Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...episode caused a splash, in part because Clinton did help Willey, if modestly: for 10 months she worked as a secretary in the White House counsel's office, sitting next to Tripp. (Snipes a former lawyer with the office: "She did even less than Linda. She seemed to spend most of her time on the phone.") Later Willey served, by explicit presidential appointment, as the only non-expert member of U.S. delegations to Copenhagen and Jakarta, unsalaried but comfortably accommodated. Her son Patrick was accepted as a White House intern. Another intriguing point was a seeming gaffe by presidential attorney...
...Washington, excitement and fame are traded in a currency more basic than power: knowledge. And Tripp has had a good taste of that, having held secretarial jobs all over the White House, including a stint in one of the most sensitive, secret-rich corners of the West Wing, the counsel's office. It is Scandal Central, the final stop for all legal matters. A busy place in the Clinton years...
...wonder she stayed in the White House so long. Though some Clintonites last week painted her as a Republican eavesdropper, Tripp was in fact nonpartisan, a registered independent. And criticism of her comes from both sides. A former associate White House counsel for Clinton says one of the office's biggest mistakes was not getting rid of Tripp sooner. "She's a complete wacko. She was imperial. You couldn't get any work out of her. She wasn't collegial," he says. Many remember her frequent gab-session cigarette breaks. Says a Bush White House official: "[Tripp] always wanted...
...quirk of history vaulted Tripp into the spotlight nonetheless. She was working in the counsel's office one hot summer day in 1993 when deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster asked her to get lunch. She fetched a burger and some M&M's from the cafeteria and became the last known person to see him alive. Later that day, he committed suicide...
Tripp already knew Moody from their Bush days (he involved himself in Vice President Dan Quayle's deregulation crusade). It was Moody who formally set up Tripp's initial meeting with Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr's people on Jan. 12. Just a day later, she had a body recorder strapped to her thigh as she sipped coffee with Lewinsky at the Ritz-Carlton in Pentagon City...