Word: trippe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Soon, Clinton aides begin to see trouble in her eyes. They reassign her to the Pentagon, where Lewinsky meets Linda Tripp, a former Bush employee. Lewinsky brags to Tripp of her attempts to win the President's affection. Tripp is friends with Lucianne Goldberg, a New York literary agent who once posed as a journalist to spy for Richard Nixon. Goldberg has an idea: get Lewinsky to fantasize a bit further, put the confessions on tape and get revenge, once and for all, on Clinton and the Democrats. Lewinsky agrees to the plan and reads the scripted confessions over...
Lewinsky is shipped to the Pentagon, and she is not happy. She finds Tripp, who not only believes Lewinsky's story, but corroborates it. Lewinsky pours out the details of her relationship to Tripp, who relays the story to Goldberg. Goldberg, a woman with no tolerance for corruption in government, advises Tripp to tape the conversations. Soon the tapes fall into Starr's lap, and what is he to do but seek to find out more information? When the scandal breaks, Clinton is devastated. His political career is on the line, and he knows it. He knows...
...Third Woman? Before Linda Tripp, did someone else try to expose the alleged relationship between the President and Monica Lewinsky? TIME has learned that three phone calls from an anonymous female could lead to another witness for Kenneth Starr in the rapidly escalating Clinton case...
...importance for Starr: If the voice is not that of Lewinsky's Pentagon pal Linda Tripp, then somebody else knew about Lewinsky and Clinton ? which means Starr might have, or be able to find, another corroborating witness...
...ongoing mysteries is why Tripp taped the conversations. Her lawyer Jim Moody, who described his client as a "girl scout" who tried to do the right thing, said she was motivated by self-protection. Anticipating that she would be called as a witness in the unfolding Paula Jones case, she wanted evidence that Lewinsky had confessed an affair with Clinton. But Tripp had an even longer standing interest in the White House's sexual mores. After her friend Gary Aldrich was discredited by the White House for writing about alleged sex play there, she got angry and hoped to shore...