The FBI secretly met with Mr. Clinton during a White House dinner to draw blood for a DNA test on the semen-stained dress worn by Monica Lewinsky.
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What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.
I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
The House managers have decided that they need to talk to Ms. Lewinsky before making a recommendation to the Senate to depose her, ... The action of the House managers is not unusual. It is not unfair, and it is not contrary to the rules of the Senate.
And honestly, we don't know yet whether ... we should blame the president, Ms. Lewinsky, Ms. Tripp, Judge Starr or the media -- or all of them, to some extent.
McCain was asked if Gore was tied to the controversies of the Clinton administration, particularly the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Governor Bush and I both found out in this campaign that Americans don't want to talk about that, ... What they're going to cast their votes on the basis of, in my view, is who has the vision, who has the ideas, who can they trust to lead this nation in this new century.
I don't think the Congress could move forward only on Lewinsky, unless he had such a clear case, such an overpowering case, ... But I think we would be better served to know the whole story.
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.
Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.
Something happened that changed the priority assigned to the job search. On the morning of December 11, 1997, Judge Susan Webber Wright ordered President Clinton to provide information regarding any state or federal employee with whom he had, proposed, or sought sexual relations. To keep Ms. Lewinsky satisfied was now of critical importance.
Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter.
What brought down the Nixon administration wasn't the burglary itself, but the cover-up of it, ... wasn't that he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky but he lied about it.
I want to do a record with Monica Lewinsky.
Can you imagine what that little conversation is going to look like, held in the independent counsel's office, with the people there who have the capacity to put Ms. Lewinsky in jail ... Can we really say that it's just normal, just OK, to have one side using the might and majesty of the independent counsel's office threatening a witness with violation of an immunity agreement if she doesn't fly across the country for this little chat I think not.
The questions ... were asked in a way that simply did not, and could not, for any fair prosecutor, form the basis for prosecution. The president surely did answer narrowly, answer carefully. The president did not want to reveal to Miss Jones' lawyers, or to the people ... that he had an improper relation with Miss Lewinsky.
Tripp's repeated efforts to encourage behavior that the independent counsel later suggests is central to his case against the president raise disturbing questions about her role in this entire affair, ... It was Linda Tripp, and only Linda Tripp, who suggested to Ms. Lewinsky that she demand a job in exchange for her affidavit.