Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [514]
The Secret Service was already watching: Knut Royce, “Death Mission: Plots to Kill Clinton Linked to Bin Laden,” Newsday, 25 Aug. 1998, A3; Lew Merletti, follow-up interview by author, 30 June 2006.
“If you’re not capable of”: Lew Merletti, interview by author.
“I can assure you”: President George H. W. Bush to Lew Merletti, 1 Apr. 1998, Merletti papers.
“You just don’t get it!!!”: Lew Merletti, interview by author.
“STAY THE COURSE”: E-mail to Lew Merletti, name redacted, 26 May 1998, Merletti papers.
“THERE IS NO DOUBT HERE”: E-mail to Merletti, name redacted, 4 June 1998, Merletti papers.
wondering what this day would mean: Lew Merletti, interview by author. See also John M. Broder and Stephen Labaton, “Shaped by a Painful Past, Secret Service Director Fights Required Testimony,” New York Times, 29 May 1998, A7.
Chapter 40: Ginsburg’s Final Photo Shoot
in an op-ed piece: William H. Ginsburg, “I Didn’t Get ‘Dumped,’” Washington Post, 4 June 1998, A23.
The senior Lewinsky had dispatched his: Bernie Lewinsky, interview by author.
Monica, too, had steadily lost: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
The Lewinsky family was also horrified: Barbara Lewinsky, remarks made while author was interviewing Bernie Lewinsky. The actual quote that Ginsburg had given to Time magazine was, “She’s been imprisoned like a dog for four months” (Nancy Gibbs, “No Deal,” Time, 11 May 1998).
her “little pulkes”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author; John Cloud, “Monica’s Makeover,” Time, 8 Mar. 1999.
“This is a total fabrication”: Bernie Lewinsky, interview by author.
There was also the Vanity Fair: Ibid.
“Oh, my God, this is”: Ibid.; Gibbs, “No Deal;" Laura Pulfer, “One Last Brief from Monica’s Lawyer—Flack,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 June 1998, and Salon News Reel, 11 June 1998.
“Honey, you’re beautiful”: Gibbs, “No Deal.”
“It wasn’t time to”: William Ginsburg, interview by author.
“A psychiatrist suggested this?”: Bernie Lewinsky, interview by author.
Ginsburg poured out his soul: William H. Ginsburg, “An Open Letter to Kenneth Starr,” California Lawyer, June 1998.
“As our attorney, you cannot”: Bernie Lewinsky, interview by author.
“he was not supposed to publish it”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author; Monica Lewinsky to author, 26 Jan. 2009.
Ginsburg defended his: William H. Ginsburg, “I Didn’t Get ‘Dumped,’” Washington Post; William Ginsburg, interview by author.
Yet Monica was not feeling: Gibbs, “No Deal.”
“I did not want to go to trial”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
“I think he had [Monica’s] best interest”: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
Monica had flown back: Plato Cacheris, interview by author.
“hereby rescind[ed] and terminate[d]”: Monica Lewinsky to William H. Ginsburg, 5 June 1998, Lewinsky papers.
“Since we parted company”: William Ginsburg, interview by author.
“If I’d kept my big mouth shut”: Pierre Thomas, “Who Are Plato Cacheris and Jacob Stein?” CNN AllPolitics, 3 June 1998.
the two lawyers arranged: Plato Cacheris, interview by author. Stein and Cacheris were initially contacted by Billy Martin, lawyer for Marcia Lewis, who was a “hero” to Monica and her mother, making it possible to change lawyers (Monica Lewinsky to author, December 31, 2009).
Starr was en route: Ken Starr, interview by author.
It gave page after page: Steven Brill, “Pressgate,” Brill’s Content, Aug. 1998. Ken Starr knew lawyer-publisher Steven Brill, who launched this new magazine, as the respected publisher of American Lawyer magazine. Starr trusted him as an earnest young lawyer who wanted to better the world through his writing.
David Kendall had swiftly filed: Ken Starr, interview by author.
Judge Johnson had seemed: Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 177.
Within minutes, Starr’s team: Kenneth W. Starr to Editor, Brill’s Content, 16 May 1998; Statement by Steven Brill, 16 May 1998, Kendall papers. Among other things, Starr accused Brill of unprofessionalism and libelous inaccuracy.
“presented a prima facie case” to move: Order, In Re: Grand Jury Proceedings, 6 June 1998; “Testing