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...various legal privileges and answer any questions Kenneth Starr cares to ask. Clinton could also release his grand jury testimony. He might even ask for the resignation of anyone who tried to help Monica Lewinsky find work, such as Energy Secretary Bill Richardson or deputy chief of staff John Podesta, no matter who asked them to do so. Problem: that could leave people wondering why Clinton is still there...
...John Podesta, now Clinton's deputy chief of staff, who helped usher Currie into campaign politics. They met at ACTION in the 1970s, and eventually worked together on the Mondale campaign in 1984 and for Dukakis in 1988. After that hard, dispiriting race she swore to her husband that she'd never work on another one. That vow lasted until the next one, when she got a call to come work for strategist James Carville at Clinton headquarters in Little Rock, Ark. Currie told high school friend Sefton that she was working for this guy Clinton because after years...
...three months--have done to everyone's life, as if a decision voiding a civil action somehow voided the alleged facts of the case. Having lived with this case for so long and having seen the damage it inflicted on Clinton and his presidency, deputy chief of staff John Podesta had mixed emotions. He told friends privately that "part of me wants to celebrate, and part of me wants to punch someone...
...ACTION that she met the man who is her husband of 10 years, retired civil servant Robert Currie. And it was at ACTION that she first tasted scandal, in 1979, when Congress investigated charges that the agency had given grants to its friends. "Everyone else was panicked," says Anthony Podesta, the Clinton aide's brother, who was a consultant to ACTION during the mess, "but Betty was steady...
Currie retired from government in 1984 and took a volunteer position as office manager of Geraldine Ferraro's vice-presidential campaign. Four years later, John Podesta brought her into Michael Dukakis' organization. And in 1992, she went to Little Rock, Ark., to become the unofficial den mother to James Carville, George Stephanopoulos and the rest of Clinton's rapid-responding, bimbo-squelching "war room" crew. (Her war-room association alone should put to rest the notion that Currie is a political naive.) After Clinton was elected, Currie landed a job with Warren Christopher during the transition. That's when Hernreich...