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Timeline of Clinton-Lewinski Scandal
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Monica Lewinsky, 21, comes to the White House as an unpaid intern for Chief of Staff Leon Panetta.
May 5, 1998: Federal Judge Norma Holloway Johnson rules against President Clinton's claim of executive privilege.
Tripp to begin taping conversations in which Lewinsky details her affair with the president.
March 16, 1998: Clinton says "nothing improper" happened when he was alone with Kathleen Willey, responding to her accusations aired in an interview on "60 Minutes" the previous night.
March 20, 1998: President Clinton decides to formally invoke executive privilege.
Jan. 7, 1998: Lewinsky files an affidavit in the Jones case in which she denies ever having a sexual relationship with President Clinton.
Jan. 14, 1998: Lewinsky gives Tripp a document headed "Points to make in an affidavit," coaching Tripp on what to tell Jones' lawyers about Kathleen Willey, another former White House staffer. Willey recently had testified about alleged unsolicited sexual advances made by the president in 1993.
Jan. 16, 1998: Starr contacts Attorney General Janet Reno to get permission to expand his probe. Reno agrees and submits the request to a panel of three federal judges. The judges agree to allow Starr to formally investigate the possibility of subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Jones case.
Jan. 17, 1998: Clinton gives his deposition in the Jones lawsuit, in which he denies having a sexual relationship with Lewinsky.
Jan. 21, 1998: Several news organizations report the sexual relationship between Lewinsky and Clinton. Clinton denies the allegations as the scandal erupts.
Jan. 26, 1998: Clinton forcefully repeats his denial, saying, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
September 21, 1998: The Judiciary Committee releases and many television networks immediately broadcast more than four hours of President Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony.
September 24, 1998: The House Judiciary Committee announces the committee will consider a resolution to begin an impeachment inquiry against President Clinton in an open session on October 5 or October 6.
July 25, 1998: Independent Counsel Ken Starr has serves President Clinton with a subpoena that calls for his testimony before the Lewinsky grand jury.
July 27, 1998: Monica Lewinsky tells Starr's prosecutors tells she had a sexual relationship with President Clinton, but refuses to say that Clinton told her to lie about it, according to sources close to the investigation.
July 28, 1998: Lawyers for Lewinsky and Starr work out a full immunity agreement for Lewinsky.
July 30, 1998: Sources say that as part of her immunity agreement, Lewinsky has handed over to prosecutors a dark blue dress that she alleges may contain physical evidence of a sexual relationship with President Bill Clinton. The dress is turned over to the FBI lab for testing.
Then-Deputy White House Chief of Staff Evelyn Lieberman transfers Lewinsky to a job as an assistant to Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon due to "inappropriate and immature behavior" and inattention to work. At the Pentagon, Lewinsky meets Tripp, a career government worker.
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Feb. 6, 1998: At a news conference, President Bill Clinton says he would never consider resigning because of the accusations against him. "I would never walk away from the people of this country and the trust they've placed in me," he says.
Feb. 11, 1998: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton predicts the allegations against her husband "will slowly dissipate over time under the weight of its own insubstantiality."
Feb. 18, 1998: One of President Bill Clinton's closest advisers, Bruce Lindsey, spends the day before the Whitewater grand jury. The hearing is stopped briefly when questions of executive privilege are raised.
Feb. 25, 1998: White House lawyers are preparing legal briefs to defend the administration's position that executive privilege should shield several of President Bill Clinton's top aides from certain questions in the Lewinsky investigation.
June 1, 1998: Clinton's defense team decides to drop the appeal on the executive privilege ruling.
June 22, 1998: CNN learns that Ken Starr may be willing to make an immunity deal with Monica Lewinsky.
Lewinsky begins to tell fellow Pentagon employee Linda Tripp of her relationship with Clinton.
April 30, 1998: In his first news conference since the Lewinsky scandal broke, the president lashes out at Independent Counsel Ken Starr charging that he heads a "hard, well-financed, vigorous effort" to undercut the president. Clinton repeatedly declines to elaborate on his relationship with Lewinsky.
Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton begin a sexual relationship, according to audiotapes secretly recorded later by Linda Tripp. They concoct a cover story for Lewinsky's visits to Clinton's office.
Aug. 6, 1998: Monica Lewinsky appears before the grand jury to begin her testimony.
Aug. 17, 1998: President Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting president to testify before a grand jury investigating his conduct. After the questioning at the White House is finished, Clinton goes on national TV to admit he had an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Clinton's testimony will later be used as evidence of perjury under oath.
Dec. 8: Betty Currie, Clinton's personal secretary, asks presidential pal Vernon Jordan to help Lewinsky find a job in New York.
Dec. 11: Jordan refers Lewinski to several job leads.
Dec. 17: Lewinsky is subpoenaed by lawyers for Paula Jones, who is suing the president on sexual harassment charges.
Dec. 28: Lewinsky makes her final visit to the White House. Lewinsky met privately with Clinton and he encouraged her to be "evasive" in her answers in the Jones' lawsuit.
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