5: The House judiciary committee votes along party lines to recommend an impeachment inquiry. 2: Transcripts of Lewinsky and Tripp’s taped telephone conversations are released. 3: A blood sample is taken from Clinton for DNA testing against stains from the blue dress taken from Lewinsky. July 29: Clinton agrees to testify before the grand jury voluntarily. The next day, they announce an immunity deal for her. July 27: Lewinsky meets with Starr’s prosecutors in New York City. Over the course of the following week, Clinton’s personal secretary Betty Currie and lead Secret Service agent Larry Cockell would also testify. July 17: Subpoenaed Secret Service agents report to the grand jury, and Clinton himself is served with a subpoena that compels him to testify. 10: The July issue of Vanity Fair appears on newsstands, featuring those glamour shots of Lewinsky posing like Marilyn Monroe-a look that does not go over well in the court of public opinion. Also this day, Lewinsky fires Ginsburg and hires new lawyers, Jacob Stein and Plato Cacheris, who met secretly with Starr to reiterate that they want to get things done quietly, but without their client having to plead guilty to anything. Nixon to take an executive privilege claim to the Supreme Court. 2: Clinton’s lawyers stop pursuing his claim of executive privilege, and the media argues that’s because he didn’t want to be known as the first president since Richard M. (Immunity had been offered, but the deal was never completed.)
Circuit Court judge Norma Holloway Johnson, who would preside over the grand jury investigation into the affair, rejects Lewinsky’s lawyer’s argument that she has an immunity agreement with Starr. Paula Jones will file an appeal at the end of July.Īpr. 1: A judge dismisses Paula Jones’ sexual harassment suit over a lack of evidence. 21: President Clinton moves to invoke executive privilege to prevent top aides from testifying about private conversations that they had with him. Over the next two weeks, a flight attendant and a former Miss America also claim they were groped by Clinton. 15: Kathleen Willey, a campaigner for and donor to Clinton’s in 1992 presidential campaign, tells 60 Minutes that Clinton groped her in the Oval Office in 1993. Fox became “the first person to publicly say that he saw the president and Lewinsky alone together,” the Washington Post reports. 11: Retired Secret Service agent Lewis C.
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“ Starr granted Lewis full immunity in exchange for delivery of the suspect dress,” TIME reported.įeb. Suspected of encouraging Lewinsky to lie to Jones’s lawyers and accused of hiding the stained dress, she was grilled by Starr’s team for nearly three days until she became too overwhelmed. 10: Lewinsky’s mother, Marcia Lewis, appears before a grand jury. 6: Clinton says in a press conference that he won’t resign.įeb. The tapes come from Linda Tripp, who had become close friends with Lewinsky in 1996 while the two worked in the Pentagon’s public affairs office, and to whom Lewinsky had confided about President Clinton.įeb. 12: Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr - who had been investigating Whitewater, a scandal-plagued Arkansas real-estate venture with which the Clintons had been involved - receives more than 20 hours of tapes of phone conversations that seem to contradict the affidavit. A conservative legal group that had volunteered to fund her lawsuit had gotten an anonymous tip about Lewinsky, so Jones’ lawyers subpoenaed Lewinsky in hopes of arguing that Clinton displayed a pattern of workplace harassment. Jones claimed she suffered emotional damage after Clinton exposed himself to her in an Arkansas hotel room in May of 1991.
7: Lewinsky signed an affidavit stating that she never had a sexual relationship with Clinton, at the request of attorneys representing Paula Jones, who had accused Clinton of sexual harassment in 1994.
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