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...presents, Clinton appears to have been surrounded by the most supine courtiers since Claudius. Until last week his secretary, Betty Currie, was portrayed as a warm-hearted yet harmless bystander in the Oval Office; the Starr report suggests that she was something more than that. Currie, as much as Vernon Jordan, emerges as the President's co-conspirator in covering up the affair, which may help explain why she testified five times. Clinton denied putting Currie up to these chores; and Currie could not, almost without exception, recall...
Clinton's involvement in the job search intensified immediately after Lewinsky was named a witness. He enlisted the aid of Vernon Jordan, who told him, after she got an offer, "Mission accomplished...
...next day, a Saturday, she was invited for a visit with Clinton, according to the report. They met in the study and discussed jobs. He told her to prepare a list of New York companies she wanted to work for. She suggested that the hyperconnected lawyer Vernon Jordan might help. Clinton was receptive. He also told her that he had asked White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles to get her old boss, legislative affairs director John Hilley, to write a recommendation...
OCTOBER 1997 GET ME VERNON JORDAN...
...addition to running an expanded Get Ready! course in Mount Vernon next summer, Lang and Cha plan to start a Cambridge branch...