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Article: CLINTON `ADAMANTLY' DENIES JONES' CLAIM POLITICAL DAMAGE WAS AIM OF HER LAWSUIT, LEGAL RESPONSE CLAIMS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 4, 1997
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President Clinton ``adamantly'' denied Paula Jones' claim that he propositioned her in a hotel room in 1991 and said yesterday that her lawsuit was intended to damage him politically.
In his first formal response to the charges in Jones' federal sexual harassment lawsuit, Clinton said he did not recall ever meeting her and denied ``each and every allegation'' set forth in her complaint.
``The president adamantly denies the false allegations advanced in the complaint,'' said the response filed by Clinton's lawyers. ``At no time did the president make sexual advances toward the plaintiff or otherwise act improperly in her presence.''
In a legal ...