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Linda Tripp had tried: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author; Morton, Monica’s Story, 144–45.
Tripp had also encouraged: Morton, Monica ’s Story, 144–45; Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 221.
If OIC had formally: William Ginsburg, interview by author.
Three days later: Ibid.; Plato Cacheris, interview by author.
The prosecutor said to Ginsburg: William Ginsburg, interview by author.
the copy of Leaves of Grass: Monica Lewinsky to author, January 26, 2009. Of course, the gifts that Monica had given to Betty Currie were no longer in Monica’s apartment. Ibid.
Starr was fully aware: Ken Starr, interview by author.
wearing a “platinum blond wig”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
thoroughly skeptical of the motives of: Plato Cacheris, interview by author.
“I think in a perfect world, she could”: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
Monica herself recalled: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
That muggy Monday morning: Ken Starr, interview by author.
“anybody named Lewinsky got immunity”: Plato Cacheris, interview by author.
OIC was represented by: OIC Interview with Monica Lewinsky, 28 July 1998, Evidentiary Record, vol. 3, part 1, 1389.
OIC was intrigued but: Robert J. Bittman, interview by author.
seemed to be vying for control: Plato Cacheris, interview by author.
“Overall,” he said, “we felt she was truthful”: Robert J. Bittman, interview by author.
That evening, shortly after Monica’s lawyers: Plato Cacheris, interview by author.
Monica would later note: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
Monica Lewinsky signed an immunity agreement: Immunity Agreement, 28 July 1998, Lewinsky papers.
“I had mixed feelings about even getting”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
“I think it was all just emotion, but bottom line”: Plato Cacheris, interview by author.
Monica arrived at her lawyer’s building: Inventory, 29 July 1998, Plato Cacheris papers.
Monica’s mother herself: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
“I took it there”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
But when her new lawyers: Plato Cacheris, interview by author.
“Oh, my God, now’s my chance!”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
As Cacheris ushered Starr’s representatives: Plato Cacheris, interview by author.
assured that only “several top people”: Robert J. Bittman, interview by author.
“Investigative demands,” Bittman wrote, now required: Robert J. Bittman, interview by author; Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 217–18.
As the early August sun: Robert J. Bittman, interview by author; David Kendall, interview by author.
As Merletti recalled the startling sidebar discussion: Lew Merletti, interview by author. The FBI official would later acknowledge, in a confidential interview with the author, that he had attended the conference in Atlantic City. He also confirmed that he was directly involved, at the request of Director Louis Freeh, in the lab examination of the blue dress and the DNA analysis. However, the official did not recall engaging in this conversation concerning the blue dress with Merletti.
Chapter 42: The Drudge Revolution
To further strengthen Starr’s hand: “Statement of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr,” 7 Aug. 1998, Starr personal papers, F7, July 1998.
Stories concerning the infamous blue dress: Committee of Concerned Journalists, “The Clinton/Lewinsky Story: How Accurate? How Fair?” 20 Oct. 1998, 7–11. This study was conducted under the supervision of journalist Jim Doyle, former special assistant to the Watergate Special Prosecutors Cox and Jaworski. The project was chaired by Bill Kovach, curator of the Nieman Foundation, and Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Stories had also bounced around the media: Committee of Concerned Journalists, “The Clinton/Lewinsky Story,” 12–17.
Nelvis himself appeared before: Bayani Nelvis, Grand Jury Testimony, 12 Mar. 1998, 16–19, Evidentiary Record, vol. 4, part 2, 3077–78.
“four other interns”: Committee of Concerned Journalists, “The Clinton/Lewinsky Story,” 34–35.
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