ST. JOSEPH, Minn., Dec. 17, 1998 A psychological study of President Bill Clinton, conducted before the 1996 election, predicted that the Clinton presidency would be "troubled by ethical questions and lapses of judgment," but that the president would "retain a following and maintain his self-confidence in the face of adversity." The investigation revealed serious flaws as well as redeeming features in the president's personality, and found his motives to be "vastly different from those that scuttled the political career of Richard Nixon."
The study, by associate professor of psychology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, Aubrey Immelman, was published this fall in the journal Leadership Quarterly. Immelman concluded that in a second presidential term Bill Clinton would likely continue to display his "driving ambition, supreme sense of self-confidence, and personal charisma," but offered the "sobering caveat" that President Clinton's character contained......
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