A Vast Conspiracy (2 page)
Authors: Jeffrey Toobin
OTHER ATTORNEYS
Kirby Behre
, attorney for Linda Tripp
James Moody
, attorney for Linda Tripp
William Bristow
, attorney for Danny Ferguson
Billy Martin
, attorney for Marcia Lewis
JUDGES
Susan Webber Wright
, U.S. district judge presiding over
Jones v. Clinton
Norma Holloway Johnson
, chief judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
William H. Rehnquist
, chief justice of the United States
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY (selected members)
Republicans (in order of seniority)
Henry J. Hyde
, chairman
Bill McCollum
George W. Gekas
Bob Inglis
Ed Bryant
Bob Barr
James E. Rogan
Lindsey O. Graham
Democrats
John Conyers, Jr.
, ranking member
Barney Frank
Charles E. Schumer
Howard L. Berman
Rick Boucher
Jerrold Nadler
Maxine Waters
Republican Staff
Thomas E. Mooney, Sr.
, general counsel and chief of staff
David P. Schippers
, chief investigative counsel
Democratic Staff
Julian Epstein
, minority chief counsel and staff director
Abbe D. Lowell
, minority chief investigative counsel
Jim Jordan
, spokesman for minority staff
UNITED STATES SENATE
Trent Lott
, majority leader
Tom Daschle
, minority leader
Chronology
| MAY 8, 1991 | | Paula Corbin and Governor Bill Clinton meet at a conference at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock. |
| NOVEMBER 3, 1992 | | Bill Clinton wins the presidential election. |
| NOVEMBER 29, 1993 | | President Clinton meets with Kathleen Willey, an acquaintance and White House job seeker, and allegedly makes sexual advances toward her. |
| DECEMBER 18, 1993 | | The American Spectator magazine publishes David Brock’s “His Cheatin’ Heart,” which recounts a version of Clinton’s meeting with a woman identified as “Paula.” |
| JANUARY 20, 1994 | | Attorney General Janet Reno names Robert Fiske to head the investigation into the Whitewater affair. |
| FEBRUARY 11, 1994 | | At a press conference in Washington, D.C., Paula Corbin Jones accuses President Clinton of sexual harassment. Anti-Clinton activist Cliff Jackson introduces Jones to Michael Isikoff of The Washington Post . |
| MAY 3, 1994 | | The White House announces that President Clinton has hired Robert Bennett to represent him in the Jones matter. |
| MAY 4, 1994 | | The Washington Post publishes an article by Michael Isikoff (and others) about Paula Jones’s accusations. |
| MAY 6, 1994 | | Paula Jones’s lawyers file a lawsuit against President Clinton. |
| JUNE 30, 1994 | | President Clinton signs a reauthorization of the expired independent counsel statute. |
| AUGUST 5, 1994 | | The Special Division of U.S. Court of Appeals replaces Fiske with Kenneth Starr as independent counsel investigating Whitewater. |
| JULY 1995 | | Monica Lewinsky begins to work as an intern at the White House. |
| NOVEMBER 15, 1995 | | Monica Lewinsky and President Clinton have their first sexual encounter in his White House study. |
| JANUARY 4, 1996 | | White House aide Carolyn Huber finds copies of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s billing records from the Rose Law Firm, which had been subpoenaed more than a year earlier. |
| JANUARY 18, 1996 | | Hillary Clinton subpoenaed to Kenneth Starr’s grand jury. |
| JANUARY 26, 1996 | | Hillary Clinton testifies before grand jury. |
| APRIL 5, 1996 | | Monica Lewinsky is informed that she will be transferred from her job at the White House to one at the Pentagon. There she becomes friends with Linda Tripp. |
| MAY 28, 1996 | | Jim and Susan McDougal and Governor Jim Guy Tucker are convicted in the Whitewater case. |
| JUNE 24, 1996 | | Supreme Court accepts a writ of certiorari in Jones v. Clinton and agrees to decide whether President Clinton can be sued while in office. |
| AUGUST 1, 1996 | | An Arkansas jury fails to convict two bankers charged by Starr with felonies in connection with Bill Clinton’s 1990 gubernatorial campaign. |
| NOVEMBER 5, 1996 | | Bill Clinton is elected to a second term as president. |
| FEBRUARY 17, 1997 | | Kenneth Starr announces plans to resign as independent counsel and accept a deanship at Pepperdine University. Later the same week, Starr agrees to continue his work as prosecutor. |
| FEBRUARY 28, 1997 | | During an assignation with President Clinton, Monica Lewinsky’s dress is stained with his semen. |
| MARCH 24, 1997 | | Michael Isikoff meets Linda Tripp. |
| MARCH 29, 1997 | | Monica Lewinsky and President Clinton have their final assignation. |
| MAY 24, 1997 | | President Clinton tells Monica Lewinsky that they can no longer continue their relationship. Lewinsky refers to this event as “D-Day” or “Dump Day.” |
| MAY 27, 1997 | | Supreme Court rejects President Clinton’s bid for immunity from civil suits while in office. Jones v. Clinton is ordered to proceed. |
| AUGUST 3, 1997 | | In Newsweek , Isikoff publishes a story revealing Kathleen Willey’s allegations. |
| NOVEMBER 3, 1997 | | Monica Lewinsky receives a job offer from the office of the United States ambassador to the United Nations. |
| NOVEMBER 5, 1997 | | Monica Lewinsky meets with Vernon Jordan for the first time. |
| DECEMBER 5, 1997 | | Jones’s lawyers fax the witness list in the Jones case to President Clinton’s lawyers. Monica Lewinsky’s name is included. |
| DECEMBER 6, 1997 | | In a meeting with his lawyers, President Clinton denies having a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. |
| DECEMBER 11, 1997 | | Monica Lewinsky and Vernon Jordan discuss her job hunt over lunch. Later in the day, Judge Wright rules that Jones’s lawyers can ask President Clinton about his consensual sexual partners. |
| DECEMBER 17, 1997 | | President Clinton telephones Monica Lewinsky to inform her that her name is on the witness list for the Jones case. They discuss a sanitized account of their relationship. |
| DECEMBER 19, 1997 | | Monica Lewinsky receives a subpoena from lawyers for Paula Jones. |
| DECEMBER 22, 1997 | | Monica Lewinsky meets with attorney Francis Carter. |
| DECEMBER 28, 1997 | | Betty Currie drives to Monica Lewinsky’s apartment to retrieve gifts given to Lewinsky by President Clinton. Currie takes them home and hides them under her bed. |
| JANUARY 5, 1998 | | Monica Lewinsky rejects the UN job offer. |
| JANUARY 7, 1998 | | Monica Lewinsky signs an affidavit, prepared by Francis Carter, denying a sexual relationship with President Clinton. |
| JANUARY 9, 1998 | | Monica Lewinsky receives an informal job offer, which she accepts, from Revlon. The offer is formalized four days later. |
| JANUARY 12, 1998 | | Linda Tripp contacts the Office of Independent Counsel and reveals her information about Monica Lewinsky’s relationship with President Clinton. Also, in a secret hearing in Arkansas, Judge Susan Webber Wright urges both sides to settle the Jones case. |
| JANUARY 13, 1998 | | Linda Tripp wears a recording device and produces a “sting tape” of her lunch with Monica Lewinsky at the Ritz-Carlton. |
| JANUARY 14, 1998 | | Monica Lewinsky gives Linda Tripp written suggestions (“talking points”) for how to prepare an affidavit in the Paula Jones case. |
| JANUARY 16, 1998 | | The Special Division grants Kenneth Starr authority to investigate whether Monica Lewinsky or others suborned perjury or obstructed justice. Linda Tripp arranges to meet Lewinsky at the Ritz-Carlton. There Lewinsky is taken to a hotel room and interviewed by prosecutors from the Office of Independent Counsel. |
| JANUARY 17, 1998 | | In a videotaped deposition in the Jones case, President Clinton denies a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. |
| JANUARY 18, 1998 | | The Drudge Report publishes item alleging a sexual relationship between the president and an “intern.” President Clinton meets with Betty Currie to discuss his contacts with Lewinsky. Over the next day, Currie makes repeated attempts to contact Lewinsky. |
| JANUARY 21, 1998 | | In the early morning, The Washington Post and ABC News disclose Starr’s investigation of the alleged affair, including a denial from the White House. In midafternoon President Clinton denies allegations about Lewinsky in interviews with Jim Lehrer and others. |
| JANUARY 26, 1998 | | While speaking at the White House, President Clinton denies having “sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” |
| JANUARY 27, 1998 | | On NBC’s Today show, Hillary Clinton denounces a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” Later, President Clinton delivers his State of the Union address. |
| FEBRUARY 4, 1998 | | Kenneth Starr rejects a proposed agreement granting Monica Lewinsky immunity from prosecution in exchange for her cooperation. |
| APRIL 1, 1998 | | U.S. District Court judge Susan Webber Wright grants President Clinton’s motion for summary judgment in Jones v. Clinton , dismissing the case. Jones’s lawyers announce plans to appeal. |
| JULY 17, 1998 | | Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a subpoena to President Clinton to testify before the grand jury. |
| JULY 27, 1998 | | In exchange for a promise of immunity from prosecution, Monica Lewinsky meets with prosecutors in New York and discusses her relationship with President Clinton. |
| JULY 28, 1998 | | Monica Lewinsky gives the Office of Independent Counsel her semen-stained dress. |
| AUGUST 6, 1998 | | Monica Lewinsky testifies before the grand jury. President Clinton wears a blue-and-gold Zegna tie. |
| AUGUST 17, 1998 | | In testimony before the grand jury, President Clinton acknowledges intimate contact with Monica Lewinsky. Later, he admits the affair in a televised address. |
| SEPTEMBER 9, 1998 | | Kenneth Starr submits his report to Congress. |
| SEPTEMBER 11, 1998 | | The House votes, 363–63, to release the Starr report. |
| SEPTEMBER 21, 1998 | | The videotape of President Clinton’s grand jury testimony is released. |
| OCTOBER 8, 1998 | | The House votes, 258–176, for an impeachment investigation. |
| NOVEMBER 3, 1998 | | The Republicans lose five seats in the House in midterm congressional elections. |
| NOVEMBER 13, 1998 | | President Clinton agrees to pay $850,000 to settle Jones v. Clinton . |
| NOVEMBER 19, 1998 | | Kenneth Starr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee. |
| DECEMBER 11, 1998 | | The House Judiciary Committee approves four articles of impeachment against President Clinton. |
| DECEMBER 16, 1998 | | President Clinton orders air strikes on Iraq for its violation of weapons agreements. |
| DECEMBER 19, 1998 | | The House votes to impeach President Clinton, adopting two of the proposed four articles of impeachment. House speaker-designate Robert Livingston announces his resignation. |
| JANUARY 7, 1999 | | The Senate impeachment trial is formally opened by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. |
| JANUARY 14–16, 1999 | | The House managers present the case against President Clinton. |
| JANUARY 22, 1999 | | Senator Robert Byrd announces a plan to move to dismiss charges against President Clinton. Five days later his motion is rejected, 56–44. |
| FEBRUARY 12, 1999 | | The Senate votes to acquit President Clinton of both articles of impeachment. |
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