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Article: THE BUYING OF CONGRESS.(Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- December 1, 1998
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THE BUYING OF CONGRESS by Charles Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity New York, Avon Books, $25
When Kenneth Starr sent his report to Congress this summer, President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky wasn't the only one he deemed noteworthy.
In what Starr labeled the "President's Day [February 19] Break-up," the intern was worried about the relationship. She went, uninvited, to the Oval Office. The president tried to call it quits. She argued; he insisted. As she left, she later told the grand jury, Clinton was on the phone with "a sugar grower in Florida whose name, according to Ms. Lewinsky, was something like `Fanuli.'" Starr tells us ...