Clinton, Lewinsky saga airs Monday

People wanting to rehash the Whitewater investigation and relive the Monica Lewinsky scandal will want to tune in to the Smithsonian Channel on Monday at 8 p.m.

The network is debuting The Lost Tapes: Clinton Impeachment, a look at the struggle pitting President Bill Clinton and his legion of lawyers against independent counsel Ken Starr and his battalion of attorneys plus a host of Republicans on Capitol Hill.

The feature includes recordings that historian Taylor Branch made immediately after dozens of meetings with Clinton during the White House years.

The show features plenty of excerpts from 1990s newscasts and C-SPAN broadcasts, plus taped conversations between Lewinsky and fellow White House alum Linda Tripp.

There’s also a clip of Clinton’s announcement speech in 1991, when he promised that “together, we can make America great again.”

“The Lost Tapes” series producer is Tom Jennings and his team obtained a lot of its material from the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock.

Those who miss the broadcast Monday can see it when it re-airs Friday at 8 p.m. Planning to visit the nation’s capital? Know something happening in Washington, D.C.? Please contact Frank Lockwood at (202) 662-7690 or flockwood@arkansasonline.com. Want the latest from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Washington bureau? It’s available on Twitter, @LockwoodFrank.