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The House is expected to vote on Wednesday on two articles of impeachment against President Trump, most likely making him the third president in the nation’s history to be impeached. Four of the current New York Times journalists who covered President Bill Clinton’s impeachment reminisce about that time and how it echoes in today’s coverage.

PETER BAKER, currently the chief White House correspondent: We thought it was the most partisan, most divisive era we could ever imagine. Today, that seems almost quaint.

After his re-election, President Bill Clinton had talked in his inaugural address about using his second term to become the “repairer of the breach,” quoting Isaiah, and he had told John Harris (my partner on the White House beat) and me a couple of days earlier that he wanted to “flush the poison from the atmosphere.” Instead, the breach became wider than ever before and the poisons more toxic. Little did we realize how much more so it could become.