In April 1999, U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found Clinton in civil contempt of court for his "willful failure" to obey her repeated orders to testify truthfully in the Jones case, and fined him $90,000.

The Clinton White House has said that Clinton will pay the $90,000 fine levied by Judge Wright. The judge said in the July 29 ruling she hoped that it might deter others ''who might consider emulating the president's misconduct.''

"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." –Bill Clinton, during his 1998 grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair