Puritan values nowadays

Something that I have found here in the United States that we do not have, or at least is not so easy to see, are the remains of the puritan values in nowadays society. It was very curious to see how after all the scandal of the Clinton affaire with the world famous Monica Lewinski, it seemed that the real, or at least the most important fault that the president had had was that of lying, even above cheating to his wife. This is at least the impresion I got when all that happened and maybe also due to the way the scandal was treated in Europe. The fact is that these kind of things are what reflect, in my opinion, the old puritan values remains in nowadays American society.