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[01/29/1998 - 10/19/1999]: 24194021-20060474F-001-023-2023

· 88 pages · text from the file's own layer

This release contains White House Exchange Mail records dated January 1998 to October 1999. Most of it is a transcript of a January 29, 1998 press briefing by Press Secretary Mike McCurry covering Iraq, Iran, the budget and the Lewinsky inquiry, plus a 1998 presidential speech. An October 19, 1999 email among Transnational Threats staff forwards a Florida Today article on how scientists expect alien contact would spark a media frenzy rather than a cover-up, describing the 1989 SETI detection protocol.

  • p. 12 …what ti relationship was between Lewinsky and Betty Currie? MR. MCCURRY: I'm just not going…
  • p. 20 …Q Mike, on the relationship — the question of the relationship between Lewinsky and Betty Currie, can…
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Q He's asking you, Mike. That's a fair question.
Q - what a conspiracy is.
MR. MCCURRY: Sure, why not.
MR. MCCURRY: You obviously know the answer to that.
Q What is it?
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not just with opponents, but specifically with Ken Starr, but presented n
evidence for that.
Q Is that what a conspiracy is - a sequence of events, when two people
situation might know each other? That's a conspiracy?
Q A serious question. You talk about your own pain and anguish. Is this
uncomfortable situation where you would like to say more?
Q You said that you're out of the loop. Who is in the loop to speak to thi
public?
MR. MCCURRY: You all have reported in recent days on the chain anc
sequence of
events that brought some of these allegations to light. I think that's prett
clear record.
Q But you say you disbelieve some of our reports? Are you saying you
believe
these reports?
Q I mean, the question is that you've condemned people for making
statements on
the basis of innuendo. And she alleged a very specific right-wing conspi
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MR. MCCURRY: I think when people — that story would, I think, woul
have been
very well reported in the last couple of days about how things have com
about.
MR. MCCURRY: There is not a loop available for us to use to respond
these
questions. And I think that's pretty clear. And I think that if there was -
there was going to be that loop, I would be in it. But I think ultimately,
people want to hear from the President on this. And the President is not
position to do that now, so we play bust the pinata up here every day.
Q You talk about a loop that is not available for us to talk to right now.'
you give us any sense if there are any more people joining that loop, pec

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.