May

May 15: Dole quits the Senate to focus full-time on his White House campaign. "I announce that I will forego the privileges not only of the office of the majority leader but of the United States Senate itself, from which I resign effective on or before June 11th," a choked-up Dole tells a Capitol Hill news conference, flanked by Republican lawmakers and a few Democrats. "And I will then stand before you without office or authority, a private citizen, a Kansan, an American, just a man."

Related Link: Transcript of Dole's Speech

May 28: The jury in the Whitewater trial convicts defendants Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and Jim and Susan McDougal, Clinton's former business partners, of most of the fraud charges against them. Related Link: Whitewater Special Report

June

June 6: As the nominee-to-be, Dole works to find some common ground between anti-abortion rights and pro-abortion rights forces in the party.

June 11: Dole continues to mull over possible vice presidential running mates, but says the chances of cajoling retired Gen. Colin Powell into accepting the veep slot are "very doubtful."

June 12: Clinton apologizes for the White House's obtaining of FBI files on leading Republicans and said it was an honest bureaucratic snafu that won't happen again.

June 18: After 14 months and $1 million , the Senate Whitewater committee offers up two vastly different versions of the affair, split predictably along partisan lines. Related Links:Republican Whitewater Report and the Democratic Whitewater Report.

Mid-June: Former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm ponders whether to challenge Ross Perot for the Reform Party nomination.

June 26: Craig Livingstone, the man at the center of the FBI files fiasco, resigns during a day of House committee hearings into the controversy. Says former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum: "We made a bad mistake here, an innocent mistake, I believe."

June 30: A new book, "Unlimited Acess", by former FBI agent Gary Aldrich claims Clinton sneaks away from the White House for romantic trysts. But Newsweek Correspondent Michael Isikoff says he found the only source for the allegation was conservative journalist David Brock, who had told Aldrich it was only a rumor. "This conforms to no standards of journalistic sourcing whatsoever. It is simply a recycled and garbled rumor," Isikoff reports.