![]() ![]() For the next ten months, I didn’t see her, although we talked on the phone from time to time. This time the lights in the study were off.ĭuring the government shutdown in late 1995, when very few people were allowed to come to work in the White House and those who were there were working late, I’d had an inappropriate encounter with Monica Lewinsky and would do so again on other occasions between November and April, when she left the White House for the Pentagon. Stephanopoulos’s office and went again to the area of the private study. ![]() Stephanopoulos’s office in a few minutes, and she agreed.… They met in Mr. He invited her to rendezvous again in Mr. Lewinsky’s recollection, she was alone in the Chief of Staff’s office and the President approached. Lewinsky wrote down her name and telephone number for the President.Īt about 10 p.m., in Ms. In the windowless hallway adjacent to the study, they kissed. Lewinsky testified: “We talked briefly and sort of acknowledged that there had been a chemistry that was there before and that we were both attracted to each other and then he asked me if he could kiss me.” Ms. Stephanopoulos’s office, they went through the President’s private dining room toward the study off the Oval Office. He laughed, then asked if she would like to see his private office. She told him that she had a crush on him. The President was inside alone, and he beckoned her to enter. At the event, the president “spent a good deal of the time smiling and looking at Monica.” More, from Monica’s Story:Įn route to the restroom at about 8 p.m., she passed George Stephanopoulos’s office. When Lewinsky spotted Clinton walking past the door to the Chief of Staff’s office, per Morton, “She mouthed ‘Hi,’ and he smiled back a ‘Hi.’” The intern was surprised, later that day, when Clinton joined an impromptu office party to celebrate the woman who had helped Lewinsky land her job. In Lewinsky’s authorized biography Monica’s Story, biographer Andrew Morton writes that Lewinsky and Clinton noticed each other the day that Lewinsky was relocated to the White House-specifically November 15, 1995. In 1998, after the controversial report was released, Vanity Fair deemed it “a voluminous work of demented pornography, with many fascinating characters and several largely hidden story lines.” Future Impeachment episodes will likely shift focus to Kenneth Starr’s investigation and Starr himself-whom Lewinsky called “the man who had turned my 24-year-old life into a living hell in his effort to investigate and prosecute President Bill Clinton on charges that would eventually include obstruction of justice and lying under oath.”įor now though, let’s dive into the Impeachment ouroboros and compare notes. Incredibly closely, it turns out-thanks in part to Lewinsky’s participation in the series as executive producer, reams of grand-jury testimonies, and the salivatingly detailed Starr report. But just how closely did those scenes, scripted by executive producer Sarah Burgess, mirror the real-life events? Tuesday’s episode of Impeachment: American Crime Story, “The President Kissed Me,” flashes back to those fateful first meetings between Lewinsky (portrayed by Beanie Feldstein) and Clinton ( Clive Owen). But in 1995, during a government shutdown that shrunk the White House staff of 430 to about 90, Monica Lewinsky was one of the unpaid interns stationed in the West Wing to fill in temporary employment gaps. In normal circumstances, a White House intern wouldn’t interact with the President of the United States. ![]()
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