It became clear that there was nothing conclusive, but also that this was an ongoing process-she was still taping, and she and Lucianne were trying to enlist me in their scheme.
It was a little bit of, like, “Whoa, what’s going on here?” That threw me for a loop. Then they informed me they had been doing the taping. I was not quite sure what to expect or what I would learn, but when Linda Tripp provided the name and a few details, I felt I had made some progress. Michael Isikoff: I’d been talking to Tripp for some months, so I assumed the meeting was to provide me some further details about who the woman was. Tripp revealed that she had surreptitiously recorded her phone conversations with Lewinsky, and offered to play one of the tapes for Isikoff. On October 6, 1997, Tripp invited Isikoff to a meeting with the conservative literary agent Lucianne Goldberg. Lewinsky told Tripp that she had had a sexual relationship with the president, which Tripp in turn told the Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff, withholding Lewinsky’s name. In April, Lewinsky was reassigned to the Pentagon, where she became friends with Linda Tripp, a career civil servant who disliked the Clintons. By early 1996, White House aides had grown concerned about the relationship. She and the president developed a flirtatious rapport, which intensified during a weeklong government shutdown, during which interns served as support staff. In July 1995, Monica Lewinsky started work at the White House, initially as an intern.
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To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm iPhone app. The political battle has stoked resentments, influenced elections, given rise to conspiracy theories, and prompted many to think about the nature of the relationship that lay at its core-one that Lewinsky has called consensual but has come to see as a “gross abuse of power.” With the anniversary approaching, The Atlantic set out to tell the story of that battle-fought by lawyers, politicians, and an assortment of hired guns-through the differing recollections of people who played a role in investigating, prosecuting, or defending Bill Clinton. We have been living with the consequences of the Clinton impeachment ever since. Politically, the country was divided-less so than now, but ferociously.
The intimate details, revealed by an independent counsel, had consumed the country for 11 months: part morality tale, part soap opera, part high-stakes knife fight. The articles of impeachment had their origin in a relationship between the president and a 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. I n 1998, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on one charge of perjury and one charge of obstruction of justice.
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