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DECEMBER 6, 1997 THE NORTHWEST GATE INCIDENT...
...Lewinsky arrived at the White House at approximately 10:00 a.m. She told the Secret Service uniformed officers at the Northwest Gate that she had gifts to drop off for the President, but that Ms. Currie did not know she was coming. Ms. Lewinsky and the officers made several calls in an attempt to locate Ms. Currie. The officers eventually invited Ms. Lewinsky inside the guard booth. When Ms. Currie learned that Ms. Lewinsky was at the Northwest Gate, she sent word that the President "already had a guest in the [O]val," so the officers should have Ms. Lewinsky...
Later that day...the uniformed Secret Service officers at the Northwest Gate were told that no one would be fired--so long as they remained quiet. According to Sergeant Williams, Ms. Currie said that if the officers did not "tell a lot of people what had happened, then nothing would happen...
...Lewinsky's mind, at least, her words proved to be prophetic. A mere three weeks later, while trying to return a box of gifts and a goodbye letter to her boyfriend, she was stopped at the Northwest gate of the White House and overheard Secret Service officers say that the President was meeting Ms. Mondale in the Oval Office. What was more, the logs showed, she had been there for over an hour already. Lewinsky was "livid." The President's personal secretary had told her that Clinton was huddling with his lawyers this morning. In a jealous rage, Lewinsky called...
...profile was rising; she had already done a photo shoot for Vogue (she would do another in November 1997, just before visiting the White House). If Monica was watching her boyfriend's moves with anything like the obsession her character suggests, it was here -- a year before the Northwestern gate incident -- that the seeds of jealousy were planted...