Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [497]
“This was not”: Ken Starr, interview by author.
become so conservative: Sol Wisenberg, interview by author.
Wisenberg had worked: Sol Wisenberg, follow-up interview by author.
“There’s something going on”: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
“dumpy, unattractive”: Sol Wisenberg, interview by author.
She was wearing: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
Tripp explained: Sol Wisenberg, interview by author.
“dreaming it”: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
“We were incredibly”: Sol Wisenberg, interview by author.
Steve Irons, a senior FBI official: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 280.
“If it had been”: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
Bennett told Irons: Susan Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf, The Truth at Any Cost: Ken Starr and the Unmaking of Bill Clinton, 23.
One of the principal worries: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
Her lunch date with Monica Lewinsky was: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 281–82; Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 24.
“We’re going to”: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
“where might this wire”: Ken Starr, interview by author.
“Linda … is being”: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
Tripp recorded in a “Steno Notebook”: Tripp notes, in Evidentiary Record, vol. 4, part 3, 3797–3843. See also Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 281–82; Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 24.
“Oh, my god”: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 283.
As incriminating stories: Tripp-Lewinsky conversation, 13 Jan. 1998; “From the Evidence: Tripp’s Story,” Washington Post, 3 Oct. 1998, A 24.
FBI agents quickly contacted: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
Chapter 24: A Cubicle in the Pentagon
“I felt that it was”: Linda Tripp, interview by author.
The Carotenuto house hold was: Linda Tripp, interview by author; Elaine Sciolino and Don Van Natta, Jr., “Testing of a President: The Confidant; Linda Tripp, Elusive Keeper of Secrets, Mainly Her Own,” New York Times, 15 Mar. 1998, 1.
Linda Tripp had passed up: Linda Tripp, interview by author.
“I don’t know who killed”: Sciolino and Van Natta, “Testing of a President,” 1.
“I never hated”: Linda Tripp, interview by author.
“She had enormous”: Lucianne Goldberg, interview by author.
Her office was: Sciolino and Van Natta, “Testing of a President;" Linda Tripp, interview by author.
“So one day, here comes”: Linda Tripp, interview by author. Kenneth Bacon, assistant secretary of defense for Public Affairs, later told the FBI that he had no discussions with anyone in the White House about hiring Ms. Lewinsky (Evidentiary Record, vol. 4, part 1, 5–12). He did receive complaints from some employees that Lewinsky’s work was “less than satisfactory,” but Bacon stated that she improved after he raised these concerns. Finally, Bacon stressed that Lewinsky did not discuss any relationship with the president, although “she bragged about a tie she had given the President as a gift and would bring this to his attention when he was wearing it on television.”
“She’s extremely likable”: Linda Tripp, interview by author.
In one exchange: Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky e-mails, 5 Mar. 1997, in Evidentiary Record, vol. 4, part 1, 915–16.
The e-mails also show: Ibid., 1007–1008.
On Valentine’s Day: Ibid., 923–24.
The feisty agent: Lucianne Goldberg, interview by author.
“advice and protection”: Linda Tripp and Lucianne Goldberg, telephone conversations, in Evidentiary Record, vol. 14, 160–71. See also Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 175, 190–97.
“This is so”: Linda Tripp and Lucianne Goldberg, telephone conversations, in Evidentiary Record, vol. 14, 160–71; Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 189. See also Lucianne Steinberger Goldberg, FD 302 of interview (FBI form for notes of interviews), 17 July 1998, in Evidentiary Record, vol. 4, part 1, 1227 (discussing 18 Sept. 1997 tape).
“Monica Lewinsky had been talking”: Linda Tripp, interview by author.
In another taped conversation: Linda Tripp and Lucianne Goldberg, telephone conversation, in Evidentiary Record, vol. 14, 166–71. Isikoff had already located Tripp and extracted the essence of