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Twists and Turns in the Monica Lewinsky Scandal
 
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SPRING 1995
Monica Lewinsky graduates from Lewis and Clark College, and heads to Washington, D.C. for an unpaid internship at the White House.


NOVEMBER 1995
President Clinton and Lewinsky begin a series of sexual encounters at the White House.


APRIL 1996
Lewinsky leaves the White House for public affairs post at the Pentagon.


DECEMBER 1997
Lewinksy friend Linda Tripp tells the former intern that she won't shield their conversations if questioned during depositions with attorneys for Paula Jones.


JANUARY 12, 1998
Linda Tripp contacts Independent counsel Kenneth Starr's office, providing 20 hours of taped conversations with Lewinsky. The next day, Tripp wears an FBI body microphone during a meeting with Lewinsky at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pen tagon City, Virginia, and records their conversation.
 


JANUARY 16, 1998
Attorney General Jane Reno approves an expansion of Starr's probe into the Lewinsky matter.


JANUARY 17, 1998
President Clinton, testifying under oath to lawyers in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, denies having had an affair with Lewinsky.


JANUARY 26, 1998
At a White House event, Clinton states, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman. ... I never told anybody to lie." "These allegations are false."


JANUARY 27, 1998
Kenneth Starr opens a grand jury probe into Monica Lewinsky's allegations. Hillary Clinton, appearing on NBC's "Today" show, says the controversy has been fabricated by a "vast right-wing conspiracy."


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