Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, and Gennifer Flowers

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Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, and Gennifer Flowers

• Dillon Argo
• Autumn Boothe

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People Involved

• Bill Clinton
• Gennifer Flowers
• Paula Jones
• Monica Lewinsky

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Paula Jones

• Paula Jones is a former Arkansas state clerk who
  accused at the time he was governor of Arkansas
  in 1991 she was summoned to his room at a hotel
  in Little Rock by a state trooper. She then said
  that he dropped his pants and to her to kiss
  it. She then claims that she refused and was
  then told to keep quiet about it. She says that
  she was then demoted at work when she went public
  with this incident. She filed a formal complaint
  against President Clinton in May 1994 alleging
  sexual harassment and defamation of character,
  asking 700,000 in damages.

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Paula Jones Cont..

• The following August, Clinton's lawyers filed a
  motion to dismiss Jones' suit citing presidential
  immunity. The district judge ruled that Clinton
  could not stand trial until leaving office, but
  then after the investigation into the allegation
  could proceed. Jones appealed and in 1996 won the
  right to proceed trial to supreme court. Clinton
  then filed a request to delay the trial until he
  left office, and the timing of the decision
  coincided with the 1996 election, bought Clinton
  a reprieve. After the several other alleged
  incidences congress began the impeachment
  process in 1998 and a divided house of
  representatives impeached him on December 19. The
  issue then passed to senate, where after a 5 week
  trial, he was acquitted.

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Monica Lewinsky

• Monica Lewisnky is a woman with whom United
  States President Bill Clinton admitted to having
  had an "inappropriate relationship" while she
  worked as an intern at the White House in 1995
  and 1996. When Lewinsky was hired in 1995 after
  graduating Lewis Clark college she began
  working during Clinton's first term she began a
  personal relationship with him, the details she
  confided to her friend and co-worker at the
  defense department, Linda Tripp, who secretly
  recorded their phone conversations.

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Monica Lewinsky cont.

• Monica Lewisnky claimed to have 9 sexual
  encounters with then President Bill Clinton
  between November 1995 to March 1997.in April 1996
  Lewinsky's superiors moved her job to the
  pentagon because they felt she was spending too
  much time with President Clinton. According to UN
  Ambassador Bill Richardson when asked to
  interview Lewinsky for a job on his staff at the
  UN. Richardson did this and offered her a
  position which she declined

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Monica Lewinsky

• . It was alleged that Richardson knew more about
  the scandal than he confessed to the grand jury.
  In January 1998 Lewinsky submitted an affidavit
  form in the Paula Jones case denying any physical
  relationship with Clinton. She also persuaded
  Tripp to lie under oath in this case as well. Now
  armed with evidence of Lewinsky's admission of a
  physical relationship with Clinton, he broadened
  the investigation to include Lewinsky and her
  possible perjury in the Jones case.

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Gennifer Flowers

• Gennifer Flowers came forward during Bill
  Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign alleging she
  had had a 12 year relationship with him. At first
  she denied this, but later changed her story.
  Clinton also denied that he had this relationship
  on 60 minutes.

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Gennifer Flowers cont..

• After this happened Flowers held a press
  conference where she played recordings of phone
  conversations she secretly recorded with Clinton.
  It was alleged that the recordings could have
  been doctored. In trial under oath, Clinton
  testified that he had only one sexual encounter
  with Flowers in 1977, and it has not been proven
  exactly what took place during this encounter.

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Works Cited

• BBC News, June 1 1998. BBC
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/cli
  nton_scandal/49771.stm
• Wikipedia. Org