E. March 29 Sexual Encounter 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, she had what proved to be her final sexual
encounter with the President on Saturday, March 29, 1997. Records show that
she was at the White House from 2:03 to 3:16 p.m., admitted by Ms.
Currie.(450) The President was in the Oval Office during this period (he
left shortly after Ms. Lewinsky did, at 3:24 p.m.), and he did not have any
phone calls during her White House visit.(451) 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, Ms. Currie arranged the meeting after the
President said by telephone that he had something important to tell her. At
the White House, Ms. Currie took her to the study to await the President.
He came in on crutches, the result of a knee injury in Florida two weeks
earlier.(452) 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, their sexual encounter began with a sudden kiss:
"[T]his was another one of those occasions when I was babbling on about
something, and he just kissed me, kind of to shut me up, I think."(453) The
President unbuttoned her blouse and touched her breasts without removing
her bra.(454) "[H]e went to go put his hand down my pants, and then I
unzipped them because it was easier. And I didn't have any panties on. And
so he manually stimulated me."(455) According to Ms. Lewinsky, "I wanted
him to touch my genitals with his genitals," and he did so, lightly and
without penetration.(456) Then Ms. Lewinsky performed oral sex on him,
again until he ejaculated.(457) 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President had a lengthy conversation
that day. He told her that he suspected that a foreign embassy (he did not
specify which one) was tapping his telephones, and he proposed cover
stories. If ever questioned, she should say that the two of them were just
friends. If anyone ever asked about their phone sex, she should say that
they knew their calls were being monitored all along, and the phone sex was
just a put-on.(458) 
In his grand jury testimony, the President implicitly denied this
encounter. He acknowledged "inappropriate intimate contact" with Ms.
Lewinsky "on certain occasions in early 1996 and once in early 1997."(459)
The President indicated that "the one occasion in 1997" was the radio
address.(460) 
F. Continuing Job Efforts 
With the 1996 election past, meanwhile, Ms. Lewinsky had continued striving
to get a job at the White House. She testified that she first broached the
issue in a telephone call with the President in January 1997, and he said
he would speak to Bob Nash, Director of Presidential Personnel.(461) She
understood that Mr. Nash was supposed to "find a position for me to come
back to the White House."(462) 
Over the months that followed, Ms. Lewinsky repeatedly asked the President
to get her a White House job. In her recollection, the President replied
that various staff members were working on it, including Mr. Nash and
Marsha Scott, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director for
Presidential Personnel.(463) According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President told
her: 
"Bob Nash is handling it," "Marsha's going to handle it" and "We just sort
of need to be careful." You know, and . . . he would always sort of . . .
validate what I was feeling by telling me something that I don't
necessarily know is true. "Oh, I'll talk to her," "I'll -- you know, I'll
see blah, blah, blah," and it was just "I'll do," "I'll do," "I'll do." And
didn't, didn't, didn't.(464) 

Ms. Lewinsky came to wonder if she was being "strung along."(465) 
Testifying before the grand jury, the President acknowledged that Ms.
Lewinsky had complained to him about her job situation: 
You know, she tried for months and months to get a job back in the White
House, not so much in the West Wing but somewhere in the White House
complex, including the Old Executive Office Building. . . . She very much
wanted to come back. And she interviewed for some jobs but never got one.
She was, from time to time, upset about it.(466) 

VII. May 1997: Termination of Sexual Relationship
In May 1997, amid indications that Ms. Lewinsky had been indiscreet,
President Clinton terminated the sexual relationship. 
A. Questions about Ms. Lewinsky's Discretion 
In April or May 1997, according to Ms. Lewinsky, the President asked if she
had told her mother about their intimate relationship. She responded: "No.
Of course not."(468) (In truth, she had told her mother.(469)) The
President indicated that Ms. Lewinsky's mother possibly had said something
about the nature of the relationship to Walter Kaye, who had mentioned it
to Marsha Scott, who in turn had alerted the President.(470) 
Corroborating Ms. Lewinsky's account, Mr. Kaye testified that he told Ms.
Lewinsky's aunt, Debra Finerman, that he understood that "her niece was
very aggressive," a remark that angered Ms. Finerman. Ms. Finerman told Mr.
Kaye that the President was the true aggressor: He was telephoning Ms.
Lewinsky late at night. Ms. Finerman, in Mr. Kaye's recollection,
attributed this information to Marcia Lewis, Ms. Lewinsky's mother (and Ms.
Finerman's sister). Mr. Kaye -- who had disbelieved stories he had heard
from Democratic National Committee people about an affair between Ms.
Lewinsky and the President -- testified that he was "shocked" to hear of
the late-night phone calls.(471) 
B. May 24: Break-up 
On Saturday, May 24, 1997, according to Ms. Lewinsky, the President ended
their intimate relationship. Ms. Lewinsky was at the White House that day
from 12:21 to 1:54 p.m.(472) The President was in the Oval Office during
most of this period, from 11:59 a.m. to 1:47 p.m.(473) He did not have any
telephone calls.(474) 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, she got a call from Ms. Currie at about 11 a.m.
that day, inviting her to come to the White House at about 1 p.m. Ms.
Lewinsky arrived wearing a straw hat with the hat pin the President had
given her, and bringing gifts for him, including a puzzle and a Banana
Republic shirt. She gave him the gifts in the dining room, and they moved
to the area of the study.(475) 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President explained that they had to end
their intimate relationship.(476) Earlier in his marriage, he told her, he
had had hundreds of affairs; but since turning 40, he had made a concerted
effort to be faithful.(477) He said he was attracted to Ms. Lewinsky,
considered her a great person, and hoped they would remain friends. He
pointed out that he could do a great deal for her. The situation, he
stressed, was not Ms. Lewinsky's fault.(478) Ms. Lewinsky, weeping, tried
to persuade the President not to end the sexual relationship, but he was
unyielding, then and subsequently.(479) Although she and the President
kissed and hugged thereafter, according to Ms. Lewinsky, the sexual
relationship was over.(480) 
Three days after this meeting, on May 27, 1997, the Supreme Court
unanimously rejected President Clinton's claim that the Constitution
immunized him from civil lawsuits. The Court ordered the sexual harassment
case Jones v. Clinton to proceed.(481) 
VIII. June-October 1997: Continuing Meetings and Calls 
Ms. Lewinsky tried to return to the White House staff and to revive her
sexual relationship with the President, but she failed at both. 
A. Continuing Job Efforts 
Although Ms. Lewinsky was not offered another White House job, some
testimony indicates that the President tried to get her one. 
According to Betty Currie, the President instructed her and Marsha Scott to
help Ms. Lewinsky find a White House job.(482) Ms. Currie testified that
she resisted the request, because her opinion of Ms. Lewinsky had shifted
over time. At first, she testified, she considered Ms. Lewinsky "a friend"
who "had been wronged" and had been "maligned improperly."(483) But
"[l]ater on, I considered her as a pain in the neck, more or less."(484)
The change of heart resulted in part from Ms. Currie's many phone calls in
1997 from Ms. Lewinsky, who was often distraught and sometimes in tears
over her inability to get in touch with the President.(485) Deeming her "a
little bit pushy," Ms. Currie argued against bringing Ms. Lewinsky back to
work at the White House, but the President told her and Ms. Scott, in Ms.
Currie's words, "to still pursue her coming back."(486) Indeed, according
to Ms. Currie, the President "was pushing us hard" on the matter.(487) To
the best of Ms. Currie's recollection, it was the only time the President
instructed her to try to get someone a White House job.(488) 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President told her to talk with Ms. Scott
about a White House job in spring 1997.(489) On June 16, she met with Ms.
Scott.(490) The meeting did not go as Ms. Lewinsky anticipated. She later
recounted in an email message: 
There is most certainly a disconnect on what [the President] said he told
her and how she acted. She didn't even know what my title or my job was . .
. . She didn't have any job openings to offer. Instead, she made me go over
what happened when I had to leave (who told me), and then proceeded to
confirm the Evelyn [Lieberman] story about my "inappropriate behavior."
Then she asked me: with such nasty women there and people gossiping about
me, why did I want to come back? I was so upset. I really did not feel it
was her place to question me about that. Later on, I said something about
being told I could come back after November and she wanted to know who told
me that! So I have placed a call to him but I don't know what is going to
happen. 

Ms. Lewinsky added that she was inclined "to walk away from it all," but
acknowledged that "I'm always saying this and then I change my mind."(491) 
Though she characterized her recollection as "all jumbled," Ms. Scott
corroborated much of Ms. Lewinsky's account.(492) Ms. Scott said that at
some point she did ask Ms. Lewinsky why she wanted to return to the White
House.(493) Ms. Scott also said that she was unaware of Ms. Lewinsky's job
title before their meeting.(494) 

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