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Hyde maintains that the House was constitutionally bound to impeach Clinton for perjury. As Hyde was publicly pursuing the impeachment of Clinton, the Internet magazine Salon.com published a story about Hyde entitled "This Hypocrite Broke Up My Family." According to the story, from 1965 to 1969, Hyde conducted an extramarital sexual affair with Cherie Snodgrass. At the time, Snodgrass was married to another man with whom she had had three children. The Snodgrasses divorced in 1967. The affair ended when Snodgrass' husband confronted Mrs. Hyde. The Hydes reconciled and remained married until Mrs. Hyde's death in 1992. The Snodgrasses remarried in 1969 but re-divorced shortly thereafter. Although Hyde was 41 years old and married when the four-year affair began, he dismissed it as one of his "youthful indiscretions." This infamous quotation by Representative Hyde may have been made as a reference to a similar quote by former Vice President Dan Quayle. In 1988 while a candidate for vice president, Quayle defended his vote as a U.S. Senator, against establishing a cabinet-level position for the Veterans Administration by describing the vote as a "youthful indiscretion." The vote had actually been cast only one month earlier.