Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [229]
Her daughter inspected her cross-eyed as if she had gone mad. “She just looked at me like, ‘What in the world are you talking about?’” Craig recalled.
Paula Corbin Jones, accompanied by husband, Steve (right), and her first attorney, Danny Traylor, goes public with her allegations of sexual harassment against President Clinton at a Conservative Political Action Conference held in Washington on February 11, 1994. Jones alleged that while a clerical worker for the State of Arkansas, then-Governor Clinton made an inappropriate pass at her in a hotel room in Little Rock and exposed himself. AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi
Virginia attorneys Gil Davis and Joe Cammarata, who signed up to take over the Paula Jones case from small-town lawyer Danny Traylor, are crowded into an elevator by reporters after filing the Jones complaint in federal district court in Little Rock. © 2009 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
A young woman holds up a sign in support of Paula Jones, on the snowy steps of the Supreme Court on January 13, 1997. Inside, lawyers for Jones and President Clinton argue over whether the Constitution barred a plaintiff from proceeding with a civil suit against a president during his term in office. AP Photo/Mark Wilson
United States District Judge Susan Webber Wright, who presided over the Paula Jones case, seated on the bench in her Little Rock courtroom circa 1997. Judge Wright, a Republican appointed by President George H. W. Bush, had been a law student of Professor Bill Clinton’s at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Courtesy of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
President Clinton’s attorney in the Jones case, Robert S. Bennett, addresses reporters outside the federal courthouse in Little Rock on August 22, 1997, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court directed Judge Susan Webber Wright to proceed with the lawsuit. Judge Wright scheduled a trial date of May 27, 1998. AP Photo/ Guy Lyons
White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky meets President Clinton at his forty-ninth birthday party on the South Lawn of the White House. Monica’s father, Bernie Lewinsky, an accomplished photographer, later enlarged this photograph and remarked to his wife: “He has lascivious eyes.”
Monica and her family pose with Bill Clinton while attending a presidential radio address in the White House on June 14, 1996. Her father, Bernie, and step mother, Barbara, smile proudly while Monica and her brother, Michael, stand to the left of the president. Monica’s stepmother commented that it was amazing what access a mere intern had to the inner sanctum of the White House.
A never-before-published photo of Bill Clinton wearing the first tie that Monica Lewinsky gave him as a gift. Clinton called Monica to his office in late 1995 to present her with this signed picture showing off the special tie. Later, Starr’s office believed that the president was wearing Monica’s ties in public as signals to Lewinsky to encourage her not to cooperate with the investigation. This photo was one of 1,200 items returned to Monica Lewinsky by the FBI after the criminal case was dropped. Courtesy of Monica Lewinsky
Independent Counsel Ken Starr is surrounded by reporters outside OIC’s Washington office, on January 22, 1998, as he announces that he has expanded his investigation to encompass the alleged affair between President Clinton and ex-White House intern Monica Lewinsky, and whether the president lied under oath about that relationship during his deposition in the Paula Jones case. AP Photo/Tyler Mallory
Lucianne Goldberg, flamboyant New York literary agent, consulted with Linda Tripp about writing a book—initially relating to secrets within the early Clinton White House, where Tripp had worked and developed a deep suspicion of President Clinton; later with respect to Monica Lewinsky and her tortured romance with the president. Goldberg advised Tripp to begin taping her