Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [504]
“Betty was the only one that I knew”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
“was playing Hamlet”: Ken Starr, interview by author; Michael Emmick, interview by author.
“They should have gone”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
“We all had high hopes going”: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
there was a creeping sense that: Bruce Udolf, interview by author.
“It did feel”: Michael Emmick, interview by author.
“She was standing”: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author. The OIC lawyers and FBI agents, according to later accounts, had put a copy of a book written by Marcia Lewis Straus, The Private Lives of the Three Tenors, on the table to make her feel uncomfortable. In that book about Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, and José Carreras, she strongly hinted that she had engaged in an affair with the world-famous tenor Domingo while he was artistic director of the Washington National Opera (Jeff Lean, “Role Puts Spotlight on Lewinsky’s Mother,” Washington Post, 4 Feb. 1998, A1).
“Your daughter’s in”: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author. Monica, her mother, and attorney Bill Ginsburg all gave some version of the story that the OIC prosecutors talked about the potential of Monica’s going to jail for twenty-seven or twenty-eight years (depending on the version of the story). Ken Starr later dismissed that as exaggeration, telling the House Judiciary Committee that his prosecutors at no time told Monica Lewinsky “what her actual sentence would be” and emphasized that “no possible combination of charges could carry a 27-year maximum penalty” (Kenneth W. Starr to Honorable Henry J. Hyde and Honorable John Conyers, Jr., 11 Dec. 1998, House Evidentiary Record, vol. 12, 726).
“Of course she’ll cooperate”: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
“some private time to talk”: Michael Emmick, interview by author.
the prosecutors could hear: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
“I’m not going to be”: Michael Emmick, interview by author; Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 43.
“They want me to wear”: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
encouraged Monica “to find”: Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 43.
“I’m afraid”: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
“I don’t see how I can make”: Michael Emmick, interview by author.
“Marcia, your wife, called”: Bernie Lewinsky, interview by author.
“Call me immediately”: William Ginsburg, interview by author.
Bernie Lewinsky gulped down some air: Ibid.
“Monica was involved”: Bernie Lewinsky, interview by author.
“Bill Ginsburg is going to be”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
“So Ginsburg was kind of bombastic”: Michael Emmick, interview by author.
“If the OIC had”: Bruce Udolf, interview by author.
“His mood was”: Michael Emmick, interview by author.
“He [Ginsburg] had no apparent experience”: Bruce Udolf, interview by author.
“Can you fax”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
“I couldn’t understand”: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
“We can’t say”: Michael Emmick, interview by author.
Monica’s mother could not remember: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
Ginsburg got back on the line: William Ginsburg, interview by author.
“Just leave”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
Emmick remembered: Michael Emmick, interview by author.
the FBI agents handed: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
“I was completely exhausted”: Michael Emmick, interview by author.
“Okay, you’ve got to knock”: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
The bearded lawyer drove home: William Ginsburg, interview by author; Bernie Lewinsky, interview by author; Morton, Monica’s Story, 195.
As she attempted to shower: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
One possible candidate: Ibid; Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
“They probably have”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
“And then I had her lie”: Marcia