Here’s what’s true and what’s artistic license in Impeachment’s account of Clinton and Lewinsky’s first meeting.
moves from West Wing backstage intrigues and partisan politics to the personal . It also illustrates how many gray areas there were in the charges of sexual misconduct against Clinton and indeed are in cases of sexual harassment in general.
Monica’s assignment is to answer phones for Clinton’s furloughed Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, where she encounters the President in passing on a regular basis. One day he invites her into his office, but far from going for a quick grope, he asks her opinion of the shutdown and then draws her out about herself, drawing her out on her family and current circumstances and finding points of similarity. Then he kisses her.
, while Clinton described Lewinsky as “a good young woman with a good heart and a good mind … She talked to me a lot about her life, her job ambitions.”Not shown: a second meeting that same night during which, as recounted in the Starr report, Clinton stuck his hand down Lewinsky’s panties as he conducted a phone call.Lewinsky is distraught after being ghosted by Clinton for five weeks before and after the 1996 election.
Gifts of ties featured in Lewinsky’s grand jury testimony. “Almost all our conversations included something about my ties,”“I used to bug him about wearing one of my ties because then I knew I was close to his heart. …” A memo of a prosecutor’s interview with Lewinsky devoted two pages to describing the six ties she gave Clinton and when she saw him wearing them.
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