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Article: Clinton clings to affairs of state
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 8, 1994
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WHEN Paula Jones first met the media, on the fringe of a meeting
of conservative activists in Washington last February, her then
lawyer, Daniel Traylor, said she was there to offer a
"blow-by-blow" account of a hotel-room encounter with Bill Clinton
in May 1991. The choice of words, predictably, triggered hilarity
among journalists.
But there was worse to come. On Friday, a lawsuit over the
alleged incident was filed at the court building in Little Rock,
Arkansas, and copies were handed to the press. The amusement this
time, notably over references to the defendant's genitals, was of a
tangibly different kind; it had a stifled embarrassment to it. "Can
this really be happening to the ...