TESTIMONY OF : Monday, August 17, 1998

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WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON : Washington, D. C.

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Videotaped testimony of PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON before the Independent Counsel, held at The White House, Washington, D. C., beginning at 1: 03 p. m., when were present on behalf of the respective parties:

FOR THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL: FOR THE PRESIDENT: ALSO PRESENT:

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Court Reporter: KENNETH W. STARR, ESQ.

Independent Counsel JACKIE M. BENNETT, JR., ESQ. ROBERT J. BITTMAN, ESQ. SOLOMON L. WISENBERG, ESQ. Deputy Independent Counsel

MICHAEL W. EMMICK, ESQ. MARY ANNE WIRTH, ESQ. BERNARD JAMES APPERSON, ESQ. Associate Independent Counsel

DAVID E. KENDALL, ESQ. NICOLE SELIGMAN, ESQ. Williams & Connolly

CHARLES F. C. RUFF, ESQ. Counsel to the President

JAMES P. RICKARDS, JR. Senior Consultant, OIC

GARY E. BRESNAHAN White House Technical Staff

Secret Service Agent Elizabeth A. Eastman

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PROCEEDINGS MR. APPERSON: Mr. Wisenberg, session. There is a quorum. There are persons in the grand jury room and they receive the testimony of the President.

the grand jury is in no unauthorized are prepared to

MR. WISENBERG: Thank you, Mr. Apperson. If we could proceed with the oath, please? WHEREUPON,

WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON having been called for examination by the Independent Counsel, and having been first duly sworn, was examined and testified as follows:

EXAMINATION BY THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL BY MR. WISENBERG:

Q Good afternoon, Mr. President. A Good afternoon.

Q Could you please state your full name for the record, sir?

A William Jefferson Clinton.

Q My name is Sol Wisenberg and Independent Counsel with the Office of With me today are some other attorneys Independent Counsel.

I'm a Deputy Independent Counsel. from the Office of

At the courtroom are the ladies and gentlemen of the grand jury prepared to receive your testimony as you give

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3 it. Do you understand, sir?

A Yes, I do. Q This proceeding Federal Rules of Criminal Johnson's order. You are

is subject to Rule 6( e) of the Procedure as modified by Judge appearing voluntarily today as a part of an agreement worked out between your attorney, the Office of the Independent Counsel, and with the approval of Judge Johnson.

Is that correct, sir? A That is correct.

MR. KENDALL: Mr. referred to Judge Johnson's

Wisenberg, excuse me. You order. I'm not familiar with that order. Have we been

MR. WISENBERG: served that, or not?

No. My understanding is that that is an order that the Judge is going to sign today. She didn't have the name of a WHCA person. And basically my understanding is that it will cover all of the attorneys here today and the technical people in the room, so that they will be authorized persons permitted to hear grand jury testimony that they otherwise wouldn't_ be authorize to hear.

MR. KENDALL: Thank you. BY MR. WISENBERG:

Q The grand jury, Mr. President, has been empaneled by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Do you understand that, sir?

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A I do. Q And, among other things, is currently investigating

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3 under the authority of the Court of Appeals upon application 4 by the Attorney General, whether Monica Lewinsky or others 5 obstructed justice, intimidated witnesses, or committed other 6 crimes related to the case of Jones v. Clinton. 7 Do you understand that, sir?

A I do. 9 Q And today, you will be receiving questions not only

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13 Q I'm going to talk briefly about your rights and

14 responsibilities as a grand jury witness. Normally, grand

15 jury witnesses, while not allowed to have attorneys in the 16 grand jury room with them, can stop and consult with their

17 attorneys. Under our arrangement today, your attorneys are

ia here and present for consultation and you can break to 19 consult with them as necessary, but it won't count against 20 our total time.

21 Do you understand that, sir? 22 A I do understand that. 23 Q You have a privilege against self- incrimination. 24 If a truthful answer to any question would tend to 25 incriminate you, you can invoke the privilege and that

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to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing truth, that if you were to lie or intentionally grand jury, you could be prosecuted for perjury obstruction of justice?

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Q Is there anything that you -- I've stated regarding your rights and responsibilities that you

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Q Mr. President, I portion of Federal Rule of Evidence 603, which discusses the

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important function the oath has in our judicial system. It says that the purpose of the oath is one, "calculated to awaken the witness' conscience and impress the

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invocation will not be used against you. Do you understand that?

A I do.

Q And if you don't invoke it, however, any answer that you do give can and will be used against you. Do you understand that, sir?

A I do.

Q Mr. President, you understand that your testimony here today is under oath?

A I do.

Q And do you understand that because you have sworn but the mislead the and/ or

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6 witness' mind with the duty" to tell the truth.

Could you please tell the grand jury what that oath means to you for today's testimony?

A I have sworn an oath to tell the grand jury the truth, and that's what I intend to do.

Q You understand that it requires you to give the whole truth, that is, a complete answer to each question, sir?

A I will answer each question as accurately and fully as I can.

Q Now, you took the same oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth on January 17th, 1998 in a deposition in the Paula Jones correct, sir?

A I did take an oath then. Q Did the oath you took on same to you then as it does today?

litigation; is that that occasion mean the A I believed then that I had to answer the questions truthfully, that is correct.

Q I'm sorry. I didn'_ t hear you, sir. A I believed that I had to answer the questions truthfully. That's correct.

Q And it meant the same to you then as it does today? A Well, no one read me a definition then and we didn't go through this exercise then. I swore an oath to

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7 tell the truth, and I believed I was bound to be truthful and I tried to be.

Q At the Paula Jones deposition, you were represented by Mr. Robert Bennett, your counsel, is that correct?

A That is correct.

Q He was authorized by you to be your representative there, your attorney, is that correct?

A That is correct.

Q Your counsel, Mr. Bennett, indicated at page 5 of the deposition, lines 10 through 12, and I'm quoting, "the President intends to give full and complete answers as Ms. Jones is entitled to have".

My question to you is, do you agree with your counsel that a plaintiff in a sexual harassment case is, to use his words, entitled to have the truth?

A I believe that I was bound to give truthful answers, yes, sir.

Q ” But the question is, sir, do you agree with your counsel that a plaintiff in a sexual harassment case is entitled to have the truth? _

A I believe when a witness is under oath in a civil case, or otherwise under oath, the witness should do everything possible to answer the questions truthfully.

MR. WISENBERG: I'm going to turn over questioning now to Mr. Bittman of our office, Mr. President.

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a President. A Good afternoon, Mr. Bittman.

Q My name is Robert Bittman. I'm an attorney with the Office of Independent Counsel.

Mr. President, we are first going to turn to some of the details of your relationship with Monica Lewinsky that follow up on your deposition that you provided in the Paula Jones case, as was referenced, on January 17th, 1998.

The questions are uncomfortable, and I apologize for that in advance. I will try to be as brief and direct as possible.

Mr. President, were you physically intimate with Monica Lewinsky?

A Mr. Bittman, I think maybe I can save the -- you and the grand jurors a lot of time if I read a statement, which I think will make it clear what the nature of my relationship with testimony I gave,

Ms. Lewinsky was and how it related to the what I was trying to do in that testimony. And I think it will perhaps make it possible for you to ask even more relevant questions from your point of view.

And, with your permission, I'd like to read that statement.

Q Absolutely. Please, Mr. President. A When I was alone with Ms. Lewinsky on certain

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conversations with Ms. Lewinsky that included inappropriate sexual banter.

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I regret that what began as a friendship came to include this conduct, and I take full responsibility for my actions. 14 While I will provide the grand jury whatever other 15 16 17 18

information I can, because of privacy considerations affecting my family, myself, and others, and- in an effort to preserve the dignity of the office I hold, this is all I will say about the specifics of these particular matters. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

I will try to answer, to the best of my ability, other questions including questions about my relationship with Ms. Lewinsky; questions about my understanding of the term flsexual relationsft, as I understood it to be defined at my January 17th, 1998 deposition; and questions concerning alleged subornation of perjury, obstruction of justice, and intimidation of witnesses.

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That, Mr. Bittman, is my statement.

Q Thank you, Mr. President. And, with that, we would like to take a break.

A Would you like to have this?

Q Yes, please. As a matter of fact, why don't we have that marked as Grand Jury Exhibit WJC- 1.

(Grand Jury Exhibit WJC- 1 was marked for identification.) THE WITNESS: So, are we going to take a break? MR. KENDALL: Yes. We will take a break. Can we have the camera off, now, please? And it's 1: 14.

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MR. KENDALL: 1: 30, Bob. MR. BITTMAN: It's 1: 30 and we have the feed with the grand

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jury. BY MR. BITTMAN: Good afternoon again, Mr. President. Good afternoon, Mr. Bittman. (Discussion off the record.) BY MR. BITTMAN: Mr. President, your statement indicates that your contacts with Ms. Lewinsky did not involve any inappropriate, intimate contact.

MR. KENDALL: Mr. Bittman, excuse me. The

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witness -- THE WITNESS: MR. KENDALL: THE WITNESS: and intimate contact.

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No, sir. It indicates -- The witness does not have -- -- that it did involve inappropriate

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Q Pardon me. That it did involve inappropriate, intimate contact.

A Yes, sir, it did. MR. KENDALL: Mr. Bittman, the witness -- the witness does not have a copy of the statement. We just have the one copy.

MR. BITTMAN: If he wishes -- MR. KENDALL: Thank you. MR. BITTMAN: -- his statement back? BY MR. BITTMAN:

Q Was this contact with Ms. Lewinsky, Mr. President, did it involve any sexual contact in any way, shape, or form?

A Mr. Bittman, I said in this statement I would like to stay to the terms of the statement. I think it's clear what inappropriately intimate is. I have said what it did not include. I -- it did not include sexual intercourse, and I do not believe it included conduct which falls within the definition I was given in the Jones deposition. And I would like to stay with that characterization.

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Q Let us then move to the definition that was provided you during your deposition. We will have that marked as Grand Jury Exhibit WJC- 2.

(Grand Jury Exhibit WJC- 2 was marked for identification.) BY MR. BITTMAN: Q This is an exact copy, Mr. President, of the exhibit that was provided you during that deposition. And I'm sure you remember from the deposition that paragraph (1) of the definition remained in effect. Judge Wright ruled that that was to be the guiding definition, and that paragraphs (2) and (3) were stricken.

Do you remember that, Mr. President? A Yes. Specifically what I remember is there were two different discussions, I think, of this. There was quite an extended one in the beginning, and everybody was entering _ into it. And in the end, the Judge said that she would take the first definition and strike the rest of it. That's my

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Q Did you -- well, at page 19 of your deposition in that case, the attorney who provided you with the definition asked you, "Would you please take whatever time you need to read this definition". And later on in the deposition, you did, of course, refer to the definition several times.

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A Yes, sir. My -- let me just ask a question. If you are going to ask me about my deposition, could I have a copy of it? Does anybody have a copy of it?

Q Yes. We have a copy. We'll provide you with a COPY.

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(Grand Jury Exhibit WJC- 3 was marked for identification.) THE WITNESS: Now, did you say that was on page 19, 4r. Bittman? 13 BY MR. BITTMAN: 14 15 16 17 la 19 20 21

Q It was at page 19, Mr. President, beginning at line 21, and I'll read it in full. This is from the Jones attorney. "Would you please take whatever time you need to read this definition, because when I use the term 'sexual relations', this is what I mean today."

A All right. Yes, that starts on 19. But let me say that there is a -- just for the record, my recollection was accurate. There is a long discussion here between the 22 23

attorney and the Judge. It goes on until page 23. And in the end the Judge says, "I'm talking only about part one in 24 25

the definition", and "Do you understand that"? And I answer, " I do . ”

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The judge says part one, and then the lawyer for Ms. Jones says he's only talking about part one and asked me if I understand it. And I say, I do, and that was my understanding.

I might also note that when I was given this and began to ask questions about it, I actually circled number one. This is my circle here. I remember doing that so I could focus only on those two lines, which is what I did.

Q Did you understand the words in the first portion of the exhibit, Mr. President, that is, "For the purposes of this deposition, a person engages in 'sexual relations' when the person knowingly engages in or causes"?

Did you understand, do you understand the words there in that phrase?

A Yes. My -- 1 can tell you what my understanding of the definition is, if you want me to --

Q Sure. A -- do it. My understanding of this definition is it covers contact by the person being deposed with the enumerated areas, if the contact is done with an intent to arouse or gratify. That's my understanding of the definition.

Q What exclude? What

did you believe the definition to include and kinds of activities? A I thought the definition included any activity by

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the person being deposed, where the person was the actor and came in contact with those parts of the bodies with the purpose or intent or gratification, and excluded any other activity.

For example, kissing is not covered by that, I don't think.

Q Did you understand the definition to be limited to sexual activity?

A Yes, I understood the definition to be limited to, to physical contact with those areas of the bodies with the specific intent to arouse or gratify. That's what I understood it to be.

Q What specific acts did the definition include, as you understood the definition on January 17, 1998?

A Any contact with the areas there mentioned, sir. If you contacted, if you contacted those parts of the body with an intent to arouse or gratify, that is covered.

Q What did you understand -- A The person being deposed. If the person being deposed contacted those parts of another person's body with an intent to arouse or gratify, that was covered.

Q What did you understand the word llcauseslN, in the first phrase? That is, "For the purposes of this deposition, a person engaged in 'sexual relations' when the person knowingly" causes contact?

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A I don't know what that means. It doesn't make any sense to me in this context, because -- I think what I thought there was, since this was some sort of -- as I remember, they said in the previous discussion -- and I'm only remembering now, so if I make a mistake you can correct me. As I remember from the previous discussion, this was some kind of definition that had something to do with sexual harassment. So, that implies it's forcing to me, and I -- and there was never any issue of forcing in the case involving, well, any of these questions they were asking me.

They made it clear in this discussion I just reviewed that what they were referring to was intentional sexual conduct, not some sort of forcible abusive behavior.

So, I basically -- 1 don't think I paid any attention to it because it appeared to me that that was something that had admitted they

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no reference to the facts that they asking me about. can be clear, Mr. President, was it your in January that the definition, now marked Exhibit 2, only included consensual sexual

My understanding -- let me go back and say it. My understanding -- I'll tell you what it did include. My understanding was, what I was giving to you, was that what was covered in those first two lines was any direct contact

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by the person being deposed with those parts of another person's body, if the contact was done with an intent to arouse or gratify. That's what I believed it meant.

That's what I believed it meant then reading it. That's what I believe it means today.

Q I'm just trying to understand, Mr. President. You indicated that you put the definition in the context of a sexual harassment case.

A No, no. I think it was not in the context of sexual harassment. I just reread those obviously the grand jury doesn't have.

four pages, which But there was some reference to the fact that this definition apparently bore some, had some connection to some definition in another context, and that this was being used not in that context, not necessarily in the context of sexual harassment.

so, I would think that this llcausesl' would be, would mean to force someone to do something. That's what I read it. That's the only point I'm trying to make.

Therefore, I did not believe that anyone had ever suggested that I had forced anyone to do anything, and that I _- and I did not do that. And so that could not have had any bearing on any questions related to Ms. Lewinsky.

Q I suppose, since you have now read portions of the transcript again, that you were reminded that you did not ask for any clarification of the terms. Is that correct? Of the

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A No, sir. I thought it was a rather -- when I read it, I thought it was a rather strange definition. But it was the one the Judge decided on and I was bound by it. So, I took it.

Q During the deposition, you remember that Ms. Lewinsky's name came up and you were asked several questions about her. Do you remember that?

A Yes, sir, I do.

Q During those -- or before those questions actually got started, your attorney, Mr. Bennett, objected to any questions about Ms. Lewinsky, and he represented to Judge Wright, who was presiding -- that was unusual, wasn't it, that a federal judge would come and actually -- in your experience -- that a federal judge would come and preside at a deposition?

MR. KENDALL: Mr. Bittman, excuse me. Could you identify the transcript page upon which Mr. Bennett objected to all testimony about Ms. Lewinsky before it got started?

MR. BITTMAN: The objection, this quote that I'm referring to, is going to begin at page 54 of the deposition.

MR. KENDALL: That is into the testimony though, after the testimony about Ms. Lewinsky has begun, is it not?

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preside over a civil deposition? A I think it is, but this believe I know why she did it.

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Q Your attorney, Mr. Bennett, objected to the questions about Ms. Lewinsky, didn't he?

A What page is that on, sir?

Q Page 54, where he questions whether the attorneys for Ms. Jones had a good faith basis to ask some of the questions that they were posing to you. His objections actually begin on page 53.

Since, as the President pointed out that the grand jurors correctly do not have a copy of the deposition, I will read the portion that I am referring to. And this begins at line 1 on page 54.

"1 question the good faith of counsel, the innuendo in the question. Counsel is fully aware that Ms. Lewinsky has filed, has an affidavit which they are in possession of saying that there is absolutely no sex of any kind in any manner, shape or form, with President Clinton".

A Where is that? _ Q That is on page 54, Mr. President, beginning at line 1, about midway through line 1.

A Well, actually, in the present tense that is an accurate statement. That was an, that was an accurate statement, if -- I don't -- 1 think what Mr. Bennett was,

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concerned about, if I -- maybe it would be helpful to you and to the grand jurors, quite apart from these comments, if I could tell you what his state of mind was, what my state of mind was, and why I think the Judge was there in the first place.

If you don't want me to do it, I won't. But I think it will help to explain a lot of this.

Q Well, we are interested, and I know from the questions that we've received from the grand jurors they are interested in knowing what was going on in your mind when you were reading Grand Jury Exhibit 2, and what you understood that definition to include.

Our question goes to whether -- and you were familiar, and what Mr. Bennett was referring to obviously is Ms. Lewinsky's affidavit. And we will have that marked, Mr. President, as Grand Jury Exhibit WJC- 4.

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Q And you remember that she had had no sexual remember that?

A I do. (Grand Jury Exhibit WJC- 4 was

marked for identification.) that Ms. Lewinsky's affidavit said relationship with you. Do you

Q And do you remember in the deposition that Mr. Bennett asked you about that. This is at the end of the --

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A I did. And at the time that she made the statement, and indeed to the present day because, as far as I know, she was never deposed since the Judge ruled she would not be permitted to testify in a case the Judge ruled had no merit; that is, this case we're talking about.

I believe at the time that she filled out this affidavit, if she believed that the definition of sexual relationship was two people having intercourse, then this is accurate. And I believe that is the definition that most ordinary Americans would give it.

If you said Jane and Harry have a sexual relationship, and you're not talking about people being drawn into a lawsuit and being given definitions, and then a great effort to trick them in some. way, but you are just talking about people in ordinary conversations, I'll bet the grand jurors, if they were talking about two people they know, and said they have a sexual relationship, they meant they were sleeping together; they meant they were having intercourse together.

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Q Did you talk with Ms. Lewinsky about what she meant to write in her affidavit?

A I didn't talk to her about her definition. I did not know what was in this affidavit before it was filled out specifically. I did not know what words were used specifically before it was filled out, or what meaning she gave to them.

But I'm just telling you that it's certainly true what she says here, that we didn't have -- there was no employment, no benefit in exchange, there was nothing having anything to do with sexual harassment. And if she defined sexual relationship in the way I think most Americans do, meaning intercourse, then she told the truth.

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was in her mind. You'll have to ask her that. But you indicated before that you were aware of My question --

what she intended by the term "sexual relationship". A No, sir. I. said I thought that this could be a truthful affidavit. And when I read it, since that's the way I would define it, since -- keep in mind, she was not, she was not bound by this sexual relations definition, which is

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highly unusual; I think anybody would admit that. When she used a different term, sexual relationship, if she meant by that what most people untruthful statement.

mean by it, then that is not an

Q So, your definition of sexual relationship is intercourse only, is that correct?

A No, not necessarily intercourse only. But it would include intercourse. I believe, I believe that the common understanding of the term, if you say two people are having a sexual relationship, most people believe that includes intercourse. So, if that's what Ms. Lewinsky thought, then this is a truthful affidavit. I don't know what was in her mind. But if that's what she thought, the affidavit is true.

Q What else would sexual relationship include besides intercourse?

A Well, that -- I think -- let me answer what I said before. I think most people when they use that term include sexual relationships and whatever other sexual contact is involved in a particular relationship. But they think it includes intercourse as well, And I would have thought so. Before I got into this case and heard all I've heard, and seen all I've seen, I would have thought that that's what nearly everybody thought it meant.

Q Well, I ask, Mr. President, because your attorney, using the very document, Grand Jury Exhibit 4, WJC- 4,

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represented to Judge Wright that his understanding of the meaning of that affidavit, which you've indicated you thought Ms. Lewinsky thought was, she was referring just to intercourse, he says to Judge Wright that it meant absolutely no sex of any kind in any manner, shape or form.

A Well, let me say this. I didn't have any discussion obviously at this moment with Mr. Bennett. I'm not even sure I paid much attention to what he was saying. I was thinking, I was ready to get on with my testimony here and they were having these constant discussions all through the deposition. But that statement in the present tense, at least, is not inaccurate, if that's what Mr. Bennett meant. That is, at the time that he said that, and for some time before, that would be a completely accurate statement.

Now, I don't believe that he was -- I don't know what he meant. You'd have to talk to him, because I just wasn't involved in this, and I didn't pay much attention to what was being said. I was just waiting for them to get back to me. So, I can't comment on, or be held responsible for, whatever he said about that, _I don't think.

Q Well, if you -- do you agree with me that if he mislead Judge Wright in some way that you would have corrected the record and said, excuse me, Mr. Bennett, I think the Judge is getting a misimpression by what you're saying?

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A Mr. Bennett was representing me. I wasn't representing him. And I wasn't even paying much attention to this conversation, which is why, when you started asking me about this, I asked to see the deposition. I was focusing on my answers to the questions. And I've told you what I believe about this deposition, which I believe to be true.

And it's obvious, and I think by your questions you have betrayed that the Jones lawyers' strategy in this case had nothing to do with uncovering or proving sexual harassment.

By the time this discovery started, they knew they had a was. their

bad case on the law and they knew what our evidence They knew they had a lousy case on the facts. And so strategy, since they were being funded by my political opponents, was to have this wanted to cover everybody. because she gave them strict should be treated like other and how could they ever know

dragnet of discovery. They And they convinced the Judge,

orders not to leak, that they plaintiffs in other civil cases, whether there had been any sexual harassment, unless they first knew whether there had been any sex.

And so, with that broad mandate limited by time and employment in the federal or state government, they proceeded to cross the country and not because they thought

try to turn up whatever they could; it would help their case. By the

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time they did this discovery, they knew what this deal was in their case, and they knew what was going to happen. And Judge Wright subsequently threw it out. What they --

Q With all respect, Mister -- A Now, let me finish, Mr. Bennett [sic]. I mean, you brought this up. Excuse me, Mr. Bittman.

What they wanted to do, and what they did do, and what they had done by the time I showed up here, was to find any negative information they could on me, whether it was true or not; get it in a deposition; and then leak it, even though it was illegal to do so. It happened repeatedly. The Judge gave them orders.

One of the reasons she was sitting in that deposition was because she was trying to make sure that it didn't get out of hand.

But that was their strategy, and they did a good _

job of it, and they got away with it. I've been subject to quite a lot of illegal leaking, and they had a very determined deliberate strategy, because their real goal was to hurt me. When they knew they couldn't win the lawsuit, they thought, well, maybe we can pummel him. Maybe they thought I'd settle. Maybe they just thought they would get some political advantage out of it. But that's what was going on here.

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27 me. And I'm trying to tell you the truth about what happened between Ms. Lewinsky and me. But that does not change the fact that the real reason they were zeroing in on anybody was to try to get any person in there, no matter how uninvolved with Paula Jones, no matter how uninvolved with sexual harassment, so they could hurt me politically. That's what was going on.

Because by then, by this time, this thing had been going on a long time. They knew what our evidence was. They knew what the law was in the circuit in which we were bringing this case. And so they just thought they would take a wrecking ball

Q Judge Jones case were didn't she?

to me and see if they could do some damage. Wright had ruled that the attorneys in the permitted to ask you certain questions,

A She certainly did. And they asked them and I did my best to answer them. I'm just trying to tell --

Q And was it your responsibility -- A -- you what my state of mind was.

Q __ to answer those_ questions truthfully, Mr. President?

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Q And was -- A But it was not my responsibility, in the face of their repeated illegal leaking, it was not my responsibility

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to volunteer a lot of information. There are many cases in this deposition where I gave -- and keep in mind, I prepared, I treated them, frankly, with respect. I prepared very well for this deposition on the Jones matters. I prepared very well on that. I did not know that Linda Tripp had been involved in the preparation of this deposition, or that all of you --

Q Do you know that now? A No, I don't. I just know that -- what I read in the papers about it. But I had no way of knowing that they would ask me all these detailed questions. I did the best I could to answer them.

Q Did you prepare -- A But in this deposition, Mr. Bittman, I was doing my best to be truthful. I was not trying to be particularly helpful to them, and I didn't think I had an obligation to be particularly helpful to them to further a -- when I knew that there was no evidence here of sexual harassment, and I knew what they wanted to do was to leak this, even though it was unlawful to do so. That's --

Q Did you believe, Mr. President -- A -- what I knew.

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A Sir, I was trying to answer my testimony. I was thinking about my testimony. I don't believe I ever even focused on what Mr. Bennett said in the exact words he did until I started reading this transcript carefully for this hearing. That moment, that whole argument just passed me by. I was a witness. I was trying to focus on what I said and how I said it.

And, believe me, I knew what the purpose of the deposition was. And, sure enough, by the way, it did all leak, just like I knew it would.

Q Let me ask you, Mr. President, you indicate in your statement that you were alone with Ms. Lewinsky. Is that right?

A Yes, sir.

Q How many times were you alone with Ms. Lewinsky? A Let me begin with the correct answer. I don't know for sure. But if you would like me to give an educated guess, I will do that, but I do not know for sure. And I will tell you what I think, based on what I remember. But I can't be held to a specific time, because I don't have records of all of it.

Q How many times do you think? A Well, there are two different periods here. There's the period when she worked in the White House until April of '96. And then there's the period when she came back

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There were -- we think there were nine or 10 times when she was in, in the White House when I was in the Oval Office when I could have seen her. I do not believe I saw her that many times, but I could have.

Now, we have no records for the time when she was an employee at the White House, because we have no records of that for any of the employees at the White House, unless there was some formally scheduled meeting that was on the, on the calendar for the day.

I remember -- I'll tell you what I remember. I remember meeting her, or having my first real conversation with her during the government shutdown in November of '95,

when she -- as I explained in my deposition, during the government shutdown, the -- most federal employees were actually prohibited from coming to work, even in the White House. Most people in the White House couldn't come to work. The Chief of Staff could come to work. My National Security Advisor could come to work. I could.

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We had some remarks.

Now, the next time I remember seeing her alone was on a couple of occasions when she was working in the Legislative Affairs Office as a full- time employee. I remember specifically, I have a specific recollection of two times. I don't remember when they were, but I remember twice when, on Sunday afternoon, she brought papers down to me, stayed, and we were alone.

And I am frankly quite sure -- although I have no specific memory, I am quite sure there were a couple of more times, probably two times more, three times more. That's what I would say. That's what I can remember. But I do not remember when they were, or at what time of day they were, or_ what the facts were. But I have a general memory that would say I certainly saw her more than twice during that period between January and April of 1996, when she worked there.

Q so, if I could summarize your testimony, approximately five times you saw her before she left the White House, and approximately nine times after she left the employment of the White House?

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think the outer limits are. I would think that would sound about right. There could be, in that first four- month period, there, maybe there's one or two more, maybe there's one less. I just don't know. I don't remember. I didn't keep records.

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Q And you also gave her Christmas gifts, is that not correct, Mr. President?

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taking a new job, starting a new life. And I gave her some gifts.

Q And you actually requested this meeting, is that not correct?

A I don't remember that, Mr. Bittman, but it's quite possible that I invited her to come by before she left town. But usually when we met, she requested the meetings. And my recollection is, in 1997 she asked to meet with me several times when I could not meet with her and did not do so. But it's quite possible that I -- that because she had given me a Christmas gift, and because she was leaving, that I invited her to come by the White House and get a couple of gifts before she left town.

I don't remember who requested the meeting though. I'm sorry, I don't.

Q You were alone with her on December 28, 1997, is _ that --

A Yes, sir. Q -- right? A I was.

Q The gifts that you gave her were a canvas bag from The Black Dog restaurant at Martha's Vineyard, is that right?

A Well, that was just, that was just something I had in the place to, to contain the gifts. But I believe that

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Q Did you also give from Vancouver, Canada?

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Q What about a pair of joke sunglasses? A I don't remember that. I'm not denying it. I just -- I'm telling you what I remember and what I don't.

Q You had given Ms. Lewinsky gifts on other occasions though, is that right, Mr. President?

A Yes, I had.

Q This, though, was -- you gave that you had ever given her in a single

her the most gifts day, is that right? A Well, that's probably true. It was sort of like a going- away present and a Christmas present as well. And she had given me a particularly nice book for Christmas, an antique book on Presidents. She knew that I collected old books and it was a very nice thing. And I just thought I ought to get up a few things and give them to her before she left.

Q You mentioned that you discussed her subpoena in the Paula Jones case. Tell us specifically, what did you discuss?

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it was at this meeting. She mentioned -- I remember a conversation about the possibility of her testifying. I believe it must have occurred on the 28th.

She mentioned to me that she did not want to testify. So, that's how it came up. Not in the context of, I heard you have a subpoena, let's talk about it.

She raised the issue with me in the context of her desire to avoid testifying, which I certainly understood; only because there were some embarrassing facts about our relationship that were inappropriate, but also because a whole lot of innocent people were being traumatized and dragged through the mud by these Jones lawyers with their dragnet strategy. They --

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not A And so I -- and since she didn't know Paula Jones and knew nothing about sexual harassment, and certainly had _ no experience with that, I, I clearly understood why she didn't want to be a part of it.

Q And you didn't want her to testify, did you? You didn't want her to disclose these embarrassing facts of this inappropriate intimate relationship that you had, is that correct?

A Well, I did not want through that. And, of course, of course not.

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Q Did you want those facts, not only the fact that she would testify, but did you want the facts that she had about your embarrassing inappropriate intimate relationship to be disclosed?

A Not there, but not in any context. However, I, I never had any high confidence that they wouldn't be.

Q Did anyone, as far as you knew, know about your embarrassing inappropriate intimate relationship that you had with Ms. Lewinsky?

A At that time, I was unaware that she had told anyone else about it. But if, if I had known that, it would not have surprised me.

Q Had you told anyone? A Absolutely not.

Q Had you tried, in fact, not to let anyone else know about this relationship?

A Well, of course.

Q What did you do? A Well, I never said anything about it, for one thing. And I did what people do when they do the wrong thing. I tried to do it where nobody else was looking at

Q How many times did you do that? it.

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Q Did you tell her in the conversation about her being subpoenaed -- she was upset about it, you acknowledge that?

A (Witness nodded indicating an affirmative response.)

Q I'm sorry, you have to respond for the record. Yes or no? Do you agree that she was upset about being subpoenaed?

A Oh, yes, sir, she was upset. She -- well, she -- we -- she didn't -- we didn't talk about a subpoena. But she was upset. She said, I don't want to testify; I know nothing about this; I certainly know nothing about sexual harassment; why do they want me to testify. And I explained to her why they were doing this, and why all these women were on these lists, people that they knew good and well had nothing to do with any sexual harassment.

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of the Judge's orders, and turn up their nose and say, well, you can't prove we did it. Now, that was their strategy. And that they were very frustrated because everything they leaked so far was old news. So, they desperately were trying to validate this massive amount of money they'd spent by finding some new news. And --

Q You were familiar -- A -- she didn't want to be caught up in that, and I didn't blame her.

Q You were familiar, weren't you, Mr. President, that she had received a subpoena. You've already acknowledged that.

A Yes, sir, I was. Q And Mr. Jordan informed you of that, is that right? A No, sir. I believe -- and I believe I testified to this in my deposition. I think the first person who told me that she had been subpoenaed was Bruce Lindsey. I think the first -- and I was -- in this deposition, it's a little bit cloudy, but I was trying to remember who the first person who told me was, because the question was, again as I remember it __ could we go to that in the deposition, since you asked me that?

Q Actually, I think you're -- with all respect, I think you may be confusing when Mr. Lindsey -- well, perhaps Mr. Lindsey did tell you she was subpoenaed, I don't know.

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Q Did you, in fact, have a conversation with Mr. Jordan on the evening of December 19, 1997, in which he talked to you about Monica being in Mr. Jordan's office, having a copy of the subpoena, and being upset about being subpoenaed?

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Mr. Jordan was in the White House event of some kind. That he came up to the Residence floor and told me that he had, that Monica had gotten a subpoena and, or that Monica was going to have to testify. And I think he told me he recommended a lawyer for her. I believe that's what happened. But it was a very brief conversation. He was there for some other reason.

Q And if Mr. Jordan testified that he had also spoken to you at around 5 p. m., and the White House phone logs reflect this, that he called you at around the time he met with Ms. Lewinsky and informed you then that she had been subpoenaed, is that consistent with your memory? Also on the 19th?

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Q But Mr. Jordan had also told you, is that right? A Yes. I now know I had a conversation with Mr. Jordan about it where he said something to me about that.

Q And that was probably on the 19th, December 19th? A Well, I know I saw him on the 19th. So, I'm quite sure. And if he says he talked to me on the 19th, I believe he would have better records and I certainly think he's a truthful person.

Q Getting back to your meeting with Ms. Lewinsky on December 28, you are aware that she's been subpoenaed. You are aware, are you not, Mr. President, that the subpoena called for the production of, among other things, all the gifts that you had given Ms. Lewinsky? You were aware of that on December 28th, weren't you?

A I'm not sure. And I understand this is an important question. I did have a conversation with Ms. Lewinsky at some time about gifts, the gifts I'd given her. I do not know whether it occurred on the 28th, or whether it occurred earlier. I do not know whether it occurred in person or whether it occurred on the telephone. I have searched my memory for this, because I know it's an important

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Q Please. A The reason I'm not sure it happened on the 28th is that my recollection is that Ms. Lewinsky said something to me like, what if they ask me about the gifts you've given me. That's the memory I have. That's why I question whether it happened on the 28th, because she had a subpoena with her, request for production.

And she'd have to the law was.

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I told her that if they asked her for gifts, give them whatever she had, that that's what

let me also tell you, Mr. Bittman, if you go at my testimony here, I actually asked the for help on one occasion, when they were asking I had given her, so they could -- I was never this gift issue. Maybe it's because I have a different experience. But, you know, the President gets hundreds of gifts a year, maybe more. I have always given a lot of gifts to people, especially if they give me gifts. And this was no big deal to me. I mean, it's nice. I enjoy it. I gave dozens of personal gifts to people last Christmas. I give gifts to people all the time. Friends. of

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mine give me gifts all the time, give me ties, give me books, give me other things. So, it was just not a big deal.

And I told Ms. Lewinsky that, just -- I said, you know, if they ask you for this, you'll have to give them whatever you have. And I think, Mr. Bittman, it must have happened before then, because -- either that, or Ms. Lewinsky didn't want to tell me that she had the subpoena, because that was the language I remember her using.

Q Well, didn't she tell you, Mr. President, that the subpoena specifically called for a hat pin that you had produced, pardon me, that you had given her?

A I don't remember that. I remember -- sir, I've told you what I remember. That doesn't mean that my memory is accurate. A lot of things have happened in the last several months, and a lot of things were happening then. But my memory is she asked me a general question about gifts. And my memory is she asked me in the hypothetical. So, it's possible that I had a conversation with her before she got a subpoena. Or it's possible she didn't want to tell me that was part of the subpoena. I don't know. .

But she may have been worried about this gift business. But it didn't bother me. My experience was totally different. I told her, I said, look, the way these things work is, when a person get a subpoena, you have to give them whatever you have; that's what's the rule, that's

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Monica, you have to produce everything that I have given you. Is that your testimony?

A My testimony is what I have said, and let me reiterate it. I don't want to agree to a characterization of it. I want to just say what it was.

My testimony is that my memory is that on some day in December, and I'm sorry I don't remember when it was, she said, well, what if they ask me about the gifts you have given me. And I said, well, if you get a request to produce those, you have to give them whatever you have.

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Q Mr. President, if your intent was, as you have earlier testified, that you didn't want anybody to know about this relationship you had with Ms. Lewinsky, why would you feel comfortable giving her gifts in the middle of discovery in the Paula Jones case?

A Well, sir, for one thing, there was no existing improper relationship at that time. I had, for nearly a year, done my best to be a friend to Ms. Lewinsky, to be a counselor to her, to give her good advice, and to help her. She had, for her part, most of the time, accepted the changed circumstances. She talked to me a lot about her life, her job ambitions, and she continued to give me gifts. And I felt that it was a right thing to do to give her gifts back.

I have always given a lot of people gifts. I have always been given gifts. I do not think there is anything improper about a man giving a woman a gift, or a woman giving a man a gift, that necessari1. y connotes an improper relationship. So, it didn't bother me.

I wasn't --. you know, this was December 28th. I was -- I gave her some gifts. I wasn't worried about it. I thought it was an all right thing to do.

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Now, she, she sent cards sometimes that were just funny, even a little bit off- color, but they were funny. She liked to send me cards, and I got a lot of those cards; several, anyway, I don't know a lot. I got a few.

Q She professed her love to you in these cards after the end of the relationship, didn't she?

A Well, --

Q She said she loved you? A Sir, the truth is that most of the time, even when she was expressing her feelings for me in affectionate terms, I believed that she had accepted, understood my decision to stop this inappropriate contact. She knew from the very beginning of our relationship that I was apprehensive about it. And I think that in a way she felt a little freer to be affectionate, because she knew that nothing else was going to happen. I can't explain entirely what was in her mind.

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48 But most of these messages were not what you would call over the top. They weren't things that, if you read them, you would say, oh, my goodness, these people are having some sort of sexual affair.

Q Mr. President, the question -- A But some of them were quite affectionate. Q My question was, did she or did she not profess her love to you in those cards and letters that she sent to you after the relationship ended?

A Most of them were signed, "Love", you know, "Love, Monica." I don't know that I would consider -- I don't believe that in most of these cards and letters she professed her love, but she might well have. I -- but, can mean different things, too, Mr. Bittman. are a lot of women with whom I have never had

you know, love I have -- there any inappropriate conduct who are friends of mine, who will say from time to time, I love you. And I know that they don't mean anything wrong by that.

Q Specifically, Mr. President, do you remember a card she sent you after she saw the movie Titanic, in which she said that she reminisced or dreamed about the romantic feelings that occurred in the movie, and how that reminded her of you two? Do you remember that?

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Q Do you ever remember telling her, Mr. President, that she should not write some of the things that she does in those cards and letters that she sends to you because it reveals, if disclosed, this relationship that you had, and that she shouldn't do it?

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Q Embarrassing, in that it was revealing of the intimate relationship that you and she had, is that right?

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A Well, my recollection is that she -- that maybe because of changed circumstances in her own life in 1997, after there was no more inappropriate contact, that she sent me more things in the mail, and that there was sort of a disconnect sometimes between what she was saying and the plain facts of our relationship. And I don't know what caused that. But it may have been dissatisfaction with the rest of her life. I don't know.

You know, she had, from the time I first met her, talked to me about the rest of her personal life, and it may be that there was some reason for that. It may be that when I did the right thing and made it stick, that in a way she felt a need to cling more closely, or try to get closer to me, even though she knew nothing improper was happening or was going to happen. I don't know the answer to that.

Q After you gave her the gifts on December 28th, did you speak with your secretary, Ms. Currie, and ask her to pick up a box of gifts that were some compilation of gifts that Ms. Lewinsky would have --

A No, sir, I didn't do that.

Q -- to give to Ms. Currie? A I did not do that.

Q When you testified in the Paula Jones case, this was only two and a half weeks after you had given her these

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six gifts, you were asked, at page 75 in your deposition, lines 2 through 5, "Well, have you ever given any gifts to Monica Lewinsky?" And you answer, "1 don't recall."

And you were correct. You pointed out actually asked them, for prompting, "DO you know were?"

A I think what I meant there was I they were, not that I don't recall whether

don't recall what I had given them.

that you what they

And then if you see, they did give me these specifics, and I gave them quite a good explanation here. I remembered very clearly what the facts were about The Black Dog. And I said that I could have given her a hat pin and a Walt Whitman book; that I did not remember giving her a gold broach, which was true. I didn't remember it. I may have given it to her, but I didn't remember giving her one.

They didn't ask me about the, about the Christmas gifts, and I don't know why I didn't think to say anything about them. But I have to tell you again, I even invited them to have a list.

It was obvious to me by this point in the definition, in this deposition, that they had, these people had access to a lot of information from somewhere! and I presume it came from Linda Tripp. And I had no interest in not answering their questions about these gifts. I do not believe that gifts are incriminating, nor do I think they are

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52 wrong. I think it was a good thing to do. I'm not, I'm still not sorry I gave Monica Lewinsky gifts.

Q Why did you assume that that information came from Linda Tripp?

A I didn't then. Q Well, you didn't? I thought you just testified you did then?

A No, no, no. I said I now assume that because -- Q You now assume. A -- of all of the subsequent events. I didn't know. I just knew that --

Q Let me ask you about -- A -- that somebody had access to some information and they may have

Q Let Currie at the the day after

known more about this than I did. me ask you about the meeting you had with Betty White House on Sunday, January 18 of this year, your deposition. First of all, you didn't -- Mrs. Currie, your secretary of allowed her, did you, to watch

six- some years, you never whatever intimate activity YOU

did with Ms. Lewinsky, did you? A No, sir, not to my knowledge.

Q And as far as you know, she couldn't hear anything either, is that right?

A There were a couple of times when Monica was there when I asked Betty to be places where she could hear, because

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Q -- about the times that you actually had the intimate contact.

A She was -- I believe that -- well, first of all, on that one occasion in 1997, I do not know whether Betty was in the White House after the radio address in the Oval Office complex. I believe she probably was, but I'm not sure. But I'm certain that someone was there. I always -- always someone was there.

In 1996, I think most of the times that Ms. Lewinsky was there, there may not have been anybody around except maybe coming in and out, but not permanently so. I -- that's correct. I never -- I didn't try to involve Betty in _ that in any way.

Q Well, not only did you not try to involve her, you specifically tried to exclude her and everyone else, isn't that right?

A Well, yes. I've never -- I mean, it's almost humorous, sir. I'd, I'd, I'd have to be an exhibitionist not to have tried to exclude everyone else.

Q so, if Ms. Currie testified that you approached her on the 18th, or you spoke with her and you said, you were

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Q What about the A Let me back up

there in the White House, and I was up and say -- radio address, Mr. President? a second, Mr. Bittman. I knew about the radio address. I was sick after it was over and I, I was pleased at that time that it had been nearly a year since any inappropriate contact had occurred with Ms. Lewinsky. I promised myself it wasn't going to happen again. The facts are complicated about But, nonetheless, I'm didn't.

what did happen and how it happened. responsible for it. On that night, she

I was more concerned about the times after that when Ms. Lewinsky was upset, and I wanted to establish at least that I had not -- because these questions were -- some of them were off the wall. Some of them were way out of line, I thought.

And what I wanted there at all other times in

to establish was that Betty was the complex, and I wanted to know what Betty's memory was about what she heard, what she could hear. And what I did not know was -- I did not know that. And I was trying to figure out, and I was trying to figure out in a hurry because I knew something was up.

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Q -- relationship? A No. I didn't ask her about it in that way. I asked her about what the -- what I was trying to determine was whether my recollection was right and that she was always

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Q If Ms. Currie testified that these were not really questions to her, that they were more like statements, is that not true?

A Well, I can't testify as to what her perception was. I can tell you this. I was trying to get information in a hurry. I was downloading what I remembered. I think Ms. Currie would also testify that I explicitly told her, once I realized that you were involved in the Jones case -- you, the Office of Independent Counsel -- and that she might have to be called as a witness, that she should just go in there and tell the truth, tell what she knew, and be perfectly truthful.

so, I was not trying to get Betty Currie to say something that information as

Q What when you said,

was untruthful. I was trying to get as much quickly as I could. information were you trying to get from her I was never alone with her, right? A I don't remember exactly what I did say with her. That's what you say I said.

Q If Ms. Currie testified to that, if she says you told her, I was never alone with her, right?

A Well, I was never alone with her -- Q Did you not say that, Mr. President? A Mr. Bittman, just a minute. I was never alone with

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57 her, right, might be a question. And what I might have meant by that is, in the Oval Office complex.

Could -- Q Well, you knew the answer A We've been going for more mind if we took a break? I need to

to that, didn't you? than an hour. Would you go to the restroom. MR. BITTMAN: Let's take a break. MR. KENDALL: It's 2: 38. (Whereupon, the proceedings were recessed from 2: 38 p. m. until 2: 48 p. m. 1

MR. KENDALL: It is 2: 38 -- sorry, 2: 48. BY MR. WISENBERG: Q Mr. President, I want to, before I go into a new subject area, briefly go over something you were talking about with Mr. Bittman.

The statement of your attorney, Mr. Bennett, at the Paula Jones deposition, "Counsel is fully aware" -- it's page 54, line 5 -- t'Counsel is fully aware that Ms. Lewinsky has filed, has an affidavit which they are in possession of saying that there is absolutely no sex of any kind in any manner, shape or form, with President ClintonI'.

That statement is made by your attorney in front of Judge Susan Webber Wright, correct?

A That's correct. Q That statement is a completely false statement.

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58 Whether or not Mr. Bennett knew of your relationship with Ms. Lewinsky, the statement that there was "no sex of any kind in any manner, shape or form, with President Clinton," was an utterly false statement. Is that correct?

A It depends on what the If the -- if he -- if Ilis" means is not -- that is one thing. If was a completely true statement.

meaning of the word I1i. stV is. is and never has been, that it means there is none, that

But, as I have testified, and I'd like to testify again, this is -- it is somewhat unusual for a client to be asked about his lawyer's statements, instead of the other way around. I was not paying a great deal of attention to this exchange. I was focusing on my own testimony.

And if you go back and look at the sequence of this, you will see that the Jones lawyers decided that this was going to be the Lewinsky deposition, not the Jones deposition. And, given the facts of their case, I can understand why they made that decision. But that is not how I prepared for it. That is not how I was thinking about it.

And I am not sure, Mr. Wisenberg, as I sit here today, that I sat there and followed all these interchanges between the lawyers. I'm quite sure that I didn't follow all the interchanges between the lawyers all that carefully. And I don't really believe, therefore, that I can say Mr. Bennett's testimony or statement is testimony and is

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imputable to me. I didn't -- 1 don't know that I was even paying that much attention to it.

Q You told us you were very well prepared for the deposition.

A No. I said I was very well prepared to talk about Paula Jones and to talk about Kathleen Willey, because she had made a related charge. She was the only person that I think I was asked about who had anything to do with anything that would remotely approximate sexual harassment. The rest of this looked to me like it was more of a way to harass me.

Q You are the President of the United States and your attorney tells a United States District Court Judge that there is no sex of any kind, in any way, shape or form, whatsoever. And you feel no obligation to do anything about that at that deposition, Mr. President?

A I have told you, Mr. Wisenberg, I will tell you for a third time. I am not even sure that when Mr. Bennett made that statement that I was concentrating on the exact words he used.

Now, if someone had_ asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.

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A I don't -- MR. KENDALL: I'm going to object to any questions about communications with private counsel.

MR. WISENBERG: Well, the witness has already testified, I think, that Mr. Bennett didn't know about the inappropriate relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. I guess --

THE WITNESS: Well, you'll have to ask him that, you know. He was not a sworn witness and I was not paying that that that this

close attention to what he was saying. I've told you repeatedly. I was -- I don't -- I never even focused on until I read it in this transcript in preparation for testimony.

When I Lawyers. I was,

was in there, I didn't think about my frankly, thinking about myself and my testimony and trying to answer the questions.

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Q I just want to make sure I understand, Mr. 2resident. Do you mean today that because you were not engaging in sexual activity with Ms. Lewinsky during the deposition that the statement of Mr. Bennett might be Literally true?

A No, sir. I mean that at the time of the leposition, it had been -- that was well beyond any point of improper contact between me and Ms. Lewinsky. So that anyone Jenerally speaking in the present tense, saying there is not

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person said there was not, in the present tense; the present tense encompassing many months. That's what I meant by that.

Not that I was -- I wasn't trying to give you a cute answer, that I was obviously not involved in anything improper during a deposition. I was trying generally speaking in the present tense, if that, that would be true. But I don't know

to tell you that someone said what Mr. Bennett had in his mind. I don't know. I didn't pay any attention

to this colloquy that went on. I was waiting for my instructions as a witness to go forward. I was worried about ny own testimony.

Q I want to go back to some questions about Mr. Jordan and we are going to touch a little bit on the December !9th meeting and some others. Mr. Jordan is a long- time friend of yours, is that correct, Mr. President?

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Q You said you consider him to be a truthful person, correct?

A I do.

Q If Mr. Jordan has told us that he visited you in he Residence on the night of the 19th, after a White House oliday dinner, to discuss Monica Lewinsky and her subpoena ith you, do you have any reason to doubt it?

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62 A No. I've never known him to say anything that wasn't true. And his memory of these events, I think, would be better than mine because I had a lot of other things going on.

Q We have WAVE records that will'show that, but in the interest of time I'm not going to -- since you don't dispute that, I'm not going to show them right now.

And, in fact, that was the very day Monica Lewinsky was subpoenaed, wasn't it, the night that he came to see you?

A I don't have an independent memory of that, but you would probably know that. I mean, I'm sure there is a record of when she got her subpoena.

Q If Mr. Jordan has told us that he spoke with you over the phone within about an hour of Monica receiving her subpoena, and later visited you that very day, the night at the White House, to discuss it, again you'd have no reason to_ doubt him, is that correct?

A I've already -- 1 believe I've already testified about that here today, that I had lots of conversations with Vernon. I'm sure that I had -lots of conversations with him that included comments about this. And if he has a specific memory of when I had some conversation on a certain day, I would be inclined to trust his memory over mine, because under the present circumstances my head's probably more cluttered than his, and my schedule is probably busier. He's

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Q And when Mr. Jordan met with you at the Residence that night, sir, he asked you if you'd been involved in a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, didn't he?

A I do not remember exactly what the nature of the conversation was. I do remember that I told him that there was no sexual relationship between me and Monica Lewinsky, which was true. And that -- then all I remember for the rest is that he said he had referred her to believe it was Mr. Carter, and I don't Mr. Carter. I don't think I know him.

Q Mr. President, if Mr. Jordan a lawyer, and I

believe I've ever met has told us that he had a very disturbing conversation with Ms. Lewinsky that day, then went over to visit you at the White House, and that before he asked you the related that disturbing being that Ms. Lewinsky

question about a sexual relationship, conversation to you, the conversation had a fixation on you and thought that perhaps the First Lady would leave you at the end of -- that you would leave the First Lady at the end of your term and come be with Ms. Lewinsky, do you have any reason to doubt him that it was on that night that that conversation happened?

A All I can tell you, sir, is I, I certainly don't remember him saying that. Now, he could have said that because, as you know, a great many things happened in the

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ensuing two or three days. And I could have just forgotten it. But I don't remember him ever saying that.

Q At any time? A No, I don't remember him saying that. What I remember was that he said that Monica came to see him, that she was upset that she was going to have to testify, that he had referred her to a lawyer.

Q In fact, she was very distraught about the subpoena, according to Mr. Jordan, wasn't she?

A Well, he said she was upset about it. I don't remember -- I don't remember any, at any time when he said this, this other thing you just quoted me. just don't remember that.

Q That is something that one would remember, don't you think, Mr. President?

I'm sorry. I be likely to A I think I would, and I'd be happy to share it with you if I did. I only had one encounter with Ms. Lewinsky, I seem to remember, which was somewhat maybe reminiscent of that. But not that, if you will, obsessive, if that's the way you want to use that word.

Q Do you recall him at all telling you concerned about her fascination with you, even

that he was if you don't remember the specific conversation about you leaving the First Lady?

A I recall him saying he thought that she was upset

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what I recall. And I recall his getting, saying that he had recommended a lawyer to her and she had gone to see the lawyer. That's what I recall.

I don't remember the other thing you mentioned. I just -- 1 might well remember it if he had said it. Maybe he said it and I've forgotten it, but I don't -- I can't tell you that I remember that.

Q Mr. President, you swore under oath in the Jones case that you didn't think anyone other than your lawyers had ever told you that Monica Lewinsky had been subpoenaed. Page 68, line 22 [sic] through page 69, line 3. Here's the testimony, sir.

Question -- we've gone over it a little bit before: "Did anyone other than your attorneys ever tell you that Monica Lewinsky had been served with a subpoena in this case?" Answer, "1 don't think so."

Now, this deposition was taken just three and a half weeks after, by your own testimony, Vernon Jordan made a trip at night to the White House to tell you, among other things, that Monica Lewinsky had been subpoenaed and was upset about it. Why did you give that testimony under oath in the Jones case, sir?

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66 A Well, Mr. Wisenberg, I think you have to -- again,

you have to put this in the context of the flow of questions, and I've already testified to this once today. I will testify to it again.

My answer to the next question, I think, is a way of finishing my answer to the question and the answer you've said here. I was trying to remember who the first person, other than Mr. Bennett -- I don't think Mr. Bennett -- who the first person told me that, who told me Paula Jones had, I mean, excuse me, Monica Lewinsky had a subpoena. And I thought that Bruce Lindsey was the first person. And that's how I was trying to remember that.

Keep in mind, sort of like today, these questions are being kind of put at me rapid- fire. But, unlike today, I hadn't had the opportunity to prepare at this level of detail. I didn't -- I was trying to keep a lot of things in _ my head that I had remembered with regard to the Paula Jones case and the Kathleen Willey matter, because I knew be asked about them. And I gave the best answers I Several of my answers are somewhat jumbled.

I would could.

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Q Let me read the question, because I want to talk about the first person issue. The question on line 25 of page 68 is, "Did anyone other than your attorneys ever tell you that Monica Lewinsky had been served with a subpoena in this case?" Answer, "1 don't think s0. l'

You would agree with me, sir, that the question doesn't say, the question doesn't say anything about who was the first person. It just says, did anyone tell you. Isn't that correct?

A That's right. And I said Bruce Lindsey, because I was trying to struggle with who -- where I had heard this. And they were free to ask a follow- up question, and they didn't.

Q Mr. President, three and a half weeks before, Mr. Jordan had made a special trip to the White House to tell you Ms. Lewinsky had been subpoenaed; she was distraught; she had a fixation over you. And you couldn't remember that, three and a half weeks later?

A Mr. Wisenberg, if ;- they had access to all this information from their conversations with Linda Tripp, if that was the basis of it. They were free to ask me more questions. They may have been trying to trick me.

Now, they knew more about the details of my relationship with Monica Lewinsky. I'm not sure everything

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they knew was true, because I don't know. I've not heard these tapes or anything. But they knew a lot more than I did. And instead of trying to trick me, what they should have done is to ask me specific questions, and I invited them on more than one occasion to ask follow- up questions.

This is the third or fourth time that you seem to

be complaining that I did not do all their work for them. That just sitting here answering these questions to the best of my memory, with limited preparation, was not enough. That I should have actually been doing all their work for them.

Now, they'd been up all night with Linda Tripp, who had betrayed her friend, Monica Lewinsky, stabbed her in the back and given them all this information. They could have helped more. If they wanted to ask me follow- up questions, they could. They didn't. I'm sorry. I did the best I could.

Q Can you tell the grand jury what is tricky about the question, "Did anyone other than your attorneys ever tell youw --

A No, there's nothing -- I'm just telling -- I have explained. I will now explain for the third time, sir. I

was being asked a number of questions here. I was struggling to remember then. There were lots of things that had gone on during this time period that had nothing to do with Monica Lewinsky.

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believed then, I believe now that have sworn out an honest affidavit, circumstances, and without the benefit of what Linda Tripp did to her, would have given her a chance not to be a witness in this case.

So, I didn't have perfect memory of all these events that have now, in the last seven months, since Ms. Lewinsky was kept for several hours by four or five of your lawyers and four or five FBI agents, as if she were a serious felon, these things have become the most important matters in the world. At the moment they were occurring, many other things were going on.

I honestly tried to remember when -- you know, if somebody asked you, has anybody ever talked to you about this, you normally think, well, where was the first time I heard that. That's all I was trying to do here. I was not trying to say not Vernon Jordan, but Bruce Lindsey. Everybody knows Vernon Jordan is a friend of mine. I probably would have talked to Vernon Jordan about the Monica Lewinsky problem if he had never been involved in it. So, I was not trying to mislead them. I was trying to answer this question with the first person who told me that.

Now, I realize that wasn't the specific question. They were free to ask follow- ups, just like you're asking follow- ups today. And I can't explain why I didn't answer

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Q You've told us that you understand your obligation then, as it is now, is to tell the whole truth, sir. Do you recall that?

A I took the oath here.

Q If Vernon Jordan -- A You even read me a definition of the oath.

Q If Vernon Jordan has told us that you have an extraordinary memory, one of the greatest memories he's ever seen in a politician, would that be something you would care to dispute?

A No, I do have a good memory. At least, I have had a good memory in my life.

Q Do you understand that if you answered, "1 don't think so", to the question, has anyone other than your attorneys told you that Monica Lewinsky has been served with a subpoena in this case, that if you answered, "I don't think so", but you really knew Vernon Jordan had been telling you all about it, you understand that that would be a false statement, presumably perjurious?

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I -- people don't always hear the same questions in the same way. They don't always answer them in the same way. I was so concerned about the question they asked me that the

5 next question I was asked, I went back to the previous 6 question, trying to give an honest answer about the first 7 time I heard about the Lewinsky subpoena.

a I -- look. I could have had no reasonable 9 expectation that anyone would ever know that, that -- or not,

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good memory. Now, I have been shocked, and so have members of my family and friends of mine, at how many things that I have forgotten in the last six years, I think because of the pressure and the pace and the volume of events in the President's life, compounded by the pressure of your four- year inquiry, and all the other things that have happened, I'm amazed there are lots of times when I literally can't remember last week.

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time of day my answer was when was the last time you saw a friend of yours in California, if you asked me a lot of questions like that, my memory is not what it was when I came here, because my life is so crowded.

And now that -- as I said, you have most important issue in America. I mean, you the most important issue in America from your At the time this was occurring, even though I

made this the have made it point of view. was concerned about it, and I hoped she didn't have to testify, and I hoped this wouldn't come out, I felt -- I will say again -- that she could honestly fill out an affidavit that, under reasonable circumstances, would relieve her of the burden of testifying.

I am not trying to exclude the fact that I talked to Vernon here. I just -- all I can tell you is I believe this answer reflects I was trying to remember the first person who told me who was not Mr. Bennett, and I believe it was Bruce Lindsey.

Q As you yourself recalled, just recalled, Mr. President, Vernon Jordan not only discussed the subpoena with you that night, but discussed gotten for Ms. Lewinsky. And

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discussed with you her affidavit that she was preparing in the case. Is that correct, sir?

A I believe that he did notify us, I think, when she signed her affidavit. I have a memory of that. Or it seems like he said that she had signed her affidavit.

Q If he's told us that he notified you around January 7th, when she signed her affidavit, and that you generally understood that it would deny a sexual relationship, do you have any reason to doubt that?

A No.

Q so, that's the affidavit, the lawyer, and the subpoena. And yet when you were asked, sir, at the Jones deposition about Vernon Jordan, and specifically about whether or not he had discussed the lawsuit with you, you didn't reveal that to the Court.

I want to refer you to page 72, line 16. It's where this starts. It's going to go down, it might go down somewhat.

Line 16. Question,. "Has it ever been reported to you that he" -- and that's referring to Mr. Jordan. At line 12 you were asked, I'You know a man named Vernon Jordan?", and you answer, "1 know him well."

Going down to 16, "Has it ever been reported to you that he met with Monica Lewinsky and talked about this case?"

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This is your answer, or a portion of it: "1 knew that he met with her. I think Betty suggested that he meet with her. Anyway, he met with her. I, I thought that he talked to her about something else."

Why didn't you tell the oath and sworn to tell the truth,

Court, when you were under the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, that you had been talking with Vernon Jordan about the case, about the affidavit, the lawyer, the subpoena?

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Well, that's not the question I was asked. I was any question about -- I was asked, "Has it ever been reported to you that he met with Monica Lewinsky and talked about this case." I believe -- I may be wrong about this -- my impression was that at the time, I was focused on the meetings. I believe the meetings he had were meetings about her moving to New York and getting a job.

I knew at some point that she had told him that she needed some help, because she had gotten a subpoena. I'm not sure I know whether she did that in a meeting or a phone call. And I was not, I was not focused on that.

I know that, I know Vernon helped her to get a lawyer, Mr. Carter. And I, I believe that he did it after she had called him, but I'm not sure. But I knew that the main source of their meetings was about her move to New York and her getting a job.

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Q Are you saying, sir, that you forgot when you were asked this question that Vernon Jordan had come on December 19th, just three and a half weeks before, and said that he had met that day, the day that Monica got the subpoena?

A It's quite possible -- it's a sort of a jumbled answer. It's quite possible that I had gotten mixed up between whether she had met with him or talked to him on the telephone in those three and a half weeks.

Again, I say, sir, just from the tone of your and the way you are asking questions here, it's obvious this is the most important thing in the world, and that

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everybody was focused on all the details at the time. But that's not the way it worked. I was, I was doing my best to remember.

Now, keep in mind, I don't know if this is true, but the news reports are that Linda Tripp talked to you, then went and talked to the Jones lawyers, and, you know, that she prepared them for this Now, maybe -- you seem to be criticizing me because they didn't ask better questions and, as if you didn't prepare them well enough to sort of set me up or something. I don't know what's going on here.

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Now, keep this date here when on here and there's

to talk about her move to New York. in mind at this time, at this time, until it's obvious that something funny's going some sort of a gotcha game at work in this deposition, until this date, I didn't know that Ms. Lewinsky's deposition [sic] wasn't going to be sufficient for her to avoid testifying. I didn't, you know --

MR. KENDALL: Excuse me, Mr. President, I think -- THE WITNESS: So, all these details -- MR. KENDALL: -- you mean her affidavit. BY MR. WISENBERG:

Q You mean her affidavit? A Excuse me. I'm sorry.

So, I don't necessarily all these questions you're asking

Her affidavit. Thank you. remember all the details of me, because there was a lot of other things going on, and at the time they were going on, until all this came out, this was not the most important thing in my life. This was just another thing in my life.

Q But Vernon Jordan met with you, sir, and he reported that he had met with Monica Lewinsky, and the discussion was about the lawsuit, and you didn't inform, under oath, the Court of that in your deposition?

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memory I had at the time they asked me the question. That's the only answer I can give you, sir.

Q And before -- A And I think I may have been confused in my memory, because I've also talked to him on the phone about what he said about whether he talked to her or met with her. That's all I can tell you.

But, let me say again, I don't have the same view about this deposition -- I mean, this affidavit -- that I think you do. I felt very strongly that Ms. Lewinsky and everybody else that didn't know anything about Paula Jones and anything about sexual harassment, that she and others were themselves being harassed for political purposes, in the hope of getting damaging information that the Jones lawyers could unlawfully leak.

Now, I believed then, I believe today, that she could execute an affidavit which, under reasonable circumstances with fair- minded, non politically- oriented people, would result in her being relieved of the burden to be put through the kind of testimony that, thanks to Linda Tripp's work with you and with the Jones lawyers, she would have been put through. I don't think that's dishonest. I don't think that's illegal. I think what they were trying to do to her and all these other people, who knew nothing about sexual harassment, was outrageous, just so they could hurt me

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So, I just don't have the same attitude about it that you do.

Q Well, you're not telling our grand jurors that because you think the case was a political case or a setup, Mr. President, that that would give you the right to commit perjury or --

A No, sir.

Q -- not to tell the full truth? A No, sir. In the face of their, the Jones lawyers, the people that were questioning me, in the face of their illegal leaks, their constant, unrelenting illegal leaks in a lawsuit that I knew and, by the time this deposition and this discovery started, they knew was a bogus suit on the law and a bogus suit on the facts.

Q The question is -- A In the face of that, I knew that in the face of their illegal activity, I still had to behave lawfully. But I wanted to be legal without being particularly helpful. I thought that was, that was what I was trying to do. And this is the first -- you are the first persons who ever suggested to me that, that I should have been doing their lawyers' work for them, when they were perfectly free to ask follow- up questions. On one or two occasions, Mr. Bennett invited them to ask follow- up questions.

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It now appears to me they didn't because they were afraid I would give them a truthful answer, and that there had been some communication between you and Ms. Tripp and them, and they were trying to set me up and trick me. And now you seem to be complaining that they didn't do a good enough job.

I did my best, sir, at this time. I did not know what I now know about this. A lot of other things were going on in my life. Did I want this to come out? No. Was I embarrassed about it? Yes. Did I ask her to lie about No. Did I believe there could be a truthful affidavit? Absolutely.

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Now, that's all I know to say about this. I will continue to answer your questions as best I can.

Q You're not going back on your earlier statement that you understood you were sworn to tell the truth. the whole truth, and nothing deposition, are you, Mr.

A No, sir, but I on the table. You tried

but the truth to the folks at that President? think we might as well put this out to get me to give a broader interpretation to my oath than just my obligation to tell the truth. In other words, you tried to say, even though these people are treating you in an illegal manner in illegally leaking these depositions, you should be a good lawyer for them. And if they don't have enough sense to write -- to ask

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a question, and even if Mr. Bennett invited them to ask follow- up questions, if they didn't do it, you should have done all their work for them.

Now, so I will admit this, sir. My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful. I did not wish to do the work of the Jones lawyers. I deplored what they were doing. I deplored the innocent people they were tormenting and traumatizing. I deplored their illegal leaking. I deplored the fact that they knew, once they knew our evidence, that this was a bogus lawsuit, and that because of the funding they had from my political enemies, they were putting ahead. I deplored it.

But I was determined to walk through the mine field of this deposition without violating the law, and I believe I did.

Q You are not saying, are you, Mr. President, in terms of doing the work for the Jones folks, the Jones lawyers, that you could, you could say, as part of your not helping them, ItI don't know" to a particular question, when you really knew, and that it was up to them -- even if you really knew the answer, it was up to them to do the follow-

UPI that you kind of had a one free "1 don't know" -- A No, sir.

Q If I could finish up? I've been very patient, Mr. President, in letting you finish.

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A No, sir, I'm not saying that. And if I could give you one example? That's why I felt that I had to come back to that question where I said, I don't know that, and talk about Bruce Lindsey, because I was trying, I was honestly trying to remember how up about talking about

I had first heard this. I wasn't hung this. All I'm saying is, the -- let me say something sympathetic to you. I've been pretty tough. So, let me say something sympathetic.

All of you are intelligent people. You've worked hard on this. You've worked for a long time. You've gotten all the facts. You've seen a lot of evidence that I haven't seen. And it's, it's an embarrassing and personally painful thing, the truth about my relationship with Ms. Lewinsky.

So, the natural assumption is that while all this was going on, I must have been focused on nothing but this; therefore, I must remember everything about it in the sequence and form in which it occurred. All I can tell you is, I was concerned about it. I was glad she saw a lawyer. I was glad she was doing an affidavit. But there were a lot

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of other things going on, and I don't necessarily remember it

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can convince you of that. honest with you about my mindset, I'm just trying to explain that I

Q I want to talk to you for a bit, Mr. President, about the incident that happened at the Northwest Gate of the White House on December 5th -- sorry, December 6th, 1997. If you would give me just a moment?

That was a -- let me ask you first. In early nineteen -- in early December 1997, the Paula Jones case was pending, correct?

A Yes, sir.

Q You were represented by Mr. Bennett, of course? A That's correct.

Q In that litigation? A Yes, I did.

Q How -- A He was.

Q I'm sorry. Go ahead. A No, no. Yes, he was representing me.

Q How often did you talk to him or meet with him, if you can just recall, at that time in the litigation?

A Well, we met, I would say -- I wish Mr. Ruff were

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We also -- there was a period when we had been approached about --

MR. KENDALL: Again, the question only goes to the number of meetings and not the content of any conversations with your lawyer.

THE WITNESS: I understand. We're not talking about the content.

There was a, there was a period in which we, I think back in the summer before this, when we had met more frequently. But I would say Sometimes something would be And then, as we moved toward to meet more.

BY MR. WISENBERG: normally once a month.

happening and we'd meet more. the deposition, we would begin

Q A witness list came out on December 5th of 1997, with Monica Lewinsky's name on it. Mr. President, when did you find out that Monica's name was on that witness list?

A I believe that I found out late in the afternoon on the 6th. That's what I believe. I've tried to remember with great precision, and because I thought you would ask me about

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this day, I've tried to remember the logical question, which is whether, whether I knew it on the 6th and, if so, at what time.

I don't -- I had a meeting in the late afternoon on the 5th, on the 6th -- excuse me, on the 6th -- and I believe that's when I learned about it.

Q Now, on the came to the Northwest

morning of the 6th, Monica Lewinsky Gate and found out that you were being visited by Eleanor Mondale at the time, and had an extremely angry reaction. You know that, sir, now, don't you?

A I have, I have -- I know that Monica Lewinsky came to the gate on the 6th and apparently directly called in and wanted to see me and couldn't, and was angry about it. I know that.

Q And she expressed that anger to Betty Currie over the telephone, isn't that correct,

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Q And she then later expressed her anger to you in one of her telephone conversations with Betty Currie, is that correct?

A You mean did I talk to her on the phone?

Q Monica Lewinsky, that day, before she came in to visit in the White House?

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Q And Mrs. Currie and yourself were very irate that Ms. Lewinsky had overheard that you were in the Oval Office with a visitor on that day, isn't that correct, that you and Mrs. Currie were very irate about that?

A Well, I don't remember all that. What I remember is that she was very -- Monica was very upset. She got upset from time to time. And, and I was, you know, I couldn't see her. I had, I was doing, as I remember, I had some other work to do that morning and she had just sort of showed up and wanted to be let in, and wanted to come in at a certain time and she wanted everything to be that way, and we couldn't see her. Now, I did arrange to see her later that day. And I was upset about her conduct.

I'm not sure that I knew or focused on at that moment exactly the question you asked. I remember I was, I thought her conduct was inappropriate that day.

Q I want to go back and I want to take them one at a time. Number one, did you find out at some point during that day that Monica had overheard from somebody in the Secret Service that you were meeting with Ms. Mondale, and that Monica got very irate about that?

A I knew that at some point. I don't know whether I

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that day. I knew that. I don't know that I knew that on that day. I don't remember that.

Q That leads into my second question, which is, weren't you irate at the Secret Service precisely because they had revealed this information to Ms. Lewinsky on that very day, so irate that you told several people, or at least

one person, that somebody should be fired over this, on that very day?

A I don't remember whether it happened on that very day. But, let me tell you that the Uniformed Secret Service, if that is in fact what happened and I will stipulate that that is, that no one should be telling anybody, not anybody, not a member of my staff, who the President is meeting with. That's an inappropriate thing to do.

So, I would think that if that, in fact, is what I heard when I heard it, I would have thought that was a bad thing. I don't know that I said that. I don't, I don't remember what I said, and I don't remember to whom I said it.

Q It would be an inappropriate thing, sir, and that Leads into my next question is that why did Mrs. Currie, on y'our instructions, later that day tell many of the Secret Service Officers involved that it never happened, to forget about it?

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A I don't know the answer to that. I think maybe, you know, I don't know. I don't know the answer.

Q You don't recall that you later gave orders to the effect that we are going to pretend this never happened, or something --

A No, sir. Q -- like that? A No, sir. I don't recall it. First of all, I don't recall that I gave orders to fire anybody, if that was the implication of your first statement.

Q It wasn't an implication. Actually, the question was that you initially wanted somebody fired. You were so mad that you wanted somebody fired.

A I don't remember that, first of all. I remember thinking it was an inappropriate thing to do. And I, I, I remember, as I usually do when I'm mad, after awhile I wasn't so mad about it, and I'm quite aware that Ms. Lewinsky has a

way of getting information out of people when she's either charming or determined. And it -- 1 could have just said, well, I'm not so mad about it any more.

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88 you're talking to me about now, except I do remember that somehow Monica found out Eleanor Mondale was there. I learned either that day or later that one of the Uniformed Division personnel had told her. I do -- I thought then it was a mistake. I think now it was a mistake_ I'm not sure it's a mistake someone should be terminated over. I think that, you know, you could just tell them not to do that any more.

Q In fact, it would kind of be an overreaction, to get irate or terminate somebody for revealing to a former White House staffer who visits where the President is, don't you think, sir?

A Well, it would depend upon the facts. I think on the whole people in the Uniformed Secret Service who are working on the gate have no business telling anybody anything about the President's schedule, just as a general principal. I didn't mind anybody knowing that she was there, if that's what you're saying. I could care less about that. But I think that the schedule itself -- these uniformed people, you know, somebody shouldn't just be able to come up on the street and, because they know who the Secret Service agent is, he says who the President's with. I don't think that's proper.

Q I agree, Mr. President. A But, on the other hand, I didn't, you know, I, I

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Q You have no knowledge of the fact that Secret Service officers were told later in the day something to the effect of, this never happened, this event never happened? You have no knowledge of that?

A I'm not sure anybody ever told that to me. I mean, I thought you were asking -- let me just say, my interpretation of this, of your previous question was different than what you're asking now.

What I remember was being upset that this matter would be discussed that -- by anybody. It's incidental it happened to be Monica Lewinsky. And that, that whatever I said, I don't recall. But then thinking that the appropriate thing to do was to say, look, just this, this is not an appropriate thing for you to be talking about, the President's schedule, and it shouldn't happen again.

Now, the question you seem to be asking me now -- I just want to be sure I'm getting the right question -- is whether I gave instructions, in effect, to pretend that Monica Lewinsky was never at the gate. And if --

Q To the effect of pretend -- A And if that is the question you are asking me, I

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don't believe I ever did that, sir. I certainly have no memory of doing that.

Q Or anything to that effect? A I don't know what that means. Q Is that your testimony? A What does that mean, anything to that effect? Q Well, Mr. President, you've told us that you were not going to try to help the Jones attorneys, and I think it's clear from your testimony that you were pretty literal at times. So, that's why I'm saying, I don't necessarily know the exact words. The question was, do you have any knowledge of the fact --

A Of that? Q __ of the fact that later in the day, on Saturday, the 6th of December, 1997, Secret Service people were then, were told something to this effect: This event never happened, let's just pretend this event did not happen. Do you have knowledge of it, or not?

A No, sir. And I, I didn't instruct Service in that regard. I have no memory of

the Secret saying anything to anybody in the Secret Service that would have triggered that kind of instruction.

Q Did you tell Captain Purdy, while you were standing in the doorway between the Oval Office and Betty Currie's office, did you tell Captain Purdy of the Uniformed Division, .

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I hope I can count on your discretion in this matter? At the end of the day when you all were talking about that earlier incident, did you tell'him that or anything like that, sir?

A I don't remember anything I said to him in that regard. I have no recollection of that whatever.

MR. WISENBERG: Let's take a break now. MR. KENDALL: Thank you, 3: 38. (Whereupon, the proceedings were recessed from 3: 38 p. m. until 4: Ol p. m.)

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Q Mr. President, the next series of questions are from the grand jurors. And let me tell you that the grand jurors want you to be more specific about the inappropriate conduct.

The first question was, one of the grand jurors has said that you referred to what you did with Ms. Lewinsky as inappropriate contact; what do you mean by that?

A I mean just what I said. But I would like to ask the grand jury, because I think I have been quite specific and I think I've been willing to answer some specific questions that I haven't been asked yet, but I do. not want to discuss something that is intensely painful to me. This has been tough enough already on me and on my family, although I take responsibility for it. I have no one to blame but myself

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What I meant was, and what they can infer that I meant was, that I did things that were -- when I was alone with her, that were inappropriate and wrong. But that they did not include any activity that was within the definition of sexual relations that I was given by Judge Wright in the deposition. I said that I did not do those things that were in that, within that definition, and I testified truthfully to that.

the grand And that's all I can say about it.

Now, you know, if there's any doubt on the part of jurors about whether I believe some kind of activity falls within that definition or outside that definition, I'd be happy to try to answer that.

Q Well, I have then. And my question within that definition in the Jones --

a question regarding your definition is, is oral sex performed on you as you understood it, the definition

A As I understood it, it was not, no. Q The grand jurors would like to know upon what basis, what legal basis you are declining to answer more specific questions about thig? I've mentioned to you that obviously you have privileges, privileges against self- incrimination. There's no general right not to answer questions.

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deposition, whether I truth, and whether I did any other way, amounting to an obstruction of justice or a subornation of perjury. And I'm prepared to answer all questions that the grand jury needs to draw that conclusion.

Now, respectfully, I believe the grand jurors can ask me if I believe -- just like that grand juror did -- could ask me, do you believe that this conduct falls within that definition. If it does, then you are free to conclude that my testimony is that I didn't do that. And I believe that you can achieve that without requiring me to say and do things that I don't think are necessary and that I think, frankly, go too far in trying to criminalize my private life.

Q If a person touched another person, if you touched another person on the breast, would that be, in your view, and was it within your view, when you took the deposition, within the definition of sexual relations?

A If the person being deposed --

Q Yes. A _- in this case, me, directly touched the breast of

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another person, with the purpose to arouse or gratify, under that definition that would be included.

Q Only directly, sir, or would it be directly or through clothing?

A Well, I would -- 1 think the common sense definition would be directly. That's how I would infer it means.

what Q If the person being deposed kissed the breast of another person, would that be in the definition of sexual relations as you understood it when you were under oath in the Jones case?

A Yes, that would constitute contact. I think that would. If it were direct contact, I believe it would. I -- maybe I should read it

Because this contact with an intent intent of the contact,

again, just to make sure. basically says if there was any direct to arouse or gratify, if that was the then that would fall within the definition. That's correct.

Q So, touching, in your view then and now -- the person being deposed touching or kissing the breast of another person would fall within the definition?

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That's correct, sir. And you testified that you didn't have sexual with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones deposition, that definition, correct?

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A That's correct, sir. Q If the person being deposed touched the genitalia of another person, would that be -- and with the intent to arouse the sexual desire, arouse or gratify, as defined in definition (l), would that be, under your understanding then and now --

A Yes, sir.

Q __ sexual relations? A Yes, sir.

Q Yes, it would? A Yes, it would. If you had a direct contact with any of these places in the body, if you had direct contact with intent to arouse or gratify, that would fall within the definition.

Q So, you didn't do any of those three things -- A You --

Q __ with Monica Lewinsky? A You are free to infer that my testimony is that I did not have sexual relations, as I understood this term to be defined.

Q Including touching her breast, kissing her breast, or touching her genitalia?

A That's correct.

Q Would you agree object into the genitalia

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to gratify sexually would fit within the definition used in the Jones case as sexual relations?

A There's nothing here about that, is there? I don't know that I ever thought about that one way or the other.

Q The question is, under the definition as you understood it then, under the definition as you understand it now -- pardon me just a minute.

the Jones case, Definition of Sexual Relations -- Pardon me, Mr. President.

(Pause) Deposition Exhibit 1, question 1, under the -- in

MR. KENDALL: President? Excuse me.

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Do you have that before you, Mr. I do, sir. Good. I've got it right here. ~'rn looking

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it include sticking an object into person in order to arouse or gratify person? Would it constitute, in other words, contact with the genitalia?

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so, if I were asked -- I've not been asked this question before. But I guess that's the way I would read it.

Q If it -- that it would not be covered? That activity would not be covered?

A That's right. If the would be covered in number (21, I think you can infer logically

activity you just mentioned and number (2) were stricken, that paragraph (1) was not intended to cover it. But, as I said, I've not been asked this before. I'm just doing the best I can.

Q Well, if someone were to hold or a judge were to hold that you are incorrect include the hypo I've given in hypos, so that you don't someone were to tell you or insertion of an object into

and that definition (1) does to you -- because we're talking _ -_ under your request here, if rule that you are wrong, that the somebody else's genitalia with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person is within definition (1) --

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Q If you're wrong and it's within definition (11, did you engage in sexual relations under the ‘definition, with Monica Lewinsky?

A But, Mr. Wisenberg, I have said all along that I would say what I thought it meant, and you can infer that I didn't. This is an unusual question, but it's a slippery slope. We can -- 1 have tried to deal with some very delicate areas here, and, and in one case I've given you a very forthright answer about what I thought was not within here.

All I can tell you is, whatever I thought was covered, and I thought about this carefully. And let me point out, this was uncomfortable for me. I had to acknowledge, because of this definition, that under this definition I had actually had sexual relations once with Gennifer Flowers, a person who had spread all kinds of ridiculous, dishonest, exaggerated stories about me for money. And I knew when I did that, it would be leaked. was. And I was embarrassed. But I did it.

So, I tried to read this carefully. what I thought it covered, and I can tell you

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Q As I understand your testimony, Mr. President, touching somebody's breast with the intent to arouse, with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person is covered; kissing the breast is covered; touching the genitalia is covered; correct?

MR. KENDALL: In fairness, the witness said directly in each one of those cases.

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Q Directly, is covered, correct? A I believe it is, yes, sir.

Q Oral sex, in your view, is not covered, correct? A If performed on the deponent.

Q Is not covered, correct? A That's my reading of this number (1).

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Let me switch the topic and talk to you about John Podesta and some of the other aides you've met with and spoke to after this story became public on January 21st, 1998, the day of The Washington Post story.

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A I meet with John Podesta almost every day. I meet with a number of people. The only thing I -- what happened in the couple of days after what you did was revealed, is a blizzard to me. The only thing I recall is that I met with certain people, and a few of them I said I didn't have sex with Monica Lewinsky, or I didn't have an affair with her or something like that. I had a very careful thing I said, and I tried not to say anything else.

And it might be that John Podesta was one of them. But I do not remember this specific meeting about which you asked, or the specific comments to which you refer. And --

Q You don't remember -- A -- seven months ago, I'd have no way to remember, no.

Q You don't remember- denying any kind of sex in any way, shape or form, and including oral sex, correct?

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remember that I issued a number of denials to I thought needed to hear them, but I tried to be to be accurate, and I do not remember what I said to John Podesta.

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Q Surely, if you told him that, that would be a falsehood, correct?

A No, I didn't say that, sir. I didn't say that at all. That is not covered by the definition and I did not address it in my statement.

Q Well, let me ask you then. If you told him -- perhaps he thought it was covered, I don't know. But if you told him, if you denied to him sex in any way, shape or form, kind of similar to what Mr. Bennett did at the deposition, including oral sex, wouldn't that have been a falsehood?

A Now, Mr. Wisenberg, I told you in response to a grand juror's question, you asked me did I believe that oral sex performed on the person being deposed was covered by that definition, and I said no. I don't believe it's covered by the definition.

I said you are free to conclude that I did not do things that I believe were covered by the definition, and you have asked me a number of questions and I have acknowledged things that I believe are covered by the definition. Since that was not covered by the definition, I want to fall back on my statement.

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Q Mr. President, it's not our intent to embarrass you. But since we have to look, among other things, at obstruction of justice, questions of obstruction of justice and perjury, the answer to some of these delicate and unfortunate questions are absolutely required. And that is the purpose that we have to ask them for.

A It's not -- Q I'm unaware of any -- A Mr. Wisenberg, with respect, the answer for that, if the answer, no

you don't need to know matter what the answer is, wouldn't constitute perjury because it wasn't sexual relations as defined by the Judge.

Q Mister -- A The only reason you need to know that is for some other reason. It couldn't have anything to do with perjury.

Q Mr. President, one of the, one of the nice things about -- one of the normal things about an investigation and a grand jury investigation is that the grand jurors and the prosecutors get to ask the questions unless they are improper, and unless there is a legal basis.

As I understand from your answers, there is no legal basis for which you decline to answer these questions. And I'll ask you again to answer the question. unaware

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of any legal basis for you not to. If you told -- MR. KENDALL: Mr. Wisenberg, could you just restate the question, please?

BY MR. WISENBERG: Q The question is, if you told John Podesta two days after the story broke something to this effect, that you didn't have any kind of sex in any way, shape or form, including oral sex with Ms. Lewinsky, were you telling him the truth?

A And let me say again, with respect, this is an indirect way to try to get me to testify to questions that have no bearing on whether I committed perjury. You apparently agree that it has no bearing --

Q Oh, I don't -- A __ no bearing on whether I -- Q I don't agree. A __ committed perjury. Q Mr. President, I'm sorry, with respect, I don't agree with that. I'm not going to argue with you about it. I just am going to ask you again, in fact direct you to answer the question.

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MR. KENDALL: The witness is not declining to tell you anything he said to John Podesta.

BY MR. WISENBERG: Q You denied the --

MR. WISENBERG: The witness is not declining to tell me anything?

BY MR. WISENBERG: Q Did you deny oral sex in any way, shape or form, to John Podesta?

A I told the aftermath of it, the next two I don't remember what I said.

you, sir, before, and I will say again, in this story breaking, and what was told about days, next three days are just a blur to me. to whom I talked, when I talked to them, or

Q So, you are not declining to answer, you just don't remember?

A I honestly don't remember, no. Q Okay. A I'm not saying that anybody who had a contrary memory is wrong. I do not remember.

Q Do you recall denying any sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky to the following people: Harry Thomasson, Erskine Bowles, Harold Ickes, Mr. Podesta, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Jordan, Ms. Betty Currie? Do you recall denying any

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sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky to those individuals?

A I recall telling a number of those people that I didn't have, either I didn't have an affair with Monica Lewinsky or didn't have sex with her. And I believe, sir, that -- you'll have to ask them what they thought. But I was using those terms in the normal way people use them. You'll have to ask them what they thought I was saying.

Q If they testified that you denied sexual relations or relationship with Monica Lewinsky, or if they told us that you denied that, do you have any reason to doubt them, in the days after the story broke; do you have any reason to doubt them?

A No. The -- let me say this. It's no secret to anybody that I hoped that this relationship would never become public. It's a matter of fact that it had been many, many months since there had been anything improper about it, in terms of improper contact. I --

Q Did you deny it to them or not, Mr. President? A Let me finish. So,. what -- 1 did not want to mislead my friends, but I wanted to find language where I could say that. I also, frankly, did not want to turn any of them into witnesses, because I -- and, sure enough, they all became witnesses.

Q Well, you knew they might be --

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106 didn't you? to them things that were true about this relationship. That I used -- in the language I used, I said, there's nothing going on between us. That was true. I said, I have not had sex with her as I defined it. That was true. And did I hope that I would never have to be here on this day giving this testimony? Of course.

But I also didn't want to do anything to complicate this matter further. So, I said things that were true. They may have been misleading, and if they were I have to take responsibility for it, and

Q It may have been though, after January 21st

I'm sorry. misleading, sir, and you knew when the Post article broke and said that Judge Starr was looking into this, you knew that they might be witnesses. You knew that they might be called into a grand jury, didn't you?

A That's right. I think I was quite careful what I said after that. I may have said something to all these people to that effect, but I'_ 11 also -- whenever asked me any details, I said, look, I don't want witness or I turn you into a witness or give you

anybody you to be a information that could get you in trouble. I just wouldn't talk. I, by and large, didn't talk to people about this.

Q If all of these people -- let's leave out Mrs.

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A No.

Q And you've told us that you -- A I'm just telling you what I meant by it. I told you what I meant by it when they started this deposition.

Q You've told us now that you were being careful, but that it might have been misleading. Is that correct?

A It might have been. Since we have seen this four- year, $40- million- investigation come down to parsing the definition of sex, I think it might have been. I don't think at the time that I thought that's what this was going to be about.

In fact, if you remember the headlines at the time, even you mentioned the Post story. All the headlines were -- and all the talking, people who talked about this, including a lot who have been quite sympathetic to your operation, said, well, this is not really a story about sex, or this is a story about subornation of perjury and these talking points, and all this other stuff.

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misleading in the context of this deposition, and keep them out of trouble, and let's deal -- and deal with what I thought was the almost ludicrous suggestion that I had urged someone to lie or tried to suborn perjury, in other words.

Q I want to go over some questions again. I don't think you are going to answer them, sir. And so I don't need a lengthy response, just a yes or a no. And I understand the basis upon which you are not answering them, but I need to ask them for the record.

If Monica Lewinsky says that while you were in the Oval Office area you touched her breasts, would she be lying?

A Let me say something about all this. Q All I really need for you, Mr. President -- A I know. Q -- is to say -- A But you -- Q -- I won't answer under the previous grounds, or to answer the question, you see, because we only have four hours, and your answers --

A I know. Q __ have been extremely lengthy. A I know that. I'll give you four hours and 30 seconds, if you'll let me say something general about this. I will answer to your satisfaction that I won't -- based on my statement, I will not answer. I would like 30 seconds at .

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to make a statement, and you can have 30 seconds more time, if you'll let me say this to the grand jury and And I don't think it's disrespectful at all. I've had ,a lot of time to think about this.

But, go ahead and ask your questions.

Q The question is, if Monica Lewinsky says that while you were in the Oval Office area you touched her breasts, would she be lying?

A That is not my recollection. My recollection is that I did not have sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky and I'm staying on my former statement about that.

Q If she said -- A MY, my statement is that I did not have sexual relations as defined by that.

Q If she says that you kissed her breasts, would she be lying?

A I'm going to revert to my

Q Okay. If Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office area you touched be lying? And that calls for a yes, former statement.

former statement. says that while you were her genitalia, would she

no, or reverting to your A I will revert to my statement on that.

Q If Monica Lewinsky says that you used a cigar as a sexual aid with her in the Oval Office area, would she be lying? Yes, no, or won't answer?

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A Well, that is, at least in general terms, I think, is covered by my statement. I addressed'that in my statement, and that, I don't believe, is --

Q Let me define phone sex for purposes of my question. Phone sex occurs when a party to a phone conversation masturbates while the other party is talking in a sexually explicit manner. And the question is, if Monica Lewinsky says that you had phone sex with her, would she be lying?

A I think that is covered by my statement. Q Did you, on or about January the 13th, 1998, Mr. President, ask Erskine Bowles to ask John Hilley if he would give a recommendation for Monica Lewinsky?

A In 1998? Q Yes. On or about January 13th, 1998, did you ask Erskine Bowles, your Chief of Staff, if he would ask John Hilley to give a recommendation for Monica Lewinsky?

A At some point, sir, I believe I talked to Erskine Bowles about whether Monica Lewinsky could get a recommendation that was not negative from the Legislative Affairs Office. I believe I did.

Q I just didn't hear the very last part.

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A I think the answer is, I think, yes. At some point I talked to Erskine Bowles about this.

Q Okay. A I do not know what the date was. did talk to him.

Q And if Erskine Bowles has told us At some point I

that he told John Podesta to carry out your wishes, and John Podesta states that it was three or four days before your deposition, which would be the 13th or the 14th, are you in a position to deny that?

A The 13th or 14th of?

Q January, as to date. A I don't know. I don't know when the date was.

Q Okay. A I'm not in a I'm sure that they are the date was.

position to deny it. I won't deny it. both truthful men. I don't know when

Q Do you recall asking Erskine Bowles to do that? A I recall talking to Erskine Bowles about that, and my recollection is, sir, that Ms. Lewinsky was moving to New York, wanted to get a job in the private sector; was confident she would get a good recommendation from the Defense Department; and was concerned that because she had been moved from the Legislative Affairs Office, transferred to the Defense Department, that her ability to get a job

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her a wouldn't prevent her from getting a job in the private sector.

Q If Mr. Bowles has told us that, in fact, you told him that she already had a job and had already listed Mr. Hilley as a reference and wanted him to be available as a recommendation, would you be in -- is that inconsistent with your memory?

A A little bit, but I think -- my memory is that when you're, when you get a job like that you have to give them a resume, which says where you've worked and who your supervisor was. And I think that that's my recollection. My recollection is that -- slightly different from that.

Q And who was it that asked you to do that on Monica Lewinsky's behalf?

A I think she did. 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. And she talked to Marsha Scott, among others. She very much wanted to come back. And she interviewed for some jobs but never got one.

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she was worried about this. That if she didn't come back to the White House and work for awhile and get a good job recommendation, that no matter how well she had done at the Pentagon it might hurt her future employment prospects.

Well, it became obvious that, you know, her mother had moved to New York. She wanted to go to New York. She wasn't going to get a job in the White House. So, she wanted to get a job in the private sector, and said, I hope that I won't get a letter out of the Legislative Affairs Office that will prevent my getting a job in the private sector. And that's what I talked to Erskine about.

Now, that's my entire memory of this. Q All right. I want to go back briefly to the December 28th conversation with Ms. Lewinsky. I believe you testified to the effect that she asked you, what if they ask me about gifts you gave me. My question to you is, after that statement by her, did you ever have a conversation with Betty Currie about gifts, or picking something up from Monica Lewinsky?

A I don't believe I did, sir. No.

Q You never told her anything to this effect, that Monica has something to give you?

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A No, sir. Q That is to say, Betty Currie? A No, sir, I didn't. I don't have any memory of that whatever.

Q And so you have no knowledge that, or you had no knowledge at the time, that Betty Currie went and picked up,, your secretary went and picked up from Monica Lewinsky items that were called for by the Jones subpoena and hid them under her bed? You had no knowledge that anything remotely like that was going to happen?

A Ididnot. I did not know believe, until that was made public.

Q And you agree with me that she had those items, I

that would be a very wrong thing to do, to hide evidence in a civil case, or any case? Isn't that true?

A Yes. I don't know that, that Ms. Currie knew that _ that's what she had at all. But --

Q I'm not saying she did. I'm just saying -- A I had -- it is, if Monica Lewinsky did that after they had been subpoenaed and- she knew what she was doing, she should not have done that.

Q And if you knew, you -- A And I -- Q -- shouldn't have done it? A Indeed, I, myself, told her, if they ask you for

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gifts you have to give them what you have. And I don't understand if, in fact, she was worried about this, why she was so worried about it. It was no big deal.

Q I want to talk about a December 17th phone conversation you had with Monica Lewinsky at approximately 2: 00 a. m. Do you recall making that conversation and telling her initially about the death of Betty's brother, but then telling her that she was on the witness list, and that it broke your heart that she was on the witness list?

A No, sir, I don't, but it would -- it, it would -- it is quite possible that that happened, because, if you remember, earlier in this meeting you asked me some questions about what I'd said to Monica about testimony and affidavits, and I was struggling to try to remember whether this happened in a meeting or a phone call.

Now, I remember I called her to tell her Betty's brother had died. I remember that. And I know it was in the middle of December, and I believe it was before Monica had been subpoenaed. So, I think it is quite possible that if I called her at that time and had not talked to her since the 6th -- and you asked me this earlier -- I believe when I saw her on the 6th, I don't think I knew she was on the witness list then, then it's quite possible I would say something like that. I don't have any memory of it, but I certainly wouldn't dispute that I might have said that.

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A I don't remember. She can tell you this. I absolutely

was coming to see Betty. I never asked her to lie.

Q Sir, every time she came in the Oval Office, she was coming she, or just about every time?

A I think just about every time. I think there was a time or Betty when she didn't see me.

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A I don't remember exactly what I told her that night.

Q Did you -- A I don't remember that the nature of our relationship, will tell you that I felt quite

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disclosed the embarrassing details of the relationship that we had had, which had been over for many, many months by the time this incident occurred.

Q Did you tell her anytime in December something to that effect: You know, you can always say that you were coming to see Betty or you were bringing me letters? Did you say that, or anything like that, in December '97 or January '98, to Monica Lewinsky?

A Well, that's a very broad question. I do not recall saying anything like that in connection with her testimony. I could tell you what I do remember saying, if you want to know. But I don't -- we might have talked about what to do in a non legal context at some point in the past, but I have no specific memory of that conversation.

I do remember what I said to her about the possible testimony.

Q You would agree with me, if you did say something like that to her, to urge her to say that to the Jones

people, that that would be part of an effort to mislead the Jones people, no matter how evil they are and corrupt?

A I didn't say they were evil. I said what they were doing here was wrong, and it was.

Q Wouldn't that be misleading? A Well, again, you are trying to get me to characterize something that I'm -- that I don't know if I

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said or not, without knowing whether the whole, whether the context is complete or not. So, I would have to know, what was the context, what were all the surrounding facts.

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Q Did you ever say anything like that you were coming to see Betty or that part of any kind of a, anything cover story, before you had any idea she of Paula Jones?

A I might well have said that.

Q Okay. that, you can always

bringing me letters? you said to her or a was going to be part

A Because I certainly didn't want this to come out, if I could help it. And I was concerned about that. I was embarrassed about it. I knew it was wrong. And, you know, of course, I didn't want it to come out. But --

Q But you are saying. that you didn't say anything -- I want to make sure I understand. Did you that once you knew or, thought she might be Jones case? Did you repeat that statement it to her?

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whether I might have done something like that, for example, if somebody says, what if the reporters ask me this, that or the other thing. I can tell you this: In the context of whether she could be a witness, I have a recollection that she asked me, well, what do I do if I get called as a witness, and I said, you have to get a lawyer. And that's all I said. And I never asked her to lie.

Q Did you tell her to tell the truth? A Well, I think the implication was she would tell the truth. I've already told you that I felt strongly that she could issue, that she could execute an affidavit that would be factually truthful, that might get her out of having to testify. Now, it obviously wouldn't if the Jones people knew this, because they knew that if they could get this and leak it, it would serve their larger purposes, even if the judge ruled that she couldn't be a witness in the case. The judge later ruled she wouldn't be a witness in the case. The judge later ruled the case had no merit.

so, I knew that. And did I hope she'd be able to get out of testifying on an affidavit? Absolutely. Did I want her to execute a false affidavit? No, I did not.

Q If Monica Lewinsky has stated that her affidavit that she didn't have a sexual relationship with you is, in fact, a lie, I take it you disagree with that?

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there. I think the issue is how do you define sexual relationship. And there was no definition imposed on her at the time she executed the affidavit. Therefore, she was free to give it any reasonable meaning.

Q And if she says she was lying -- A And I believe --

Q -- under your common sense ordinary meaning that you talked about earlier, Mr. President, that most Americans would have, if have one was a I take it, you

A Now, she says sexual relationship, saying I didn't

lie because I had oral sex with the President, would disagree with that? we're back to where we started and I have to invoke my statement. But, let me just say one thing. I've read a lot, and obviously I don't know whether any of it's accurate, about what she said, and what purports to be on those tapes.

And this thing -- and I searched my own memory. This reminds me, to some extent, of the hearings when Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill were both testifying under oath. Now, in some rational- way, they could not have both been telling the truth, since they had directly different accounts of a shared set of facts. Fortunately, or maybe you think unfortunately, there was no special prosecutor to try to go after one or the other of them, to take sides and try to prove one was a liar. And so, Judge Thomas was able to go

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What I learned from that, I can tell you that I was a citizen out there just listening. And when I heard both of them testify, what I believed after it was over, I believed that they both thought they were telling the truth.

This is -- you're dealing with, in some ways, the most mysterious area of human life. I'm doing the best I can to give you honest answers.

Q Mr. President -- A And that's all I can say.

Q I'm sorry. A And, you know, those people both testified under oath. So, if there'd been a special prosecutor, they could, one of them could have gone after Anita Hill, have gone after Clarence Thomas. I thank God such thing then, because I don't believe that thing.

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there was no it was a proper

A And I think they both thought they were telling the truth. So, maybe Ms. Lewinsky believes she's telling the truth, and I'm glad she got her mother and herself out of trouble. I'm glad you gave her that sweeping immunity. I'm glad for the whole thing. I, I, I -- it breaks my heart that she was ever involved in this.

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Jordan. I want to go back to late December and early January, late December of '97 and early January of '98. During this time, Mr. President, you are being sued for sexual harassment by a woman who claims, among other things, that others got benefits that she didn'tbecause she didn't have oral sex with you. While this is happening, your powerful friend, Vernon Jordan, is helping to get Monica Lewinsky a job and a lawyer. He's helping to get a job and a lawyer for someone who had some kind of sex with you, and who has been subpoenaed in the very case, the Jones case.

Don't you see a problem with this? Didn't you see a problem with this?

A No. Would you like to know why?

Q Isn't that why -- I would. But isn't that why Vernon Jordan asked you on December 19th whether or not you had sexual relationships with Monica Lewinsky and why he asked her, because he knew it would be so highly improper to be helping her with a lawyer and a job if, in fact, she had had a relationship with you?

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I had already influence her testimony. I didn't order her to be hired at the White House. I could have done so. I wouldn't for months to get in. She was angry.

Secondly, after I -- Q Wasn't she kept -- A After I terminated the improper she wanted to come in more than she did. she didn't get in sometimes. I knew that

do it. She tried contact with her, She got angry when that might make her more likely to speak, and I still did it because I had to limit the contact.

And, thirdly, let me say, I formed an opinion really early in 1996, and again -- well, let me finish the sentence. I formed an opinion early in 1996, once I got into this unfortunate and wrong conduct, that when I stopped it, which I knew I'd have to do and which I should have done a long time before I did, that she would talk about it. Not because Monica Lewinsky is a bad person. She's basically a good girl. She's a good young woman with a good heart and a good mind. I think she is burdened by some unfortunate conditions of her, her upbringing. But she's basically a good person.

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she was a good person. She a long time in any improper to help her get on with her that.

had not been involved with way, several months, and I life. It's just as simple

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Q You are very generous. That actually segues very nicely into one of the grand juror's asked, pointed out actually, that you indicated at the beginning of the deposition that you would, you would answer all the grand jurors, you wanted to answer all the grand jurors' questions. And they wanted to know whether you would be willing to stay beyond the four- hour period to, in fact, answer all their questions.

A Well, let's see how we do in the next hour, and then we'll decide.

Q Okay. Let me draw your attention to early January of this year, after Christmas, before your deposition. Do you remember talking to Betty Currie about Monica, who had just called her and said that she, Monica, needed to talk to you before she signed something?

A I'm not sure that I do remember that. But, go ahead.

Q This is in early January. And then Betty Currie relayed this to you that Monica called, it's important, she needs to talk to you before she signs something. And then you do, indeed, talk to Monica that day on the telephone.

A I did talk to her that day?

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question. If you have a memory of that, you can answer. THE WITNESS: I'm trying to remember when the last time I talked to her was. I am aware, sir, that she signed this affidavit about this time, sometime in the first week in January. I may have talked to her before she did it. I don't know. I talked to her a number of times between the time Betty's brother died and Christmas. Then I saw her on December 28. I may have talked to her, but I don't remember the specific conversation.

BY MR. BITTMAN: Q And you would have talked about the -- she had just given you a gift actually in early January, a book on the Presidents of the United States. And you discussed this with her and she said that you said you liked it a lot.

A I did like it a lot. I told you that. My impression, my belief was that she gave me that book for Christmas. Maybe that's not right. book delivered to me for Christmas. I went to Bosnia and for some reason Christmas time.

I think she had that And then, as I remember, she wasn't there around

But, anyway, maybe I didn't get it until January. My recollection was that I had gotten it right before Christmas.

Q Let me see if I can jog your memory further. Monica talked to you in that phone conversation that told you

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that she had just met with her attorney that Mr. Jordan arranged with her, and the attorney said that if she is deposed that they were going at the Pentagon. And Monica think I should say, how do I get the job at the Pentagon. that, about possibilities --

A I don't believe -- me that. But if she, if she told her to tell the truth.

to ask her how she got her job then asked you, what do you answer that question, how did I

Did you talk to Monica about no. I don't remember her asking had asked me that, I would have I -- and I didn't, you know, I don't know exactly how she got her job at the Pentagon. I know Evelyn Lieberman she had, and somebody arrange it.

Q Now, that's wanted to transfer her out of the job

must have arranged that. But I didn't actually not my question. My question is whether you remember talking to Monica concerned that, I may have to answer some and why I was transferred to the Pentagon House, fearing that this would --

about her being questions about how out of the White

A No, I don't remember that at all.

Q -- lead to questions, or answers that would reveal your relationship?

A Oh, no, sir. I don't remember that. Maybe somebody -- maybe she did. But I only remember -- well, I don't remember that. That's all I can tell you. I don't

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Q Did you ever tell Ms. Lewinsky, or promise to her that you would do your best to get her back into the White House after the 1996 Presidential elections?

A What I told Ms. Lewinsky was that I would, I would do what I could to see, if she had a good record at the Pentagon, and she assured me she was doing a good job and working hard, that I would do my best to see that the fact that she had been sent away from the Legislative Affairs section did not keep her from getting a job in the White House, and that is, in fact, what I tried to do. I had a conversation with Ms. Scott about it, and I tried to do that.

But I did not tell her I would order someone to hire her, and I never did, and I wouldn't do that. It wouldn't be right.

Q When you received the book, this gift from Monica, the Presidents of the United States, this book that you liked and you talked with Monica about, did Do you remember the note that it came

A No, sir, I don't.

Q Do you remember that in the she expressed how much she missed you for you, and you and she later talked

it come with a note? with, Mr. President?

note she wrote that, and how much she cared about this in this telephone conversation, and you said -- and she apologized for putting such emotional, romantic things in this note, and you said, yeah, you shouldn't have written some of those

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A Oh, I believe I did say something like that to Ms. Lewinsky. I don't remember doing something as late as you suggest. I'm not saying I didn't. I have no recollection of that.

Keep in mind now, it had been quite a long time since I had had any improper contact with her. And she was, in a funny way, almost more attached to me than she had been before. In '96, she had a long relationship, she said, with a man whom she liked a lot. And I didn't know what else was going on in her private life in '97. But she talked to me occasionally about people she was going out with.

But normally her language at this point was, if affectionate, was, was not improperly affectionate, I would say. So -- but, it could have happened. I wouldn't say it didn't. I just don't remember it at this late date.

Q Let me refer back to one of the subjects we talked about at one of the earlier breaks, right before one of the earlier breaks, and that is your meeting with Mrs. Currie on January 18th. This is the Sunday after your deposition in the Paula Jones case..

You said that you spoke to her in an attempt to refresh your own recollection about the events involving Monica Lewinsky, is that right?

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Q So, when you said to Mrs. Currie that, I was never alone with her, right, you just meant that you and Ms.

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Q Did you put a date restriction? Did you make it clear to Mrs. Currie that you were only asking her whether you were never alone with her after 1997?

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Q Do you agree with me that the statement, "1 was never alone with her", is incorrect? You were alone with Monica Lewinsky, weren't you?

A Well, again, it depends on how you define alone. Yes, we were alone from time to time, even during 1997, even when there was absolutely no improper contact occurring. Yes, that is accurate.

But there were also a lot of times when, even though no one could see us, the doors were open to the halls, on both ends of the halls, people could hear. The Navy stewards could come in and out at will, if they were around. Other things could be happening. So, there were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were.

And sometimes when we, when -- but, as far as I know, what I was trying to determine, if I might, is that Betty was always around, and I believe she was always around where I could basically call- her or get her if I needed her.

Q When you said to Mrs. Currie, you could see and hear everything, that wasn't true either, was it, as far as you knew? You've already --

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that this -- you did relationship secret. Mrs. Currie. She didn't know about the nature, that is, your intimate, physically intimate relationship with Ms. Lewinsky, did she?

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determined to impose the appropriate limits on the relationship when I was trying to do it. And the -- you know, anybody would hope that this wouldn't become public. Although I frankly, from 1996 on, always felt that if I severed inappropriate contact with Ms. Lewinsky, sooner or later it would get public. And I never thought it would be part of the Jones case. I never even thought never thought -- 1 certainly never thought it of your responsibilities.

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Q MY question was more simple than that. Mrs. Currie did not know of the physically intimate nature of your relationship, did she?

A I don't believe she did, no.

Q Okay. So, you would have done -- you tried to keep_ that nature of the relationship from Mrs. Currie?

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Q So, you would not have engaged in those physically intimate acts if you knew that Mrs. Currie could see or hear that, is that correct?

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Q There was at least one event where Mrs. Currie was definitely not even in the Oval Office area, isn't that right? And I think you began to testify about that before. That was at the radio address.

A I'm not sure of that. But in that case, there was, there was certainly someone else there. I don't know --

Q Well, why would you be testing Mrs. Currie's memory about whether someone else was there?

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Q Mr. President, if there is a semen stain belonging to you on a dress of Ms. Lewinsky's, how would you explain that?

A Well, Mr. Bittman, I, I don't -- first of all, when

you asked me for a blood test, I gave you one promptly. You came over here and got it. That's talked. So, that's a question you to. Not if, but you know whether.

And the main thing I can -- we met that night and

already know the answer tell you is that doesn't affect the opening statement I made. The opening statement made is that I had inappropriate intimate contact. I take

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full responsibility for it. It wasn't her fault, it was mine. I do not believe that I violated the definition of sexual relations I was given by directly touching those parts of her body with the intent to arouse or gratify. And that's all I have to say.

I think, for the rest, you know, you know what the evidence is and it doesn't affect that statement.

Q Is it possible or impossible that your semen is on a dress belonging to Ms. Lewinsky?

A I have nothing to add to my statement about it, sir. You, you know whether -- you know what the facts are. There's no point in a hypothetical.

Q Don't you know what the facts are also, Mr. President?

A I have nothing to add to my statement, sir. Q Getting back to the conversation you had with Mrs. Currie on January 18th, you told her -- if she testified that you told her, Monica came on to me and I never touched her,

you did, in fact, of course, touch Ms. Lewinsky, isn't that right, in a physically intimate way?

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suggest to her what she should say if ever asked? A Now, Mr. Bittman, I told you, the only thing I remember is when all this stuff blew up, I was trying to figure out what the facts were. I was trying to remember. I was trying to remember every time I had seen Ms. Lewinsky. 3nce this thing was in Drudge, and there was this argument about whether it was or was not going to be in Newsweek, that was a clear signal to me, because Newsweek, frankly, was -- had become almost a sponsoring media outlook for the Paula Jones case, and had a journalist who had been trying, so far fruitlessly, to find me in some sort of wrongdoing.

And so I knew this was all going to come out. I was trying -- I did not know at the I did not know that any of you were

time -- I will say again, involved. I did not know that the Office of Independent Counsel was involved. And I was trying to get the facts and try to think of the best defense we could construct in the face of what I thought was going to be a media onslaught.

Once you became involved, I told Betty Currie not to worry, that, that she had- been through a terrible time. She had lost her brother. She had lost her sister. Her mother was in the hospital. I said, Betty, just don't worry about me. Just relax, go in there and tell the truth. You'll be fine. Now, that's all there was in this context.

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A Well, as I remember, I do believe, in fairness, that, you know, she may have felt some ambivalence about how to react, because there were some times when she seemed to say yes, when I'm not sure she meant yes. There was a time -- it seems like there was one or two things where she said, well, remember this, that or the other thing, which did reflect my recollection.

So, I would say a little yes, and a little no.

Q Why was it then that two or three days later, given that The Washington Post article came out on January 21st, why would you have had another conversation with Betty Currie asking or making the exact same statements to her?

A I don't know that I did. I remember having this one time. I was, I was -- 1 don't know that I did.

Q If Mrs. Currie says you did, are you disputing that?

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Q Is that accurate? Is that a truthful statement by Mrs. Currie, if she made it?

A I do not remember how many times I talked to Betty Currie or when. I don't. I can't possibly remember that. I do remember, when I first heard about this story breaking, trying to ascertain what the facts were, what Betty's perception was. I remember agitated, understandably, I think.

trying to ascertain that I was highly

And then I remember when I knew she was going to have to testify to the grand jury, and I, I felt terrible because she had been through this loss of her sister, this horrible accident Christmas that killed her brother, and her mother was in the hospital. I was trying to do -- to make her understand that I didn't want her to, to be untruthful to the grand jury. And if her memory was different from mine, it was fine, just go in there and tell them what she thought. So, that's all I remember.

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A Yes. Q It was not to impart instructions recall things in the future?

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the facts; that is, while being But -- so, I was concerned for a day or two there about this as a press story only. I had no idea you were involved in it for a couple of days.

I think Betty Currie's testimony will be that I gave her explicit instructions or encouragement to just go in the grand jury and tell the truth. That's what I told her to do and I thought she would.

Q Mr. President, when did you learn about the Drudge Report reporting allegations_ of you having a sexual relationship with someone at the White House?

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Q Did you call Betty Currie, sir, after the Drudge Report hit the wire?

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Q Did you call her at home? A I did. Was that the night of the 17th?

Q Night of the 17th, early morning hours of the 18th? A Okay, yes. That's because -- yes. I worked with Prime Minister Netanyahu that night until about midnight.

MR. KENDALL: Wait. THE WITNESS: Isn't that right? MR. KENDALL: Excuse me. I think the question is directed -- Mr. Bennett, if you could help out by putting the day of the week, I think that would be helpful.

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Mr. Kendall? MR. KENDALL: Certainly. I think the witness is 10 confused on dates. That's all. 11 MR. BITTMAN: Okay. 12 THE WITNESS: That's what -- 1 didn't think it was 13 the night of the 17th. 14 MR. KENDALL: Mr. President, I think we'll do it in 15 a break. 16 THE WITNESS Can we have a break and I could get _ 17 straightened out? 18 MR. BITTMAN: Sure. May I ask one other quick -- 19 20 21 22

this is a question I forgot to ask from the grand jurors. THE WITNESS: I don't want to get mixed up on these dates now. Go ahead.

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Q This is -- they wanted to know whether, they want us to clarify that the President's knowledge, your knowledge, Mr. President, as to the approach to our office this morning;

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145 that is, we were told that you would give a general statement about the nature of your relationship with Ms. Lewinsky, which you have done. Yet that you would -- you did not want to go in any of the details about the relationship. And that if we pressed on going into the details, that you would object to going into the details.

And the grand jurors, before they wanted, they wanted to vote on some other matters, they wanted to know whether you were aware of that? That we were told that?

MR. KENDALL: Well, Mr. Bittman, who told you that? This is, this is, this is not a fair question, when you say you were told. Who told you?

MR. BITTMAN: Who told me what, the question? MR. KENDALL: You said, you said the grand jury was told.

MR. BITTMAN: We have kept the grand jury informed,_ as we normally would, of the proceedings here.

MR. KENDALL: Right. And, I'm sorry. Who, who are you representing told you or the grand jurors anything? Is that, is that

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146 aware of the facts that I just A Yes, sir. Let me say this. I'knew that Mr. Kendall was going to talk with Judge Starr. What we wanted to do was to be as helpful as we could to you on the question of whether you felt I was being truthful, when I said I did not have sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, as defined in that definition (1) in this, in my testimony.

And I thought the best way to do that, and still preserve some measure of privacy and dignity, would be to invite all of you and the grand jurors to ask, well, would you consider this, that, or the other thing covered by the definition. You asked me several questions there, and I did my best to answer whether I thought they were covered by the definition, and said if I thought they were covered, you could conclude from that that my testimony is I did not do them.

If those things, if things are not covered by the definition, and I don't believe they are covered, then I could not -- then they shouldn't be within this discussion one way or the other.

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And, so, I think I am right to answer all the questions about perjury, but not to say things which will be forever in the historic annals of the United States because of this unprecedented videotape and may be leaked at any time. I just think it's a mistake.

And, so, I'm doing my best to cooperate with the grand jury and still protect myself, my family, and my office.

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Q Mr. President, before we broke, we were talking about the sequencing of your conversations with Betty Currie following your deposition on Saturday, January 17th. Do you

BY MR. BENNETT: recall that?

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calling her and instructing her on the evening of Saturday night, after your deposition, and telling her to come in the next day?

A Yes, sir, I do. Q Sunday was normally her day off, isn't that so? A Yes, it was. Q And so you were making special arrangements for her to come back into the White House, isn't that so?

A Well, yes. I asked her to come back in and talk to me.

Q And it was at that time that you spoke with her, and Mr. Bittman and Mr. Wisenberg have asked you questions .bout what you said in that conversation, isn't that so?

A Yes, they have -- I don't know whether that's the time, but they -- I did talk to her as soon as I realized that the deposition had become more about Monica Lewinsky than Paula Jones. I asked her, you know, if she knew anything about this. I said, you know, it's obvious that this is going to be a matter of trying to go through the litany us, and asked some questions.

Q On fairness, it would simple press speculation, isn't

press speculation, and I was of what had happened between

be more than a matter of that so? Mr. President, there was a question about whether you had testified fully, completely, and honestly on the preceding day in your

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this. So, at that moment, I knew I was more interested in what the facts Currie knew anything about it, knew anything about what Monica Lewinsky knew about it.

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Mr. Bennett, I didn't think about been a rather unprecedented even thinking about the Independent

about your understanding of how the term sexual relations was used, and what you understood it to mean in the context of your deposition. Isn't that correct?

A That is correct.

Q And you've told us -- I mean, that was a lawsuit Paula Jones filed in which she alleged that you asked her to perform oral sex, isn't that so?

A That was her allegation.

Q That was her allegation. And, notwithstanding that that was her allegation, you've testified that you understood the term sexual relations, in the context of the questions you were being asked, to mean something else, at least insofar as you were the recipient rather than the performer?

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A Because that is -- if the deponent is the person who has oral sex performed on him, then the contact is with -- not with anything on that list, but with the lips of another person. It seems to be self- evident that that's what it is. And I thought it was curious.

Let me remind you, sir, I read this carefully. And I thought about it. I thought about what l'contacttt meant. I thought about what "intent to arouse or gratify" meant.

And I had to admit under this definition that I'd actually had sexual relations with Gennifer Flowers. Now, I would rather have taken a whipping than done that, after all the trouble I'd been through with Gennifer Flowers, and the money I knew that she had made for the story she told about this alleged la- year affair, which we had done a great deal to disprove.

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A If the Judge had required me to answer it, of course, I would have answered it. And I would have answered it truthfully, if I --

Q By the way, do you believe that the -- A -- had been required.

Q _- Jones litigants had the same understanding of sexual relations that you claim you have?

A I don't know what belief is that they thought and that they were going to

their understanding was, sir. My they'd get this whole thing in, -- what they were trying to do is

do just what they did with Gennifer Flowers. They wanted to find anything they could get from me or anyone else that was negative, and then they wanted to leak it to hurt me in the press, which they did even though the Judge ordered them not to.

So, I think their --

Q Wouldn't it -- I'm sorry. A I think their position, Mr. Bennett -- you asked the question -- their position was, we're going to cast the

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Q Don't you think, sir, that they could have done damage to you politically, or in whatever context, if had understood the definition in the same way you did and asked the question directly?

A I don't know, sir. As I said, I didn't work with their lawyers in preparing this case. I knew the case was wrong. I knew what our evidence was. By the time of this deposition, they knew what their evidence was.

Their whole strategy was, well, our lawsuit's not good, but maybe we can hurt him with the discovery. And, you know, they did some. But it didn't amount to much.

And did I want, if I could, to avoid talking about Monica Lewinsky? Yes, I'd give anything in the world not to be here talking about it. I'd be giving -- I'd give anything in the world not to have to admit what I've had to admit today.

But if you look at my answer in the Flowers [sic] deposition, at least you know I tried to carefully fit all my answers within the framework there, because otherwise there was no reason in the wide world for me to do anything other than make the statements I'd made about Gennifer Flowers since 1991, that I did not have a la- year affair with her,

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Q But you did have a great deal of anxiety in the hours and days following the end of your deposition on the 17th. Isn't that fair to say?

A Well, I had a little anxiety the next day, of course, because of the Drudge Report. And I had an anxiety after the deposition because it was more about Monica Lewinsky than it was about Paula Jones.

Q The specificity of the questions relating to Monica Lewinsky alarmed you, isn't that fair to say?

A Yes, and it bothered me, too, that I couldn't remember the answers. It bothered me that I couldn't -- as Mr. Wisenberg pointed out, it bothered me that I couldn't remember all the answers. I did the best I could. And so I wanted to know what the deal was. Sure.

Q Mr. President, to your knowledge, have you turned over, in response to the grand jury subpoenas, all gifts that Monica Lewinsky gave you?

A To my knowledge, I have, sir. As you know, on occasion, Mr. Kendall has asked for your help in identifying those gifts. And I think there were a couple that we came across in our search that were not on the list you gave us, that I remembered in the course of our search had been given

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So, to the best of my knowledge, we have given you everything we have.

Q Can you explain why, on the very day that Monica Lewinsky testified in the grand jury on August 6th of this year, you wore a necktie that she had given you?

A No, sir, I don't believe I did. What necktie was it?

Q The necktie you wore on A Well, Monica Lewinsky

Q Well, Ne will provide President.

I don't know that gave me. Can you

August 6th, sir. it was a necktie that describe it to me? I don't want to take time at this point, but you with photographic evidence of that, Mr.

A If you give me -- 1 don't believe that's accurate, JIr. Bennett.

Q So, let me ask the question -- A But if you give it to me, and I look at it and I remember that she gave it to me, I'll be happy to produce it.

[ do not believe that's right. Q Well, if you remember that she gave it to you, why laven't you produced it to the grand jury?

A I don't remember that she gave it to me. fhy I asked you what the tie was. I have --

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Q Can you tell us why Bayani Nelvis wore a tie that Monica Lewinsky had given you on the day he appeared in the grand jury?

A I don't know that he did.

Q Have you given Bayani Nelvis any ties, sir? A Oh, yes, a lot of ties.

Q And so if he wore the tie that you gave him, that Monica Lewinsky had given you, that would not have been by design, is that what you are telling us?

A Oh, absolutely not. Let me -- Q You are not -- A May I explain, Mr. Bennett? It won't --

Q Yes.

A -- take long. Every year, since I've been President, I've might imagine. Chicago and one of to

other people gotten quite a large number of ties, as you

I get, I have a couple of friends, one in in Florida who give me a lot of ties, a lot who send me ties all the time, or give them me when I see them.

so, I always have the growing number of ties in my closet. What I normally do, if someone givesme a tie as a

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I give them to people like Glen and Nelvis, who work in the kitchen, back in the White House, or the gentlemen who are my stewards or the butlers, or the people who run the elevators. And I give a lot of ties away a year. I'll bet I -- excluding Christmas, I bet I give 30, 40, maybe more ties away a year, and then, of course, at Christmas, a lot.

So, there would be nothing unusual if, in fact, Nelvis had a tie that originally had come into my tie closet from Monica Lewinsky. It wouldn't be unusual. It wouldn't be by design. And there are several other people of whom that is also true.

Q Mr. President, I'd like to move to a different area right now. I'd like to ask you some questions about Kathleen Willey. You met Kathleen Willey during your 1992 campaign, isn't that so?

A Yes, sir, I did.

Q As a matter of fact, you first saw her at a rope line at the Richmond, Virginia airport on October 13, 1992, is that not correct?

A I don't believe that is correct.

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Q I believe it was October 13, 1992, sir. A Well, I believe that I had met her -- I believe I had met her before then, because Governor Wilder, I believe that was his last year as governor -- I think that's right, 92- 93. I believe that I met her in connection with her involvement with Governor Wilder.

And I have the impression -- it's kind of a vague memory, but I have the impression that I had met her once before, at least once before I came to that Richmond debate. Now, I'm not sure of that.

Q Well, at least if you had met her before -- A But I am quite sure she was at the Richmond debate and I did meet her there. I'm quite sure of that.

Q Mr. President, you've seen television footage of you standing on a rope line with Donald Beyer, Lt. Governor Donald Beyer --

A I have.

Q -- asking Mr. Beyer for the name of Kathleen Willey? You've seen that footage, haven't you?

A I don't know that I've seen it, but I am aware that it exists.

Q All right. And you can see him, you can read his lips. He's saying the name Kathleen Willey in response to a

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Q And, as a matter of fact, you sent Nancy Hernreich, who was present on that day, to go get her telephone number, didn't you, sir?

A I don't believe so.

Q You don't believe so? A Well, let me say this. If that is true, then I'm quite certain that I had met her before. I would never call someone out of the blue that I saw on a rope line and send Nancy Hernreich to get her number to do it.

Q Even if you were just learning her name for the first time?

A That's correct. I'm not so sure Don Beyer, if he was on the rope line with because I thought I had seen her before or her before and I didn't remember her name. all the time. For men --

Q Mr. President -- A -- and women.

that I didn't ask me, who she was I knew I had seen

Now, I do that

Q I'm sorry. Do you recall that you sent Nancy Hernreich for her telephone number?

A No, I don't.

Q All right. Do you recall, having received her telephone number, calling her that night?

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A No, sir, I don't.

Q Do you recall inviting her to meet with you at your hotel that night?

A No, sir, I do not.

Q Do you recall where you stayed in Richmond, Virginia during the debates you've told us about?

A Well, I stayed at some hotel there, I believe.

Q Actually, did you stay at the Williamsburg Inn, not in Richmond?

A Yeah, that's right. We prepared in Williamsburg. That's correct. I believe we prepared in Williamsburg and then went to Richmond for the debate, and then I think we spent the night in Richmond. And the next day, I think we had a rally before we left town. I believe that's right.

Q Do you know of any reason Kathleen Willey's telephone number would appear on your toll records from your room in Williamsburg?

A No, there --

Q If you didn't call her? A No, I'm not denying that I called her, sir. You asked me a specific question. I won't deny that I called her. I don't know whether I did or not.

Q As a matter of fact, you called her twice that day, didn't you, sir?

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Q Well, does it refresh your recollection that you called her and invited her to come to your room that night, sir?

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I don't believe I did that, sir. If Kathleen Willey has said that, she's mistaken or that correct, Mr. President? I do not believe I did that. That's correct. But what is your best recollection of that conversation, those conversations?

A I don't remember talking to her. But I -- it seems to me that at some point -- this is why I believe I had met her before, too. But at some point I had some actual person- to- person conversation with her about my sore throat, or what she thought would be good for it, or something like that. I have some vague memory of that. That's it.

Q Is this the chicken soup conversation, Mr. President?

A Well, I don't know if I would -- maybe that's what she said I should have. I don't remember. But I have no recollection, sir, of asking her to come to my room. I -- and I -- I'm sorry, I don't. I can't -- I won't deny calling her. I don't know if I did call her. I don't know if she tried to call me first. I don't know anything about that. I, I just -- 1 met her and Doug Wilder. I remember that she

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and her husband were active for Government Wilder, and that's about all I remember, except that I had a conversation with her around the Richmond debate. I do remember talking to her there.

Q Mr. President, let's move ahead to the episode on November 29, 1993, in which Mrs. Willey met you in your office at the Oval, the subject matter of the "60 Minutes" broadcast a few months ago. You recall that episode?

A I certainly do.

Q Mr. President, in fact, on that date you did make sexual advances on Kathleen Willey, is that not correct?

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No, I didn't. And you placed her hand on your genitals, did you

Mr. Bennett, I didn't do any of that, and the questions you're asking, I think, betray the bias of this operation that has troubled me for a long time. You know what evidence was released after the "60 MinutesI' broadcast that I think pretty well shattered Kathleen Willey's credibility. You know what people down in Richmond said

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about her. You know what she said about other people that wasn't true. I don't know if you've made all of this available to the grand jury or not.

She was not telling the truth. She asked for the appointment with me. She asked for it repeatedly.

Q Did she make a sexual advance on you, Mr. President?

A On that day, no, she did not. She was troubled. Q On some other day? A I wouldn't call it a sexual advance. She was always very friendly. But I never took it seriously.

Q Mr. President, you mentioned the documents that were released and information that came out from people in Richmond, et cetera, after the "60 Minutes" piece was broadcast. As a matter of fact, you were required, under the Court's rulings, to produce those documents in response to document requests by the Jones litigants, isn't that correct?

A No. I believe the Jones litigants' request for production of documents to me ran to documents that were in my personal files and in my personal possessions, and did not cover documents that were White House files. So, I don't believe we were required to produce them.

As a matter of fact, when that story first ran, sir, before "60 Minutes", back in July or so of '97, I was aware that we had some letters. I didn't -- I didn't

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remember that she'd written us as much as she had and called as much as she had, and asked to see me as often as she had, after this alleged incident. I didn't know the volume of contact that she had But I knew there was

And I made which undermined the story she has told.

some of it. a decision that I did not want to release it voluntarily after the Newsweek ran the story, because her friend Julie Steele was in the story saying she asked her -- she, Kathleen Willey -- asked her to lie. And because, frankly, her husband had committed suicide. She apparently was out of money. And I thought, who knows how anybody would react under that. So, I didn't.

But, now when "60 Minutes" came with the story and everybody blew it up, I thought we would release it. But I do not believe we were required to release White House documents to the Jones lawyers.

Q Mr. President, have you made a decision on whether to stay beyond the four hours we agreed to, to accept questions from the grand jury?

MR. KENDALL: We have made an agreement, Mr. Bennett, to give you four hours. We're going to do that. By my watch, there are about 12 minutes left.

MR. BENNETT: I guess that's no. Is that correct, Mr. Kendall?

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MR. BENNETT: Sure. THE WITNESS: I'm sorry to bother you with this. I know we're getting to the end, but I need a little break.

(Whereupon, the proceedings were recessed from 6: 04 p. m. until 6 09 p. m.)

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Q Mr. President, at various times in this investigation, officials have invoked executive privilege in response to questions that have been posed to them by the grand jury and in the grand jury. One of the grand jurors has posed the question, invocation of executive

A If the answer that would be yes. But something.

did you personally authorize the privilege? is authorized, I think the answer to I would like the grand jury to know

In the cases where we raised the lawyer/ client privilege, or executive privilege, or where the Secret Service raised their privilege, and when I say -- I had nothing to do with that. I did not authorize it, approve it, or anything else. That was something they asked to be free to make their decision on by themselves.

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those privileges were advanced and litigated was that I believed that there was an honest difference between Judge Starr and the Office of Independent Counsel, and Mr. Ruff, my counsel, and I about what the proper balance was in the Constitutional framework.

And I did not want to put the Presidency at risk of being weakened as an institution, without having those matters litigated. Now, we've lost some of those matters. Our people have testified and the grand jury is free to conclude whether they believe that the testimony they gave was damaging to me. But I don't, I don't imagine it was and I wasn't worried about it. It was an honest difference of Constitutional principal between Judge Starr and the Office of Independent Counsel and the White House.

Q Mr. President, a couple of very brief questions, given our time. The White House's outside counsel, Mr. Eggleston, withdrew the White House's appeal from Chief Judge Johnson's ruling that the invocation of executive privilege had to give way to the grand jury's right to the information, that ruling in connection with the testimony of Mr. Blumenthal and Mr. Lindsey.

Were you informed of that fact that the appeal had been withdrawn?

A I was informed of it and, as a matter of fact, I was consulted about it and I strongly supported it. I didn't

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want to appeal it. Q Okay. A It was -- 1 had -- my main difference, Judge Starr, as you know with you, is, and with some of the Court decisions, is on the extent to which members of the White House Counsel's staff, like Mr. Lindsey, should be able to counsel the President on matters that may seem like they are private, like the Jones case, daily work of the President.

But I didn't really but inevitably intrude on the

want to advance an executive privilege claim in this case beyond having it litigated, so that we, we had not given up on principal this matter, without having some judge rule on it. So, I made --

Q Excuse me. And you are satisfied that you now have the benefit of that ruling, is that correct?

A Well, yes. I just didn't want to, I didn't want to -- yes. And I didn't -- I made the -- I actually, I think, made the call, or at least I supported the call. I did not, I strongly felt we should not appeal your victory on the executive privilege issue.

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which is the following: Did Monica Lewinsky perform oral sex on you? They would like a direct answer to that, yes or no?

A Well, that's not the first time that question's been asked. But since I believe, and I think any person, reasonable person would believe that that is not covered in the definition of sexual relations I was given, I'm not going to answer, except to refer to my statement.

I had intimate contact with her that was inappropriate. I do not believe any of the contacts I had with her violated the definition I was given. Therefore, I believe I did not do anything but testify truthfully on these matters.

Q We have a wore.

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Q 1998, the grand jury. And my

couple of photos of the tie that you please give them to me? is August 6th, is that correct? day that Monica Lewinsky appeared at the question to you on that is, were you sending some kind of a signal to her by wearing --

A No, sir.

Q -- one of the ties -- let me finish, if you don't mind, sir.

A Sure. I'm sorry. My apology.

Q Were you sending some kind of a signal to her by

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wearing a tie she had given you on the day that she appeared in front of the grand jury?

A No, sir. I don't believe she gave me this tie. And if I was sending a signal, I'm about to send a terrible signal, and maybe you ought to invite her to talk again. I don't, I don't want to make light about this. I don't believe she gave me this tie. I don't remember giving, her giving me this tie. And I had absolutely no thought of this in my mind when I wore it.

If she did, I, I, I, I don't remember it, and this is the very first I've ever heard of it.

Q Did you realize when you -- MR. WISENBERG: Can I just have for the record, what are the exhibit numbers?

MS. WIRTH: Yes. They should be WJC- 5 and 6. (Grand Jury Exhibits WJC- 5 and WJC- 6 were marked for identification.) MR. WISENBERG: Mr. Bennett has some more questions.

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Q Mr. President, to document requests in asked you about turning correspondence. Do you

we were talking about your responses the Jones litigation, and I had just over the Kathleen Willey recall that?

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A Yes, sir, I do.

Q And, if I understand your testimony, you did not believe that the request for documents compelled you to search for those documents in the White House?

A Mr. Bennett, I want to answer this question in a way that is completely satisfactory to you and the grand jury, without violating the lawyer/ client privilege, which is still intact.

It was my understanding that in the request for production of documents, that those requests ran operated against my personal files. Now, I have

against and some personal files in the White case I'm not my own lawyer, distinction is made between files of the President, and files.

House. And, I'm sorry. In this and I don't know how the files which are the personal files which are White House

But I do have a very clear memory that we were duty- bound to search and turn over evidence or, excuse me, documents that were in my personal file, but not in the White House files. And I believe that the letters to which you refer, Ms. Willey's letters and Ms. Willey's phone messages, were in the White House files. And, therefore, I was instructed at least that they were, that we had fully compiled with the Jones lawyers' request, and that these documents were outside the request.

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Q Mr. President, you're not contending that White House documents, documents stored in the fashion that these were stored, are beyond your care, you?

A Mr. Bennett, that may be don't have the capacity to answer. I remember. I remember being told

custody or control, are a legal term of art that I

I can only tell you what in no uncertain terms that if these were personal files of the President, we had to produce documents. If they were essentially White House files, we were not bound to do so. So, we didn't.

Q So, you are saying somebody told you that you didn't have to produce White House documents?

A That's -- MR. KENDALL: I'm going to caution the witness that this question should not invade the sphere of the attorney/ client privilege, and any conversations with counsel are privileged.

THE WITNESS: Let me say, and maybe, Mr. Kendall, we need a break here. I'm not trying -- I'm trying to avoid invading the lawyer/ client privilege.

I can just tell you that I did, I did the best I could to comply with this. And eventually we did make, of course, all of this public. And it was damaging to Ms. Willey and her credibility. It was terribly damaging to her. And the first time she came out with this story, I didn't do

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they went back on "60 Minutes" and of it. she had tried to sell this story and make all this money. And, I must say, when I saw how many letters and phone calls and messages there were that totally

undercut her account, I, myself, was surprised. BY MR. BENNETT:

Q But you knew there were letters? A I did, sir.

Q And the White House -- A I knew that --

Q -- is under your control, isn't it, Mr. President? A Well, Mr. Bennett, again, I'm not trying to be -- some days I think it's under my control and some days I'm not so sure.

But, if you're asking me, as a matter of law, I don't want to discuss that because that's -- I mean, 1'11 be glad to discuss it, but I'm not the person who should make that decision. That decision should be made by someone who can give me appropriate advice, and I don't want to violate the lawyer/ client privilege here.

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A Well, Mr. Bennett, I don't think the Lewinsky gifts were all non- documents.

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173 There is somebody in the White House, Mr. Bennett, who can answer your question, and you could call them up and they could answer it, under oath, for you. There is some way of desegregating what papers are personal to the President and what papers are part of the White House official archives papers. And I don't know how the distinction is made. I just don't know.

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Q Did you direct personnel, Nancy Hernreich or anyone else, to make a search for correspondence from Kathleen Willey and Monica Lewinsky when those documents were called for in the Jones litigation, sir? Did you direct that somebody on the White House staff look for those documents?

A I don't believe that I was in charge of doing that, the document search, sir. So, the strict answer to that question is that I didn't.

Q So, you sat back and relied on this legalistic distinction between your personal, which you are in control of, and the White House which, by the way, you are also in control of; is that not correct?

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THE WITNESS: Mr. Bennett, I haven't said this all day long, but I would like to say it now.

Most of my time and energy in the last five and a half years have been devoted to my job. Now, during that five and a half years, I have also had to contend with things no previous President has ever had to contend with: a lawsuit that was dismissed for lack of legal merit, but that cost me a fortune and was designed to embarrass me; this independent counsel inquiry, which has gone on a very long time and cost a great deal of money, and about which serious questions have been raised; and a number of other things.

I did not make the legal judgment about how the documents were decided upon that should be given to the Jones lawyers, and ones that shouldn't.

And, I might add that Ms. Willey would have been very happy that these papers were not turned over, because they damaged her credibility so much, had they not ultimately been turned over after she made, I think, the grievous error of going on "60 Minutes" and saying all those things that were not true. .

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175 But I did not make the decision. It was not my job. This thing is being managed by other people. I was trying to do my job.

BY MR. BENNETT: Q Mr. President, the grand jury, I am notified, still has unanswered questions of you, and we appeal to you again to make yourself available

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to answer those questions. Bennett, our agreement was for counted the break time against that, and I think that will be --

THE WITNESS: You know, Mr. Bennett, I wish I could do it. I wish the grand jurors had been allowed to come here today as we invited them to do. I wanted them down here. I wanted them to be able to see me directly. I wanted them to be able to ask these questions directly. But, we made an agreement that was different, and I think I will go ahead and_ stick with the terms of it.

BY MR. BENNETT: Q The invitation was made after there was political fallout over the deposition circumstances with the satellite transmission and the taping. Isn't that so?

A I don't know about the taping, Mr. Bennett. I understood that the prospect of the grand jurors coming down here was raised fairly early. I don't know.

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MR. WISENBERG: Just for the record, the invitation to the grand jury was contingent upon us not videotaping, and we had to videotape because we have an absent grand juror.

MR. KENDALL: Wisenberg, you have to

THE WITNESS: Is that the only reason, Mr.

videotape? Well, yes. Do you want to answer that?

MR. BITTMAN: Thank you, Mr. President. (Whereupon, at 6: 25 p. m., the proceedings were concluded.)

* * * * * CERTIFICATE OF COURT REPORTER - NOTARY PUBLIC

I, Elizabeth A. Eastman, the officer before whom the foregoing proceedings were taken, do hereby certify that the witness whose testimony appears in the foregoing was duly sworn by me; that the testimony of said witness was taken by me electronically and thereafter reduced to typewriting by _ me; that this is a true record of the testimony given by said witness; that I am neither counsel for, related to, nor employed by any of the parties to the action in which this deposition was taken; and, further, that I am not a relative or employee of any attorney or counsel employed by the parties hereto, nor financially or otherwise interested in the outcome of the action.

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WILLIS J! a- FERSON CLINTON : Warhm~ fon, D. C. [41 _______ r___________-_------__;

191 1101 II11 1121 [13] EUR THE PRESIDEHT:

WRY ANNE l4IRIH OS 8ERNmD JAms AbPtnbN ESQ. A¶ waclarc 1nde ndent &nscl DAVID L. RU4Dhf?, ESQ.

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I151 Q Good afternoon, Mr. President. :16!. A Good afternoon. I171 Q ;~ s~ racord. sir? Could you pkase state your full nama for the

il9! A William Jefferson Clinton. 1201 0 My name is Sol Wiienberg and I’m a Dap~ ty I ? 1 I Independent Counsel with the Office of lndapandant Cowtsel.

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ill BY MR. BlTlMAN: 12i P Good afternorm, Mr. PreSident. 131 A Good afternoon. Mr. Bittman.

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1191 BY MR. BllTMAN:

1201 Q And you remember that Ms. Lewinsky’c lmdavit ; ? 1 I that she had had no sexual relationship with you. I : z I remember that? Do you L1

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Page 26 A Mr. Bennett was rupmaanting me. I wasn’t Iii mpmsenting hi. And I worn? avan paying much attetnbon to f31thrs convarsabon. which is why. whqn you Startad asking ma 141aboutthip. laskadtDrsethsde~~ n. Iwasf~~~ ingcm r51rny. answWstothaquest& ns. Andtvatoldyouwllatl [61ballava about ma dapdaMn, whlth I (71 Anditba& ous. andIthink weverbqb8tpe.

relhavabatmW~~ mtJqnaalavWrs’ kmpu mthiacase undwanngorprovingsaxwl

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I 6 I harassment, so they could hurt ma poliilly. That’s what i 3 1 was gorng on.

I: j

I! Because by then, by this time this thing had been

oing on a bng time. The r... knew what 6ur evidanw was. They IIO! newwhatthelawwaain hearcurtmwhchwswem

116; A She pertain9 did. And they asked them and I did [ 17 I my best to answer them. I m just trying to tall -

[221 A It was. 1231 Q Andwas- I241 A ,But it was ,not my msponsibility. in the face of r251their repeated tlbgal kakmg. it was not my responsibility

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r~ jtnvdkmtaarabtofinfomutidn. Therearama rzlthisdWo@ XlwhemIgavs-• ndkwpinm rn?

araain r3ll tma@ d them. frankly, with raspact. I pm, pamd &f?* f41forthrs depwmon on the Jonas nutters. pmpa vary rs~~ ll~ that. IdidnotknowthatLindaTrpphadbean 1,61~~ intheprapm~ ofthodeposibon, or~ trll

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And. balbvama Iknewwhotthapuqlo! u9clftha ~:; dapdskM was. And sura’endugh. by tha way, k did all tio] laak. just like I knaw I would.

Q Ldt ma ask you, Mr. Pmsidant, indiiinyour j~ jta$ antthatycuwaraabnewithMs. Lawi&! r bthat

1141 A Yes. sir. IEiTham’stha period &han sha worketd in the : ~~~~~!~ shihti rzs~ Aprilof’36. Andthenthare’sthepartodwhanshecameback

Page 31 ri~ tovislmafmmFeb~ ry37untilbts~ r97.

I21 Basadonourmcords- Wsstartwtththa r3lrecords. whersws~ tho~~ rdsad~~ tin I 4 #me. Basad on our mccxds, batwwn February and ar, rsillappeentomsthrt1hertIcouldha~~ n~

I;; Equite that many timas at bas it wukf hava happanad. mxrmatelyninetimas. Aith~ hldonubaliavalsaw I91 Themwere- vkthinkthemwemnineor10tim0s

Isl~ nshewnsin, intheWh~ Hou~~ l- wosn~ l rio@ ffIw when I cou# have awn bar. I donot behave I saw

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Iy wlllbm Jefferson Clinton, Wl?/ sa

Pqe 32 111 Themfore. interns weT0 asaipned to all amgS.

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l’mmemberwhltthepresentswere. Idon’t I~~ rernembsrwhatthebagnmsIgavethemin.

171 Q Wyouahogiveheramarb& beahhsadanmg IElhxn Vanauver. Canada?

191 A ldiddottut. Irememberthat.

Khe fmmus Rociaes Q Andyou8bo 8veheraRodwtbsbbnketmetts. fdLYOfk?

1121 A ldiidothat Ihadthat. lhadhadthatin ,iorranJpbofyearsbuthadneverusadit. a rz KE~~~ NewY* So, IthougMitwouklbaanics

rl- tlmht? Q Yougaveheraboxufcherrychocolates, isthat I::; have b& A I gzcln, remehmr th8t. sir. I moan. m ~QIJ# rzolbear and tt& ihrow. I don’t romeme -r.,‘ srw3; d”%‘ h”

~21~~ tomeliketherewascmeomermmginthatbag. I rzzvbdn’t nmambar the ch4~ 1~ choaMes.

1231 Izllgivc- Q How& wtspinoftheNewYorkskyline? Didyou

1251 A That-

islkeep mcords. ButI’mgivingyouwhatIspe@ caNyremamlmrand ~~~ thenwhatlgenerallymnember. I’mda4ngthebeattobe l61helpful to you.

Q Have you roviswed the reco& for December 28th, ffii1997, Mr. President?

Ill1 A Yes. sir, I have. 112: 0 Do you believe ‘h9’* h& L, Z7ky was at the whik

; ;:; House an; saw,, ey, q: r . . 1151 0 And do ;ou mmernbar talki

[ 16 1 her subpoena that she rec8ived for the Psu % with Ma. Lewinsky about Jones case on [ I 7 I that day?

1: zi testimony A I remember talki or about the with Mb. Lewinsky about her

pros rzoltestimonvl And she. she tal r% tshemi$ thavetogive

ed to me about at. I remember ijlithat. . Q And you also gava her Christmas gifts, is that not

[f: iamect, Mr. President? A That is correct. They wereChristmas ifts and /:: ithey were going- away gifts. She was moving to New % ork to,

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11 I taking a new job, starting a new iii. And I gave her some r219ifts. 0

i: inot cormt? And you actually requested thii meeting, is mat

153 A I don’t nrnember that, Mr. Bin, but it’s quite 16IP sibk mat I invited her to come by before she bft town.

i71 ut usualiy~ n~ rnet. sherequested themeetings. And my [e I recollecbon is, In 1997 she asked to meet with me several

I 91 tmes when I could not meet with her and did not do so. But : 1 CJ ! it’s quite possibb mat I - that because she had given me a ( 11 I Christmas gift. and because she was having, that I im& hM rlz] hertocomcbXtheWhiteHoUKondgatawupbofglfls rljlbefore she b town. . . I don’t remember who requested the rneetii though.

I:: il’rn son- y. I don% ::% hat - Q You were alone with bar on Daasmbar 28, 1997. is i

iisi

I191 a yes* sir. : right??

I201 A I was. I% iThe Black Dog restaurant at Q Theg~ thot~~ w~ rwrrraocomrPsbagfrom

a [231right? a’s Virmyard. is mat

A Well, that was just, that was .ust something I had i :: 1 in the place to. to contain the gifts. But I be ieve that i mP=

Ill 2 ii% Z% havebeenintheru. Iseerntommember Q You mentioned that you d& ussed her subpoena in I::& Paula Jones case. Tell us speaEcally. what did you rzlldiscuss? (221 A No,& that’snotwhatlsaid. IsakI, my r23,~ nkl~ by~ n, ofcouns, thptskhPd r24lgotten a su [tslslated to &l$ n&/ u& l&~ M!;~~ a~~?.$$ s

I:: ithrough th8t. And, of mume. I didn’t want her to do that. A Wall. ldidnotwanthertohavetotestifyondgo [2s] of course not.

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IlEl Q Wutdidyaudo? A Wall, lnavarsaidanythiiaboutti, forana i$ hing. Andldiiwhatp~ pkadowhanthaydotha [Zl# Gng. I b& d to do it whara ataawasbokmgat .vann! lZZl Q Hmvmanytknas dyoudothat? nobo%

A Well, if you i:: ltMawaraawmasin % backtomystatamant. Iramambar

I an~ saywithany

t25~ cattainty. ThamwasonCain’aarlyg7. AttarshalaRtha

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A I% asporlW (Wimass noddad indicating an affkmabva

Q i:: ior no? Do you agma

t I 4 I subpoenaed? I’m sorr&~ ouh~~ w~~$&~ raand. Yaa

1151 A Oh, yas, sir. she was upsat. Sha - wll, sha - [ 161~~ - she did117 -we ddn’t talk about a subpoena. But sha 1 i 7 lwr~ up#. She tati, I don’t WSrlt to testify; I know nothing i 1 P Ishout thw; I cartainty know nothing about saxual harassmant; ~~ g~ whydothe~~ antmatotashfy. Andlexpiainadtoharwhy [Z o 1 they ware omg thus, and why all thasa women warn on thasa 12 I 1 lbts, paopla that they knaw good and wall had nothing to do [z z Iwith any saxual harassmant.

I ex tainad to har that it was a poliical lawsuit. iii iThay wanted o gal whatevar thay could undar path that was P

;: sjdamaging to ma. and than thay wanted to leak it in vtobtion

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[ I 1 of tha Judge’s or- den+, and turn [ZI ou can’t rove wa drd it.

x Ra Now. %a their now and say, wall, [31 nd that t t was thair stratagy.

y wara very frustratad bacausa ava I 4 1 baked 50 far was old news. So. they desperate r$ mingthSY warn trying I 5 1 to validate this massiva amount of manay they’d spent by [6] finding soma flaw naws. And - 171 2 You wara familiar -

- aha didn’t want to ba caught up in that, and I /iididn’t blame her.

Q You wan familiir waranY you Mr. Pmsident. tF i :! i she had ncaivad a subpoena. You’ve almadd; acknowkdaad lat

ilzjthat. 1131 A Ya. sir. I was. fl41 Q And Mr. Jordan infotmad

A No sir. Ibaliiva- and1 I: z; thisinm dap@& n. Ithinkthafirst E u of that, is that right?

lbvaItaatthadto La rsonwhotoklma [ 17 1 that she d bean subpoanaed was RP ruqs Laxbay. I think the rlelfirst- andlwas- inthiidaposSion. tt’saltUbbtt tlvlcbudy. but I was tryin

%aranbmherwhoubfirst monwho to tzoltold ma was, b4xausa quastiin was, again as Pa ramambar it [zl!-~~ uMmgotothatinthcaparlion, sin~ yousrk~~ [zzlthat?

I:: ithink you ?% I I&% I%&$%%? ii$$-%&&~ ps 1251Mr. Ltndsey id tell you sha was subpoan

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I31 A Wherei6th8t, sH ldonrwanttogat- Ijust l4lwant- what

I51 Qp%?% C ;;; u-~ &$ o< i had b% tSCSUsSIsSWaWttnSsskUmUUl

IPI 0 MubhearkarthatDacaMar2B87 101 A Oh, sum Andtthadtmanaarl& rthan- sha

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i: :‘ 3$ 3rt a wkness lid aartbrthan sha was wnaad. THEWTTNESS: IbakavaMonica~ snamar

1: 141 BY MR BlTlUAN:

1: 151 Q vaa..

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twaason. [Z$ o Q AndHMr. Jo& ntastifiadthathahadalsospokan

&this thathscalbd ouataroundthatknaharr9s ou at around 5 p. m. and ths Whita Houw phona

~~~~ withMs. LUwbskyandinfLnadyouthanthatshahadbaan [23# Ubpoenaad. b that eDnsbbr4t mth yOUr rrMIOIy? AbO on thS I24119th? 1251 A IhadabtofphonaaxwarsabonswtthVemon

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t~~ atbutthb. Ididn’tkaepracordsoflham. Inowhavaaoma t2~ acords. ~mamaryisnotcbarandmylsttinanyonthatwaa r3) notdaar. I ustknawthat1talksdtoVarnondsomatima.

I4lbutIthoug matBNcewasthefimtpefsonwhotoldme. d I51 Q ButMr. Jutdanhadalsotokiyou, bthatrtght7

A Yas. InowkndwIhada~ wkhMr. ~76~ Jdrdanohoutitwhafahasaidsomathingtomaaboutthat.

181 Q AndthatwaspmbablyonthalWh,~ 101h? A Walt, IknowIsawhimonthal% h. So I’mqu& t~~~ sura. Andifhasa hatalkadtomaon. thalgth Ibalbva

[111imwould ham I&

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-IcentallyduwhetImmamber I: 1 *bog the EZitfXSo% nd you den aw why lm heving trouble rrlbfaondthadeta

ill ira& eet for production. AndItoldherthetlftheyeek0dherbrgiRs, I:: lsh# dhevetogWhem whateWrehehad, thattherewhet

r141the bwwu. ,,< I Andletmaabotallvou. Mr. Rittman. ifvnudd

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rlz] kli~ thtinmart, of~ cordsendbttsnr)#~ r33] harbve, t3qthamr$ rtwellheve. Irbut. yauknow, bve rl4] cenmeendrffarent rngs too. Mr. Brttman. Ihava- there rls]~ nrktqfmwnenwahwhomlho~ neverhdey

~:%% imetotima. lbveydu. AndIknmuthat’gv9ydan~ ppmpneWmnductwhoanfrtandsofmiw whowilluy rle] mean anythii

Q $Si%% ir. Prasidant do you remambar l atd ~: Og~ sha sent you efter she &the movk3 Tiinic. m which rha rzlltridthots~~ n~ ordman# d~ ut~ ronuntic 122 Jfaeli r23lher zs thetoaurrOdinthemovia, endhowthetraminded

youtwo? Dbyoumrnambarthat? A ~~:~ because I don? No,~ tr, butshadouktheveeentlt. l- just

remamber it doesn’t meen it waen? there. Page 44 to Page 49 OGstan

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flpumng. l~ i~~- a~~~~~. tfnnot, rm

[2lsttllnotaorfyI l v% MonicaLawlnskygifts. Q ;:; Linda Tripp? fV?~ y did you aaaumt that that information came from 191 A Ididn’tthen.

I& J than? Q WeILywdidn’t? lthoughtyoujusttasbhadyou 191 A No, nd, no. Inidlnowassurm that_ urcl-

Q Yaunowauume. -ofrllofthe8ubsaquantaw! mts. Ididn’tknqw.

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Page 51 .--, [23! A I did Trot do that.

124? Q When you testifiad in ths Paula Jonas crass, thkr [ 2 5 1 was only two and a half weeks after you had given her these Page 52 I 1 @ix gift9 you wera askad, %t p% g% 75 in your dapos& m, I 2 I lines 2 through 5, Well, have ybu ever given any iRs to 13 1 Monica Lawmsky?” And you answer, “I don’t reqa I. 9*

i && I And you were correct. Yqu pomtad out that you j. 9 asked them, for pmmpbng. “EM you know what they

ii i the A I think what I meant then3 was I don’t recall what

i 9rAn iI wera not that I don’t recall whathar I had given them. then k you see. they did giva M thaae speHic9. and I [ 10 I gave them quite a good expbnation hen. I remamberad very rlllclea~ ywhatthefactswanobout~ Bladr~~ n~ id trz~ thatIcwMhavegtvenhttohatpmandaW%~ I 13 1 book; that I did not remember givmg h% r a gold broach, which I I 4 Iwas true. I didn’t mma+ ier it. I may have given it to her, [ 15 I but I didn’t remember gtvmg her 0~.

~y~~ n~~~~~, a~~ Ch~ I : t 1 gifts, and I don‘ t know why I dtn‘ t think to say anythi

I 18 labout therm. But I have to tall you again, I even imnt Gj [ 19 1 them to have a list.

i : y i definition lt was obviius to me

I 22 I had acc& tu a tot of information fror?% t%%% I in this deposition that % ~*~ nt~~

[23] pR? SUfll% it C% ffl% from t& d% T. 12 4 1 not, answarfng thair quastiins [ z 51 belleve that gifts are incriminating, nor do I

.. I .rs‘ l. . ii --- -aboutthemesthatyouactuallyhadme

t6llmR3Uta Contact. ~~& atoneocc+ sionin1997 Idonotknawwhether A Shawas- Ibakevethat- well tkstdfalI, on~ i9ithewhasMuseaftsrthe’radiiaddrassintheQval ?% Esn [iojcorrpbx., Ibetievesheprobabtywas butl’mnotsure. But [i~ jl’marrtamthatsomaonewasthere. ialvmys- atwaya

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~~~~~~.~~~ shewl~ thcn. sk~ sntwnrsha? That A Shewasalwaysthen, intheWkeMusa, andIwas f% CmCNMd -tatmebackupandsay- IS1 Q What about tha radio a& es& Mr. F% akk&

~76hharadcOaddraaa. Iwassickaftaritwa~ ovarandI. Iwaa A Latmebackupasecond Mr. Sittman. Iknawrbout

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A Tharscorrect.

-whethefehera~ radnatbing, ar~~

isi 191

- titatiDnship? g No. Idiin~ 8akherabaut# inth8twav. I

pwlen [l] feotsdown. Iwestryingtoundqntendwhetthefect! swefa. 121 Q lfMs. Cumetast@ Jdthettheeawerenatraetly ~~~~~ toher, thst~ y~~~ Yre~. ir

notbue? rzo! That’s whet you sa

1211 0 tfdcurfie- tothat, ifshe! ropyou I 2 2 J told her. I was never alone with her. tight?

1231 A Wall. Iwesnavarebnewithher-

i241 Q

1251 A Dii gou not vy that,. Mr. Prasident? Mr. mmen, pat a mtnute. I was naver l bna wilh

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ht rn. ht be a uaatiin. And whet I might have meant i:$$ hz is;~>; Dval% ftica compbx.

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I41 Cl

A Well, you knew the answer to that, didn’t you? Izimind ifwa tooke braek? I Wa’n baen goin for mom then en hour. Would you IJI MR. BllTMAN: naer! to, tothareatroom.

Let’s te a a braek.

(81 MR. KENDALL: racarsed fmm 2% p. ll?.

It is 2: 38 - sorry. 2: 46. /

rzoissying~ tthenirebrol~~ rio,~ xofen~ ki~ ineny 1’1 ~mennar. shape or form, ti realdent Clin on I:$ Judge Susan Wabbar Wright comd. That statement is meda bylour attorney in front of

[241 A mars corract: [ZSI Q That atatemant is a compbtely false statement.

rl~ wtome. Idkln’t- ldon’lknawthetlwesevan

r2lpeyifl9thetmuchetienthtoit. Q Youtoldusyouwerev& ywelIpreperedfarthe

rieithetatatamantthet~ wescon~ onthaexectwofdaha

I191used.

I: ijhevin ft

NW ifaomaonehedeskadmaonthetdey ereyou enykinjlofsaxuelraletionswithMa Lewinsk ‘that

1221is,. es admaequestionintheprasantte&. lwoukIheva

[23lSald no. And itwou# hevabean onnp& telytrua. Q Was Mr. Bennett ewera of this tense- be& ~%& nclion you em making now -

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I21 MR. KENDALL: I’m

[3laboutwflununicatiim fiu ak oing to object to any qwstions MR. WISENBERC! W4$?%% tness has almedy I:& tifiad lthink thetMr. Ban& ttd~ r$ tknawabautthe ,s, inapp&& te &etionsh’ with Ms. Lewinsky. I guass -

171 THEWlTNE&: Well you’llhevetoaskhimthet I~~~ kaw. Hawesnoteawomwi& asendIwesnotpeying’

&aeettentiontowhethaweseeying. I% etoldyou cloOhat~ Peatadly. Iwes- Idon’t- Inavarevenfccuaedon rlll~ untill~ ainmis~ nraptin~ ntianfor il2imis taatanony. r r -r- ~----

WhenIwesinthera. Idiinltthinkeboutmy

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::;!% ut don’t 7 hYOOTMnHdlyl: AndIr4ouldhavajustforgotten mmambar hrm avar saymg that.

131 Q Atanytima? $nambaP,~ tl~; ti~~ r~~~ ptt

tslshe_ upsetthataha_ g43ingbhavatomsdfy, lhaths f7thad raferrad her to a lawyer,

Q Inkct. sha_ vmydkdraugMaboutths &bpeana, acaording to Mr. Jordan, wasnt sha?

A WaII, hasaidrha_ upaatabwtlt. Id& t Klmmambar- Idonl ramembarany, atanytima_ nhar* d r121thta. thii dthar thlna VW iust auotad ma. rm soffv. I

A No. ILenawrknarmhintass anythingthat

I:{ wasnY trua. And his memory of there avant% 7 think, would r3lbebsttcrthanmlnc~ ureI~ alotof~ thinOIOoinO

A I:~ jaboutthatharetoday, thstIhodktsofconva I’ve already - I baliave I’ve alretta$$ 4$ rzo] Vemon. I’m sura that I had tots of conversahons with him (21 Ithat included commants about this. And if he has a specffic 122 lmamory of when I had some conversation on a cartoin day, I [z 3 1 would be indined to, trust hts memory over mine, becsuw I 2 4 I under the

[2s~ cluttered t F: resant arcurnstan~~~ my haad’s an his, and my schedule IS pro baby busrar. Ha’s mbabty mnra

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[ 11 probably got batter records. /Sithat n. ht sir he asked ou if you’d bean invo ,Q, , And wheiMr: Jordan met _z 2 p Residenca

[ 4 1 sexua relabonshrp wrth ‘p

onids Lawinsky, didnr ha? A Idonotrememberaxacttywhatthenatunofthe

/ 2 i conversation was. I do rernambar that I told him that there I 2 1 was no sexual relationship b& wean ma and Monica Lewinsky. [ 8 1 which was true. And that - then all I ramember for tha mst

rslisthathtsaahehadnferradhertoalawybr, andI [ 1 o 1 behave it was Mr. Cartar and I don’t believe I’ve ever mat (11 ]Mr. Carter. I don’t think 1 know him.

A All I can tell you, sir, is I. I mrtsinly don’t I 24 ! n? mmkr him saying that. Now, ha could have said that [25lbeWuOe, as you know, a great many things happaned in the

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[251was th43 tint parson who told me. I tdieve 8fua Lindsey OlCStarr Paga62topeOe67

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Page 70 You know I belii then I beliiva now that iii Monica Lewinsky caUtd have sworn but an honast afhdavit r3lthat under raasona bla circumstancas and without tha be& t

I 4 lof what Linda Tripp did to her, would have given her a chance rs~ nottobeawitnassinthiiaasa.

So IdiinYhavaparfectmamoryofallthasa 17” {evarrts that h& a now in the last sevan months since Ms.

I 81 Lewinsky was kept for savaral hours by four or ftva’of your

I 9 I lawyerr and four or five FBI agents, as if she wra a serious riorfalon, thaaa things hava bacoma tha most irnpurtant matters in I 11 ~tha world. At tha moment thay wara occurring, many othar [12Ohings wera going on.

lhonestlybiadtoramambarwhan- I% qmebodyaskadyou. hasanybodyavarta know, if

rE$ E ,~“ o~~~ k.~ ll.* ha~~~ l~~ that. Tha srlllwastryi todohara Iwasnot rl7lh$ ing to salnot Vernon Jordan% Bruca L& lsay. [HI wrybody nowsVemonJordanisafriandofmina. I 1191 robpbly woukf have talkad to Vernon Jordan 8bout tha Monica ~2o& winsk probbm if he had never been invokad in it. So I rxwasnot& tomisbadtham. Iwastryi~ toanswarthh r221questiin wrth tha fast parson who told me at.

Now, I raaliie that wasn’t the apecific questiin. I : : lIThey were frea to ask follow- ups, just like ou’re asking 12s1follow- ups today. And I can’t explain why drdn’t answer r.

A Youevanread& adafiWmofthaoath.

yaqllndmtandthStifyouanSwSmd,~ don’t rls~ think ~0.. to thr4 qumbon. ha l nyonS 0th~ than your rl9@ tomSySt@ l~ thStMoniaLWmkyhrr~ nServ+ wiEh

~~~~~~ nthtaas8. tbtYyauanaw8fed. Idm~ thmk

(22,& J houK$ ou lllmrm4 ylv ““ V~~~~ bba$ fg you f23’a@ ema? A! 3???%!~? Lar( il* daboutthisthraa ~::; tknas. Naw. lwBdozthafolathtima. I8mnotgoingto

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i21i I know that, I know Vernon hetped her to get a

122 I lawyer, Mr. Csfter. And I, I beliive that he did it after

r23Jshehadualfflhim. butl’mnotsure. ButIknewth6itthe il( jmainsourccoftheiimeetingswrsabout~ rmovcto~ York JzsJand her getting a job.

Page 76 Q Areyousa .

!: iasked this question that sir that T’ I% emon J& an bSzzz

[3J19th, jWtthlCCandahaff~~ fon, andrsidthrthe JrJhadmetthatda ,thedaythatMontwgotthesubpoena?

A l& quitqporsibb- k’sasortofajurnbbd IZ; answer. Cs UtebossrblSthatIhadgottenmixedup (7JbStweSn WhS The rshehadmatwithhimortslk~ tohimonthe [ 8 JtetephOIKJ in those three and a half weeks.

Naw. k~ pinmind. IdonYknowifthisistnn ~::~ butthenewsre rb% arethatLindaTrtpptaBtedtoyou’th4m

[17JWent and tC+ l keP to the Jones bwyem. and, you know, ihpt sha r1eJpr+ r+ themforthis. Now maybe- youseemtob43 risJ~ mgmc~ rwatheydidnYuk~ rq~ and, r2oJasifyoudidnYpre rethemwelIenoughtosortofSstme 121 I up or something. fa don’t know whSrs going on hem.

All I can tell you is I didn’t rsmeMer all the 1:: jdetaik of all this. I diin’t mmambsr what -when Vemon

[ 24 Jtplked t0 n3S about MOniCS Lewinsky whather She talked to hi 125JOn the tekphom or had a meeting. f didn’t remember all

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Paga 80 lsl- wlhpb- Ididnrybest, elr. etullhtime. Idllnotknw I:; uh# Inowknoyebout~. AkltofotherthiiwereOoing [9] onnmylifa. Dldlwentthlsto~ aut? No. WSsI

[lol~- aboutit? Yes. DidIeskhertaleboutn

riiiN0. DidIbSliSvStherSC& dbS8tnSMulSffUvk?

’ Cl Youemnotseying. ereyou Mr. Pr~ Went. in ~:& nsofdoingthSworkfortheJonesfoRs: theJones rls,~~~.~ youwuld, ywanr# rsy,~ psrtofyournot I 19jhSlprng them. ‘I donY kncnC to a pertrculer question, when

r2o~ youmellyknew, endthetitwesuptothSm- evenrf ou f;; jurrdfl#$ ew the answer it wes up to them to do the f& nu- tvoukiiofhedeonefmS” IdonYkna#-

i23j . _ A No, sir. ~~:~ Pnsidsnt, Q lf I coutd finish up? I’ve been ve4y petient, Mr. in letting you finiih.

isijrou? A I76; ouoneexemple’! Thet’swh I ll etlhedtocomebedc r Ni sir I’m not~ se~~~ et. And if I could give

I 8 I 0 that auwtion where I seid. don’t know thet. end telk 1141 - A Y.& sir.

I151 a Youwsrs mpmentd by Mr. Bennett, of anxse?

1161 A marsm

1171 I161

1191

i2oj A Hewas.

1211 a rmrony. Gorhmd. I221 A No. no. Ye+, hewas . me.

1231 a How~ didyoubk~~ mhin. il

t24iyouanjustmaN atlhattbnaintheMigatM?

1251 A ~, wem&, lwouklsey- lwahMr. RuRwem

pw@ u u~ uthisweatlon,~ dm. Nismemorywouldbe metpmbebly, oh, fwebngthewedirmeet

r31dlth8tdh onceamonth Andthenthecbeerwe I4lgottame dtljBze* wewould~ mora~. so,

[51meybSbyth4stkneweweremeetingma4e. Hkrbo- thSlSSfSsSpSriodWhSnWShSdbSSn %pp& SdSblJt- I% umbSrofmeeungsendnotthewntSntafeny~ MR. KENM& Agekl. thequestiononlygoSstathe ;;;;“ ypurw VWTNEBB:

r121about the conwIt. I undemtend. Wre nat Wing

I191 BY MR. WtBENBERG: G Awitn~~ slist~ outon DecSmber5thof1997, I~~ bith Moniae Lewinskyb neme on it Mr. Pmsid~ nt when dii rzz] youfindwttMMonlcl’s~ wuon~~ lirt? A IbefievethetIfaundoutbtetntheeftemoonon [:: itheBth. ThrYswhetIWieve. l’vStriedtorememberwith

r25Weet pmcision. end beceuee I thought you woukl esk me ebout

r31bme. . ~.~

~$ hegth ontbgth- exauseme, Snthe6th- endlbelieve Idan?- Ihedemeetingintheleteef& moonan c6lthersvvhenIleemedeboutit.

I211 A YoumeendidIteRtoher. onthephcme? I$ isit in the Wlite _? G MonicsLewbsky, thetdey, befweheameinta

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644 m- Wlllkm Jeflwson Clinton. Wl7cob

Q I Iw Mr. President.

1251 A lR& Jn~ theotharhand, Ididnl, youknow. I. I

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Ill A That what never happeml? I21 Q The incident that you mm so irate about miier; [3ltheincidantof~ dirdoslnOto~.~~ tMs.

[4lMondobwasntheova omce?

Iziyou know A I don’t know the answer to that. I think maybe, I don’t know I don’t know the snswer

‘Q Youdofi~ mcallthat ubter a& o~ M~ tothe I’B iaffect that we are going to pretend dI0 never %a ~9lsomething - ppeml. or 1101 III 1 2 No, sir. - &a that3 L-- b

x .I__ _-..

No sir. I don’t recall it Fii of all I don’l I::~ recPllthatIgaM6rdentofi~ an~, iftMwoi~ I i 4 I imMicatiin of your first statement.

Q I% ttm doofway between the Oval Off& e Ad Betty currbb DidyouwKaptaiiPurdy whibyouwmletStand@ ~251~, did~ ffl~ inPurdyofthD& ifOMd& fbiOn,

UA uwlhm Jefhfson Clinton, Wl7m

39 p. m.

1231 1241 [Xl A -inthiicase, me, diitouchedthebreastof

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r11togmtifysexlNllywou#% withinttmdeJfwonusalin 12, the Jones am 8s sexual feteon

A Them’s1101) 1’ hwaboutthat, irthem? ldon’t ~% nowthat Ievarthought 8bzI Q Thetquestionisunderthe @@ Oc# m*‘. I~~ u* mtooditthen underthedhnitionasywmok%~ it (7inow- pardonme) ustrminute 181

i9i P8fdon me. Mr. President.

l!$ ZLflExhibitl Qwrtionl ur& rtha- in SheJonescrre DDfm~ af& urlRelrtsnr-

~: f& idenn Exalaeme MR.& NDALL Doyouhavethatbefomyou,~ r.

I141 THE WllNE&: I do, sir.

ElSl 1161

EEEyD& j Good.

rt71ti i) : Pvegotitrighthem. rmboking

646

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171 a nit- thetitwotMnMbemmed? The!

J 1 I answer. MR. WlSENBERG: l’li bs heggy to mghmse it. Jiojstope. Wean- IhOMtrWtode& wbhsome~~ I 11 ldehcate amas here, and. and in f3ne ca80 I% 0 given you a I 12 Avery forthright answer about whet I thought wes not wtthin

rl3Jhfwe.

AJlIantelJyoub wheteverlthoughtwes I::~ co~ nd. andIthougMsbouithisa~ lly. Andletmejust J16Jpointout. thiswesunamfortebkforms. lhedto r17Jec@ wbdp 119Jdefinltion I bsause ofthii detinition. thet underthii ed 0ctuolJy hed ssxuel mtetions ona with I 191 ~nnJfer Fl~ rs, a person who had spmed all kinds of r2o1ndculous. drshonest. ex’9$. reted storks l bout me for 1211money. Andlknewwhen dtithet, itwouldbeleeked. lt

122 Iwas. And I was embsrmssed. But I did it. %hat I thou So, I tried to rued this arefulty. I an tell you JzsJbelieve Id i8 ht it covered. end I an tell you thet I do not anythingthet Ithoughtwescoveredbythis.

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~76~ dinctJy in each one of thoss ases.

[19Jno.

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Q Youdon’tmnlsmbe %vey, shepenrfarm. endbtcludbJgomlsex collbd? rde~ enyldndofsexineny

A I~~ lWued. e~~ rofderMsto %sogbthetIthoughtneededtuheerthsm butlbiedtubs rzcJa~ le~ to~~~. MdIdonot~ rwhrtIuid J25Jto .bhn Podeste.

PeBe 103 J1Jdon’tbeJisvethetlshouldbsrequtmdtogobeyondmy

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647 WA Wllll8m JeffanOn Chton, BfWBB

1151 ii ;-& b88& gonV& th8rI-

1161 Q Idon’t8gr88.

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[l] notsexlKill8btms. ltisnotcovemdbythbdelinii. MR. KENMLL: lhewitnemisnotdecliniitobll

h888idtoJohnPod8St8. MR. WISENBERG: .-.

[51 0 Ywckedthe-

1$ ell me on MR. WlSENBERG:

Gh?!?

The witness is not d& ining bD

I61 Y R. WlSENBERG: Q Didyoudanyorsl~ xinsnymy,~ orform, to

[ ls] WhOt 1 Said. Q

~:$ 8m8nlb8r? So, you 8r8 not declining to 8nw8r. you juSt don? [I61 fi I_ hotwstty don’t r8m8mb8r, no.

Who h8d 8 control’y

P8ge 106 ii3itim? A No. The- btmesaythis. lt’snomaetto

;::; anybody that I h P thatthiirelationshjpwoukinever

rl6lb8cOm8Oublic. S8- m8tt8rOfkdth8t h8dbHtInUIW. ik%?~ fl?&!%% IJrS 8IId 30 %8cOMS. if you’ll l8t m8 S8y v g8n8r8l8bout thiS. rzcil~ 8~ rbywr~~ thrtIwonY-~ on [2slmySt8t8m8m. IWtllnot8nSW8r. IWouldlike3g~ 8t

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pibe lying? A l’moolnotommrttomvfom~~ retetamM.

P8ge 111

(11 A ItillrwwttomyfomweteWmeM I$ her, a lfMo+ aLewi~ eeySthetyouhedphonSeSxwith;

wwki she b A ~$ wnmredby W?% is etbeetingenerelt~ m~ S Ithink,

[ 6 I StStSmSnt, Snd %et &temerit. IeddrSeeedthetinmy’ ,Ido& tbSlii, iS- a LetmedefinSphonSsSxforpurpoeeeofmy ~~~ question. Phawraxoccu~ whenepeftytoephorw3 i 9~ convSmetion mesturbebe whii the other perty h telking in

~~ 0~ ewweltyaplicitmennSr. Andth4tqueSWnts, lfMonice [llll~ ndty~ ytthptyouhsdpho~~~ withr. wou# e~~

r121ww

I131 A IthinkthetiecovemdbymysteWwnt. Q Oid you. on or ebout Jenue thy 13th. 1998. Mr. ~~~~ PreMent. eekEnkrneBowbstoeskJohn llkyifh~ woukl %

Ll6lgiW3 S mwnmandetion for Monim Lewinsky?

I171 A In19987 Q Yes On or about Jenuery 13th. 1998, did you esk I:~ iERkineBowks, yourCh~ ofS~, n~-~~ John [zolliilby to give a recomme

i% iBowles about whether A At -#~@~ u$% ekine

I 2 3 J recommendation that wes not negetive from the L~ gieletii 124 IAffairs Office. I believe I did. 1251 Q I just didn’t hear the very lest pert.

Pqe 112 A I think the answer is, I think, yes. At - point ~:~ ItelkedtoEnM& owbseboutthii. 131 2 %% tknowwhetthctdetewes. Ateom~~ ointl $ii tSlk to him.

Q AndnEnk~ BawkshostoMusthothstoldJohn IG i Podest~ to cony out your wishas. end John Pod~ ete etetes (8 1 that it was thme or four der before yo) lr win, which rswouldbethS13thorthSl th, ereyounepowWntodeny rlolthet? 1111 A The13thorl4thoR .--.

1121

1131

Q Janus ti t& deb. A ldon’t L. I don’t know when the date was.

1141 AQ tF% tinepositbntodenyit. IwonYdenyit ~~~ ll’meurSthetthwerebothbuthfulmSn. Idon’tknowwhen * ~17jthedetewes. -

Fbgo 113

trrammdbyebedrawmmandetionfmmthe ~$ i$% iLAlfSiISOfflW. so.~ eskedErekinaifweanlkl ;& ad a -mjUSt-& 8tf& TM#* Y”“““” M; W pmventhSrfromgSttingepbinthe Par ftmentit

(~~ hinthetehe& wdyhedSjobendhSdelmedylWdMr. Q lfMr. BowbehestoMurtM, inkd. putoM

IlOlHiMeyeSelS+ KmSendwentSdhimtSbeeve~ eee rlll~. wouldyoubein- iS? hetmwith

I don’t b& ii I did. sir. No. Q Youn6nfewtoldhwenythingtothibeffSathet %? onierheSewthklgtog~ you?

A Yee. Idon’tknowthet, thetMs. Cuwbkn~ wth~ t

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649 em Wllllam Jeffomon Clinton, (IF17108 -1

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IameMerm sha- mnin& tosee6etty. I [7lcantaliyouthii. 1absokMlynavaraskedharto Q Sir avefytimeshaame~ sae6at& andyouwefe leg~ intheOval~.‘~- cominOto~ you, too.- nY ~~ oJshe. orjustabouteverytima?

A Ithinkjustaboutavefytime. ldon’tthiikavefy ~~~& na. Ithinkthere- atimeortwowherashacamatosaa [l3JBettywhenshedidn’tseama.

I don’t member exactly what I tokl her thst

r2oJnight. I211 Q Diiyou-

I::& natwas ~~~%? tionship how she ot in. But I also mmember that. I ramambar talking about

( 24 )wiJlt8Ji you that I felt Uib &nfortabb tNt& w St She cOU# rzslhave executed a I pmdavit, which wou# not have

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[ 1 ~disclosed the embarrassing dataib of tha nlstionship that I z we had hsd. which had bean over for msfw. msrw months bv the iJitim8 thla in& dent oawad. _. _ I:;:~ likethstto~ r.~ u~~ rfO You would agw M& ne& ouou say somamg rlgJpeopb. thatthatwou# bapart anafforttombbadthe ?V r2o~ Jones

paT b, nomattarhowavilthaysrasndcom#? Ididn’tsaytt! eywefaavil. lsaidwhatthaywere I$ idoing hem was

I231 Q W=& a!% tGibadi 7 A ~~~~ chsracteftzesomathingtha I’m- ths I on knowifl Wall, again,? are r, f$! opt ma to

F’age 116

tllSSidOfnot. WithOUt~ WhOthS~ thSwhob. WhOthS,~ [21axltaxtbculpbborfKJt. 6a, Iwouklhavatoknow, what

r31wasthe= ntext. whatwfeaHthasuimundina~.

WI. again. I don’t mall. and I don’t recall

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r::;$ zf% tzvhab th *a& yougsvahart& tswwpingsnmunay. rm J2,,~~~, asA&??~ ti!- s-~ haarttJtat (251 G IwanttogobrdrtoaquastionaboutVamon

P8ga 124

Q Asubposnaadwibwssinacasaagainstyou? A Absolutalv. Look. tar one thinu. I Jrad l kaadv

hi’” WM. __

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[l, amtact. shswwutakaboutthis. shawouldhavato. shs

r2JcouldnthaMk. Jtwas. uwasapartofharpsyshs. So,

[3llhadputmysalfatfisk sir. Iwasnottryklgto

[4l~ orgatvamcln~ tobuyhar~. Ybr [51sha~&~ wl. Shahsdnoteaan~~~ br

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I101 E WlSBNBERG: _ B’s tin maforar. KENDALL: CXay. 4: 49. 1111

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[131 k KENDALL Bob, waalaat2hoursand55

[14, mhltas. 1151 MR. BmMAN: lwohoufsafKts5minutas, m8nkyou. .___ mv .. m --..& I.

ii7j Q Mr. PmsManL A Mr. B& man. G Aaaamnwwahavaonslmlfr’and5vaminutasbtt

stick 0 thatir- hou~ tkmtmma MRKEJOALL: PkIs3dsacands. MRBlTlMAN: And30sacandsthatsrigM. THEWKNESS: Yougavamsmy3osaamds’soJiIoqy owayou3osacands.

(241 Q Yes.

1251 MR. KENDALLz Mr. Prasiint, ax_ ma. That’s a

m- 7

~iwastion. lt Jwvaamamoryofthatyoucananswar. T&% VlTNESS l’mtryingto mmambarwhanttm $maItalkadtoharwas. iamawarp, sir thstshssignad

[4lthiiatmavitaboutthisms somabmsilithafifstvmakill

rs~ Jsnuary. lnmyhavstaBadtoharbatorashadJdit I

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ce$ acanwr2S. ImaYhavataBadtohar. butIdonrramarrwr

r91tha sp4dicaMmfmon 1101 BY MR BNTMAJ’J:

1111 Q Andwuumukthmatalkdaboutths- shahadjust

.-. . Q LatmssaaifIanJogyourmsmoryturtJmr. j::~ MolliatrkCadto~ inthatpJXWla~ tJUtWpu

651 msA Willi8m Jdhf80n Clinton, 6Il7IB8

rllreme& rer that. A Ihavanorw& ctbnofthatwhataver. 171 Q Areyouaa~. youdttnYaaytt7

A No,&. l’mte bgyou. IwanttoaayIdon’t ~89~- ll- IdonY~ vssny~ oftha~ Irit~

1101today. And I pan tell rlltnevardid. Andldan Jou this. Inavaraakedhertolb. I

haveanyracalbchonoftheapecik

rle~ wasconc8rnadaboutitforthe ArKI all my reasons you just mantiomd.

~~~ jhecauaeahethougMrtwo41 k& pharfram mamoz is shewaawdrrbdatxnrtit rzlldomtherosd, ands~~ trlk~ to~~ Lco 122 11997.

.w* jah She thought, well, 1’11 never have my record dear ~23~ unbssIworlcsomswherein~ Vllhi~ Hou~ compkx~ rsI c24lcan

Fe tagoodracn4nmendation. Butinthacontextthatyou rtslmen ran it, I do not recall a conversation. I: 23~ hirsher, andI~~ rdid, andIwou# nrdothrt lt rlr~ wouldn’t he right.

0 Whan oureceiuedthehat& thia i:& haPraaidelltsotthe i3 nttadstataa this& thPM frafn Monica, rl,, andyouEslkbdwithMonics_,$ id1-~~~ rieIDoyours~ r~ notethstita~ with, Mr. Prsaicknt?

1191 A NO, srr, I oom. Q Doyouremamherthatinthan& eshewratethat, ~:$ aaxpraaaedhowmuchahemiaaed l ndtmwlmlchshecared 122 1tor you, and you and she bter taked & this in this :

rz2ltebphqne cdnveraation, and you said -and she apologized rzrltor puthng such emotional, romantic things in this note, and [251you said. yeah, you ahoutdn’t have wdtbn same of those

inirabrkg tathat.

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plge134

PageJ 135 A Mymemofyofuutwuth8t. thatshehutthe

f~~ a+ 3ilitytohearwhatwugoingonifSlmcafnehtheQval r3lCHicefranheroffica Andrbtofm youkmw,~ I r( l~ in~ Ov8l~,~ jurthrd~ door~ b~ r rs~ office. Thentherew8S- thedoormrnwor~

[6JCtOMdtOthOh8( l. ~.~ thiithWW8S- t? llllOt

r7, entirelyUgdwhatIme8ntby~ butIcould~~ nt rwthat She generally would be abb to hear comfemation~, even ~i~ ifSheawldnYSeethem. AndIthinkthHswh8tIm~ nt.

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ril~~ nninedtoimposetheoppropritt? limitsonthe ~:~%?$&$$%%$ k% ft%~~~ public. (4 IAlthobh I fmnkly., from 999 on, l lwap felt that if I I z. I 88myed inappropriate contact mth Ms. Lewiwky , Sooner or [6]& erdwouldgCtpublic. Andlneverthou9htitwouldbe

[7IpfNt of the Jones cast.. I never even ““ a htrboutthlt. I rslof your 18 I never though;;& ezly never thought would be port 1101 “6” .,

1111 A 8 %%% t%& t she would talk about it. a Myques~ wasmofe~~ thrt Mfs. cufrie I~~~ danotknowofthephpicsHy~~ ts~ olyarr rlr~ relationsh’ dii she?

I151 R I don’t beliw she did. no. %luWtweofhrm tii ipfromM~. Cunis? Q Qkagso* R” wouldhavedone- youtriedtokeep I181 A Ab~ ol& ly. I-

I191 Q So, ou would not have erga9ed in those phySically

120 I intiite acts if you 1: r211that. i9 that comet? new that MIS. Currio ceu# sue or haor

A ThaVscorrect But i:: italking about 1997. That oc& rmdl

12 5 11 tWvW Should have Started It. and rzrlthat occurredonlyon~ inF~ rua~ of1~ 7. lstcgmd it. certamly thou n’t

Peg. 137

r11hmmst8ftaditback8rblImsohmdnottoin1996. Andl

[14] suf8.

Q ~wa~ atba~ toneevagwhwMn. Currtewa~

i19i A r201thm w8S aIrwIly somwlla Q Pm not sum ofth&. But~~, that~~ se,& em wan,

Kboutwhetherc VU& I. whygdc& ouu~ &s. C& to’s memory I::~~ bOli6fhth8tthW~ A Wm& lansayth&. lfImintheQvalQff&-

sornwneelSethwe. wnewhNein

t251theOvaIOffbcomgbx. lbebokedrtour- hfekmked

r118tthetIhl. This, thiSnighth8s~ b9endarynow, you r21knw. rvebokadatthe, lvebokad8tthetilmwbhave. r31l~ bokadatmySchedu~. rv8Seenthepwpk8thatwem 1411themdio& dresS.

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r4~ ofherbodywiththeinLttoarouaeor9r8tify. Andth8rs [31sexu8lrebtimS1waS iwlnbydiitowhin9tho8eplrtS t5, rllIhavetoSa Ithii forthef8St youknaw youknowwtutthe $VidO~ iS* lld) tdoern’t&~~~ Q lsitpowlbbor& npossWthatyourwmenbon

I:;. d-~&.~ ~_ y, I:$. You.& L~~~~% the~ am. ~12, There’s no 1131 . gointha

r141Prwdew Don’t~~ thefadsarea4o, Mr.

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653 sm Willlem Jeffereon Clhbton. WV/ B8

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1171 Q iIMls. CurtiewSmldii, ereyoudiinp iiri #let? _ _ l, Ol ,-- a A No. sir. I’m not diioutim -

MR. KEkDAii: ;:$ et she testitied that thet B Exarrq: 6e> yes jFee ntation

MR. BITTMAN: IZiwhet Mrs. Currie seid. rm not meking rrepmeentetion 8s to

I’m eekii the Preadent rl Mrs. r24) Currietest~ twoorthreed rzsldeys after the conversetion vz& F%! z&~~~~ ry

F’age 142

~~~ l8th, thethecolkdherinto~ OvrlOmcsendmnt~ r r2ltheexed~~ rtstamantstM~ Prss~ ntmPdeto~ r~

[3Jttle 18th.

I41 BY MR. Blllh4AN: Is thet eawete? Is thet a truthful statement by

[251 Q Eertymominghoun?

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[l~ ebout es s43on es I cou#., efter I finished with Prime [z] Miniir Netanyehu. end m the efkenneth of that mwting ~3@ enningwherewbweregoingnextintheMiiEestpeea

r41p-.

151 MRKENDALL: Cenwetakeetwo- minutebre&. iSjpbese? MR. BIllMAN: Il; Mr. Kendell? May I esk one other question tirst,

MR KENDALL: Certeinly. I think the wtbmes b ~$ onfwd on detue. Thet’s ell.

111 EBm: %& whet- ldidn’tthiiItwe8

:3& e night of the 17th.

‘41 & _. MR. KENMLL: Mr. Presiint, I think wsll do lt in

ilsla max. THEWlTNESS: CenWbheveebmekendImuld~ $reiihteMK! oUt? MRBfllMAN: Sure. Meyleak~ otherquidr- IZ& i ie a queetion I 9° t THEWrrN SS:

I:~; datos rwm. Go 8head toe%~%?:~ i%% ponUww . h

1221 BY MR. BhWJ: Q fhbh- theywentedtoknowwhether, theywent ~% stoC@ tfythetthePfes~ nt% knowledge your-. [2s] Mr.~# tO~~ ChbOurOnCgthbmoming;

P8gel4otoPagel4! i

654 WA Willbm Jdhnon Clinton, 6H7f66

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MESS: And what’s your quastkm to ma, Mr.

P8fp 147

ri1Biin? 121 .-~ BY MR. BIHM# NI ia lNhaharyouwaraawaraofthafactsthatljwt

rl91tham. I~~& finition andIdonYba& mvethayaracovarad than1 lfthowthings ifthingsaranotcovaradbytha

~221could not’- than they shouldn’t be within thii din r23ionewavorthaothar. .--, ~’ Now Iknowthiiissomawhatunwual Butlwould

I Z i say to tha g& J jury, put yourself in my positiin. ’ This is

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MR. BlITMAN: MR. KENDALL: Thank you.

Thii mll be wo minutas. 17 p. ni.

[241 A I do. I251 Q All rigM. And you recall contacting Batty Currb,

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Paga 163

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1251 Q Wsrsyoussndiiaomskrndofssignaltohsrby Psgs 169 cll~ sringa~~ hrdgivenyouonthedsythrt~~ s~

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1251 THE WlTNESS: Jut 8 moment. MR KENDALL Exa188 m8. Mr. Bennett. Page 171 I:; House 0 Mr. Pra~ ident, you% not contSnd@ g that wh& S ~, documenbstomdinthef8shlonttutthw [3] w4! q Stored, 8re bOyOnd your an. Custody or m. 8re

(131 A -That%- MR. KENDALL: I’m goi to caution th8 wib1888

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PI@ 8 174 THEmESS: W8ll, l’dliketo- MR. KENDALL:

;;;; d. . Q s0, yOUS8tb8CkSndr8liSdOtlthiibg8& tiC &ncbonbeWeenyourperSon8l, whiiyou8t8incontml

[23] 0f, snd~~ iteHO~ which, bythewsy, youon, rbon [24, Contrdot, iSthttnotconsdi, t251 MR. KENDALL: I won? object to the 8rg111? 18*

P8ge 172 P8ge 17s THE WlTNESS: Mr. B8nn8tL I h8wn’t 88id thi8 J ~:; d8ybng, b” tlwo” ldlik8to88 itnOW (61 MOStOfmYtim88 W9~‘ inthObSttiW8d8 ndy [7] h8lfy4B8rShrVbbeSndSvOtSdtOmY [e] fiW Sd 8 hti Ye8rS. I hW0 rho hdob to ~u$#$‘ W’

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Q &II Mr PmSident howrrethel~ ttersfmm nvilege here. i:: il( athben Wlby th8i su& ed Sfteithe Iw) MinuteS” episode

124 Isired my diinnt from the awmspondenca 8nd other [zs] matterS, tnngibte itemr, t8ngibb things, of Monica Lswinrky? [2S] wer8 not true.

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benena [I] 123: s ~BENNETT [lo] 14222;

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662 Is* Will& m Jeffenon Clinton, WV/ 96 -1

29: 14; 34: 5; 44: 15; 45: 5; 163: 15 71: 20; 7413.25; 7516. 13; 1707; 171: 16.20; 172121 12: 23; 17: 13; 46: 5; 49: 16; 49: 14: 55: 6; 56: 21; 57: 25; i broader [l] 6020 ,79: 5; 83: 12; 94: 25; 95: ll; cling [I] 51: 14 '86: 16. 19; 92: 15; 94: 13; 58: 15; 125: 16; 138: 16; ,broke [6] 104: 6; 106: 12; 97: 2, ii; 99: ll; 115: 14. CLJNTON [l] 3: 9 104: 23; 124: 17 140: 2; 146: lO; 147: l; !107: 14; 108: 3; 116: 9; 15; 119: 23; 120: 16, 17, Clinton [5] 3: 19: 5: 6; iconfidence [l] 38: 6 149: 12 '14820 :16; 123: lO; 124: l; ;20: 19; 58: 21; 59: 3 ;confidwlt [1] 11222

Biack p] 3422; 35: 2; !brothor [q 116: 7, 17; :131: 22; 132: 6; 136: 7; ~clomd [l] 135: 6 ~confund p] 76: 4; 52: 11 I 127: 7; 14021; 142: 16 1137: 19; 14O: lO; 143: lO; ICIW t2] 51: 14; 8413 145: lO bhnm [21 40: 9; 92: 25 IBrua [lz] 40: 17; 41: 25; !150-. 25; 153: 9; 167: 6.11; [closest [l] 31: 3 ~confusing [l] 40: 24

bianket [I] 35: lO r42: 1.4; 43: 4; 67: 11. 25; 117413 .ciowt p] 156: 23; 157: 1, Congress [I] 1482 bI0. d [l] 153: 3 l68: ll; 70: 17; 7320; 62: 9; 0cas. s [5] 26: 16; 2911; 12 ~connection [4] 16: 13; blessed [I] 72: 16 '144: 2 ilOO: 7; 165: 16,24 :cbthing (11 95: 4 116: 10; 158: 7; 166: 20 -

blew [21 140: 3; 164: 14 ~Building [l] 113: 23 'cast [I] 152125 cioudy (11 40: 19 :connotes (11 4720 blbzrrd (11 101: 9 :burden [2] 73: 14; 76: 19 latch [l] 62: 4 :clutb~ W [I] 63: 25 conscience [l] 6%

~consonsuai [1] 1720 con8ldw [4] 49: ll; 62: 19; 100: 19; 147: 14 ~ConsideratiOns [1] 'lo: 15

consist [l] 10: 2 :consistentfz] 4223;

143: lO ,comnt p] 25: lO;

79: 12 :constantly [l] 12921 :constmJte [4] 10: 3; .95: 12; 9722; 103: 13 ~ConstmJtion8lp] ,166: 5, 13 ~constnlct [l] 140: 17 ~consult fzl 5: 16,19 .consultatlon [l] 5: 18 rconsulted [1] 16625 tcontact [45] 10: 6; '11: 24; 12: 5, 8. 17, 18; '15: 19.20; 16: 2, 10, 15, '25; 17: 25; 18: 2; 24: 18; :39: 2. 5; 48: 8. 21; 51: 4; !54: 2.6; 55: 9; 61: 24; i92: 16; 95: 12. 13, 16. 17; 198: 11, 12; 97: 23; 98: 4;

blood [lj i38: 19 !burdanod 11) 12422 blue [1] 159: lO !bueier [l] 63: 25 Blumenthal p] 105: 24; ~businms 121 4522;

108: l; 166: 21 169: 15

blur [I] 105: 13 lbut& n [t] 157: 6 board [l] 29: 24 'buy [2) 125: 3,4 Bob p] 11: 14; 125: 13 bodies [2] 16: 2.10 C __ __

body [! q 16: 16.20; 18: 2; 96: 12; 139: 4 ~uicukted [I] 625

b$ y PI 79: 14.15; lcabndar [2] 31: 16; !32: 25

book (91 36: 14, 15; ICaiifomia [I] 73: 4 52: 13; 127: 12. 16, 18; *call 1141 49: 2; 7520; 130: 15, 16; 173: 6 116: 15; 134: 20; 144: 10, books (51 36: 16; 45: 1; '13; 159: 9; 160: 19; 173: 14.15 161: 23.24; 163: lO; bore [I] 18: 12 \167: 18; 17416

Bosnia [I] 127: 19 ~criiing p] 149: l; bower p] 45122; 47121; '159: 25; 16122 16514 ~uiis [2] 110: 20; 172: 5 bothered p] v& 13,14, 'amera 111 1f: ll

15 :umpaign [l] 157: 18 bound [5] 8: l. 16; 19%; Canada Ill 3~ 8

23: 25; 171: lO canvas [l] 34: 21 Bowles [lo] lO5: 24; 'capacity [i] 171: 6 108: 2; 111: 15. 19.22; !C8ptain p] 91: 23.25

112: 2. 6, 18. 19; 113: 8 ,card [l] 49: 19 box [2] 35: 16; 51: 19 lcards [lo] 47: 25; 48: 4. break [16] 5: 18; 11: 3,9, ;$ 1701 12, 14; 49: 8. 12; 10; 56: 25; 58: 6. 7; 92: 6; 125: 9; 14515, 15. 16; care [3] 71: 13; 89: 18; 185: 2. 5; 171: 19; 176: 9 '171: 3 breaking p] %X: 1?; .und [1] 130: 21 142: 9 ~can! fui [S] 5O: lO; breaks [3] 122: 23; 101: 12.24; 107: 18; 131: 19.20 108: lO

breast 191 94: 20, 25; ~carefuiiy [S] 30: 4; 95: 8,20; 96: 21; 100: 2,4; W& 99: 15.23; 151: 15; 162113 brew* p] 109: ll; i- 4 (11 112: 7 110: 7, 15 iCarter [4] 64: 10, 11;

breathtaking [1] 146: 5 17323; 7522 brief p] 9: 11; 42: 17; tuning [l] 35: 7 166: 15 #case [Se] 5: 6; 8: 14, 19.

:uugM [I] 40: 8 coffee [l] 173: 3 ~. causad [I] 51: 8 ~cowcted [l] 36: 15 :c8ution [l] 171: 14 'coiioquy [1] 62: lO :certalnty M 36: 25; ;Columbia [I] 4: 25 15622 ,comf&& b (21 47: 7; lCERllF1CAl- E [I] '117: 24 177: 13 lcoming [s] 3122; Icamfy [l] 177: 15 .54: 15; 11713.6.9, 17; Icetera (11 163: 14 '118: 6; 119: lO; 176: 23 Ichance [1] 70: 4 lcomment [1] 25: 19 tchange [t] 28: 2 icm [4] 21: 2; ichangad m 47: 13; 51: 3 '6321; 101: 16: 132: 13 IchancwrtxMMp] ,commit [I] 79: 6 :12: 25; 46: 17 ~commltbd P] 5: 5; ~characterixe [I] 118: 25 'lW: 12, 17; 164: lO ~charga p] 60: 7; 174: 18 ~common p] 24: 8; 95: 5;

~charming [I] 66: 23 :121: 7 tcheck [I] 56: 2 ! communication (11 , ~cheny p] 35: 16.22 i60: 3

iChicago [I] 158: 19 I communications [l]

Ichicken 111 161: 17 '61: 3

Chief [4] 31: 24; 32: 3; !compeited [1] 170: 3 !111: 19; 166: 17 tcompiktion [l] 51: 19

ichocoiates [2] 35: 16, rcompikd [I] 170: 24 :22 cotnpiaining [2] 69: 7; ichristmas [16] 3322. 180: 5 '24; 34: 11; 36: 13. 14; ~compIete p] 7: 7; 8: 11;

briefly p] 5: 13; 58: 14; '22; 9: 9; 13: 21; 17: 9; 18: 8; 114: 16 ,20: 2; 22: 10, 11; 24: 21; bringing [S] 28: ll; :26: 8, 12. 13, 25; 27: 2; 117: 4, 17; 118: 6; 119: lO :28: 11, 14; 33: 16; 36: 20; broach [l] 52: 13 ,41: 20, 23; 47: 8; 51: 24;

broad [2] 2622; 118: 9 :56: 24; 57: 9; 59: 17; 66: 12. broadcast p] 162: 8.23; '19, 25; 67: 18; 68: 6; 70: 5;

44: 25; 52: 16; 126: 13; 11912 #106: 16; 124: 9, 13; 125: l; 127: 7, 17, 18. 20,23; ~compieteiy m 25: 14; 1131: 8; 134: 9; 136: 5; 142: 16; 157: 8. 9 58: 25; 59: 8; 60: 23; 135: 5; /138: 25; 151: 11, 16; cigar [l] 110: 23 149: 25; 170: 6 jl64: 4; 168: 8 circle [1] 15: 7 compiex [lo] 54: lO; lcontacted p] 16: 16.20

circled [l] 15: 6 55: 20; 56: 12; 58: 2; lcontactlng [I] 14625

circuit [f] 28: lO 11322; X29: 23; 132: 23; icontactl p] 11: 23;

~cifcumstances [6] 47 ': 2, 13725; 136: 14 '166: 9

14; 51: 3; 63: 24; 70: 3; :cotnpiicate [l] 107: 9 tcontain [t] 34%

‘73: 14; 78: 18; 176: 20 icomplicated [l] 55311 iconbnd P] 175: 8,9

~cltizen [I] 122: 3 ~comply p] 47: 3; 17122 icontending [l] 171: l

tcivli [4] 8: 21; 2O: l; Icompounded [1] 72: 21 /content [21 84: 9.12 126: 16; 115: 14 jconcentrating [l] 60: 18 icontext pi] 17: 2; 18: 7, lclrim p] 133: 13; Iconcemed 1141 21: l; (9, 14, 15; 37: 5, 7; 36: 5; 1152: 13; 167: 11 46: 12; 55: 4, 14; 65: 22; 167: 2; 109: l; 116: 13;

iclaims [I] 123: 4 i 72~ 4; 73110; 82~ 24; 119: 2,3; 120: 3; 12924; IClwnce 12] 121: 19; /112: 23; 119: 17; 128: 17; ,132: 4; 140: 24; 150: 11, /122: 15 ll29: 15, 18; 143: 12

1 ciarlficetion (11 18: 25 iclarify p] 6: 19; 145: 24 ~conceming [1] lo: 23

Iconciude [4] 94: 14; Iclew [ll] 9: 17; 12: 20; 1102: 16; 147: 18; 166: lO :17: 11, 18; 43: 2.3; 91: 9; I concluded [l] 177: ll 112922; 133: 19; 140: 8; tconciushw [I] 94: 10 1170: 17

icibnt [6] 59: lO; 165: 18; /conditions [l] 124: 23

iconduct [12] 10: 2, 12; 120; 153: 5

Icontingent [l] lf7: 4

Icontinue [l] 80: 14 icontinued p] 47: 15; 148: 3 lcontinuously [1] 136: 9 lcontfwy [l] 105: 20 lcontrd [5] 171: 3;

663 #aA Wllhm Jeikfwn Clinton, S/ t7& 8 uwx( yy1

172: 12. Wl7422.24

conversation [43] 26: 3; 31: 18; 37: 2; 39: 7; 42: 6, 17; 43: 6, 20; 44: 3; 45: 18; 6322; 64: 6, 13. 16. 21; 65: 23; 111: 9; 114: 17,20; 116: 5,6; 11?: 1; 118: 14; 127: 9,25; 129: 17,25; 130: 11,23; 139~ 16; 141: 1, 13,21,25; 146: 20, 22: l44; 3: 161: 10, 14,

convematione [14] 10: 9; 22: 21; 42: 25; 56: 13; 63: 19.20; 68: 21; 84: 9; E&: 19; 135: 8; 140: 25; 148~ 21; 161: lO; 171: 16

convince [l] 63: 2

convinced [f] 26: 16 Coope# ate[ l] 148: 12 copy [9] 12: 11,12; 13:?; 14: 4. 5,6; 2O: 12; 42: 9 corrected [t] 26: 23 correctiy [l] x): 12

correepondence p]

169: 25; 172: 24; 174: 14 corrupt [l] 118: 20

cost P] 175: 11.13 COUNSEL [l] 3: 13 Cotmael [14] 3: 11, 21. 23; 4: 7; 9: 5; 20: 16; 5?: 10; !%: l?, 18; 140: 15; 150: 5; 166: 3, 14 counsel [13] 8: 4, 9, 14, 19; 20: 15; 61: 3; 166~ 4, 16; 16?: 7; 171: 16; 17512; 1??: 20.23 Counsel's (11 167: 6

couneelor [I] 47: 12

count g] 5: 19; 92: l counted [l] 176: s country [1] 26: 24 couple [12] 32: 6, 13; 34: 12; 35: 13; 53: 24; 66: 15; 101: 8; 143: 14; lW23; 156: 18; 166~ 15; 168: 13

course 114) 13: 24; 36: 23; 37: 24, 25; 38: 17; 83: 15; 107: 8; 119: 19; 139: 19; 152: 8; 154: 8,25; 15?: 9; 171: 23 COURl[ l] 177: 13 Court fa] 4: 24; 5: 3; 60: 12; ?4: 16; 75: 5;? 7: 24; 122: l; 167: 4 Court's [i] 163: 16 courtroom [l] 3: 24

cover m 4: 1?; 26: 16; Q& 3,12; 102: 25; 119: 12; 163: 2- I

covered 132) 16: 5,17. 21; 1?: 25; 98:?. 6, 10;

11, 13; 102: 4,?, 13. 14, '17, 19, 20; 105: 1; 111: 5,

13; 147: 14. 16, 17,20, ,21; 166: 5 Icovem (11 15: 19

icrodibility p] 162: 25; '17124; 175: 22 Icrimes [1] 5: 6 ICrtmlnel [1] 4: 4 ~crimin8lize [1] W18 ~critkhing [1] 76: 19 'croee [I] 26: 24

.crowdd [t] 73: 6

!cuP fl] 173: 3 ~curioue (11 151: 14 :cuwent [I] 142124

aTent& [l] 52 :currie [! a] 51: 18,22; ,53: 16, 18; 54: 24; 55: 2; ,572,6, 14,21: 65: 15, 19;

66: 4,7; 8722; 10525; 108: l; 114: 21; 115: 2.6, 16; 126: 14,19, 13120; 133: 5, 13, 19; 1342.21; 135: 18; 136: 12, 17.20; '137: 15; 139: 17,25;

la. 19; 141: 1.13.17.23, 24; 142: 6, 8.25; 144: 10, '25; M& 21.25; 160: 7

CUM'S p] 91: 24; 137: 21; 143: 15 ~custody [l] 171: 3 ,cute [l] 62: 5

“_ _m D ;23: 14; Q6: 4,20; 103: 14; :daily [l] 167: Q 107: 6; 110: 14; 147: 9 ademege [2) 28: 12; ~definiteky [1] 13?: 16 153: 5 iDeWtion [I] 97: ll ,dameged [1] 17522 :defirWon [fS] 7: 24; :dameging [s] 3925; '12: 24; 13: 1, IO, 11, 18,

j21,23,24; 14~ 1, 17.24; 78: 14: 166: ll: 171: 23.24 115: 16, 18,~ 223,251

'16:?, 9, 13, 14; 17:?. 19; date ilO] 44+? 7: 5,- i; 112: 4, 12, 13, 17; 131: 17; 133: 18; 16210 '& tee [TI 145: 10,21

day [Se] 22: 8; 31: 16; :32: 16; 33: 1?; 36: lt;

46: 19; 63: 1?; 60: 20; 63: 6, 15,22; 64: 14; 73: 1; 76: 4; 85: 1.22,25; 86: 6, 16. 19, 22; 8?: 1, 3,4, 8, 10, 12, 23: 89: 3; 90: 6; 91: 14; 92: 2; 100: 25; 101: 6; ,107: 8; 126: 22,23; 134: 1; '143: 7. 12,23; 14422;

149: 3, 5, 25; 154: f; 155: 4; 166: 4; 15Q: 9; 160: 13, 23; 163: 8, 9; 168: 18; 169: l; 175: 5 days [16] 65: l; 101: 2,8; 104: 5; 105: 13; %x: 12; '112: 8; 141: 11, 24, 25;

143: 1,14; 154: 5; 172: 14 QQ: 15,24,25; 100: 4. 5, 9, 1- d [l] $3218

,deat 114) 27: 7; 44: 23; 4512; 69: 12: QQ: lO: 109: 2; '116: 3; 151~ 23; 15211; '154: 4,1?; 172: 2; 175: 13 iduling~] 122! 6 Ida& f?] Q8: l I~ O& I [l] 116: f Ibbata [5] 15& 1,11. 114; 160Il2; 162: 3 ~debatae[ l] 160~ 6 IDecember p2j 31: 1.4;

i33: 9, 13; 34116; 41~ 8; r42:?, 12; 43~ 8, 14. 16; 4620; 4722; 51:~ 7; 162: 14;, 73: 25; 76: 2; 83: 9, :12; 84: 20; 91: 15; 114: 17; ill6: 4, 18: 118: 4,7; ;119: 7; 123: 1.2. 15; 127: 8

idah [I] mii ideddad [3] 19: 4; 59115; !175: 16 idecklor)[ 8] 4620; 159118; 164: 6, 17; 16523; jl72: 19; 176: l idecisione [1] 167: 5

idodin [1] 103: 24

IdecWng ts] 93A9.26; 'loOA!!; 105: 2,6. 16 IDefense p] 112: 23. 25; 1113: 5

defenee [l] 140: 1? idefirw~ [4] 23: 24; 111: 7; '121: l; 134:? ~deftned Is] 10: 4,22;

:18: 7, 12, 13; lQ: l, 3; :21: 12; 22: 13, 15; 23: 6. :25; 24: 5; 52: 21; 71: lO; !93: 4,7,11, 12,13,15; iQ4: 14, 22; Q5: 2, 6, 9, 18, i21, 25; 96: 5.14; 9?: 1. 5, i6, lQ; Q8: 15.21; QQ: 4. 5, !l?, 18; 102: 4, 14, 15. 17, 119.20; lW: 25; 105: l; '108: 14; 121: 2; 139: 2; 1147: lO. 15, 17.21; 115024; 151: 2, 8, 18; '153: 6; 168: 6, 10 Idefinitions [I] 22: 19 ideliberate ($ 1 27: 19 ideiicete p] 9Q: ll; '103: 6 idelivered [l] 127: 18 idekged [l] 132: 13 fdeniak [I] 10122

Idenied [s] 102: 8; 105: 5; :106: 9,11; lO8: 4

i76: 12,23; 7?: 1, 11.16; ,deny fs] 50: 2; 74: 9;

!105: 9; 106: lQ; 112: 9, 15; '10721; 118: l; 146: 4,

160: 21; 16122 /determiIution[ l]

:denying [a] 36: 5; 50: 1; '8622; 101: 20: 105: 22,25;

5,6 '108: 5; 16020

:hpwmmt i[ j] 112: 23, 1100: 20

i25; 113: 5 Idepend [1] @a: 13

;~ fl$ ne P] 66: lO;

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IDeputy [r] 3: 20 Idescribe [l] 155: ll Idescflbed [l] 14?: 4 IdeewwtW [t] 1174: 8

;e$ J m 166: ll; &gned [1] 175: ll

~desin [6] 37: s; Q6: 4, ;25; 97122; 98: 20; lW: 3 Idespemay [l] 40: 4 idetail [l] 6?: 16

ldemhd [1] 2Q: ll ~detaik (12) 9: 7; 68: 24;

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~dbcrwtion [l] 92: l ~diecues [sl 36: 21;

.62: 24: 63: 16; 92: 23; 172: 17. 18

~dkcuued p] 36: lQ; ~7322,23,24; 74~ 2, 15; iQO: 14; 127: 13 ~discuesee [1] 622 IDbcuesion [1] 11: 20 tdiscuuion f7J 14: 21; '17: 4,6, 11; 25: 7;??: 23; '14722 rdiscuseione @] 13: lS; :25: 10

Idishonest P] 7822; !9Q: 20 idiemissed f2J 151: l; '175: lO ldkprove [1] 151: 24 $fB6rJ# J$ P] 63:?; ?1: 14;

~diefkting 121 141: 1?. 19

~dkrespectfui [1] 110.3

idbeathfactkwt [l] 51: 8

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Idocument [4] 24: 25; ~163: 17; 16Q: 23; 174: 19

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664 mb Willi8m Jefferson Clinton, Wit/ W

Do& PI 34: 22; 35: 3;

Don [1] 159: lS Donald (21 158: 17.18 door [4] 135: 4. 5; 137: 8, 9

doon [I] 134: 12 doorway [1] Ql: 24 doubt (81 62125; 63: 17; 64: 21; 74: 10; 93: 9; 106: 11,12; 138: 13 Doug [l] 181: 25 downloading (11 57: 7 doxens [1] 4424 draggcbd [i] 37: 12 dragnet [2] 26: 15; 37: 13 draw p] Q4: lO; 126: 12; 173: 17 drawing [l] 173: 20 drawn [i] 22: 18 dreamed [1] 49: 21 dress D] 138: 16; 139: Q Drudge [6] 132: ll; 140: 6; 143: lQ; 1443, 10; 154: 8 drug [i] 66: 3 duiy [2] 3: ll; 17716 dump (11 153: 2 duty [i] 7: l duty- bound [l] 170: 18

E -_ _-

Early [l] 143: 25

early [17) lO: l, 8; 38: 25; 83: ll. 12; 123: 1.2; 124: 15, 16; 126: 12. 19; 12712; 1443.4. 15; 176: 24 earthly [l] 156: l East [l] 145: 3 Eastman [l] 177: 14 educated [l] 30: 17 effect [14] 13: lO; 88: 6; QO: 7. 22.24; 91: 3,6. 16; 104: 6; 107: 20; 114: 18, 24; 117: 16; 118: 5 effort [3] 10: 16; 22: 20; 118: 19 Eggleston [I] 166: 17 Eleanor [3] 85: Q; 67: 2; 89: 2 elections [I] 130: 3 electronically [I] 177: 18

elevators [I] 157: 7 eliminated [l] 98: l Elixabeth [t] 177: 14 else's [l] 98: lQ embarrass p] 103: 3; 175: ll embarrassed [3] 8O: lO; QQ: 22; 119: 18

.20; 38: 3, 8; 50: 12, 22; .Q4: 7; 115: 14; 139: 7; 182: 18: 118: l; 153: l *153: 10, 11; 155: 13; ,emotionaI[ 1] 130: 24 ,162123; 170: 18 Iempaneied [l] 423 leviI ~1 118: 20,21 IempioyedI2] 1772i. Iexact [q 13: 7; 3013; i23 16018; 91: ll; 141: 14; !empioyee p] 31: 13; 11422 :32: 7; 17723 ~emctiy [q 57: 19; 64: 5; Iempioyees [21 31: 14. !86: 18; 117: lQ 128: ll :21 WragQerated [l] QQ20 iempioyment p] 23: 13; :ExAMlNAl@ N [l] 3: 13 sm2.3; 32: 23; l14: 7 1. x8min8tion [l] 3: lO 'encompassing [1] 623 Iexamine [l] Q4: 4

loncountw [I] 65: 17 IW8nlined [l] 3: ll ~oncounten IZ] 10: 2.7 texampie p] 16: 5; 82: 7; IencoWQed [1] 47: 3 '12OIl IMcounQement [l] iexcept [4] 54: 15; 8Q: l; r143: 16 1162: 2; 166: 7 iend [12] 13: 17; 14: 23; Iexchange pj 23: 13; ;21: 25; 22: 1; 48: 15; 64: 18, 15Q: l3 ,lQ; Q2: 2; 11O: l; 154: 5; Ioxclude [4] 1524; '156: 25; 165: 5 :54: 19. 23; 73: 16 IOnded p] 10: 7; 48: 3; iacluded [1] 16: 3 149: Q ~excluding [l] 157: 8 iends [l] 134: 13 [Excuse p] 27: 6; 77: 10, tommies [1] 61: 12 '15; 97: 13; 14120; ienergy [1] 175: 6 '14420; 167: 14; 173: 25 congags [2] QQ: 5; 101: 4 iaxcuse [lo] 4: 11; 11: 25;

Iengaged p] 1O: l; !19: 17; 25: 23; 67: 10; :16: 24; 136: lQ 172: lO: 85: 5: 9822; ,engrQes p] 15: 11,12 '12625; 170: 16 feng9ging [l] 6l: lQ Iexecute p] 78: 17;

Ienjoy [l] 44: 23 :120: 11,21 'ensuing [I] 65: l I executed 12] 117: 25; ientering [l] 13: 16 :121: 3 ientitied p] 6: 12. 15.20 !Executive [l] 113: 23 ~enumerate [i] 46: 7 iexecutive [6] X5: 10, ,enumerated (1) 15: 20 '14, 19; 166: 18; 167: lO. iepisode p] 162: 5,6; :20 '172: 23 (exercise [l] 7: 25 (error [l] 175: 23 'Erskine 1111 105: 24; 106: 2; 111: 15. 19,21; W& 6, 18, 19; 113: 3;

~essentialty [1] 171: Q Iestablish D] 55: 15,19 let [l] 16314 ,evade [t] Q4: 2 tevasivefl] 10222 #Evelyn [1] 128: 12 'evening p] 42: 7; 149: l Ievent [q 42: 12; QO: 7; :91: 16, 17; 137: 15 Ievents m 53: 10; 63: 2;

70: 7; 72: 20; 88125; '131: 24; 141: 2

eventualty [1] 17122 Everybody [l] 70: 16 everybody [S] 13: 16; ,24: 23; 26: 16; 76: 12;

78: ll; 164: 14 Evidence [1] 622 _ . -- __

Exhibit [li] 11: 6. 7; 1313.4; 14: 7, 9; 17: 20; 21: ll. 16, 17; 24: 25; 97: lO exhibit p] 13: 8; 15: lO; 169114

exhibitionist [I] 5422

[Exhibits [l] 169: 16 ~existing [l] 47: Q {exists [1] 156: 23 iexpect [1] 56: 23 Iexpectation [1] 72: Q ~experience [4] 19: 15; 137: 17; 44: 20; 4522 texpbin p] 21: 7; 48: 25; 169: 21; 70: 25; 71: 2; 8314; '138: 16; 155: 4; 156: 14

I4Jxplmed [4] 31: 20; 39: 19.23; 69: 21 iexplanation [l] 52: lO IOxpiiCit pj 11l: lO; '143: 16 ~expiicitty [21 57: 8; 101: 3 Emba- sinQ [11 50115 ievidence 1131 26:~; emban" 'ssinQ 191 37: Q. WtprWWd p] 6515,

28: 9; 29: 18; 81: lO; 82: 17; '18; 130~ 21

~apressing [I] 48: lQ Iextanded [1] 13: 16 :extent p] 121: 18; 167: 5 ~extraordinary [1] 71: 12 ~extremeiy p] 85: Q; ,101: 3; lOQ: 21

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Iface te] 28: 24; 7Q: lO, 11.17; 140: 17 !fact [4q 11: 5; 18: 12; 12813; 38: l. l5; 426; 4818;

63: 8; 65: 8; 73%; 77: l; 181: Q; 87: 13, 17; 8Q: Q; 'QO15; 91: 12. 14; 10420; :106: 16; 108: 17; 113~ 8;

116: 2; i20: 24; 123: 18; '126: 8; 130: 7, 10; 133: l; '137: 7; 13Q: lQ; 157: ll. :21; 15Q: 3; 160: 23;

162: lO; 163: 15. 23; 16622.24 Ifacts b] 17: 16; 26: 13; 2Q25; 32: 17; 37: Q. 20; :38: 1.2; 51: 7; 52: ll;

,feed [1] 11: 15 !feel D] 47: 7; 60: 14

feelings p] 46: lQ; 14922 'feion[ l] 7010 'fett [13] 47: 16; 4823; .51: 14; 73: 12; 78: 10; =7;

11724; 12Q: lO; 136: 4; 141: 4; 142: 14; 147: 8; 167: lQ ,tieid [1] 81: 13

‘nguro p] 55: 23; 14@ 4 :tib [1] 17O: lQ :fited p] 20: 17; 58: 19; ,150: 15 ltites 1121 163: 20.21; '17Ql1.12, 14.15.16. '20.22; 171: 8.10

!flll [l] 73: 13

!filiad [3] 22: 12; 23: 7.9

ifIlm tz] 1383.2 !rinanc& lly [1] 17724 lflnd is] 27: 8; 84: 22; 186: 21; 106: 21; 140: 11; '152: 18 ~Rndlng [1] 4016 ;55: 10; 57: l: 5Q: 17; 79: 15; thne D] 140~ 24; 14220 182: 17: 89: 13: 119: 3: 121: 22; 123: 22; 132: 14; .139: 11. 13; 140: 4, 16; '142: lO; 143: lO; 14713; :150: 6 lfacbJaliy [l] 120: 12 fair [4] 135: 18; 146: ll; :154: 6. 12 Ifairminded [r] 78: 18 'fairly [1] 176124 {fairness p] 100: 6; :141: 3; 14922 Ifaith D] 20: 6. 15 'fali (5) Q5: 17, 21; Q6: 13: 1102: 20; 151: 8 !faliout [i] 176: 20 lfaiis p] 12: 23; 93: 11; !Q4: 13 Ifaise [S] 58: 25; 59: 4; i71: 22; 120: 21; 154: l; 1162: 12 Ifaisehood D] 102: 2,10 IfamIliar [5] 4: 12; 13: 25; 121: 14; 40: 7, 10 lfamiiy [4] 10: 16; 72: 18; 1Q2: 24; 148: 13 IfamIly's [1] 102: 23 lhmous [l] 35: ll Ifascination [l] 6522 Ifashion [I] 171: 2 Ifault [1] 139: l IFBI [1] 7O: Q Nearing [I] 128: lQ \Februay p] 31: 1.4; 1136: 24 [Federal 12] 4: 4; 6: 22 Ifederal [q 19: 14. 15. 125; 26: 23; 29: 24; 31: 21

ltinbh j8] 27: 5; 4125; 181: 24,25; 106: 20; '124: 15; 168: 22; 174: 3 1RnisM [l] 145: l

I finishing [1] 67: 6 Ifite [1] 88: 13 Itired p] 87: 9: 88: 16.17 IFirst [q 53: 17; 64: 18. '19; 65: 24; 88: 12 ltimt 1511 3: ii; 9: 6; 113: 16; 15: Q; 16: 23; 1725; i21: 4; 26: 20; 31118; 332; 140: 16, 18, 19; 42: 2,4; 143: 4; 51: lO; 54: 7; 67: 7, 9, /11.23,25; 68: 3.9; i70: 15.22; 72: 6; 73118; i79: 21; 82: lO; 83: ll; i88: 14,18; Q2: 16; llQS; !127: 4; 132: 4; 13618; !142: 9; 145: 7; 151: l; 1157: 21, 25; 159: 13; )161: 24; 163: 23; 168: 3; 1169: ll; 171: 25 Iftt pj Q7: 1; 153: 21 Ifive ts] 32: 21; 70: 8,9; 1125: lQ; 175: 6,8 (fbcated [1] 66: l

I fixation (21 64: 17; 68: 18

floor [1] 42: 13 /Florida [l] 156: lQ tflow [l] 67: 2 IFlowers [q QQ: lQ; /151: 19,21; 152: 17;

153: 20. 24 focus [21 15: 8; 30: 6 Ifocused [S] 30: 3; 6l: lO; /75: 14. 20; 76: 12; 77~ 1; )82: 21; 86: 17

I FfomDogrofocused

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focusing p] 26: 4; 59: 13 ~friends El 49: 16; 62: 17; folks 12) 80: 17; 61: 17 follow p] 9: 6; 5922

followup [8] 68: 13; 69: 5, 14; 79: 23,25; 61: 2, 21; 82: 4 follow- ups p] 7024, 25; 71: 3 followsd [l] 59: 21

fobwing (51 105~ 23; 146: 22; 154: 1, 5; 168: 1

foIlann (11 3: 12 footage p] 158: 16.21 forw [I] 16: 17 forced II] 16: 20

forcible [l] 17: 13

forcing p] 17: 6. 9 foregoing p] 177: 15. 16 forever [l] 148: 9 forget [I] 67: 24 forgot [2] 76: l; 145: 19 forgotten p] 65: 1; 66: 9: 72: 19 form [13] 12: 18; 20: 19: 25: 5; 56: 21; 59: 3; 60: 13; 82123; 101: 5.21. 102: 8; 104: 7; 105: 9; 175: l

fomully (11 31: 15

formed [2] 124: 14.16 former IS] 89: lO; llO: ll, 17.21; 1ll: l

forthright [I] 99~ 12 Fortunately [l] 12122 fortune [I] 175: ll forward [I] 62: ll found [6] 41: 17; 84: 23; 65: 8; 87: 1; 89: 2; 90: 1 four 19) 18: 10; 70: 8. 9; 109: 18.22; 112: 8; 164: 18.21; 176: 9 four- hour [2] 125: 20; 126: 8 four- month [1] 33: 2 four- year [2] 72: 21; 108: 12 fourth [2] 69: 6; 71: 25 framework (21 15322; 166: 5 Frank [l] 73: 23 frankly [8] 29: 3; 32: 12; 61: 14; 94: 18; 10622; X+ 6: 4; 140: 8; 164: lO fme [12] 68: 13,22;

:72: 18; 106: 21; 156: l8 ifriendship [1] 1O: ll lfront [2] 56: 22; 169: 2 lfrulttessly [l] 140: 11 !frustmted [1] 40: 3 lfull [q 3: 17; 8: ll; 10: 12; 114: 15; 79: 9: 139: l Ifull- thne [1] 32: 7 tfully @] 7: 9; 20: 16; 158: 17, 18; 149: 24; 170: 23 !functIon [1] 6: 23 Ifunded [l] 26: 14 rfunding [l] 81: ll %wty p] 48: 11; 131: 9

Ifunny’s [l] 77: 5

ifUtUrS p] 11417; 14315 __ __ G :game [l] 77: 6 !G& e IZ] 83: 8; 85: 8 lg8te p} 85: 12: 89: 15; !90: 23 'gave 1451 9: 19; 23: lO; :26: 17; 27: 12; 29: 2; 3322; '34A. 21; 35% 3,6, 10, '16; 36: 3, 10; 41: 24; *44: 24: 47: 23: 51: 17; '52: lO. 53: 2; 67: 19;

77125; 6617. 13; 90: 22; 114: lg; 12222; 125: 23; 127: 16; 138: 19; 143: 16; :goal [2] 27: 19; 61: 4 154: 20.24: 155: 1. 11. 19, !God 111 ~2~ 15 '21,23; l&: 2. 9; i66: iO; 169: 3,7; 175: 16

generous [l] 126: 2 ~genitalia [S] 96: 2.22.

25; 97: 21,23; 98: 19; 100: 5; 110: 19 genitals [1] 162: 18 Genntfer [5] 99: 19; 151: 19,21; 152: 17; 153: 24 gentlemen [2] 3: 24; 157: 6 gets [1] 44: 20 ,gift [9] 34: ll; 44: 19; ,45: 21; 46: 10; 47: 19. 20; '127: 12; 130: 15; 156: 24 'gifts [48] 33: 22,24.25; ,34: 2, 12.21,25; 35: 1; i36: 7, 10; 43: 17,21; 44: 8, '12. 18, 21.22.24. 25; 70: 24; 79: 23; 81: 22; 82: 1; '45: l. 16; 4617, 12.21; 94: 14; 96: 18; 102: 16; ,47: 7. 15, 16, 17, 18.23; 121: 3; 16522; 166: 9 '51: 17, 19; 52: 1,2. 17,24,

freer [l] 48: 23 .25; 53: 2; 114: 19.21; frequently [2] 84: 4. 15 116: l; 154119,23;

Friday [I] 101: 2 173: 11.22 friend m 47: 11; 62: 16; girl Ii] 124121 6g: 12; 70118; 7314; 123~ 7; !ghre ES21 3: 25; 6: 5; 7: 6; 164: 8 :8: 11, 16; 22: 16; 30: 17; friendly [l] 163: 11 ,33: 19; 35: 7. 15.24; Friends (1) 44: 25 a36: 17; 44: 13.22.25;

'45: 1,2.4.25; 46123; 14. 16. 19.24; 147: 13, hew [17] 4: 19,20; 720; #47: 12. 15.16; 5122; .25; 148: 1, 3.6, 13; 151: 6; r5322.25; 5522; 56: 13. !52: 9; 62: 4; 66124; 72: 6; 154: 19; 155: 5,22; 156: 5; ;76: 2; 79: 6; 80: 2,20; 82: 6; 163: 3; l64: l9; 165: 12. 163: lO; 10722; 106: 24; ~10922; 111: 16,20; 1113: 14: 114: 25; 116: l; !121: 4; 122: 8; 146: l; '153: 16, 17; 155: lS. 18; '156: 19. 20; 157: 2, 3.4, 7, 18; 164: 21; 166: 19; 168: 15; 17220 .given 1* s] 12: 24; 15: 5; .22: 19; 34: lo; 3617. 11, '14; 43: 17.21; 44: 8. 18, ;21; 45: 11; 46: 12. 14. 22; :47: 17. 18; 51: 25; 5212. 8. '12, 14; 59: 17; 69: 13; :70: 4; 93: 5; 98: 16; 99: 11; 127: 12; 132: 6; 139: 3; :141: 11; 15425; 155: 2.6; '156: 4. 7, 10; 166: 16; '167: 12; 168: 6, lo; 169: l; 1175: 18; 177: 19 mghres [I] 156: 23

Igiving [12] 17: 24; 33: 6; ,35: 19; 4?: 7, 19; 52: 13,

15; 107: 8; 153: 17; 169: 7. 88

glad p] 82124.25; '122: 21. 22.23; 172: 16

‘Glen [l] 157: 4 '16; 166: 9, 19; 167: 24;

'168: 19; 169: 2; 17016; '176: 5, 12, 23; lT722.4. 5 !gnwlwMon [1] 16: 3 igmtify [15] 15: 21;

16: ll. 17.21; 18: 3; 95: 1, '16; 96: 4, 13; 97: 1.21;

i98: 20; 100: 3; 139: 4; 151: 17 :gt8at m 22: 19; 59: 12; ~64: 25; 84: 25; 15123;

154: 4; 175: 13 ~gmatest [I] 71: 12 Ig- [l] 175: 23 igroin (11 162: 15 iground [I] 109: 17 tgmualg F] 15622 Iguess m 30118; 61: 6; 198: 6; 138: ll; 164: 23 /guiding [l] 13: ll

igoes'& 14: 22; 21: 13; !84: 8 lgoing- amy p] 33: 25; '36: 13 'gold [I] 52: 13

goodness [l] 49: 3 gotcha [I] 77: 6

gotten [9] 36: 24; 42: 5. 14; 73: 24; 75: 18; 76: 6; 82: 16; 12722; 156: 17

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govemfnent p] 26: 23; 31: 19,21

Governor p] 158: 5. 8, 17

governor [l] 158: 6 grab [I] 162: 13 Grand 1121 11: 6, 7; 13: 3, 4; 14: 7, 9; 17: 20; 21: 11. 16, 17; 24: 25; 169: 16 Igrand (811 3: 2,4.25; 14: 19, 23; 5: 10, 14, 16; 16: 14; 7: 2.4; 9: 16; 10: 14; '11: 16; 18: 11; 20: 11; 21: 2, ,9; 22: 21; 69: 17; 79: 4; '92: 13, 16, 20; 93: lO. 18. 124; 94: 3,9. 11. 12; '100: 18; 102: 12; 103: 20; !107: 17; 110: 2; 126: 3, 5. 16; 133: 3; 142: 14, 19; '143: 17; 145: 19; 146: 7,

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I hadn’t [1] 67: 15 ihalf p] 51: 25; 66: 21; '68: 15, 19; 76: 3,8; 175: 7. '8 'hall [I] 135: 6 !halb p] 134: 12,13 :hallway [1] 137: 9

lhmd [4] 27: 15; 69: 25; :162: 15,18 'handled p] 90: 4 'happening [5] 45: 15; !51: 15; 64: 16; 123: 6; ;134: 15

‘hpppy (51 65: 16; 93: 12; '99: 2; 155: 19; 175: 21 lhamss [1] 6O: lO lhonssed [1] 78: 13 ~larassment- 1191 8: 14, 119; 17: 8; 18: 8, 10, 15; 123: 14; 26: 10, 20; 28: 6; :29: 18; 37: 16; 39: 18, 22; !60: 9; 78: 12.25; 123: 4.23 Ihard 121 82: 16; 130: 7 IHarold p] 105: 24; 1108: 2 IHarry p] 22: 17; 105: 23; llO8: P /hat 121 45: lO; 52: 12

lhaven’t[ 5] 82: 17; 92: 22; j155: 22; 15821; 175: 4 IHe's p] 63: 25; 123: 8; '158: 25 she's [4] 15: 2; 43: ll; :71: 12; 74: 7

Ihead p] 35: 7; 67: 17

‘head’s [l] 63: 24 Iheadlines @] 108: 17, , __

'14; 72: 2: 101: 23; 111: 25; 134: 13. 22; X35: 2. 6; 136: 20: 137: lO 'heard [15] 24: 21; 37: 6;

55: 21; 68: 12; 69: 1; 70: 16; 72: 7; 82~ 10; 87: 18; 122: 3; 142: 9; 159: 2; 169: ll 'herring [I] 30: 5

hearings [l] 121: 18 'haart p] 116: 9; 122: 23; '124: 21 !held pj 25: 19; 30: 20

‘help (131 21: 7; 26: 25; 44: 17; 46: 7; 47: 12; 75: 18;

91: 8; 94: 3; 119: 17; 1252, i7; 144: 21; 154: 22 'helped p] 69114; 75: 21; .77: 2; 129: 4 ,helpful fsl 21: 1; 29: 16. '17; 33: 8; 46: 3; 79: 19; '81: 5; 14422; 147: 7 iWIping [S] 81: 19; '12317. 8. 18, 24 ,Here's [l] 66: 14

hereby [1] in: 15 'hereto [I] 177: 24 'hetwtofors [I] 98: 23 IHemreich [5] 56: 16; '159: 3, 11.22; 174: 13 'hid [I] 115: 8

lhide [I] 115: 14

! high [I] 36: 6 Ihighly [4] 24: l; 123: 17; 1142111; 14814 'Hill [2] 121: 19; 122: 14 iHilley p] 111: 15,20; ,113: lO

1 hire [l] 130: 13 lhlred [I] 124: 4 ihistoric [I] 146: 9 /hit [I] 144: ll lhold p] 10: 17; 98: 14, '15 Iholiday (1) 62: 24

ihome [l] 144: 13

~honest p] 27: 25; 46: 5; 167: 21; 70: 2; 72: 6; 8313; j122: 8: 166: 2, 12 Ihonestly [5] 70: 13;

73: 13; 82: 9; 105: 18; 149: 25 hope [q 78: 14; 92: 1; 1107: 7; 114: ll; 120: 19; /136: 3 Ihoped (31 73: 11; 106: 15

/horrible [I] 142: 16 Ihospital p] 14022; 1142: 17 lhotell2) 160: 3,7 lhour [4] 58: 5; 63: 14; /125: 19; 126: lO

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idea 141 119: 12; 143: 13, 24; 156: l identlficetion [S] 11: 8; 13: 5; 14: 10; 21: 18; 169: 18 identified [t] 41: 2

identify [1] lo: 18 identifying [l] 15422 iiie~ ai [Q] 27: 11, 18; 28: 25; 78: 23; 79: 12, 18;

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i98: 25; 103: 22; 106: 17, '18; 123: 17; 124: Q; 125: 6; ~131: 8; 134:§; 136: 23 ~improperfy ['I] 131: 15 iimputebie [1] 60: l

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incidentel [l] 90: 14

~inciineci [l] 63: 23 include [13] 10: 12; 1222; 15: 23; 16: 13; '17: 23; 21: 12; 24: 8, 14. '17;§ 3: 4; 97: 20; 98: 16

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:inithily (zt 88: 16; 116: 7 !52: 18; 89: 4; 7§: 24; 81: l;

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.I- [3) 98: 24; '98: 1§; 10& 16 ,ineietence [l] 10: 8 tlrmofer [1] 16022 Iinetence [1] 135: 15 ~~~ [I] 166: 7

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intenseiy [l] 92: 23

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i inbsnti01~ 1~ [1) 6: 13

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numbers [l] 169: 14 numemus [l] 46: 3

,326; 36: 7; 79: 24; 133: 13; *135: 22 .omupia [l] 86: lS

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objected [4] 19: 11, 18; 20: 4; 98: 23 objection 111 19: 20 objectiok (I] 20: s obQaation 161 2Q: I6.23. 25: &: 14; 7%; 80: 21 obligations [z] 94: 2,4 obsessive [l] 65% obenaed fll 5: 5

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119: 15, 125: lb: l&: 12; ,X+ 6: 16; I44: 18; 145: ll;

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old p] 3635; 40: 4 'one8 [I] 175: lQ

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opening fz] 138: 24 'Opewed El] 17O: ll ;$=& m 121 108: x1;

iopi& 121 124~ 14. 16 loppom (11 26: 15 OopporIunily [l] 67: 15

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occasional [1] 10: 8 occ8sion& iy [l] 131: 13 occUkrIlS [SJ l& l;

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Paula Jones Y. William Jeflerson Clinton and Lknny Ferguson No. LR- C- 94- 290 (E- D. Ark.)

DEPOSITION OF WILLIAM JEFFEXSON CLINTON Definition of Sexual Relations

For the purposes of this deposition, a person engages in” sexual relations” when the person knowingly engages in or causes -

contactwitbthegeziitalia, auus, groiqbrwst,~~~ gh, orbuttocks on with an intent to arouse or grati& the sexual desire of any person;

(2) contact between any part of the person’~ body or al3 object and the genitals or amxs of another persoq or

(3) contact between the genitals or anus of the person and any part of arqther person’s body.

uContactw means intentional touching either directly or through clothing.

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1. My name is Jane Doe #I . I am 24 years old and I currently reside at 700 New Haqxhire Avenue, N- W., Washington,

D. C. 20037. 2. On December 19, 1997, I was served with a subpoena from the plaintiff to give a deposition and to produce docments in

the lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones against President William Jefferson Clinton and Danny Ferguaon.

3. Icannotfathomanyreasonthatthe seek information from me for her case.

4. I have never mtt Ws. Jones, nor plaintiff would ,_

do I have any

information regarding the events she alleges occurred at the Excelsior Hotel on May 8, 1991 or any other information concezniag any of the allegations in her case.

: . 5. I worked at the White House in the SumlEr of 1995 as a WhiteHouse intern. Beginning inDecember, 1995, I worked inthe Office of Legislative Affairs as a staff assistant for correspondence. In April, 1996, I accepted a job as assistant to

the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U. S. Department

of Defense. I maintained that job until December 26, 1997. I am currently unemployed but seeking a new job.

6. In the course of my employaent at the White Howe I

met President Clinton several times. I also saw the President at a

number of social functions held at the White Howe. When I worked as an intern, he appeared at occasional functionra attended by mc end several other interna. The correqo. ndacc I drafted while I worked at the Off ice of Legislative Affairs was seen and edited by supervisors who either had the President's signature affixed by mechanism or, I believe, had the President sign the correspondence itself.

7. I have the utmost respect for the President who always behaved appropriately in my presence.

a. I have never had a sexual relationship with the‘

President, he did not propose that we have a sexual relationship, he did not offer me employment or other benefits in exchange. for a sexual relationship, he did not deny me employment or other benefits for rejecting a sexual relationship. .I do not know of say.

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.I : ; I other &son who had a sexual relationship with the President, was'

.j offered employment or other benefits in exchange for a sexual ‘I i relationship, or was denied erqployment or other benefits for

;i. rejecting a macual relationship. The occarrions that I saw the .I; President after I left my employment at the white Ho- e in April,

. 1996, were official receptions, fomal functions or events related 'i to the U. S. Department of Defense, where I was working at the time, d/ There were other people present on those ocCaSiOIU3.

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Since I do not possesrr any infO= tiOn that could possibly be relevant to the allegations made by Paula Jones or lead ii to admissible evidence in this we, I asked my attorney to provide ;I this affidavit to plaintiff's coux~~ cl. Requiring my deposition in

; .. : I this matter would cause disruption to my life, especially since I

;/ am looking for employment, a& warranted attorney's fees and costs,

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and constitute an invasion of my right to privacy.

: :I IdeclmHxlderthepenaltyofperjurythattheforegoing :I is true and correct.

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 8s: MONICA s. LEWINSKP,

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king first duly sworn on oath!

according to law, deposes and says that she has read the foregoing'

i AFFIDAVIT OF J'ANE DOE #A by her subscribed, that the mattersi

stated herein are true to the best of her information, knowledge: and belief.

SUBSCRIBED 3fx I Am SmRN to before mc this;*

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