Clintons Huma and Monica

Love Letter from Monica Lewinsky to Bill Clinton

A letter from Monica S. Lewinsky to President Clinton, dated June 29, 1997, which was part of the evidence gathered by Kenneth W. Starr. 
29 June 1997
Dear Handsome,
I really need to discuss my situation with you. We have not had any contact for over five weeks. You leave on Sat. and I leave for Madrid with the SecDef on Monday returning the 14th of July. I am then heading out to Los Angeles for a few days. If I do not speak to you before I leave, when I return it will have been two months since we last spoke. Please do not do this. I feel disposable, used and insignificant. I understand your hands are tied but I want to talk to you and look at some options. I am begging you one last time to please let me visit briefly Tuesday evening. I will call Betty Tuesday afternoon to see if it is o.k. - M

See below who Betty is.

'A social pariah': How lonely Monica Lewinsky has failed to find happiness... and is STILL the butt of lewd Clinton jokes

By MIKE O'BRIEN
Created 2:31 PM on 7th September 2011

 She was the White House intern who found fame for all the wrong reasons.

Now, 17 years later, Monica Lewinsky is still trying to play down her scandalous affair with then-President Bill Clinton.

She is single, her line of handbags failed to catch on and, according to the National Enquirer, is living the life of a near recluse.

A permanent punchline: Single Monica Lewinsky is still trying to shrug off the after-effects of her dalliances with the former President

Monica, 38, flits between homes in Los Angeles owned by her mother, her father and brother and an apartment in New York that is also owned by the Lewinsky family.

But her life is far from a social whirl of a-list parties and she is said to spend much of her time alone.

 

An insider told The Enquirer that Monica has given up her own place and moves between the two coasts trying to work out projects that may never get off the ground.

Her apparent goal is to set up her own public relations company.

The insider said: 'Monica's self-esteem is at an all-time low.

Happy together: Official White House photo taken in 1995 of a cosy-looking Monica with Clinton

'She said she's been doing some freelance work for a friend who has a public relations company. And she's got some family money, so that keeps her going.'

Monica's sexual relationship with Mr Clinton, who is now 65, led to a Republican-prompted impeachment in the House and a trial.

Central to the whole episode were claims that she performed oral sex on him.

In late July, 1998, Monica had to turn a dress over to Kenneth Starr's investigators after signing an immunity agreement.

A blood sample was taken from Clinton on August 3, and on August 17, the FBI reported its conclusion that Mr Clinton was the source of the semen on the dress 'to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty.'

THE dress: Monica's semen-stained dress that was tested in the ensuing investigation over the affair

The President, however, was found not guilty and he retained his office.

Monica, apparently, is desperately trying to live down her past.

The insider told the Enquirer: 'She's alone most of the time and is pretty much a social pariah.'

The source claims Monica has more or less given up on finding love.

'Monica still feels like she's the punchline to a dirty joke,' the source said.

'The publicity over her affair with Clinton ruined her chances of ever finding a decent guy.

In June she made a rare outing with a small dinner party at Lucy's El Adobe Cafe in Hollywood.

A very public display of affection: The couple at a public event in Washington

An eyewitness told the Enquirer that gawkers at other tables were making jokes at her expense, while she looked emotionless.

'She stared at her food throughout the dinner and uttered maybe three sentences, the eyewitness said.

'It was a very awkward, uncomfortable evening.'

In March, MailOnline.com told how Monica is reportedly still in love with him and 'always will be'.

‘Monica still hasn’t got over Bill and would take him back in a second,’ a friend told the Enquirer.

‘She told me: “There will never be another man in my life that could make me as happy as he did".'

When Clinton's memoir My Life came out in 2004, Miss Lewinsky spoke of her upset at its contents to the Daily Mail, saying rather than being a physical fling, it was a mutual relationship.

'He could have made it right with the book, but he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

Denial: In one of the most famous broadcasts ever, President Clinton wagged his finger and sternly told a national audience he 'did not have sex with that woman'

'I really didn't expect him to go into detail about our relationship', she added. 'But if he had and he'd done it honestly, I wouldn't have minded.'

She believed he made it sound like the dalliance came only at her initiative and was purely physical.

'He talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.'

Clinton wrote that his affair with Monica revealed 'the darkest part of my inner life' and led to his temporary banishment from the White House bedroom. 

He said on CBS' 60 Minutes that he became involved with Lewinsky 'for the worst possible reason. Just because I could.'

But according to Lewinsky at the time, 'That's not how it was. This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through.'

World's most famous intern: Lewinsky, interviewed by Barbara Walters, appears on a special edition of ABC network's 20/20 programme,

Initially following her rise to notoriety Lewinsky tried to cash in with the handbags venture.

She even appeared on Saturday Night Live and hosted a short-lived reality show Mr Personality.

Then she attempted to drop out of public life. She even moved to Britain for a time to study at the London School of Economics, from where she graduated in December 2006 with a masters in social psychology. 

But she could not resist speaking out two years ago, saying Clinton lied under oath when he described their relationship during an impeachment trial.

The claims were made in the book The Death of American Virtue, by law professor Ken Gormley,

In an email to Gormley, Lewinsky made it clear she believes the president lied.

‘There was no leeway [there] on the veracity of his statements because they asked him detailed and specific questions to which he answered untruthfully,’ she wrote.

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Betty Currie, Bill Clinton’s secretary, volunteers for Obama By A. James Memmott December 17, 2008 at 10:40am Another fixture of the Clinton administration is helping Barack Obama make his move from senator to president. The New York Times reports that Betty Currie, Bill Clinton’s secretary for his eight years in office, is volunteering at the offices of the Obama-Biden transition team.

She’s there at the invitation of John D. Podesta, the transition co-chairman, who also served in the Clinton White House, finishing up as chief of staff.

“Of course I asked her because in the 30 years we have worked together, I have never known anyone with more grace, dedication and public spirit than Betty,” Podesta told the Times. “And she has one mean Rolodex.”

The paper did not report whether Monica S. Lewinsky’s name remains in that Rolodex.

In 1998, Currie had to appear five times before the grand jury investigating the relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky.

After her testimony became public, some people faulted her for possibly enabling the relationship between the president and the young intern, adopting a “don’t ask, don’t tell” stance.

Others, though, saw her as yet another victim of Clinton’s recklessness.

“She didn’t deserve this - at all,” a co-worker told The Washington Post at the time. “She’s not a villain by any stretch of the imagination.”

Currie, 69, came to the White House after serving as the office manager of the “War Room” during the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign.

The room was the place where James Carville, George Stephanopoulos and other Clinton advisers planned strategy.

Currie also worked on the Clinton-Gore transition team.

And she took part in the 1988 Michael Dukakis presidential campaign and the 1984 Walter Mondale campaign.

Previous to this, Currie had been an executive assistant and personal secretary in several federal agencies, including the U.S. Peace Corps and ACTION, the umbrella agency over the Peace Corps.

During this time, she was the executive secretary for three directors, Joseph Blatchford at the Peace Corps and ACTION and Michael Balzano and Sam W. Brown Jr. at ACTION.

Currie retired from the federal government at the end of Clinton’s second term.

In 2006, she became a member of the board of National Peace Corps Association. She recently became a member of the Alcohol Beverage Board of St. Mary’s County, MD.

She and her husband, Bob, a retired Environmental Protection Agency planning director, took Socks, the Clinton’s White House cat, into their home at the end of Clinton presidency.

The cat is now 19 and reportedly has cancer.

Currie remains in contact with the Clintons, the Times reported, and contributed $750 to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.