Word: tripp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lewinsky: There are some days that I regret ever having had this relationship begin, and there are some days that I just regret telling Linda Tripp. It's easy to know that people would have wanted to hear me say I wish this had never happened, I never should have done this, this was so wrong, and I do think it was wrong. But it is also a part of who I am today, and that relationship reflected who I was at the time and was very significant to me. I can respect people not being happy with that...
...real betrayal. I betrayed the President in that way. I didn't have the foresight to see what the possible ramifications of this could be. But I also always thought to myself, [the] worst-case scenario was [if] one of these people in whom I confided--aside from Linda Tripp--turned on me. Where would they turn on me? They'd go to the press. What would I do? I'd make a statement and say this is not true. And that's not illegal...
...perhaps moral as well. If Monica's Story seems too squishy for its first two-thirds, the book inspires genuine indignation when it delves into Starr's treatment of Monica and her mother. After the FBI and Starr's men corralled Monica in a hotel room--thanks to a Tripp sting operation--they made her feel she couldn't leave and shouldn't call a lawyer. Even after she spoke of suicide, the men were flashing handcuffs and saying, as one did, "Does it bother you that I have a gun on? Because I can put it in the other...
...true heroes are Linda Tripp, the House managers and, most of all, Ken Starr. He put personal glory aside and did the difficult job he had to do. PETER A. OLSSON Keene...
...Lucianne Goldberg and Linda Tripp and those squirrely lawyers from the Federalist Society had remembered that, they might have realized that they were about to bring nothing but frustration to Paul Weyrich, not to speak of the Republican Party. Instead they must have whooped with joy when the trap was sprung. As I envision that scene, it's Friday, dress-down day in the law firms, and the Federalist Society lawyers are all wearing designer jeans...