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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...
...much of the spring and summer, members of Congress have viewed the Monica Lewinsky scandal with a kind of queasy detachment. "It's as if something has been going on in another room, or maybe next door," says Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut. "You know something's happening over there, but it's not really affecting...
...subpoena, they are crossing their fingers that the President's high poll numbers can withstand any new revelations. In a private meeting last week House minority leader Dick Gephardt advised fellow Democrats to "remain calm" and "try to avoid getting drawn into answering hypothetical questions" about things like Monica's stained dress. "We'll get through this and move on to the next thing," he said optimistically...
...just pleased that things are working out for her." --White House spokesman Mike McCurry on the President's reaction to Monica Lewinsky's immunity deal...
...just humor me now. Stick with me a second. I want to perform what eggheads call a "thought experiment." Let's suppose that Mike McCurry's statement is not, technically speaking, accurate. Let's suppose that the President was not really, truly pleased that "things are working out" for Monica Lewinsky, especially when "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...