Yes he did, and he'll likely be the last President to do so.
In 1998, Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to testify as the subject of a grand jury investigation. He testified for over four hours from the White House on closed-circuit television.
Clinton’s testimony capped a four-year probe by an independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, who had been named to investigate allegations against the president and his wife, Hillary Clinton, stemming from the Whitewater real estate venture in Arkansas, as well as suspected cronyism in the firing of White House travel agency personnel.
In also examining allegations of sexual harassment against the president, Starr uncovered an affair between Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.
Clinton denied under oath that he had engaged in sexual relations with Lewinsky. That testimony led Starr to accuse the president of perjury and obstruction of justice, which in turn prompted his grand jury appearance.
When Clinton testified, he knew Lewinsky was talking to Starr’s prosecutors, and he knew his DNA could match a semen stain on her blue dress. Faced with those facts, the president could have invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to incriminate himself before the grand jury.
Instead, according to Starr, he continued to lie.
You're not very good at this are you?
What presidents have been subpoenaed to testify before Congress?
Instances of Sitting and Former Presidents & Sitting Vice Presidents Who Have Testified Before Congressional Committees*
- Sitting Presidents and Vice Presidents.
- President Abraham Lincoln1 ...
- Vice President Schuyler Colfax. ...
- President Woodrow Wilson. ...
- President Gerald R. ...
- Former Presidents.
- Theodore Roosevelt. ...
- William Howard Taft2