Word: bacon
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...following April, she was out of the White House, moved to a job at the Pentagon in spokesman Kenneth Bacon's Office of Public Affairs. As fate would have it, however, Bacon's office was the wrong landing pad for a young woman who loved to gossip. Sitting not far away was Linda Tripp, another former White House aide, who had joined the Bush Administration as a secretary and later ran afoul of the Clinton team. Though Tripp was earnest and efficient, with good instincts and a gift for prose, few White House staff members had good things...
...with the President around the time she began her new job. She would show up at official events in the Rose Garden where she had no role, according to White House sources. Staff members were seeking ways to get Lewinsky out of the White House. When Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon asked the White House personnel office for candidates to fill the job of his personal assistant, the White House sent over only Monica's name. Bacon interviewed four people and in April 1996 hired Lewinsky for the job, which pays $30,658 a year. Bacon maintains he can recall...
...youth showed. Reporters attending Bacon's press conferences complained about Lewinsky's bumbling of clerical tasks, which included managing Bacon's schedule, preparing transcripts and answering phones. She was known for spending too much time on personal calls. A Pentagon acquaintance says Lewinsky rarely talked politics, chatting instead about her father and his wealth; she came off as flighty and flirty, "a rich Beverly Hills teen and all the insouciance that suggests." Other Pentagon officials said she was "an opportunist" and a "spoiled brat" who took advantage of her political connections. "She was an attractive girl," says a Pentagon source...
...White House. Her interest in him was clear if slightly muffled. She hung a photograph of herself with Clinton on her office wall--unexceptional homage by a civil servant for her ultimate boss. But there were also knowing asides and finally, extraordinary declarations. A midlevel official remembers standing outside Bacon's office with Lewinsky six months ago, watching as an image of Clinton flashed across the television screen. Her eyes on the TV, Lewinsky said, "I gave the President that tie." Then, in an untaped conversation with Tripp, Lewinsky allegedly held up a dress she claimed was stained with...
...Washington by the end of last year, Lewinsky was not having much fun with her Pentagon job. "She wasn't too thrilled with it," says a former co-worker. Bacon describes her as "competent" but says he urged her last year to begin looking for some other work. Vernon Jordan, the lobbyist who is a close confidant of the President's, passed her name along to Revlon in New York City. She was hired for a public relations job, an offer rescinded last week when the scandal broke--and Lewinsky got a graduate degree in American politics...