Linda Tripp can't be complicated because then we would have no villain. So, she's fat, ugly, cruel, and, of course, a betrayer. The vice president said at the Post-impeachment Rose Garden bash that Clinton was one of our greatest presidents. His defenders point to the success of the economy as his greatest achievement. Well, this is an interesting contention.
Presidents always get an undue amount of credit or criticism for the economy while in office.
But afterwards, their legacy is almost completely divorced from the nation's economic performance. Sure, people know times were good during the 1950s but nobody really gives Ike much credit for it. When presidents do get judged according to economic criteria its usually part of a larger discussion of economic trends. FDR ushered in a new era of economic handholding by the federal government. The recession Clinton supposedly got us out of was a tiny blip that was technically over before Bush got out of office.