V. April-December 1996: No Private Meetings
After Ms. Lewinsky began her Pentagon job on April 16, 1996, she had no
further physical contact with the President for the remainder of the year.
She and the President spoke by phone (and had phone sex) but saw each other
only at public functions. Ms. Lewinsky grew frustrated after the election
because the President did not bring her back to work at the White House. 
A. Pentagon Job 
On April 16, 1996, Ms. Lewinsky began working at the Pentagon as
Confidential Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public
Affairs.(350) 
B. No Physical Contact 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, she had no physical contact with the President
for the rest of 1996.(351) "I wasn't alone with him so when I saw him it
was in some sort of event or group setting," she testified.(352) 
C. Telephone Conversations 
Ms. Lewinsky and the President did talk by telephone, especially in her
first weeks at the new job.(353) By Ms. Lewinsky's estimate, the President
phoned her (sometimes leaving a message) four or five times in the month
after she started working at the Pentagon, then two or three times a month
thereafter for the rest of 1996.(354) During the fall 1996 campaign, the
President sometimes called from trips when Mrs. Clinton was not
accompanying him.(355) During at least seven of the 1996 calls, Ms.
Lewinsky and the President had phone sex.(356) 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President telephoned her at about 6:30 a.m.
on July 19, the day he was leaving for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and
they had phone sex, after which the President exclaimed, "[G]ood morning!"
and then said: "What a way to start a day."(357) A call log shows that the
President called the White House operator at 12:11 a.m. on July 19 and
asked for a wake-up call at 7 a.m., then at 6:40 a.m., the President called
and said he was already up.(358) In Ms. Lewinsky's recollection, she and
the President also had phone sex on May 21, July 5 or 6, October 22, and
December 2, 1996.(359) On those dates, Mrs. Clinton was in Denver (May 21),
Prague and Budapest (July 5-6), Las Vegas (October 22), and en route to
Bolivia (December 2).(360) 
Ms. Lewinsky repeatedly told the President that she disliked her Pentagon
job and wanted to return to the White House.(361) In a recorded
conversation, Ms. Lewinsky recounted one call: 
[A] month had passed and -- so he had called one night, and I said, "Well,"
I said, "I'm really unhappy," you know. And [the President] said, "I don't
want to talk about your job tonight. I'll call you this week, and then
we'll talk about it. I want to talk about other things" -- which meant
phone sex.(362) 

She expected to talk with him the following weekend, and she was "ready to
broach the idea of . . . going to the campaign," but he did not call.(363) 
Ms. Lewinsky and the President also talked about their relationship. During
a phone conversation on September 5, according to Ms. Lewinsky, she told
the President that she wanted to have intercourse with him. He responded
that he could not do so because of the possible consequences. The two of
them argued, and he asked if he should stop calling her. No, she
responded.(364) 
D. Public Encounters 
During this period, Ms. Lewinsky occasionally saw the President in public.
She testified: 
I'm an insecure person . . . and I was insecure about the relationship at
times and thought that he would come to forget me easily and if I hadn't
heard from him . . . it was very difficult for me . . . . [U]sually when
I'd see him, it would kind of prompt him to call me. So I made an effort. I
would go early and stand in the front so I could see him . . . .(365) 

On May 2, 1996, Ms. Lewinsky saw the President at a reception for the
Saxophone Club, a political organization.(366) On June 14, Ms. Lewinsky and
her family attended the taping of the President's weekly radio address and
had photos taken with the President.(367) On August 18, Ms. Lewinsky
attended the President's 50th birthday party at Radio City Music Hall, and
she got into a cocktail party for major donors where she saw the
President.(368) According to Ms. Lewinsky, when the President reached past
her at the rope line to shake hands with another guest, she reached out and
touched his crotch in a "playful" fashion.(369) On October 23, according to
Ms. Lewinsky, she talked with the President at a fundraiser for Senate
Democrats.(370) The two were photographed together at the event.(371) The
President was wearing a necktie she had given him, according to Ms.
Lewinsky, and she said to him, "Hey, Handsome -- I like your tie."(372) The
President telephoned her that night. She said she planned to be at the
White House on Pentagon business the next day, and he told her to stop by
the Oval Office. At the White House the next day, Ms. Lewinsky did not see
the President because Ms. Lieberman was nearby.(373) On December 17, Ms.
Lewinsky attended a holiday reception at the White House.(374) A photo
shows her shaking hands with the President.(375) 
E. Ms. Lewinsky's Frustrations 
Continuing to believe that her relationship with the President was the key
to regaining her White House pass, Ms. Lewinsky hoped that the President
would get her a job immediately after the election. "I kept a calendar with
a countdown until election day," she later wrote in an unsent letter to
him. The letter states: 
I was so sure that the weekend after the election you would call me to come
visit and you would kiss me passionately and tell me you couldn't wait to
have me back. You'd ask me where I wanted to work and say something akin to
"Consider it done" and it would be. Instead I didn't hear from you for
weeks and subsequently your phone calls became less frequent.(376) 

Ms. Lewinsky grew increasingly frustrated over her relationship with
President Clinton.(377) One friend understood that Ms. Lewinsky complained
to the President about not having seen each other privately for months, and
he replied, "Every day can't be sunshine."(378) In email to another friend
in early 1997, Ms. Lewinsky wrote: "I just don't understand what went
wrong, what happened? How could he do this to me? Why did he keep up
contact with me for so long and now nothing, now when we could be
together?"(379) 

VI. Early 1997: Resumption of Sexual Encounters
In 1997, President Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky had further private meetings,
which now were arranged by Betty Currie, the President's secretary. After
the taping of the President's weekly radio address on February 28, the
President and Ms. Lewinsky had a sexual encounter. On March 24, they had
what proved to be their final sexual encounter. Throughout this period, Ms.
Lewinsky continued to press for a job at the White House, to no avail. 
A. Resumption of Meetings with the President 
1. Role of Betty Currie 
a. Arranging Meetings 
In 1997, with the presidential election past, Ms. Lewinsky and the
President resumed their one-on-one meetings and sexual encounters. The
President's secretary, Betty Currie, acted as intermediary. 
According to Ms. Currie, Ms. Lewinsky would often call her and say she
wanted to see the President, sometimes to discuss a particular topic.(380)
Ms. Currie would ask President Clinton, and, if he agreed, arrange the
meeting.(381) Ms. Currie also said it was "not unusual" that Ms. Lewinsky
would talk by phone with the President and then call Ms. Currie to set up a
meeting.(382) At times, Ms. Currie placed calls to Ms. Lewinsky for
President Clinton and put him on the line.(383) 
The meetings between the President and Ms. Lewinsky often occurred on
weekends.(384) When Ms. Lewinsky would arrive at the White House, Ms.
Currie generally would be the one to authorize her entry and take her to
the West Wing.(385) Ms. Currie acknowledged that she sometimes would come
to the White House for the sole purpose of having Ms. Lewinsky admitted and
bringing her to see the President.(386) According to Ms. Currie, Ms.
Lewinsky and the President were alone together in the Oval Office or the
study for 15 to 20 minutes on multiple occasions.(387) 
Secret Service officers and agents took note of Ms. Currie's role. Officer
Steven Pape once observed Ms. Currie come to the White House for the
duration of Ms. Lewinsky's visit, then leave.(388) When calling to alert
the officer at the West Wing lobby that Ms. Lewinsky was en route, Ms.
Currie would sometimes say, "[Y]ou know who it is."(389) On one occasion,
Ms. Currie instructed Officer Brent Chinery to hold Ms. Lewinsky at the
lobby for a few minutes because she needed to move the President to the
study.(390) On another occasion, Ms. Currie told Officer Chinery to have
Ms. Lewinsky held at the gate for 30 to 40 minutes because the President
already had a visitor.(391) 
Ms. Lewinsky testified that she once asked the President why Ms. Currie had
to clear her in, and why he could not do so himself. "[H]e said because if
someone comes to see him, there's a list circulated among the staff members
and then everyone would be questioning why I was there to see him."(392) 
b. Intermediary for Gifts 
Ms. Lewinsky also sent over a number of packages -- six or eight, Ms.
Currie estimated.(393) According to Ms. Currie, Ms. Lewinsky would call and
say she was sending something for the President.(394) The package would
arrive addressed to Ms. Currie.(395) Courier receipts show that Ms.
Lewinsky sent seven packages to the White House between October 7 and
December 8, 1997.(396) Evidence indicates that Ms. Lewinsky on occasion
also dropped parcels off with Ms. Currie or had a family member do so,(397)
and brought gifts to the President when visiting him.(398) Ms. Currie
testified that most packages from Ms. Lewinsky were intended for the
President.(399) 
Although Ms. Currie generally opened letters and parcels to the President,
she did not open these packages from Ms. Lewinsky.(400) She testified that
"I made the determination not to open" such letters and packages because "I
felt [they were] probably personal."(401) Instead, she would leave the
package in the President's box, and "[h]e would pick it up."(402) To the
best of her knowledge, such parcels always reached the President.(403) 

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