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...which Gephardt, a likely challenger for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination, has a lot at stake. Not too long ago, Gephardt was engaged in some bitter policy clashes with both Clinton and Vice President Gore. But that was pre-Monica. Gephardt has spent the past seven months suppressing his own Oval Office ambitions in order to defend its current occupant. Every two weeks since April he has convened a meeting in his office with Conyers, Frank, Berman and top staff members to talk about the Lewinsky scandal, the timing of a report from Starr and its probable impact on Democrats...
...accident last Thursday that after six hours of testimony, Monica Lewinsky came down from the third floor of the courthouse, exited the elevator and walked right up to Billy Martin. In a legal team known for big egos or big reputations, Martin, 48, is the quietest--and closest--counsel to Monica and her family. He, more than anyone else, has been calling the shots, approving the strategy and holding the family members' nervous hands in the painful public airing of private moments. He is their Minister of Defense...
...Martin is, as Lewinsky's spokeswoman Judy Smith says, "one of those docs who still make house calls," he only gradually gained the trust of his patients in this case. Retained soon after the scandal broke to represent Monica's mother, Marcia Lewis, he quickly devised ways of moving the women around town without notice of the camera crews, using techniques he honed as a 1980s prosecutor in the San Francisco organized-crime strike-force office. There he planned movements of such famous guests of the federal witness-protection program as Aladena ("Jimmy the Weasel") Fratianno...
...Martin who pushed hardest to sack Monica's acid-tongued malpractice lawyer, William Ginsburg, replacing him with Washington smoothies Plato Cacheris and Jake Stein, who had the trust of Ken Starr. But the family set one prerequisite for the new duo: Martin must sign off on each decision. So when Stein and Cacheris landed a nothing-to-lose offer from prosecutors to meet with Monica, the Lewinskys cleared it with their lesser-known lawyer. When prosecutors offered blanket immunity, Martin was again asked for his blessing. He credits Cacheris and Stein with the breakthrough: "You had to get them...
...with her dreaded day before the grand jury over, Monica, as much by instinct as priority, turned to Martin upon arriving on the first floor of the courthouse. "Where's my mom?" she asked. "She's at home," said the Minister of Defense. "Let's get you home...