SELLING HER STORY; X-POSED : MONICA REVEALS THE LURID DETAILS: ABORTION, AFFAIRS, ANGST AND ANGER.Byline: John Solomon John Lewis Solomon (born May 23 1950) is a public servant and former Canadian politician. Since 2001, he has been chair of Saskatchewan's Workers' Compensation Board. He was previously a provincial and federal politician. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Disclosing an abortion and thoughts of suicide, Monica Lewinsky Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted (after initially denying) to having had an "inappropriate relationship"[1] while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. gave the world an unabashed account of her life Wednesday and unleashed her long-pent-up loathing for Kenneth Starr's investigation. And she said she now regards President Clinton ``to be a much bigger liar than I ever thought.'' In a television interview and a separate book, the 25-year-old former White House intern spoke openly of sexual encounters with the president and several other men. But she saved some of her sharpest words for the prosecutor who transformed her affair with Clinton into an impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. crisis while providing her immunity from criminal charges. Lewinsky said in her book, ``Monica's Story Monica's Story is the authorized biography of Monica Lewinsky, written by Andrew Morton. Morton was also a biographer of Diana, Princess of Wales. ,'' that Starr's office ``was sick'' for asking so many detailed questions about her sexual encounters with the president and also engaged in ``dubious tactics'' by trying to coerce her cooperation during a first confrontation in January 1998. She said in her book that first meeting made her so distraught that she considered hurling herself from the 10th floor window of the hotel room where prosecutors interviewed her, and later weighed fleeing the country with her mother. Even now with a promise from prosecutors that she won't be charged, she is ``afraid of doing something to lose my immunity,'' she told Barbara Walters Barbara Jill Walters[1] (born September 25, 1929[2]) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20 on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. in a long-anticipated show aired Wednesday night. Showing Americans a far different personality than the stern witness forced to testify before a grand jury and by videotape at the impeachment trial, Lewinsky was animated and smiled frequently during the TV interview. Once, while recounting the pain the crisis has caused her family, she broke down crying. ``People have no idea about what this has done. . . . It was so destructive,'' she said, tears streaming. Both the Clintons left Washington for a day their friends and aides admitted would be painful - the president went to a fund-raiser in New Jersey; the first lady tested the political waters in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of where she's considering a bid for U.S. Senate. Lewinsky's book, written by Princess Diana Noun 1. Princess Diana - English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles; her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997) Diana, Lady Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales biographer Andrew Morton People named Andrew Morton include:
Starr accusations The book accuses the prosecutor of colluding with Paula Jones
Paula Corbin Jones (born Paula Rosalee Corbin in obtaining the affidavit. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show Starr recently told Congress that he had gotten an early copy from a lawyer for Linda Tripp Linda Tripp (born Linda Rose Carotenuto on November 24, 1949 in Jersey City, New Jersey) was a central figure in the Lewinsky scandal of 1998 and 1999 that led to the impeachment and subsequent acquittal of U.S. President Bill Clinton. and not from Jones' camp. Jones' lawyers had been given a copy of the affidavit four days before the Starr episode. Asked Wednesday about the affidavit, Tripp's spokesman, Philip Coughter, said his client ``has no comment on the matter at this time.'' The Justice Department is investigating whether Starr's prosecutors improperly discussed a possible immunity agreement with Lewinsky without her attorney present and failed to disclose contacts with Jones' lawyers to the department before it gave Starr permission to investigate. ``Understandably, Starr's tactics have been a matter for grave public concern,'' Lewinsky's book said. ``The whole exchange about immunity was a waste of time except insofar in·so·far adv. To such an extent. Adv. 1. insofar - to the degree or extent that; "insofar as it can be ascertained, the horse lung is comparable to that of man"; "so far as it is reasonably practical he should practice as it exposed the dubious methods employed by Starr's investigators.'' Her book spared no words for Starr's prosecutors, deriding one as a ``revolting specimen of humanity'' and another as a ``pit-bull terrier.'' Deputy Independent Counsel Jackie Bennett said Wednesday that he could not comment on the book because his office hadn't seen it. But in the document sent to Congress two months ago, Starr disputed claims his office had mistreated Lewinsky, saying that while she was ``understandably upset and distraught'' by her first encounter with prosecutors, it was due to the ``gravity of the situation.'' Considered fleeing Lewinsky also discloses in the book that she and her mother briefly considered ``fleeing across the border to Canada'' to escape Starr's investigation ``but that idea was discarded as soon as it was mentioned, because they believed that the FBI would have every airport and border post staked out.'' Tripp, the friend who betrayed Lewinsky by secretly taping her talking about the Clinton affair and then taking the tapes to Starr, came in for her own sharp criticism. ``When she poured out her story to Tripp, Monica thought she was confiding con·fid·ing adj. Having a tendency to confide; trusting. con·fid  ing·ly adv. in a friend. Instead, she was gently being lured into a trap, the unwitting bait with which to catch a president,'' the book said. Nor does the president, whom Lewinsky said she instantly fell in love with when meeting him along a rope line A rope line is a rope, often covered with velvet, that separates famous persons from a crowd. It is strung from portable metal or plastic poles. In American political terminology, a politician "walking down the rope line" is shaking hands of his or her supporters and guests. at a 1995 event, escape tough words. `A selfish man' ``Now I see him as a selfish man who lies all the time. That makes me very angry and resentful,'' she said in the book. In her two-hour interview with Walters, Lewinsky questioned the sincerity of the president's apology for the entire episode, saying ``I think he's sorry he got caught.'' Lewinsky said in the interview - an event ABC hoped would draw a huge audience, and raised its ad rates accordingly - that she felt like ``a piece of trash'' the day Clinton was forced to admit their affair on national television and apologized to the nation - but not to her. ``I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed,'' Lewinsky said. She also acknowledged the falsity of her first affidavit. ``I think I knew I was lying but . . . I had no idea what all the different elements of perjury perjury (pûr`jərē), in criminal law, the act of willfully and knowingly stating a falsehood under oath or under affirmation in judicial or administrative proceedings. were at the time,'' she said. In her book, Lewinsky recounted in the book her feelings the day Starr's impeachment report came out on Capitol Hill. ``I really felt raped and physically ill with myself. . . . I just felt that the world looked at me as a whore,'' she said. ``I was just a pawn used to get the president,'' she added. As for the stained dress that became key evidence in the case against Clinton, Lewinsky insisted she kept it, not as a trophy or incriminating in·crim·i·nate tr.v. in·crim·i·nat·ed, in·crim·i·nat·ing, in·crim·i·nates 1. To accuse of a crime or other wrongful act. 2. evidence, but rather to save money on dry cleaning dry cleaning, process of cleaning fabrics without water. Special solvents and soaps are used so as not to harm fabrics and dyes that will not withstand the effects of ordinary soap and water. Dry cleaning began in France about the middle of the 19th cent. . She said the dress was a joke among her friends. ``We even laughed about it,'' Lewinsky told Walters. ``With one I even joked, gee, maybe he'll pay for the dry cleaning.'' She said now, however, she would burn the dress if she ever gets it back. After months of getting Lewinsky's story from cold grand jury transcripts, Americans got to hear her version in two venues: ABC aired the interview it recorded 11 days ago while her publisher provided the news media its first copies of the book set to go on sale today. In both, Lewinsky volunteered detail about intensely personal matters in her life. She acknowledged she had an abortion after becoming pregnant during a three-month affair with a fellow Pentagon worker. The abortion occurred in the latter part of 1996, while she was still seeing Clinton in secret meetings at the White House. She also detailed another affair she had with a married man in Oregon while still in college, disclosing that when the romance was ending she had a ``fling'' with his younger brother Wiki is aware of the following uses of "'Younger Brother":
The details might be too much for a public already weary of the story. Nine out of 10 people said in a Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday that they would not be interested in reading her book. And almost two-thirds said they were not interested in watching her TV interview. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--Color) Monica Lewinsky wipes away a tear in this image from her interview on ABC's ``20/20.'' (2--Color) Monica Lewinsky, right, smiles during a television interview with confessor-to-the-stars Barbara Walters that aired Wednesday night. Associated Press |
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