Editing Clinton–Lewinsky scandal (section)

===Personal acceptance===

Historian [[Taylor Branch]] implied that Clinton had requested changes to his 2009 biography, ''[[The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President]]'', regarding Clinton's revelation that the Lewinsky affair began because "I cracked; I just cracked." Branch writes that Clinton had felt "beleaguered, unappreciated, and open to a liaison with Lewinsky" following "the Democrats' loss of Congress in the November 1994 elections, the death of his mother the previous January, and the ongoing [[Whitewater controversy|Whitewater investigation]]".<ref>{{cite news| title= Secret interviews add insight to Clinton presidency | first= Susan |last= Page |newspaper= USA Today | date=September 21, 2009 |url= https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-09-21-clinton-tapes_N.htm |access-date= September 21, 2009}}</ref> Publicly, Clinton had previously blamed the affair on "a terrible moral error" and on anger at Republicans, stating, "if people have unresolved anger, it makes them do non-rational, destructive things".<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/20/clinton.book/ |title= Clinton: Lewinsky affair a 'terrible moral error'| publisher= CNN |date= June 21, 2004 |access-date= May 9, 2013}}</ref>