The President and the Prosecutor

As Bill Clinton looked me straight in the eye, tightened his jaw, and denied having sex with “that woman,” I had a fantasy: suppose, on that historic 60 Minutes episode in 1992, he had said, “Yes, I had an affair with Gennifer Flowers.” And suppose Hillary had added, “Not every marriage is monogamous. Relationships are complicated, and ours is no exception.”

Why is such candor unthinkable? After all, most of the voters who elected Clinton didn’t believe his denial that he...