Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nebulous and rooted in assertion dulled by denial that the possibilities for the truth are numerous. With good reason, most people believe some of what they're reading and seeing, but not all of it. Most Americans seem to think Clinton and Lewinsky had some sort of affair, but that he did not tell her to lie under oath; they think Clinton is morally bankrupt, but don't much mind as long as he continues to lead the nation through economic bliss...
Lewinsky--who really does feel spurned by the President--doesn't ask for much in return for her name and reputation. Perhaps she is promised the chance to write a tell-all book like her mother had before her. When the reports of an affair surface, Clinton is dumb-founded and devastated. Of course he knows who Lewinsky is. She was that bubbly intern who used to give him presents. She was the one that wealthy New York donor told him to look after. She was the one he had Vernon Jordan help find a job after she kept calling...
...nothing else, Hillary did start to fill a great void of unanswered questions at the center of the Lewinsky affair. Example: If it wasn't sexual, has the President told her what the relationship between himself and the intern was? "Yes, and we'll find that out as time goes by," she promised. Did Clinton give Lewinsky gifts? "It's possible," admitted Hillary. "He is a generous person." How did she find out about these allegations? Clinton himself told her. "He woke me up Wednesday morning and said, 'You're not going to believe this...
WASHINGTON: One of the mysteries surrounding the Lewinsky case is exactly who made three anonymous phone calls telling the Rutherford Institute about the Lewinsky affair. Now, TIME's Jay Branegan has learned, Rutherford Institute president John Whitehead has agreed to turn over to Kenneth Starr notes and information about those anonymous phone calls the institute received concerning Monica Lewinsky. The calls were placed by someone with a female voice ? and were not made, presumably, by Lewinsky herself...
...100th anniversary of Emile Zola's article "J'accuse," France's Roman Catholic daily paper, La Croix, apologized for its anti-Semitic editorials during the Dreyfus affair...