In her first few months on the job, the aggressive and sexually experienced Lewinsky met and flirted with the President, but no opportunities for close personal contact arose. In November , however, Lewinsky was assigned to the West Wing and she soon found herself alone with Clinton. He asked if he could kiss Lewinsky. She quickly consented. Later that evening, the two would have the first of what eventually would be ten sexual encounters over a sixteen-month period. After eight of the encounters had taken place, in April , Clinton's deputy chief of staff--most likely aware of the threat the young intern posed--reassigned Lewinsky to the a position in the Department of Defense.
The following month Clinton told a disappointed Lewinsky " He was my sunshine ," she later told a grand jury he was ending the relationship, but he revived it briefly in early The encounters followed a predictable pattern. Generally they occurred on weekend mornings in and around the Oval Office including a study, a hallway, and a bathroom , when few people except Clinton's personal secretary, Betty Currie , would be around the West Wing.
Although many private meetings between the two involved no sexual activity, when they did they generally included Lewinsky fellating the President and the President fondling her breasts and genitalia.
On three occasions, Lewinsky performed oral sex while the President talked on the phone. Lewinsky told Clinton she would like to have vaginal intercourse with him, but he resisted. He also terminated the oral sex sessions before ejaculation until their last two encounters. When Clinton again told Lewinsky in May that their sexual relationship was over, she redoubled efforts that began the previous year to enlist the President's assistance in finding employment.
Lewinsky received a job offer from U. Ambassador Bill Richardson several months later, but she turned it down, preferring to find private sector employment. Clinton golfing buddy and power broker Vernon Jordan , acting at what he presumed to be the President's request through Betty Currie, met with Lewinsky to discuss employment possibilities in November Less than two weeks after Lewinsky's name appeared on the Jones deposition list, Clinton told her the news.
He advised her that filing an affidavit might avoid the necessity of a deposition but only, he need hardly have said, if she denied a sexual relationship , and he reminded her of their "cover story" for her frequent trips to Oval Office--that she was just delivering documents. Two days after discussing the matter with Clinton, Lewinsky received a subpoena to appear for a deposition in January She called Vernon Jordan, who again met with her and referred her to an attorney, who proceeded to draft an affidavit that reflected her denial of any sexual involvement with the President.
Just after Christmas, Lewinsky spoke again with Clinton, raising her concern that the subpoena had requested that she bring to the deposition any gifts--and there were many--that she had received from him. Although Clinton apparently informed Lewinsky that she was obligated to give the lawyers for Jones any gifts in her possession, a call came later that day from Currie, indicating that she understood Lewinsky had some items she'd like to give her for safekeeping.
Currie, in her testimony, disagreed with Lewinsky's version of events and claimed that the call about the presents came from Lewinsky, not her. Currie drove to Lewinsky's home and carted away a box of Clinton gifts and put them under her bed. In early January , Lewinsky signed an affidavit, with the intent of filing it for the Jones case, claiming her relationship with the President was non-sexual.
The day after Lewinsky showed the affidavit to Vernon Jordan, Jordan made a call to Ronald Perelman, a friend and member of the Board of Directors of Revlon, encouraging him to hire Lewinsky.
The job offer from Revlon came just two days later. The source of the information that put Monica Lewinsky's name on the deposition list for the Jones case was Linda Tripp.
Tripp had served in the Bush White House, and was held over in her job when Clinton became president in Tripp came to despise Clinton. In , when she considered how to expose what she considered to be West Wing scandals, she contacted a conservative literary agent and self-described Clinton-hater, Lucianne Goldberg. Tripp's name came to public attention in August when it appeared in a Newsweek article in which she recalled running into a White House volunteer, Kathleen Willey, shortly after Willey had been kissed and fondled by Clinton in his private office.
Willey, according to Tripp, was "happy and joyful" and the incident was "not a case of sexual harassment. Months before the Willey story broke, however, Tripp learned from her then-friend, Monica Lewinsky, that she was having an affair with the President.
Tripp told the reporter for Newsweek , Michael Isikoff, when he approached her to ask about Willey's encounter with Clinton that the better story involved a White House intern, who she left unnamed. During one of her taped conversations with Lewinsky in November , Tripp learned that her friend had in her closet a blue dress that still bore the semen stain from a sexual encounter with the President some nine months earlier.
Tripp excitedly called Michael Isikoff with the remarkable news, and urged that the reporter have the dress DNA tested. Isikoff pointed out an obvious problem: even if Newsweek could somehow obtain the dress, the test would be meaningless without a sample of Clinton's DNA--and how could the magazine get that? Tripp, however, continued to take an active interest in preserving the semen evidence, urging Lewinsky not to have the dress dry cleaned--as she had planned--for a family occasion because it might be useful for her own "protection" and, besides, the dress made her look "really fat.
In early January , at the encouragement of Luciane Goldberg and backers of the Jones lawsuit who, by this time, had been filled in by Tripp on details of the Lewinsky matter , Tripp contacted Kenneth Starr's Office of Independent Counsel.
Tripp told Starr's staff all she knew about the Lewinsky-Clinton scandal and presented them with a collection of damaging tapes of her private conversations with Lewinsky. By late , despite the several-year-long "Whitewater" investigation costing tens of millions of dollars, the Office of Independent Counsel OIC failed to produce the necessary "substantial and credible" evidence of an impeachable offense that would justify referring the matter to Congress for further action.
It seemed only a matter of weeks before the OIC would be forced to close its far-reaching effort to identify wrongdoing by the President. The removal of Independent Counsel Robert Fiske, a moderate Republican, and his replacement--by a three-judge panel headed by David Sentelle a Reagan appointee and protege of Senator Jesse Helms --with conservative Kenneth Starr was a key turning point in the investigation.
Starr had no hesitation about aggressively taking the investigation in a new direction. About the same time, Judge Wright appeared ready to dismiss Paula Jones's sexual harassment suit. The judge seemed angered and frustrated by leaks most likely the leaks originated with the Clinton team, not the Jones team of salacious details in the press, in obvious defiance of her gag order. The President's camp had every reason to be confident that the case would never go to trial--if they could prevent any new bombshells about Clinton's sexual activities with subordinates.
In January , it all blew up. According to the Starr Report eventually submitted to Congress, that month the OIC "received information that Monica Lewinsky was attempting to influence the testimony of one of the witnesses in the Jones investigation [Tripp], and that Ms.
Lewinsky herself was prepared to provide false information under oath in that lawsuit. Lewinsky had spoken to the President In seeking permission from Reno, the OIC neglected to mention its prior contacts with lawyers for Paula Jones, including Starr's own previous discussions with Jones's lawyers on the immunity issue that reached the Supreme Court.
Had the OIC disclosed these contacts, a conflict concern might have either resulted in their request being turned down, or a new independent counsel appointed. On January 16, the day before the President would be deposed in the Jones case, authorization for the expanded investigation came from Janet Reno.
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