ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: I'll never forget that moment when he uttered those words. The president had a previously scheduled event in the Roosevelt room. There was a small pool of reporters who were invited inside. It was CNN's turn that day to be the network pool representative. I was behind the row of seats that were in there, in front of the cameras. The president came in and he made his famous declaration.</s>WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.</s>BLITZER: He was looking right at me, right at my eyes. We later learned that the phrases had been very, very carefully coordinated, and the phrase "sexual relations" has a very specific meaning for the president. So, technically, he argued, he was not lying to the American people. I never thought I'd be standing on the North Lawn of the White House talking to my audience and trying to parse words like "sexual relations," and it was something I don't look back on fondly because it was a painful ordeal for all of us. For 13 months, the country, the world was engrossed in this story, but this was a story that we had to pay attention to because the presidency was on the line.
CNN20: Clinton's Denial, January 26, 1996