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...Eleanor Mondale? Who is the one woman in Washington who could make Monica turn green? Twice married, twice divorced; a leggy blonde with a self-confessed "dodgy taste in men," the 38-year-old Mondale is no stranger to the White House or to the Clintons. Daughter of former vice president Walter Mondale, Eleanor started raising eyebrows at an early age. As an outgoing 17-year-old, she first hit the headlines after President Carter's inaugural ball in 1977, where she turned up in a tuxedo. Her four years as the Second Daughter, she said later, "changed my life...
...this time, of course, Clinton was winding down his affair with Lewinsky -- who had been transferred to the Pentagon in April, and was to have no more sexual relations with Clinton for the rest of 1996. It's not much of a stretch to imagine Monica picking up a newspaper in June, seeing the photo of Mondale jogging with Clinton and reading more than she should have into the suggestive headlines. Mondale's national 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...
...against this busy backdrop, this social whirlwind of a life, that the December visit that caused Monica so much anguish took place. Mondale was in town to cover the Kennedy Center honors, and remembers it like this: "I briefly stopped at the White House to say hello on my way to interview the honorees, as our families have been friends for decades. I have no knowledge of anything else that may have taken place that day. Ms. Lewinsky's speculation is baseless, and has absolutely no foundation in fact...
...footnote 739 -- Lewinsky's jealous comment to Tripp -- which isn't even referenced in the text. Still, her presence in the report has given rise to something Mondale is very used to by now -- a lot of gossip. "We knew there was some rumor back in January that Monica Lewinsky was jealous of my sister," Ted Mondale told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune last week. "That's pretty ridiculous. The fact that she'd have a meeting at the White House is not news. We've known their family a long time...
...White House in 1992, sang "Who's Got the Last Laugh Now?" and "Why Haven't I Heard From You?" during her performance at the Electronic Retailing Association's annual conference at the MGM Grand Hotel. Flowers declined to comment on Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky because, she said, she has no interest in generating any more publicity on the issue. "They don't need any of my help on that...