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Sometime between noon and 1 p.m., in Ms. Lewinsky's recollection, she was in the pantry area of the President's private dining room talking with a White House steward, Bayani Nelvis. She told Mr. Nelvis that she had recently smoked her first cigar, and he offered to give her one of the President's cigars. Just then, the President came down the hallway from the Oval Office and saw Ms. Lewinsky. The President dispatched Mr. Nelvis to deliver something to Mr. Panetta...
...Democrats -- could quickly turn that very separation between Clinton's peccadilloes and his policies into an argument for his resignation. "They could argue that resigning would be the best thing for the policies that Clinton says he cares so much about," Tumulty speculates. "Surely, there could be no better steward for them than Al Gore, and Clinton's continuing troubles may merely guarantee that Congress never even gets around to talking about them...
BAYANI NELVIS In February the Wall Street Journal retracted an online story that the White House steward had testified he had seen Clinton and Lewinsky alone. But the paper let stand a report that Nelvis had found soiled tissues after she left one day. Nelvis' lawyer, however, said he gave no testimony about tissues...
Indeed, it is Rubin's experience with the dual fields of private finance and public policy which, observers claim, make him an effective "steward of the nation's economy" as well as an attractive speaker for the third annual HBS Class Day ceremonies...
...Steward: Now, now, sir. I'll take the young lady aboard, and you wait for help...