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The new FX limited seriesImpeachment: American Crime Storythe third in atrue-crime anthologythat started withThe People v. O.J.
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The major plot and character beats that shapeImpeachments narrative.
Would the affair have even been possible without the government shutdown?Probably not.
So it definitely makes sense.
The escalation of their relationship happened relatively quickly.
Then a few days later, she brought the pizza to his office at his suggestion.
Thats one of her friends from college who she did see.
And she is one of the 11 people [Lewinsky] told.
And eventually, they ended up flying her in from Japan to testify before the grand jury.
Secretary Betty Curries role as liaison in this relationshipIn large part, the show gets it right.
Monica would call her to take a stab at arrange meetings.
Sometimes, she would call Monica to say, The President would like to meet with you.
Sometimes, she would be like the go-between for gifts, that kind of thing.
The gift exchangesAll these gifts they show are all accurately things they gave each other.
So all these gifts appear there.
Like theOy VeyJewish humor book is real and the frog thing she gives him.
He gives herLeaves of Grass.
Whereas Linda said that she was pretty disgusted that the president would do something like this.
That she was horrified for Monica, upset for her on her behalf.
The show, it seems to me, is going more towards Monicas interpretation, which makes sense.
And then she says, I corroborate that it happened, but it was not sexual harassment.
She was very excited.
Tripp described most recently in her memoir that she later came to believe that she misinterpreted things.
I guess its the shows freedom to imply what it wants to imply there.
She describes an exchange where Lindas like, Im good at seeing patterns.
Lets see if theres a pattern here, although I dont think they were necessarily on her personal computer.
Susan Carpenter-McMillans role in the Paula Jones lawsuitIn 97, she announces that she is Paula Joness spokeswoman.
But yes, shes very involved.
A lot of the stuff about the makeover, thats all her.
There are articles about how she took Paula to Nordstrom, which they show, and Macys.
She got her hairstylists.
Paula did have braces, very famously, during this period.
And [Lewinsky] put together a whole gift basket of things for his injury.
I thought that was pretty interesting, just because theres a level of real thought and care to it.
On Clintons Diet Coke thing[Lewinsky] said later that was part of their cover.
Also, apparently he really liked Diet Coke.
