Title: Monica Lewinsky breaks decade of silence over affair with Bill Clinton: 'It's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress' | The Independent | The Independent
Headings: Monica Lewinsky breaks decade of silence over affair with Bill Clinton: 'It's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress'
Monica Lewinsky breaks decade of silence over affair with Bill Clinton: 'It's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress'
The White House intern, whose affair with Clinton led to the former President's impeachment in 1998, has written a tell-all magazine column
The Lewinsky Scandal In Pictures

Content: Clinton was being investigated by Kenneth Starr, the Independent Counsel, on a number of perjury and obstruction of justice cases – all of which he was later acquitted of – when Starr was given taped conversations between the former President and Lewinsky by her Defense Department co-worker Linda Tripp, who had been secretly recording them. It led to a 21-day Senate trial, during which Clinton’s carefully worded argument hinged on the meaning of the word ‘is’ when determining the truthfulness of the statement: “ There is not a sexual relationship, an improper sexual relationship or any other kind of improper relationship.” It was the now infamous blue dress, gifted to Lewinsky by Clinton, that provided the DNA evidence proving the relationship had existed, despite Clinton’s initial denials that he “did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky”. “I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never,” he stated at the time. “ These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people. Thank you.” On 17 August 1998, Clinton admitted that he had in fact engaged in an “improper physical relationship” with Lewinsky.