Monica Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinskyis an American activist, television personality, fashion designer, and former White House intern with whom President Bill Clinton admitted to having had what he called an "inappropriate relationship" while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. The affair and its repercussions, which included Clinton's impeachment, became known as the Lewinsky scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth23 July 1973
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
constantly to walk us through all of this, to sort out the facts from the theater.
It was really more the president choosing the hallway, I think, and it was -- there weren't any windows there, ... I think a lot of times we ended up just sort of standing there (in the hallway) and talking there because he could close the door to the bathroom and lean up against the bathroom.
I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.
I think anybody who really knows me knows I'm not a media hound and knows that I'm really sort of trying to do the best I can with the situation that I found myself in.
took to the Senate floor to denounce the president's conduct as immoral and harmful because 'it sends a message of what is acceptable behavior to the larger American family.'
I think I brought it up. The president wouldn't have brought up Betty's name, because he didn't -- he really didn't discuss it.
you can always say you were coming to see Betty or bringing me papers.
I better not put one foot wrong, because the independent counsel is sitting there watching and he's already told me that this deal is gone if I don't cooperate with the House managers?
I did not provide him with a copy. No ... I believe I showed him a copy, ... I think he may have said, 'I don't need to see it.'
When we turn on CNN and see her picture, it's really hard to believe she's at the center of all this because ... that's just Monica.
Why can't I just scrape that crap off and put it in a plastic bag?
It was that chemistry. And was the fact that he was president part of that chemistry? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. But it was - I was there because there was chemistry. I wasn't there because, oh, this is the president.
It was a mutual physical relationship, and emotional, ... Larry King Live.
I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.