The year was dominated by a single story so much so that Americans soon concocted a name for it All Monica, all the time, the saga of the President"s affair with a White house intern stretched from mid January until the last day of the year, ending in a single overwhelming week before Christmas. When the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach the President even as the Republican Speaker elect resigned over an adultery scandal of his own, and U.S. and British warplanes struck at a defiant Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.