The Impeachment of President Clinton
1996 Chronology
January 7
Clinton called Lewinsky at her home in the afternoon. He
invited her to visit him at the Oval Office, where they spoke for 10
minutes. Then they went into the bathroom, where they had a sexual
encounter.
January 21
Clinton spotted Lewinsky near a White House elevator,
and invited her to the Oval Office. Nearby, while she was in
mid-sentence, he lifted her shirt and they had another sexual
encounter.
February 4
Clinton telephoned Lewinsky at her desk, and they planned
a rendezvous. After a sexual encounter, they talked in the Oval Office
for 45 minutes, their first substantive conversation.
February 19
Clinton calls her at her apartment and she goes to see
him. He tells her how uncomfortable he is about their relationship, and
he terminates it.
March 29
Clinton called Lewinsky to propose she see a movie with
him and some friends at the White House theater, but she declined.
March 31
Clinton calls Lewinsky, suggesting she visit the Oval
Office on the pretext of delivering papers. They have a sexual
encounter.
April 5
Lewinsky is removed from her White House job and
transferred to a public affairs position at the Pentagon, because of her
superiors' perception that she was spending too much time around the
president.
April 7
On Easter Sunday, Lewinsky told the president that she
was being transferred. He promised to bring her back to the White House
after the 1996 election. Then they had a sexual rendezvous during which
he spoke on the telephone with political consultant Dick Morris. They
were interrupted again when Clinton aide Harold M. Ickes called out for
him from the Oval Office. Clinton rushed to see Ickes, and Lewinsky
left.
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