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

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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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MR. MCCURRY: I don't know what kind of conversations he's had. He
Q Do they know each other?
MR. MCCURRY: I do not know.
Q Do you like the way he's shouting?
Q I thought the boy was on speed last night.
MR. MCCURRY: Sam. You know our view on that kind of -
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MR. MCCURRY: I do not know the answer to that. I don't know what 1
of
relationship they had.
Q Mike, on the relationship — the question of the relationship between
Lewinsky and Betty Currie, can you at least say that they had some sort
relationship?
the
President used to deal with and is now bringing in but we haven't yet
mentioned?
Q Mike, Governor Romer last night said that the DNC plans to depend i
more
heavily on Gore between now and midterms. Is there any similar plan at
White
House to put Gore forward a little more?
MR. MCCURRY: Yes, he's going to start doing the daily briefing. It's v
good. (Laughter.)
MR. MCCURRY: No. I am only aware that he has retained Mickey Kar
but we
told you about that over the weekend. I'm not aware that he has formally
added
anyone else to his legal team.
MR. MCCURRY: He's going to do that. Actually, I wish he'd -- maybe
come
down here and say, come stand by Mike McCurry. (Laughter.)
President's friend and he's been here in recent days, but I don't know wh
they've talked about.
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Q What about Harry Thomason, how can he talk to the President withoi
being in
danger of having every conversation subpoenaed?

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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.