Clinton Files Essay, Research Paper

TEXT 1

On Sunday, January 21, 1996, according to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the

President had another sexual encounter. Her time of White House entry is

not reflected in records. She left at 3:56 p.m. The President moved from the

Residence to the Oval Office at 3:33 p.m. and remained there until 7:40

p.m.

On that day, according to Ms. Lewinsky, she saw the President in a hallway

by an elevator, and he invited her to the Oval Office. According to Ms.

Lewinsky:

We had . . . had phone sex for the first time the week prior, and I was feeling

a little bit insecure about whether he had liked it or didn’t like it . . . . I

didn’tknow if this was sort of developing into some kind of a longer-term

relationship than what I thought it initially might have been, that maybe he

had some regular girlfriend who was furloughed . . . .

According to Ms. Lewinsky, she questioned the President about his interest

in her.

“I asked him why he doesn’t ask me any questions about myself, and . . . is

this just about sex . . . or do you have some interest in trying to get to know

me as a person?” The President laughed and said, according to Ms.

Lewinsky, that “he cherishes the time that he had with me.” She considered

it “a little bit odd” for him to speak of cherishing their time together “when I

felt like he didn’t really even know me yet.”

They continued talking as they went to the hallway by the study. Then, with

Ms.

Lewinsky in mid-sentence, “he just started kissing me.”He lifted her top and

touched her breasts with his hands and mouth. According to Ms. Lewinsky,

the President “unzipped his pants and sort of exposed himself,” and she

performed

oral sex.

At one point during the encounter, someone entered the Oval Office. In Ms.

Lewinsky’s recollection, “The President zipped up real quickly and went out

and came back in . . . . I just remember laughing because he had walked out

there and he was visibly aroused, and I just thought it was funny.”

A short time later, the President got word that his next appointment, a friend

from Arkansas, had arrived. He took Ms. Lewinsky out through the Oval

Office into Ms. Hernreich’s office, where he kissed her goodbye.

TEXT 2

On Sunday, February 4, according to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President

had their sixth sexual encounter and their first lengthy and personal

conversation. The

President was in the Oval Office from 3:36 to 7:05 p.m. He had no telephone

calls in the Oval Office before 4:45 p.m. Records do not show Ms.

Lewinsky’s entry or exit.

According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President telephoned her at her desk and

they

planned their rendezvous. At her suggestion, they bumped into each other

in the

hallway, “because when it happened accidentally, that seemed to work really

well, “then walked together to the area of the private study.

There, according to Ms. Lewinsky, they kissed. She was wearing a long

dress

that buttoned from the neck to the ankles. “And he unbuttoned my dress

and

he unhooked my bra, and sort of took the dress off my shoulders and . . .

moved the bra . . . . He was looking at me and touching me and telling me

how beautiful I was.” He touched her breasts with his hands and his mouth,

and touched her genitals, first through underwear and then directly. She

performed oral sex on him.

After their sexual encounter, the President and Ms. Lewinsky sat and talked

in the Oval Office for about 45 minutes. Ms. Lewinsky thought the President

might be responding to her suggestion during their previous meeting about

“trying to get to know me.” It was during that conversation on February 4,

according to Ms. Lewinsky, that their friendship started to blossom.

When she prepared to depart, according to Ms. Lewinsky, the President

“kissed my arm and told me he’d call me, and then I said, yeah, well, what’s

my phone

number? And so he recited both my home number and my office number off

the

top of his head.” The President called her at her desk later that afternoon

and

said he had enjoyed their time together.

TEXT 3

We went back over by the bathroom in the hallway, and we kissed. We were

kissing and he unbuttoned my dress and fondled my breasts with my bra on,

and

then took them out of my bra and was kissing them and touching them with

his

hands and with his mouth.

And then I think I was touching him in his genital area through his pants, and

I think I unbuttoned his shirt and was kissing his chest. And then . . . I

wanted to perform oral sex on him . . . and so I did. And then . . . I think he

heard something, or he heard someone in the office. So, we moved into the

bathroom.

And I continued to perform oral sex and then he pushed me away, kind of as

he

always did before he came, and then I stood up and I said . . . I care about

you so much; . . . I don’t understand why you won’t let me . . . make you

come; it’s important to me; I mean, it just doesn’t feel complete, it doesn’t

seem right.

Ms. Lewinsky testified that she and the President hugged, and “he said he

didn’t

want to get addicted to me, and he didn’t want me to get addicted to him.”

They

looked at each other for a moment. Then, saying that “I don’t want to

disappoint you,” the President consented. For the first time, she performed

oral sex

through completion.

TEXT 4

According to Ms. Lewinsky, their sexual encounter began with a sudden

kiss:

“This was another one of those occasions when I was babbling on about

something, and he just kissed me, kind of to shut me up, I think.” The

President

unbuttoned her blouse and touched her breasts without removing her

bra.”He went to go put his hand down my pants, and then I unzipped them

because it was easier. And I didn’t have any panties on. And so he manually

stimulated me.” According to Ms. Lewinsky, “I wanted him to touch my

genitals with his genitals,” and he did so, lightly and without penetration.

Then Ms. Lewinsky performed oral sex on him, again until he ejaculated.

TEXT 5

I had set up in his back office, I had brought an apple square and put a

candle and had put his birthday presents out. And after he came back in

and I sang happy birthday and he got his presents, I asked him . . . if we

could share a birthday kiss in honor of our birthdays, because mine had

been just a few weeks before. So, he said that that was okay and we could

kind of bend the rules that day. And so . . . we kissed.

Ms. Lewinsky touched the President’s genitals through his pants and moved

to perform oral sex, but the President rebuffed her. In her recollection:”He

said, I’m trying not to do this and I’m trying to be good. . . .He got visibly

upset. And so . . . I hugged him and I told him I was sorry and not to be

upset.” Later, in a draft note to “Handsome,” Ms. Lewinsky referred to this

visit: “It was awful when I saw you for your birthday in August. You were so

distant that I missed you as I was holding you in my arms.”

TEXT 6

In the hallway by the study, the President and Ms. Lewinsky kissed. On this

occasion, according to Ms. Lewinsky, “he focused on me pretty exclusively,”

kissing her bare breasts and fondling her genitals. At one point, the

President inserted a cigar into Ms. Lewinsky’s vagina, then put the cigar in

his mouth and said: “It tastes good.” After they were finished, Ms. Lewinsky

left the Oval Office and walked through the Rose Garden.”