Ms. Lewinsky testified that she and the President had a sexual encounter
during this visit.(177) They kissed, and the President touched Ms.
Lewinsky's bare breasts with his hands and mouth.(178) At some point, Ms.
Currie approached the door leading to the hallway, which was ajar, and said
that the President had a telephone call.(179) Ms. Lewinsky recalled that
the caller was a Member of Congress with a nickname.(180) While the
President was on the telephone, according to Ms. Lewinsky, "he unzipped his
pants and exposed himself," and she performed oral sex.(181) Again, he
stopped her before he ejaculated.(182) 
During this visit, according to Ms. Lewinsky, the President told her that
he liked her smile and her energy. He also said: "I'm usually around on
weekends, no one else is around, and you can come and see me."(183) 
Records corroborate Ms. Lewinsky's recollection that the President took a
call from a Member of Congress with a nickname. While Ms. Lewinsky was at
the White House that evening (9:38 to 10:39 p.m.), the President had one
telephone conversation with a Member of Congress: From 9:53 to 10:14 p.m.,
he spoke with Rep. H.L. "Sonny" Callahan.(184) 
In his Jones deposition on January 17, 1998, President Clinton -- who said
he was unable to recall most of his encounters with Ms. Lewinsky -- did
remember her "back there with a pizza" during the government shutdown. He
said, however, that he did not believe that the two of them were
alone.(185) Testifying before the grand jury on August 17, 1998, the
President said that his first "real conversation" with Ms. Lewinsky
occurred during the November 1995 furlough. He testified: "One night she
brought me some pizza. We had some remarks."(186) 
E. December 31 Sexual Encounter 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President had their third sexual
encounter on New Year's Eve. Ms. Lewinsky -- by then a member of the staff
of the Office of Legislative Affairs 
-- was at the White House on Sunday, December 31, 1995, until 1:16 p.m.;
her time of arrival is not shown.(187) The President was in the Oval Office
area from 12:11 p.m. until about the time that Ms. Lewinsky left, 1:15
p.m., when he went to the Residence.(188) 
Sometime between noon and 1 p.m., in Ms. Lewinsky's recollection, she was
in the pantry area of the President's private dining room talking with a
White House steward, Bayani Nelvis. She told Mr. Nelvis that she had
recently smoked her first cigar, and he offered to give her one of the
President's cigars. Just then, the President came down the hallway from the
Oval Office and saw Ms. Lewinsky. The President dispatched Mr. Nelvis to
deliver something to Mr. Panetta.(189) 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, she told the President that Mr. Nelvis had
promised her a cigar, and the President gave her one.(190) She told him her
name -- she had the impression that he had forgotten it in the six weeks
since their furlough encounters because, when passing her in the hallway,
he had called her "Kiddo."(191) The President replied that he knew her
name; in fact, he added, having lost the phone number she had given him, he
had tried to find her in the phonebook.(192) 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, they moved to the study. "And then . . . we were
kissing and he lifted my sweater and exposed my breasts and was fondling
them with his hands and with his mouth."(193) She performed oral sex.(194)
Once again, he stopped her before he ejaculated because, Ms. Lewinsky
testified, "he didn't know me well enough or he didn't trust me yet."(195) 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, a Secret Service officer named Sandy was on duty
in the West Wing that day.(196) Records show that Sandra Verna was on duty
outside the Oval Office from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.(197) 
F. President's Account of 1995 Relationship 
As noted, the President testified before the grand jury that on November
17, 1995, Ms. Lewinsky delivered pizza and exchanged "some remarks" with
him, but he never indicated that anything sexual occurred then or at any
other point in 1995.(198) Testifying under oath before the grand jury, the
President said that he engaged in "conduct that was wrong" involving
"inappropriate intimate contact" with Ms. Lewinsky "on certain occasions in
early 1996 and once in early 1997."(199) By implicitly denying any sexual
contact in 1995, the President indicated that he and Ms. Lewinsky had no
sexual involvement while she was an intern.(200) In the President's
testimony, his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky "began as a friendship," then
later "came to include this conduct."(201) 

III. January-March 1996: Continued Sexual Encounters 
President Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky had additional sexual encounters near
the Oval Office in 1996. After their sixth sexual encounter, the President
and Ms. Lewinsky had their first lengthy conversation. On President's Day,
February 19, the President terminated their sexual relationship, then
revived it on March 31. 
A. January 7 Sexual Encounter 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President had another sexual
encounter on Sunday, January 7, 1996. Although White House records do not
indicate that Ms. Lewinsky was at the White House that day, her testimony
and other evidence indicate that she was there.(202) The President,
according to White House records, was in the Oval Office most of the
afternoon, from 2:13 to 5:49 p.m.(203) 
According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President telephoned her early that
afternoon. It was the first time he had called her at home.(204) In her
recollection: "I asked him what he was doing and he said he was going to be
going into the office soon. I said, oh, do you want some company? And he
said, oh, that would be great."(205) Ms. Lewinsky went to her office, and
the President called to arrange their rendezvous: 
[W]e made an arrangement that . . . he would have the door to his office
open, and I would pass by the office with some papers and then . . . he
would sort of stop me and invite me in. So, that was exactly what happened.
I passed by and that was actually when I saw [Secret Service Uniformed
Officer] Lew Fox who was on duty outside the Oval Office, and stopped and
spoke with Lew for a few minutes, and then the President came out and said,
oh, hey, Monica . . . come on in . . . . And so we spoke for about 10
minutes in the [Oval] office. We sat on the sofas. Then we went into the
back study and we were intimate in the bathroom.(206) 

Ms. Lewinsky testified that during this bathroom encounter, she and the
President kissed, and he touched her bare breasts with his hands and his
mouth.(207) The President "was talking about performing oral sex on me,"
according to Ms. Lewinsky.(208) But she stopped him because she was
menstruating and he did not.(209) Ms. Lewinsky did perform oral sex on
him.(210) 
Afterward, she and the President moved to the Oval Office and talked.
According to Ms. Lewinsky: "[H]e was chewing on a cigar. And then he had
the cigar in his hand and he was kind of looking at the cigar in . . . sort
of a naughty way. And so . . . I looked at the cigar and I looked at him
and I said, we can do that, too, some time."(211) 
Corroborating aspects of Ms. Lewinsky's recollection, records show that
Officer Fox was posted outside the Oval Office the afternoon of January
7.(212) Officer Fox (who is now retired) testified that he recalled an
incident with Ms. Lewinsky one weekend afternoon when he was on duty by the
Oval Office:(213) 
[T]he President of the United States came out, and he asked me, he says,
"Have you seen any young congressional staff members here today?" I said,
"No, sir." He said, "Well, I'm expecting one." He says, "Would you please
let me know when they show up?" And I said, "Yes, sir."(214) 

Officer Fox construed the reference to "congressional staff members" to
mean White House staff who worked with Congress -- i.e., staff of the
Legislative Affairs Office, where Ms. Lewinsky worked.(215) 
Talking with a Secret Service agent posted in the hallway, Officer Fox
speculated on whom the President was expecting: "I described Ms. Lewinsky,
without mentioning the name, in detail, dark hair -- you know, I gave a
general description of what she looked like."(216) Officer Fox had gotten
to know Ms. Lewinsky during her tenure at the White House, and other agents
had told him that she often spent time with the President.(217) 
A short time later, Ms. Lewinsky approached, greeted Officer Fox, and said,
"I have some papers for the President." Officer Fox admitted her to the
Oval Office. The President said: "You can close the door. She'll be here
for a while."(218) 
B. January 21 Sexual Encounter 
On Sunday, January 21, 1996, according to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the
President had another sexual encounter. Her time of White House entry is
not reflected in records. She left at 3:56 p.m.(219) The President moved
from the Residence to the Oval Office at 3:33 p.m. and remained there until
7:40 p.m.(220) 
On that day, according to Ms. Lewinsky, she saw the President in a hallway
by an elevator, and he invited her to the Oval Office.(221) According to
Ms. Lewinsky: 
We had . . . had phone sex for the first time the week prior, and I was
feeling a little bit insecure about whether he had liked it or didn't like
it . . . . I didn't know if this was sort of developing into some kind of a
longer-term relationship than what I thought it initially might have been,
that maybe he had some regular girlfriend who was furloughed . . . .(222) 

According to Ms. Lewinsky, she questioned the President about his interest
in her. "I asked him why he doesn't ask me any questions about myself, and
. . . is this just about sex . . . or do you have some interest in trying
to get to know me as a person?"(223) The President laughed and said,
according to Ms. Lewinsky, that "he cherishes the time that he had with
me."(224) She considered it "a little bit odd" for him to speak of
cherishing their time together "when I felt like he didn't really even know
me yet."(225) 
They continued talking as they went to the hallway by the study. Then, with
Ms. Lewinsky in mid-sentence, "he just started kissing me."(226) He lifted
her top and touched her breasts with his hands and mouth.(227) According to
Ms. Lewinsky, the President "unzipped his pants and sort of exposed
himself," and she performed oral sex.(228) 
At one point during the encounter, someone entered the Oval Office. In Ms.
Lewinsky's recollection, "[The President] zipped up real quickly and went
out and came back in . . . . I just remember laughing because he had walked
out there and he was visibly aroused, and I just thought it was
funny."(229)A short time later, the President got word that his next appointment, a
friend from Arkansas, had arrived.(230) He took Ms. Lewinsky out through
the Oval Office into Ms. Hernreich's office, where he kissed her
goodbye.(231) 
 

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