that was the reason, at the end of the day, Clinton was never going to do what Richard Nixon did, which was to give into them and resign.
这就是原因，归根结底，克林顿永远不会像理查德·尼克松那样，屈服于他们并辞职。
Reporter (archival): Mr. President, all these questions about your personal life have to be painful to you and your family.
记者（档案）：总统先生，所有这些有关您个人生活的问题一定会让您和您的家人感到痛苦。
At what point do you consider that it's just not worth it and you consider resigning from office?
您在什么时候认为这不值得并考虑辞职？
Bill Clinton (archival): Never.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：从来没有。
You know, I was elected to do a job.
你知道，我被选出来是为了做一份工作。
I think the American people know two or three things about me now that they didn't know the first time this kind of effort was made against me.
我认为美国人民现在对我了解了两三件事，而他们第一次对我采取这种行动时并不知道。
I think they know that I care very much about them, that I care about ordinary people whose voices aren't often heard here.
我想他们知道我非常关心他们，我关心那些在这里不常听到他们声音的普通人。
And I think they know I have worked very very hard for them.
我想他们知道我为他们工作非常非常努力。
Narrator: Hard work had always been Clinton's salvation in moments of vulnerability.
旁白：努力工作一直是克林顿在脆弱时刻的救赎。
Now, as he sought to show the American people he could still function, he bore down on a suddenly violent foreign policy crisis.
现在，当他试图向美国人民展示他仍然可以发挥作用时，他直面一场突然发生的暴力外交政策危机。
Early on the morning of August 7, 1998, two truck bombs exploded simultaneously outside U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
1998年8月7日凌晨，两枚卡车炸弹在美国驻坦桑尼亚和肯尼亚大使馆外同时爆炸。
The death toll reached 200 with another 5,000 injured.
死亡人数达到200人，另有5000人受伤。
Within hours, the FBI had pegged responsibility to a little known terrorist organization called Al Qaeda.
几个小时内，联邦调查局将责任归咎于一个鲜为人知的恐怖组织“基地”组织。
Clinton soon ordered his national security team to hunt down and destroy Al Qaeda and its elusive leader Osama Bin Laden.
克林顿很快命令他的国家安全团队追捕并摧毁基地组织及其难以捉摸的领导人奥萨马·本·拉登。
Richard Clarke, National Security Coordinator: CIA had information, it thought it was reliable information, that Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda leadership were going to come together at a certain camp, in Afghanistan, at a certain date, at a certain time.
理查德·克拉克，国家安全协调员：中央情报局有信息，它认为这是可靠的信息，本拉登和基地组织领导层将在阿富汗的某个营地，在某个日期，某个时间会面。
We went to the president and said, 'We want to be able to land cruise missiles at that camp while they're there.'
我们去找总统说：“我们希望能够在巡航导弹在那里时将其降落在该营地。”
Narrator: The order would have huge political risks.
旁白：这个命令会带来巨大的政治风险。
Clinton knew that it would be widely seen as an attempt to distract the public from his own personal problems.
克林顿知道，这将被广泛视为试图转移公众对他个人问题的注意力。
Richard Clarke, National Security Coordinator: Somebody said something about, 'Well, you know, we have to take into account the political realities in the United States at the moment.' Which was sort of code words for, 'You've got this Monica Lewinsky scandal going on.' And he snapped.
国家安全协调员理查德·克拉克：有人说过，“嗯，你知道，我们必须考虑美国目前的政治现实。”这有点像是“莫妮卡·莱温斯基丑闻正在上演”的暗语。他厉声说道。
He just very quickly and sharply said, 'You don't think about that.
他只是非常迅速而尖锐地说，‘你别想这个。
You think about national security.
你考虑国家安全。
You give me the national security advice you would give me if this were not going on.
如果不发生这种情况，你会给我国家安全建议。
You let me worry about that.'
你让我担心这个。
Narrator: On August 20, Clinton ordered a series of missile strikes against Al Qaeda, targeting training camps in Afghanistan and a plant in Sudan that the administration claimed was involved in making chemical weapons.
旁白：8月20日，克林顿下令对基地组织进行一系列导弹袭击，目标是阿富汗的训练营和苏丹的一家工厂，政府声称该工厂参与制造化学武器。
The missiles narrowly missed their main target.
导弹险些击中主要目标。
Richard Clarke, National Security Coordinator: We didn't kill Bin Laden, we didn't have that to show for the attack.
理查德·克拉克，国家安全协调员：我们没有杀死本·拉登，我们在袭击中没有表现出这一点。
And people, frankly, a lot of people in the Congress, and in the media, said this was just an attempt to 'wag the dog.'
坦率地说，国会和媒体中的很多人都表示，这只是一种“摇狗”的尝试。
Rep.
代表。
Bob Barr, (R) Georgia (archival): The timing of all of this is more than coincidental and I think it may very well run the risk -- the President may run a risk of an even more cynical view of his behavior.
鲍勃·巴尔（R）佐治亚州（档案）：所有这一切发生的时机不仅仅是巧合，我认为这很可能冒着风险——总统可能会冒着对其行为采取更加愤世嫉俗的看法的风险。
Richard Clarke, National Security Coordinator: He knew that.
理查德·克拉克，国家安全协调员：他知道这一点。
He knew that was going to happen.
他知道这将会发生。
He knew that would make it worse for him to do this.
他知道这样做会让他的处境变得更糟。
But he launched the attack because he thought it was the right national security thing to do, that's what we told him.
但他发动攻击是因为他认为这是正确的国家安全行为，这就是我们告诉他的。
And he said, 'I'll do it anyway, even though it makes it worse for me.'
他说：“无论如何我都会这么做，即使这对我来说会更糟。”
Narrator: Things were deteriorating quickly for the President.
旁白：总统的情况迅速恶化。
On September 9th, Kenneth Starr finally delivered to Congress the long-awaited results of his investigation.
9月9日，肯尼斯·斯塔尔终于向国会提交了期待已久的调查结果。
In 450 pages of sometimes salacious detail, Starr laid out his case against Clinton for perjury, obstruction of justice, and abuse of office in the Lewinsky affair, while dropping almost all reference to his original investigation of Whitewater.
斯塔尔在 450 页有时充满淫秽细节的书中阐述了他对克林顿在莱温斯基事件中作伪证、妨碍司法和滥用职权的指控，同时几乎完全放弃了他最初对白水事件的调查。
Ken Starr, Independent Counsel: Lawyers are thorough.
肯·斯塔尔（Ken Starr），独立法律顾问：律师很彻底。
Good lawyers are thorough.
好的律师都是彻底的。
There could be absolutely no gap whatsoever between the facts and then a reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the facts.
事实与从事实中得出的合理结论之间绝对不能有任何差距。
The case had to be proven.
这个案子必须得到证实。
News Report (archival): The House Sergeant at Arms officially unsealed the document at mid-afternoon.
新闻报道（档案）：众议院武装士官于下午三点左右正式启封该文件。
It had been advertised as steamy, and you could almost see the steam rising as the boxes came open.
它被宣传为热气腾腾的，当盒子打开时你几乎可以看到蒸汽升起。
News Report (archival): According to the sources, the report focuses almost entirely on the President's relationship with Lewinsky.
新闻报道（档案）：据消息人士称，该报道几乎完全集中在总统与莱温斯基的关系上。
Peter Jennings, NBC News (archival): However this turns out, it is a turning point in Mr. Clinton's Presidency.
彼得·詹宁斯（Peter Jennings），NBC 新闻（档案）：不管结果如何，这都是克林顿先生总统任期的一个转折点。
It is not an exaggeration to say that he has less control of his destiny than at any time since he was elected.
毫不夸张地说，他对自己命运的掌控力比当选以来的任何时候都少。
Narrator: The Starr report was a turning point, but not in the way the independent counsel or his Republican supporters had expected.
旁白：斯塔尔的报告是一个转折点，但不是以独立检察官或其共和党支持者所期望的方式。
Polls showed that after four years and $40 million, most Americans believed the investigations against Clinton were more persecution than prosecution.
民意调查显示，经过四年时间和 4000 万美元的投入，大多数美国人认为针对克林顿的调查与其说是起诉，不如说是迫害。
Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff: The Republicans had so undercut their own credibility in the way they were going after him that people, although they deplored what he had done and thought it was stupid and it demeaned the office of the presidency and tarnished the presidency, tarnished him and had been a devastating blow to Hillary and Chelsea and all those things that went through people's minds, they looked at the Republicans and they had enough already.
副参谋长哈罗德·伊克斯：共和党人追捕他的方式严重削弱了自己的信誉，尽管人们对他的所作所为感到遗憾，认为这是愚蠢的，这贬低了总统职位，玷污了总统职位，玷污了他，对希拉里和切尔西以及人们脑海中浮现的所有这些事情造成了毁灭性的打击，但他们看着共和党人，他们已经受够了。
Narrator: After the release of Starr's report, Clinton appeared in the Rose Garden to offer his first full-throated apology to the American people.
旁白：斯塔尔的报告发布后，克林顿出现在玫瑰园，首次向美国人民大声道歉。
Bill Clinton (archival): I am profoundly sorry for all I have done wrong in words and deeds.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我对我在言语和行为上所做的一切错误深表歉意。
I never should have misled the country, the Congress, my friends or my family.
我绝不应该误导国家、国会、我的朋友或我的家人。
Quite simply, I gave into my shame.
很简单，我屈服于我的耻辱。
I have been condemned by my accusers with harsh words, and while it's hard to hear yourself called deceitful and manipulative, I remember Ben Franklin's admonition that our critics are our friends, for they do show us our faults.
我受到了原告的严厉谴责，虽然很难听到自己被称为欺骗和操纵，但我记得本·富兰克林的告诫：我们的批评者是我们的朋友，因为他们确实向我们展示了我们的错误。
Narrator: If Clinton was willing at last to take responsibility, the American people were willing to forgive him.
旁白：如果克林顿最终愿意承担责任，美国人民也愿意原谅他。
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: : He disappoints them every time on some level, but he always gets up and tries to make it better.
Dee Dee Myers，新闻秘书：：他每次都在某种程度上让他们失望，但他总是站起来并努力让事情变得更好。
You know, what else can you ask from a sinner, right?
你知道，你还能向罪人要求什么，对吗？
And that's how he would define himself, 'I'm a sinner.
这就是他如何定义自己，‘我是一个罪人。
And I try to be better every time, and I learn from my mistakes and I go forward.' And I think the American public is pretty forgiving of a guy who sees himself as a sinner.
我每次都努力变得更好，从错误中吸取教训，然后继续前进。”我认为美国公众对一个自视为罪人的人相当宽容。
Narrator: Weary of the attacks on Clinton, Americans punished Republican candidates in the Congressional elections in November.
旁白：厌倦了对克林顿的攻击，美国人在 11 月的国会选举中惩罚了共和党候选人。
Upsetting precedent, Democrats actually gained seats in Congress.
民主党实际上打破了先例，在国会获得了席位。
Bill Clinton (archival): I think the message the American people sent was loud and clear: we want progress over partisanship and unity over division.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：我认为美国人民发出的信息是响亮而明确的：我们希望进步战胜党派之争，团结战胜分裂。
Narrator: Blamed for the defeat, Newt Gingrich resigned his post as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
旁白：因失败而受到指责的纽特·金里奇辞去了众议院议长的职务。
To the frustration of his Republican opponents, Clinton seemed to have won over the American people again.
令共和党对手沮丧的是，克林顿似乎再次赢得了美国人民的支持。
Sen.
参议员。
Trent Lott, (R) Mississippi: There are two or three things that I have witnessed in my political career that I never could figure out.
特伦特·洛特（Trent Lott，R）密西西比州：在我的政治生涯中，我亲眼目睹了两三件事，但我一直无法弄清楚。
The fact that a lot of people didn't think that that was a serious problem that he, you know, perjured himself, in his testimony, and that he'd had a relationship with that woman Monica Lewinsky, that did shock me and I've never quite figured out how in the world could that be that he'd come out the back end of it pretty much where he was at the beginning.
事实上，很多人并不认为这是一个严重的问题，你知道，他在证词中作伪证，而且他与莫妮卡·莱温斯基那个女人有过关系，这确实让我震惊，我从来没有完全弄清楚他到底是怎么可能从一开始就走到最后的。
It's just one of those things I've never quite figured out.
这只是我从未完全弄清楚的事情之一。
Tony Blankley, Republican Strategist: We should have seen that, 'Ok, we're personally offended, that's our condition.' But if the public isn't, and clearly they weren't, then get over it.
共和党策略师托尼·布兰克利：我们应该看到，“好吧，我们个人感到被冒犯了，这就是我们的处境。”但如果公众不喜欢，而且显然他们不喜欢，那就别介意了。
And we never got over it.
我们从未克服过它。
We never got over it.
我们一直没有克服它。
We still haven't got over it.
我们还没有克服它。
Narrator: Determined to punish the President, House Republicans led by Texas Congressman Tom Delay, played their last card: impeachment.
旁白：决心惩罚总统，以德克萨斯州众议员汤姆·迪莱为首的众议院共和党人打出了最后一张牌：弹劾。
Man (archival): A resolution impeaching president William Jefferson Clinton, president of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors....
男子（档案）：一项弹劾美国总统威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿的决议，罪名是重罪和轻罪......
Jonathan Alter, Journalist: The Republicans were gripped by just unreasoning hatred of Bill Clinton.
乔纳森·阿尔特（Jonathan Alter），记者：共和党人对比尔·克林顿（Bill Clinton）怀有无理的仇恨。
They just despised the man and could not stand that he was going to get away with this.
他们只是鄙视这个人，无法忍受他竟然能逃脱惩罚。
Man (archival): Article One: In his conduct as president of the United States, we find William Jefferson Clinton, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States, has willfully corrupted and manipulated the judicial process of the United States....
男子（档案）：第一条：我们发现威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿作为美国总统的行为违反了他忠实履行美国总统职务的宪法誓言，故意腐败和操纵美国的司法程序……
Narrator: On Saturday, December 19th, the House of Representatives voted along party lines to impeach the president on two of four counts involving obstruction of justice and perjury.
旁白：12 月 19 日星期六，众议院按照党派路线投票，以涉及妨碍司法公正和作伪证的四项罪名中的两项弹劾总统。
Speaker Pro Tem (archival): On this vote, the yeas are 228, the nays are 206.
临时议长（档案）：在这次投票中，赞成票为 228 票，反对票为 206 票。
Article one is adopted.
第一条通过。
Narrator: Bill Clinton had become only the second president in American history, and the first in more than a century, to be impeached by the House.
旁白：比尔·克林顿成为美国历史上第二位、也是一个多世纪以来第一位被众议院弹劾的总统。
Republican Leader (archival): The American people, I call them to my side here at the podium to verify to you that the President committed falsehoods under oath.
共和党领袖（档案）：美国人民，我在讲台上呼吁他们站在我这边，向你们核实总统在宣誓后犯下了谎言。
Narrator: Republican leaders moved the proceedings to the Senate where a two-thirds majority was required to convict the President and remove him from office.
旁白：共和党领导人将诉讼程序移至参议院，参议院需要三分之二多数才能对总统定罪并将其免职。
Judge (archival): The Senate will convene as a court of impeachment.
法官（档案）：参议院将作为弹劾法庭召开会议。
Rep.
代表。
James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R) Wisconsin (archival): We are here today because president William Jefferson Clinton decided to put himself above the law.
威斯康星州小詹姆斯·森森布伦纳（右）（档案）：我们今天聚集在这里，是因为威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿总统决定将自己凌驾于法律之上。
Rep.
代表。
Bill McCollum, (R) Florida (archival): This is not about sex, this is about obstruction of justice.
比尔·麦科勒姆，（R）佛罗里达州（档案）：这与性无关，这是关于妨碍司法公正。
This is about a pattern.
这是关于一种模式。
This is about a scheme.
这是关于一个方案。
This is about a lot of lies...
这是关于很多谎言......
Narrator: For three long weeks, with little hope of success, 13 Republican Congressmen pressed the case against Clinton.
旁白：在漫长的三个星期里，13 名共和党国会议员对克林顿提出了诉讼，但成功的希望渺茫。
Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, (R) Illinois (archival): This is not about sexual misconduct any more than Watergate was a about a third-rate burglary.
司法委员会主席亨利·海德（R）伊利诺伊州（档案）：这与不当性行为无关，就像水门事件与三流入室盗窃无关一样。
Narrator: Finally, Arkansas Democratic Senator Dale Bumpers rose to express the sentiments felt by many in the chamber and the country as a whole:
旁白：最后，阿肯色州民主党参议员戴尔·邦珀斯起身表达了众议院和整个国家许多人的感受：
Sen.
参议员。
Dale Bumpers, (D) Arkansas (archival): We are here today because the president suffered a terrible moral lapse, a marital infidelity -- not a breach of the public trust, not a crime against society.
戴尔·邦珀斯（Dale Bumpers），阿肯色州议员（档案）：我们今天聚集在这里，是因为总统遭受了严重的道德败坏、婚姻不忠——这不是对公众信任的破坏，也不是危害社会的犯罪。
It is a sex scandal.
这是一桩性丑闻。
H.
H.
L.
L。
Mencken said one time, 'When you hear somebody say, 'This is not about money' -- it's about money.' And when you hear somebody say, 'This is not about sex' -- it's about sex.
门肯有一次说过，“当你听到有人说，‘这不是钱的问题’——这只是钱的问题。”当你听到有人说，“这与性无关”——这与性有关。
Judge (archival): The Senate adjudges that the respondent, President William Jefferson Clinton, president of the United States, is not guilty as charged in the first article of impeachment.
法官（档案）：参议院裁定被告、美国总统威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿无罪，如弹劾第一篇文章所指控的那样。
Narrator: What had begun with a sexual indiscretion more than three years earlier, and mushroomed into a full-scale constitutional crisis, was finally over.
旁白：从三年多前的不检点性行为开始，迅速演变成一场全面的宪法危机，现在终于结束了。
This time, however, there was no triumph, no crowing about "The Comeback Kid." Bill Clinton knew that this time, both he and the country had paid a heavy price.
然而，这一次，“卷土重来的孩子”没有胜利，也没有欢呼。比尔·克林顿知道，这一次，他和国家都付出了惨重的代价。
John Harris, Journalist: Bill Clinton in his second inaugural address said it was his ambition during the second term to be, quoting scripture, 'a repairer of the breech.' That ambition was not realized in his second term and it effectively died in 1998, the year of scandal.
约翰·哈里斯，记者：比尔·克林顿在他的第二次就职演说中表示，他在第二任期内的野心是引用圣经，成为“臀部的修复者”。这一雄心壮志在他的第二个任期内并未实现，并于 1998 年丑闻爆发的那一年实际上夭折了。
Dee Dee Myers, Press Secretary: : The fact that the president was impeached will always be part of his story, part of his legacy.
新闻秘书迪·迪·迈尔斯 (Dee Dee Myers)：总统被弹劾的事实将永远是他的故事的一部分，他的遗产的一部分。
It consumed a tremendous amount of energy.
它消耗了大量的能量。
It undercut his standing.
这削弱了他的地位。
And, I think limited his ability to accomplish anything outside of surviving for almost two years.
而且，我认为这限制了他除了生存近两年之外完成任何事情的能力。
And you know that's tragic.
你知道那是悲剧。
David Maraniss, Writer: Clinton created many of his own problems, but his enemies exaggerated, enhanced, mythologized, lied, were utterly hypocritical in their attacks on him.
大卫·马拉尼斯，作家：克林顿自己制造了许多问题，但他的敌人夸大、强化、神话化、撒谎，对他的攻击完全是虚伪的。
You know, to the extent that I believe that every human being is responsible for their own lives, he holds the responsibility for it.
你知道，就我相信每个人都对自己的生活负责而言，他也对此负有责任。
To the extent that context shapes a life, his enemies have a lot to answer for.
就环境塑造生活而言，他的敌人要承担很多责任。
Narrator: Clinton had survived, but the impeachment ordeal seemed to have sapped much of his drive and ambition.
旁白：克林顿活了下来，但弹劾考验似乎削弱了他的动力和野心。
Peter Baker, Journalist: President Clinton has more than 700 days left in office after he's acquitted by the Senate, and he promises to use every single one of them to its fullest.
记者彼得·贝克：克林顿总统被参议院宣判无罪后，他的任期还剩 700 多天，他承诺将充分利用每一天。
But the constraints were enormous at that point.
但当时的限制是巨大的。
The big aspirations were gone.
伟大的愿望已经消失了。
The chances of re-inventing Social Security or re-inventing Medicare just proved too elusive.
事实证明，重新发明社会保障或重新发明医疗保险的机会太渺茫了。
He had a Congress, which had just, literally put him on trial, and was not willing to do a lot of business with him.
他有一个国会，实际上刚刚对他进行了审判，并且不愿意与他做很多生意。
Narrator: In 2000, Clinton came tantalizingly close to the great historical achievement for which he had yearned, but a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians broke down in the eleventh hour.
旁白：2000年，克林顿非常接近他所渴望的伟大历史成就，但以色列和巴勒斯坦之间的和平协议在最后一刻破裂了。
The same year, after decades of budget deficits, the federal budget had a surplus of nearly $240 billion, an accomplishment for which Clinton was given much credit.
同年，在经历了数十年的预算赤字之后，联邦预算出现了近 2400 亿美元的盈余，这一成就令克林顿受到高度赞扬。
It was only as her husband was preparing to leave the stage, that Hillary finally stepped front and center, ready at last to take her star turn.
直到她的丈夫准备离开舞台时，希拉里才终于走到了前面和中间，准备好开始她的明星之旅。
Peter Baker, Journalist: The day the Senate votes to acquit President Clinton on impeachment charges, Hillary Clinton is meeting in the White House residence with Harold Ickes to plot a campaign for the very same United States Senate.
记者彼得·贝克（Peter Baker）：在参议院投票宣告克林顿总统弹劾指控无罪的当天，希拉里·克林顿正在白宫官邸与哈罗德·伊克斯会面，为同一个美国参议院策划一场竞选活动。
Literally the end of his crisis is the birth of her new phase.
从字面上看，他危机的结束就是她新阶段的诞生。
Gail Sheehy, Writer: She said, 'I want to be independent.
盖尔·希伊，作家：她说，“我想独立。”
I want to be judged on my own merits.' And she finally released herself from, you know, the shadow of Bill Clinton over her and began making her own decisions.
我希望根据我自己的优点来评判。她终于摆脱了比尔·克林顿的阴影，开始做出自己的决定。
He then came to her support, and there was nobody more of a champion for her Senate race than Bill Clinton.
然后他开始支持她，没有人比比尔·克林顿更能支持她的参议员竞选。
He was behind her all the way.
他一直在她身后。
Bill Clinton (archival): So even if I didn't know her better than anyone in this room, I'd be for her.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：所以即使我并不比这个房间里的任何人都更了解她，我也会支持她。
Narrator: That November, as Vice-President Al Gore lost the closest presidential election in American history, Hillary Clinton easily won the Senate seat in New York.
旁白：那年11月，副总统戈尔落败了美国历史上最接近的一次总统选举，希拉里·克林顿轻松赢得了纽约参议院席位。
Hillary Clinton (archival): I am profoundly grateful to all of you for giving me the chance to serve you.
希拉里·克林顿（档案）：我非常感谢你们所有人给我为你们服务的机会。
Narrator: In his final round of goodbye speeches, Bill Clinton even bid farewell to the Washington Press corps.
旁白：在最后一轮告别演说中，比尔·克林顿甚至向华盛顿新闻团告别。
Bill Clinton (archival): You know I read in the history books how other presidents say the White House is like a penitentiary, and every motive they have is suspect.
比尔·克林顿（档案）：你知道我在历史书中读到其他总统如何说白宫就像监狱，他们的每一个动机都是可疑的。
Even George Washington complained he was treated like a common thief.
就连乔治·华盛顿也抱怨他被当作普通小偷对待。
And they all say they can't get away -- can't wait to get away.
他们都说他们无法逃脱——迫不及待地想离开。
I don't know what the heck they're talking about.
我不知道他们到底在说什么。
I've had a wonderful time.
我度过了一段美好的时光。
It's been an honor to serve and fun to laugh.
能够服务是一种荣幸，笑起来也很有趣。
I only wish that we'd even laughed more these last eight years because power's not the most important thing in life and only counts for what you use it.
我只希望过去八年我们能笑得更多，因为权力并不是生活中最重要的东西，只有你使用它的时候才重要。
Peter Baker, Journalist: Bill Clinton loved being president.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：比尔·克林顿喜欢当总统。
He had to literally be dragged out of there clawing the floors to get him out of there on January 20th, 2001.
2001 年 1 月 20 日，他不得不用爪子抓地板才把他从那里拖出来。
In fact, when the Bushes show up, the movers are still desperately trying to move everything; literally, they're taking drawers from the cabinets and just dumping them into boxes because Bill Clinton has wanted to milk every last minute of his presidency right up to the end.
事实上，当布什夫妇出现时，搬家工人仍在拼命地试图搬走所有东西；从字面上看，他们从橱柜里拿出抽屉，然后把它们扔进盒子里，因为比尔·克林顿(Bill Clinton)一直想榨取他总统任期的最后一分钟，直到最后。
Harry Thomason, Friend: Listen, this guy loved being President.
哈里·托马森（Harry Thomason），朋友：听着，这家伙喜欢当总统。
He even loved being President when it was tough.
他甚至喜欢在困难时期担任总统。
A lot of times I would say, 'How does he smile?
很多时候我会问，‘他笑起来怎么样？
How does he keep laughing?
他怎么一直笑？
How does he keep going through this?' But it was because he got the energy back from the people.
他如何继续经历这一切？但那是因为他从人们那里得到了能量。
Whatever you think of the man, he wanted to do the right thing for the people of his county, his state, his country, and that never changed about him.
无论你如何看待这个人，他都想为他的县、他的州、他的国家的人民做正确的事情，这一点从未改变过。
Narrator: Clinton departed the White House for the last time on Saturday, January 20th, 2001.
旁白：克林顿最后一次离开白宫是在 2001 年 1 月 20 日星期六。
In the end, he left much as he had come: a man loved by his friends, and loathed by his enemies.
最后，他离开时和来时一样：一个被朋友爱戴、被敌人憎恶的人。
A politician who had achieved a great deal, yet left behind a curious sense of unfulfilled promise.
一位取得了巨大成就的政治家，却留下了一种未实现的承诺的奇怪感觉。
John Harris, Journalist: I believe he's an argument without end -- that there will be people discussing and debating the significance of Bill Clinton for a long time.
约翰·哈里斯，记者：我相信他是一个没有尽头的论点——人们会在很长一段时间内讨论和辩论比尔·克林顿的重要性。
William Chafe, Historian: Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our best presidents in the 20th century who accomplished an enormous amount, and he will be remembered because of his personal recklessness.
历史学家威廉·查夫（William Chafe）：比尔·克林顿将作为 20 世纪最优秀的总统之一而被人们铭记，他取得了巨大的成就，而他将因为他个人的鲁莽而被人们铭记。
And that is tragic.
这是悲剧性的。
Because so much more could have happened.
因为还有很多事情可能发生。
Robert Reich, Labor Secretary: Did Bill Clinton help the country and was the country better for having him as president?
劳工部长罗伯特·赖克：比尔·克林顿是否帮助了国家？国家因他担任总统而变得更好吗？
I think, unquestionably, yes.
我想，毫无疑问，是的。
But, are there elements of tragedy here as well?
但是，这里是否也有悲剧的因素呢？
Huge elements of tragedy in terms of failures and opportunities lost, and risks made that didn't have to be made?
悲剧的巨大因素包括失败和机会的丧失，以及不必要的风险？
Undoubtedly .
毫无疑问。
Joe Klein, Journalist: I know a lot of people think that Clinton's presidency was a wasted opportunity.
记者乔·克莱因：我知道很多人认为克林顿的总统任期是一个浪费的机会。
But he came to office in 1992 and left a stronger country in 2000.
但他于 1992 年上任，并于 2000 年离开了一个更强大的国家。
I don't know if you can say of a president who served us well and improved our material good that it was a wasted opportunity.
我不知道你是否可以说，一位为我们提供良好服务并改善了我们的物质财富的总统，这是一个浪费的机会。
And it was sure a lot of fun to watch.
观看起来肯定很有趣。
A biography of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history.
这是一位总统的传记，他从阿肯色州破碎的童年成长为美国现代历史上最成功的政治家之一。
President Clinton hoped to become a "repairer of the breach," calling upon Congress to move beyond extreme partisanship and instead focus on America's mission.
克林顿总统希望成为“缺口修复者”，呼吁国会超越极端党派之争，专注于美国的使命。
After the worst act of domestic terrorism in the nation's history, Bill Clinton went to Oklahoma City to comfort the community and reassure the nation.
在美国历史上最严重的国内恐怖主义行为发生后，比尔·克林顿前往俄克拉荷马城安慰社区并让全国放心。
Hillary Clinton was unsatisfied by the traditional role of the First Lady, but the public was often uncomfortable with her outsized influence.
希拉里·克林顿对第一夫人的传统角色并不满意，但公众往往对她过大的影响力感到不安。
Bill Clinton is considered one of the most talented politicians of our time, but one compromised by failure and redemption.
比尔·克林顿被认为是我们这个时代最有才华的政治家之一，但他因失败和救赎而妥协。
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the four-hour biography.
这部四小时传记的幕后制作过程。
In 1988, Bill Clinton bungled the biggest speech of his young career.
1988 年，比尔·克林顿搞砸了他年轻职业生涯中最重要的一次演讲。
When Bosnian Serb soldiers murdered thousands of Muslims in 1995, President Clinton initiated a NATO response.
1995 年，当波斯尼亚塞族士兵杀害了数千名穆斯林时，克林顿总统发起了北约的回应。
The vote on Bill Clinton's budget bill came down to a freshman Democrat — Marjorie Margolis Mezvinsky.
对比尔·克林顿预算法案的投票最终落到了民主党新人马乔里·马戈利斯·梅兹文斯基手中。
Bill Clinton is considered one of the most talented politicians of our time, but one compromised by failure and redemption.
比尔·克林顿被认为是我们这个时代最有才华的政治家之一，但他因失败和救赎而妥协。