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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regarded mild flirtation as harmless fun, females who seemed to enjoy the attention. And whatever lessons he drew from the Gennifer Flowers embarrassment, Clinton has never felt it necessary to pretend that good-looking women are beyond his notice. Within the first months of his first term, the West Wing was crammed with them, pretty young interns "who had nothing better on their resumes than their good looks," says a woman who served in a senior policy job. "This is a President who appeals to groupies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Enablers And Enforcers: The Two White House Cultures | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Some Clinton advisers now wonder if they should have done more to keep a lid on things. For a man with Clinton's lively libido, the West Wing presented a garden of temptation. Did it lead him over the edge? "It wasn't that aides arranged this [environment]," says a former official. "It's that they didn't do much to stop it. They didn't want to get cut out or lose their standing, or they feared his blue-temper rages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Enablers And Enforcers: The Two White House Cultures | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...chest, a couple of the older women would see she got moved," says the aide. That's what happened to Lewinsky. Sources say it was Lieberman who arranged to have the coltish intern transferred to the Pentagon after Lieberman concluded she was spending too much time in the West Wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Enablers And Enforcers: The Two White House Cultures | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...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 hideaway, kissed and fondled her. The story was consistent with a tale told to Paula Jones' lawyer Joseph Cammarata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Sparking The Scandal | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...Washington Post) testified under oath that Clinton had kissed and groped her, saying, "I've always wanted to do that." According to ABC News, she described Clinton's attentions as unwanted, although a Willey acquaintance, agreeing with Tripp, has told TIME that whatever happened in the West Wing that day, it wasn't "unwelcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Sparking The Scandal | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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