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Monica's Story

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by Andrew Morton


  “At the end I felt like crying because it was hard to talk about the relationship, especially in a roomful of strangers some of whom want to harm the President. I feel that for the last year everyone has spent so much time on my relationship, my emotions, my love and I’m tired of everybody picking it apart. It has been taken away from me by these people.

  “I just miss him so much right now.”

  Even though there will always be a small room in Monica’s heart for “Handsome,” she no longer opens that door frequently. This evening was one of those occasions. As she admits, however, compared to how she used to see him as a man and a president, she now sees him as all politician, all of the time.

  The impeachment trial, for all the antics of the House Republican prosecutors, was winding down, and it was clear that the Republicans could not muster enough votes to remove the President from office. Monica did not provide the “bombshell” the prosecutors needed; the trial was ending, to quote her beloved T.S. Eliot, “not with a bang but a whimper.”

  The nation was moving on, and so was Monica Lewinsky.

  Index

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  Ackerman, Elise

  Adler. Renata

  Bacon, Kenneth

  Beckett, Tracery

  Behre, Kirbe

  “ballistic” over tapes

  differences with Tripp

  Bennett, Bob

  Bennett, Jackie, Jr.

  Berger, Sandy

  Bernice (grandmother)

  Bittman, Bob

  Bleiler, Andy

  betrayal

  marriage

  on-off affair

  Portland move

  presents from White House

  press conference

  wife’s accusation over affair

  Bliss, David

  Blumenthal, Sidney

  Bowles, Erskine

  Bredhoff, Bob

  Brill, Steven

  Bronfman, Edgar

  Brothers, Dr. Joyce

  Brown, Ron

  Bryant, Ed

  Buckley, Kathy

  Bumpers, Dale

  Burton, Preston

  Cacheris, Plato

  Carlson, Margaret

  Carter, Frank

  Clinton, Bill

  affairs confession

  affair, terminations of

  apologies

  back pains

  birthdays

  broadcast to nation

  chastising “Dear Sir” letter from Monica

  divorce possibility

  farewells to Monica

  first kiss with Monica

  first meeting with Monica

  gifts to Monica

  Grand Jury testimony

  and Germaine Greer

  guilt about affair

  “Handsome” nickname

  handwritten note from Monica

  and Hillary

  impeachment

  Jones case

  Jones case dismissed

  Jones claim settled

  knee injury

  “memorandum for: Handsome”

  missed by Monica

  Monica, denial of affair with

  phone calls

  phone row

  phone sex

  “POTUS” acronym

  prayer breakfast

  refusal to see Monica

  resumption of affair

  soldier’s death in Bosnia

  stern lecture to Monica

  subpoenaed

  Willey, denial of sexual impropriety with

  womanizer reputation

  Clinton, Chelsea

  Bumpers speech

  dancing

  Monica’s sympathy for

  Clinton, Hillary

  attacks “vast rightwing conspiracy”

  “Baba” sobriquet

  and Vince Foster

  Clinton, Virginia

  Couric, Katie

  Currie, Betty

  advice to Clinton

  brother killed

  FBI’s betrayal request to Monica

  frantic messages to Monica

  interface in affair

  Monica’s concerns over Clinton’s “silence”

  sympathetic

  Dash, Sam

  Dave, Adam

  Michael’s attack on

  tabloid TV

  Davis, Catherine Allday

  allowed to visit Monica

  on Bleiler

  e-mails to/from Monica

  Grand Jury testimony

  on Monica—Clinton affair

  private e-mails published by Starr

  Tokyo move

  on Tripp

  Demir, Ishmael

  Densuk, Sheri

  Dershowitz, Alan

  Diana, Her True Story

  Diana, Princess of Wales

  Dowd, Maureen

  dress See Gap dress

  Drudge Report, The

  fueling gossip

  Duke, Kacy

  elections

  Clinton reelected

  Congress, 1998

  effect on affair

  1996 campaign

  Ellerbec, Walter

  Emmick, Mike

  bluff called

  Erbland, Neysa DeMann

  on Clinton affair

  media offer

  Estep, Kathleen

  Estergard, Linda

  FBI

  proposal to bug conversations

  threat to prosecute mother

  see also Chapter

  Finerman, Bill (uncle)

  Finerman, Debra (aunt)

  and Clinton affair

  media siege

  Monica’s Room 1012 ordeal

  moral counselor

  “scary” experience

  on White House jealousy and mistrust

  Foster, Vince

  Tripp’s tell-all book

  Friedrich, Kate

  Fuhrman, Mark

  Gap dress

  DNA testing of

  handed over to investigators

  Gingrich, Newt

  Ginsburg, Bill

  advice on speaking out

  American Bar Association address

  attacks “torture” of Marcia

  correspondents’ dinner

  Emmick exchange

  immunity deal

  magazine article: “An Open Letter to Kenneth Starr”

  managing the media

  Marcia’s concern over handling of media

  “misogynist” accusation against Clinton

  opposes publicist plan

  prurient interest in affair

  surrogate father to Monica

  tumultuous relationship with Monica

  Vanity Fair photographs

  see also Chapter

  Glazov, Michelle

  Goldberg, Jonah

  Goldberg, Lucianne

  and media

  taped conversations with Tripp

  Tripp’s book

  Gore, Al

  Grand Jury

  Clinton’s testimony

  friends’ testimony

  Jordan’s testimony

  Lieberman’s testimony

  Marcia’s testimony

  Monica’s testimony

  Nelvis’s testimony

  Scott’s testimony

  Tripp’s testimony

  Greer, Germaine

  Guardian, the

  Hall, Fawn

  Hanna’s War

  hat-pin gift

  Henderson, Carly

  Hernreich, Nancy

  Hoffmann, Sydney

  Hofsetter, Richard

  Holloway, Kit

  Hubbell, Webster

  Hutchinson, Asa

  Hyde, Senator Henry

  Immergut, K
arin

  immunity deal

  legality argument rejected

  watertight agreement

  withdrawn

  impeachment

  Independent Counsel See Starr, Kenneth and Starr Report

  Isikoff, Michael

  compromise attempt

  “Harvey” code name

  Tripp dealings

  Johnson, Judge Norma Holloway

  Jones, Paula (case)

  affidavit

  case dismissed

  claim settled

  Monica subpoenaed

  Monica on witness list

  Rutherford Institute involvement

  Tripp subpoenaed

  Jordan, Vernon

  exoneration in e-mail

  Grand Jury testimony

  and Tripp tapes

  and Whitewater

  Kaczynski, Ted

  Kassorla, Irene (therapist)

  Kaye, Walter

  Keating, Tim,

  Kelley, Virginia (Clinton)

  Kendall, David

  Kennedy, Edward

  Kerry, Bob

  King, Larry

  “kneepads” remark

  Kopechne, Mary Jo

  Krasne, Nancy

  lawyers, change of

  Leaves of Grass

  legal fees

  Lewinsky, Barbara (stepmother)

  marriage to Bernie

  media siege

  Presidential radio address

  Lewinsky, Bernie (father)

  anger at House managers’ summons

  on Bleiler

  cooking

  defense fund

  divisions reopened by Tripp tapes

  divorce

  “Doctor No” sobriquet

  early relationship with Monica

  on fingerprinting procedure

  first marriage, breakdown

  hurt by Clinton’s denial

  marriage to Barbara

  media siege

  mending fences with Monica

  Monica’s birth

  on Monica’s presence of mind

  Monica’s “Rock of Gibraltar”

  Monica’s Room 1012 ordeal

  nightmares

  Presidential radio address

  radio-show criticism

  refusal to criticize President

  respect for authority

  Starr’s harassment

  on Starr’s “sex video” demand

  subpoena attempt

  support for Monica

  turns against Clinton

  TV appearances

  Lewinsky, Marcia (mother) See Lewis, Marcia

  Lewinsky, Michael (brother)

  Bar-mitzvah

  bond with father

  college

  coping strategy

  FBI men’s visit to college

  on “friends” making a buck

  Internet discovery

  on Monica

  road accident

  Lewinsky, Monica

  antiques

  Bat-mitzvah

  birth

  Bleiler, Andy See Bleiler

  chastising “Dear Sir” letter to Clinton

  Clinton affair, terminations of

  Clinton, first meeting with

  and Clinton’s address to nation

  and Hillary Clinton

  college

  constant fear of arrest

  early life at home

  FBI

  fingerprinting

  first kiss with Clinton

  Fox TV offer

  friends’ Grand Jury ordeal

  graduation

  Grand Jury testimony

  handwritten note to Clinton

  humiliation

  immunity deal

  mail from well-wishers

  media attention

  media denigration

  “memorandum for: Handsome”

  mending fences with Bernie

  missing Clinton

  “Monica-and-Bill” jokes

  National Security Council job

  new legal team

  new relationship

  “the Other” concept

  parents’ marriage breakdown

  Pentagon post

  photographic memory

  poetry, love of

  psychology studies

  resumption of Clinton affair

  ring gift from stranger

  Room 1012 ordeal See Chapter

  school

  self-esteem, low sense of

  strong-willed child

  subpoenaed

  suicide, thoughts of

  testimony to House managers

  therapy

  Thomas affair

  Tripp betrayal

  Tripp, in thrall to

  Vanity Fair photographs

  weight

  wit

  Lewis and Clark College, Oregon

  Lewis, Marcia (mother)

  on Bleiler affair

  on her children

  constant fear

  early relationship with Monica

  divorce

  FBI confrontation

  first marriage, breakdown

  and Gap dress

  and Ginsburg’s handling of media

  government seen as enemy

  Grand Jury testimony

  legal jeopardy

  media attention

  media’s “faked breakdown” lies

  and Monica—Clinton affair

  Monica’s birth

  Monica’s Room 1012 ordeal

  Monica’s suicide, fears of

  on Pentagon post

  Private Lives of the Three Tenors, The

  publicist hired

  spirit broken by Starr

  and Starr Report on Internet

  Starr’s harassment

  state of shock

  Straus, first meeting

  suggests Washington move to Monica

  suicide fears

  on Tripp

  Tripp’s obsession with

  on Tripp tapes

  Washington move

  wits’ end

  writes to Hyde and Starr

  Lieberman, Evelyn

  Grand Jury testimony

  leaving post

  Lieberman, Joseph

  Lindsey, Bruce

  Maas, Peter

  Marshall, Jonathan

  Martin, Billy

  concern for Marcia

  family’s “Minister of Defense”

  on the law

  McCollum, Bill

  McDougal, Susan

  McElvoy, Anne

  media

  besieged by

  estranging effects

  denigration by

  feeding frenzy

  Fox TV offer

  gauntlet

  Marcia’s concern over Ginsburg’s handling of

  misogyny

  offers

  paparazzi insults

  ramming tactics

  weight gibe

  White House “attack dogs” see also individual publications

  Mills, Cheryl

  Mondale, Eleanor

  affair accusation

  Moody, James

  Morris, Dick

  Morris, Susie

  National Enquirer

  National Security Council

  no job

  NATO conference, Madrid

  Nelvis, Bayani

  Grand Jury testimony

  President’s tie

  New York Daily News

  New York Post

  New York Times

  New Yorker

  newspapers See media and individual publications

  Newsweek

  Tripp dealings

  Office of the Independent Counsel (OIC) See Starr, Starr report

  Panetta, Leon

  paparazzi insults

  Pentagon

  notice handed in

  transfer to

  Peters, Charlie

 
phone sex

  Podesta, John

  President’s radio address

  press See media and individual publications

  Private Lives of the Three Tenors, The

  Raines, Ashley

  Reese, Lenore

  Remick, David,

  Revel, Pamela

  Revlon

  Richardson, Bill

  Ritts, Herb

  Rutherford Institute

  saxophone

  Schiff, Debra

  Scott, Marsha

  Grand Jury testimony

  hindering return to White House

  questions about relationship

  Seagram

  Seligman, Nicole

  Senesh, Hannah

  “sexual relations,” definition of

  Shabani, Danny

  O.J. Simpson trial

  60 Minutes

  Smith, Judy

  “covert operations”

  Ginsburg’s opposition to

  Special Prosecutor See Starr, Kenneth

  Speights, Nathaniel

  Spelling, Tori

  Starr, Kenneth (Special Prosecutor)

  attack by Hillary Clinton

  and Vernon Jordan

  leaks

  and Marcia Lewis

  and Susan McDougal

  Monica’s continuing dread of

  Orwell’s “Big Brother”

  pact with Trip

  publication of private e-mails

  “puritanical”

  questionable means

  squeeze tactics

  strong-arm tactics, public concern

  subpoenas Clinton

  tenacious after Jones case dismissed

  video questioning. of Monica, demand for

  zealous crusade to bring down President

  Starr Report

  errors

  Internet publication

  portrayal of Monica as sexually precocious

  submitted to Congress

  Vanity Fair verdict

  Stein, Jake

  Straus, Peter (stepfather)

  engagement announcement

  on Ginsburg

  Marcia Lewis, first meeting

  on media attention

  Streisand, Barbra

  Sullivan, Andrew

  “Talking Points” memo

  Tapper, Jake

  television See media

  ties

  and Bayani Nelvis

  no significance, says Clinton

  Time

  Today show

  Torkelson, Jody

  Tripp, Linda

  avoiding Monica

 

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