Volume 47, Number 6 · April 13, 2000
Nearly a Coup
By Anthony Lewis
A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President
by Jeffrey Toobin
Random House, 422 pp., $25.95
The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton
by Joe Conason, by Gene Lyons
St. Martin's, 413 pp., $25.95
When Monica Lewinsky went before Kenneth Starr's grand jury in August 1998, the prosecutors did not ask her an obvious, important question: Had President Clinton urged or induced her to lie about their relationship? The prosecutors knew, because they had interviewed her for days, that if asked she would answer no—and they did not want on the record an answer inconsistent with their planned charges that the President had obstructed justice.
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