Word: lies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characters, Tripp is the hardest to embrace, especially when she insists on painting herself as a victim. Anyone in her position, she contends, would have started taping after being asked to lie under oath, which is news to me. Most women I know, if confided in by a good friend about an affair, would keep it secret. And if the good friend asked me to lie under oath about it, I would say no and insist we drop the subject. I would not press a Record button for three months' worth of intimate confidences, all the while feigning friendship...
MARCIA LEWIS Lewinsky's mother shared her Watergate apartment with her daughter, and is her most trusted friend. Investigators have evidence that Lewis encouraged Lewinsky to lie to Paula Jones' attorneys about her involvement with the President. When Monica told her mother that Linda Tripp planned to fake an ankle injury to avoid a subpoena in the Jones case, Lewis called the ruse "brilliant." Lewis also kept Monica's blue dress--the one that may be stained with Clinton's semen--from Jones' lawyers. Starr's team grilled Lewis in grand jury hearings, but they were halted after Lewis nearly...
...working out" in this instance means that she's apparently about to tell the world that he's a perjurer. Let's suppose, by contrast, that the President was just the slightest bit depressed by the news. Let's suppose, in other words, that McCurry's statement is a lie...
...like most politicians--like most people--the President is much less proficient with the categorical lie. Surely his crook-fingered, squinty-eyed, gravel-voiced denial of sex with "that woman," repeated like a tape loop on TV, looks less persuasive in retrospect. And recall his answer, after the Troopergate story broke, to the straightforward question "So none of this is true?" He was quiet for a full 10 seconds. "I have nothing else to say," he said at last. "We, we did, if, the, the, I, I, the stories are just as they have been said. They're outrageous...
...dozen times in his small private study down the hallway from the Oval Office. That Clinton did not consider what they were doing to be sex, allowing for deniability. That, in the normal manner of an affair, they discussed concealing the relationship -- but that Clinton never told Lewinsky to lie...