In 1995, Monica Lewinsky, a graduate of Lewis & Clark College, was hired to work as an intern at the White House during Clinton's first term, and began a personal relationship with him, the details of which she later confided to her friend and Defense department co-worker Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded their telephone conversations.

Lewinsky confided in a coworker named Linda Tripp about her relationship with Clinton.

In 1998, Mondale was named in the Starr Report as having met with President Clinton at the White House on December 6, 1997, while Monica Lewinsky, with whom Clinton had been having an affair, was kept waiting at the White House for 40 minutes.

In 1996 he was named anchor for daytime programming on MSNBC, where he covered the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998.

Given an opportunity to offer final words on the matter, Lewinsky told the jury, " I hate Linda Tripp.

* Linda Tripp, central figure in the Monica Lewinsky scandal

He's one of the most popular guest hosts on NBC's Saturday Night Live, hosting the show twelve times, while also making seven cameo appearances as Linda Tripp during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

In the course of the investigation, Linda Tripp provided Starr with taped phone conversations in which Monica Lewinsky, a former White House Intern, discussed having oral sex with Clinton.

My mother was the one who advised Linda Tripp to record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky and to save the dress.

Linda Rose Tripp ( née Carotenuto ; born November 24, 1949 ) is a former US civil servant who figured in the Monica Lewinsky scandal of 1998 / 99 that led to the impeachment of U. S. President Bill Clinton.

White House intern Monica Lewinsky signed an affidavit that she had not had a relationship with Clinton, but Lewinsky's confidant Linda Tripp had been recording their phone conversations and offered Starr tapes of Lewinsky describing her feelings for, and alleging encounters with, the president.

Part of Buck's broadcast ( with McCarver and Bob Brenly ) of Game 5 of the 1997 American League Championship Series could be heard in the background of one of the recordings Linda Tripp made of a conversation between herself and Monica Lewinsky, regarding the latter's affair with then-President Bill Clinton.

( That same day, the same Office of the Independent Counsel staff were listening to taped conversations of Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky ; the Lewinsky scandal was soon to break.

In the course of the investigation, Linda Tripp provided Starr with taped phone conversations in which Monica Lewinsky, a former White House Intern, discussed having oral sex with Clinton.

In January 1998, after Lewinsky had submitted an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying any physical relationship with Clinton, and attempted to persuade Tripp to lie under oath in the Jones case, Tripp gave the tapes to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and these tapes added to his ongoing investigation into the Whitewater controversy.

Tripp also convinced Lewinsky to save the gifts that Clinton had given her during their affair, and not to dry clean what would later be known as " the blue dress.

* A Guide to the Monica Lewinsky Story, also: The Starr Report ; Tripp Tapes ; Articles of Impeachment ; The " Stalker " Tale

When Tripp discovered in January 1998 that Lewinsky had signed an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying a relationship with Clinton, she delivered the tapes to Kenneth Starr, the Independent Counsel who was investigating Clinton on other matters, including the Whitewater scandal, the White House FBI files controversy, and the White House travel office controversy.

Tripp convinced Lewinsky to save the gifts that Clinton had given her, and not to dry clean what would later be known as the " infamous blue dress ".

In January 1998, after Lewinsky had submitted an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying any physical relationship with Clinton, she attempted to persuade Tripp to lie under oath in the Jones case.

I was privy to some of that stuff, and when the administration set about to destroy Lewinsky, Tripp, and my mom, I defended my mom and by extension Tripp ...

Tripp became a close confidante of another former White House employee, Monica Lewinsky, while they both worked in the Pentagon's public affairs office.

According to Tripp, who is about 24 years older than Lewinsky, they knew one another for a year and a half before the scandal began to reach its critical stage.

After Lewinsky revealed to Tripp that she had been in a physical relationship with President Clinton, Tripp, acting on the advice of literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, began to secretly record phone conversations with Lewinsky while encouraging Lewinsky to document details of her relationship with the president.

Impeachment proceedings were based on allegations that Clinton had lied about his relationship with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky in a sworn deposition in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

The perjury charge arose from Clinton's testimony about his relationship to Lewinsky during a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones.

Lewinsky made about $ 500, 000 from her participation in the book and another $ 1 million from international rights to the Walters interview, but was still beset by high legal bills and living costs.

Lewinsky corresponded in 2009 with scholar Ken Gormley, who was writing an in-depth study of the Clinton scandals, maintaining that Clinton had lied under oath when asked detailed and specific questions about his relationship with her.

Coats made headlines in August 1998, when he publicly questioned the timing of President Bill Clinton ’ s attack on terrorist bases in Afghanistan and Sudan, suggesting it might be linked to the Lewinsky scandal: " While there is clearly much more we need to learn about this attack and why it was ordered today, given the president ’ s personal difficulties this week, it is legitimate to question the timing of this action.

The American Spectator alleged that Richardson knew more about the Lewinsky affair than he declared to the grand jury.

" In criticizing Newt Gingrich for secretly having an affair with a staffer while Gingrich, as House Speaker, was simultaneously impeaching President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, DeLay said, " I don ’ t think that Newt could set a high moral standard, a high moral tone, during that moment .... You can ’ t do that if you ’ re keeping secrets about your own adulterous affairs.

* President Bill Clinton was impeached by the United States House of Representatives in 1998 for obstruction of justice charges based on allegations Clinton lied about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in a sworn deposition in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

When Clinton made his claim about his relationship with Lewinsky to the public, however, he was not under oath and thus it legally was not a felony.

The specific statements were about the nature of his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, with whom he denied having a sexual relationship.

Examples include press coverage about the Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinsky scandal, Casey Anthony Trial, Tonya Harding's role in the attack of Nancy Kerrigan, the Elian Gonzalez affair and the O. J.

This is supposedly why Monica Lewinsky chose Bryant to be the manager to interview her about the case.

' Currie, in turn, ' hands shaking and almost crying ,' told the officers that Clinton was ' irate ' that they had told Lewinsky about Mondale and warned a Secret Service supervisor that ' someone could be fired.

Goldberg ’ s career as a pundit was launched following his mother Lucianne Goldberg's role in the Clinton – Lewinsky scandal, when he wrote about the “ media siege ” on his mother ’ s apartment in The New Yorker.

When interviewed about the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he mentioned that he could detect that former President Bill Clinton was lying because he used distancing language.

Tripp has claimed that she taped Lewinsky out of self-defense, as she feared retaliation from the Clinton Administration, also claiming Lewinsky had assured President Clinton that she had only told Tripp about their affair ( which was untrue ), thus making her a target as she refused to go along with perjuring herself to protect Lewinsky and the President.

and that the Mossad was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Watergate scandal and the Monica Lewinsky affair ; and Lyndon LaRouche, who spoke about global finance and his proposal for a transcontinental highway.

Hillary Clinton said in her 2003 autobiography that, " Looking back, I see that I might have phrased my point more artfully, but I stand by the characterization of Starr's investigation of the truth about Lewinsky.