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...White House, usually in the late afternoon or evenings, and be cleared in by Currie. When Lewinsky and the President couldn't rendezvous in person, they allegedly did it on the phone. The phone sex picked up in frequency as her invitations to see Clinton tapered off after the Willey story broke last August...
...home from the Pentagon and offered her a mysterious set of "talking points" about how to handle her deposition. It was clear Lewinsky hadn't written the document herself, but she didn't say who had given it to her. The document recommended that Tripp change her story about Willey, suggest that she could have smeared her own makeup and messed up her clothes. And it recommended that Tripp dismiss Lewinsky as a liar and a stalker of the President, in effect supporting Lewinsky's sworn statement that there was no affair...
Were it not for her choice in prospective employers, Kathleen Willey's story might have remained merely a small-bore American tragedy. For decades the vivacious, attractive former flight attendant enjoyed an enviable life. She was wed to an apparently successful real estate lawyer named Edward E. Willey Jr., the son of a powerful Virginia state legislator. The couple, who had two children, skied Vail, drove luxury cars and plied such Democratic social circles as befitted their connections and an occasional $10,000 campaign contribution. For some years, however, arguments over money had frayed the marriage...
What made Willey's (the name rhymes with Millie) case singular was that job interview. An acquaintance says Willey had long flirted harmlessly with Bill Clinton while she was a White House volunteer worker. But last August, Linda Tripp, then an executive assistant in the White House counsel's office, told Newsweek that on that Nov. 29, things went further. Tripp recalled that she had encountered Willey wandering the West Wing "disheveled. Her face was red, and her lipstick was off. She was flustered, happy and joyful." Willey then allegedly told Tripp that Clinton had taken her to an office...
...episode caused a splash, in part because Clinton did help Willey, if modestly: for 10 months she worked as a secretary in the White House counsel's office, sitting next to Tripp. (Snipes a former lawyer with the office: "She did even less than Linda. She seemed to spend most of her time on the phone.") Later Willey served, by explicit presidential appointment, as the only non-expert member of U.S. delegations to Copenhagen and Jakarta, unsalaried but comfortably accommodated. Her son Patrick was accepted as a White House intern. Another intriguing point was a seeming gaffe by presidential attorney...