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In reply to the discussion: Monica Lewinsky gooooooooooooooafuggingway! [View all]Beacool
(30,258 posts)65. No, but she threatened to ruin his.
She became obsessed with him like she had previously been with her drama teacher. Of course he was an idiot for getting involved with her in the first place.
She kept trying to get to Clinton through his private secretary, Betty Currie. That's around the time that he sent her out of the WH. In her new post she started confiding on another person who was no longer in the WH either and was pissed off about it, Linda Tripp. Monica would spew her tales of woe and Tripp would record their conversations.
Oh what a tangled web we weave...........
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True, but a sensible, moral President would have quietly told someone to have the
karynnj
Jul 2014
#97
I certainly empathize with young interns who are taken advantage of by their bosses
IronLionZion
Jul 2014
#5
Do we have to know that he explicitly threatened her for it to be inappropriate?
hughee99
Jul 2014
#37
You can successfully date the boss and not have it fuck up your career -- I did.
moriah
Jul 2014
#74
monica was not vunerable and bill wasnt her boss. and after he's out of office how could
leftyohiolib
Jul 2014
#49
She wasn't taken advantage of, she made the first move, he never made any effort to try to be with
JI7
Jul 2014
#76
You have to work hard to remember who Donna Rice was. (WARNING-racy pic of woman in swimsuit!)
MADem
Jul 2014
#12
If 20 year olds are not responsible, then Budweiser owed my parents an apology
liberal N proud
Jul 2014
#30
Gee: Hillary is a probable 2016 Presidential forerunner & Monica is stepping out of the shadows...
C Moon
Jul 2014
#38
I disagree again. I don't think anyone was guilty of anything outside of Republicans. nt
stevenleser
Jul 2014
#73
Someone told me that she used to live here in the Pearl district in Portland
cascadiance
Jul 2014
#41