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...convince the American people that I had committed murder, run drugs, slept in my mother's bed with four prostitutes," he said--Clinton developed what he calls "a high level of paranoia." So high, in fact, that he instructs his staff to put up no window treatments in the Oval Office or his private study, "no curtains or blinds that can close the windows in my private dining room." When asked whether he had used his power as Governor to suppress damaging stories about his personal conduct, the President replied, "I took action to try to prevent erroneous rumors from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Kiss But Don't Tell | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...Willey's 60 Minutes performance may have been, her tale is by no means free of contradiction or conundrum. Starr's investigators have heard conflicting testimony about her state of mind after the Clinton encounter. According to Linda Tripp, who claims to have encountered Willey after she left the Oval Office that day, she seemed "flustered" but "happy." When Newsweek's Michael Isikoff was pursuing her story last year, Willey put him in touch with a friend, Julie Steele, who first said Willey had confided in her the night of the encounter, then recanted and said Willey had asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Kiss But Don't Tell | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...uses it. Fonda gets some on Robertson but doesn't use it, proving he's the best man, even if not the best husband, but ending his chance at the nomination. He manages to thwart Robertson by other means. With both flawed men out of the running, the Oval Office remains, in our imagination at least, a clean, well-lighted place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All The Presidents' Movies | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...BUCK NEVER STOPS Great economic news, Bill! The latest Moni-market indicators suggest a solid rise in g.d.p. (or gross domestic products). At a Manhattan gourmet shop, snackers can nibble a $20 Monica cookie. In New York a cable ad promotes a phone line to the Oval Orifice. In Germany a decorating company boasts that its "wall-to-wall carpets are knee-friendly and bugging-proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 16, 1998 | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...trouble. He will have committed perjury, and Ken Starr?s investigation -- long mired in arguments over immunity and executive privilege -- will have something to nail him on. But that's a big "if." Where Willey is concerned, questions persist: Why did Linda Tripp describe her as ?joyous? after her Oval Office encounter? Why did Willey continue to write Clinton and his personal assistant, Nancy Hernreich, in what sources describe as a ?consistently friendly and admiring manner? after he had supposedly assaulted her? Why does her Jones testimony contradict another sworn deposition, in a lawsuit against her late husband -- in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kathleen Willey: Ugly Charges With a Troubling History | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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