Documents From the Starr Referral. Q: Your counsel, Mr. Bennett, indicated at page 5 of the deposition, lines 1. I'm quoting, 'the President intends to give full and complete answers as Ms. Jones is entitled to have. PRESIDENT CLINTON: I believe that I was bound to give truthful answers, yes, sir. Q: But the question is, sir, do you agree with your counsel that a plaintiff in a sexual harassment case is entitled to have the truth? PRESIDENT CLINTON: I believe when a witness is under oath in a civil case, or otherwise under oath, the witness should do everything possible to answer the questions truthfully. WISENBERG: I'm going to turn over questioning now to Mr. Bittman of our office, Mr. BITTMAN: Q: Good afternoon, Mr. PRESIDENT CLINTON: Good afternoon, Mr. Q: My name is Robert Bittman. I'm an attorney with the Office of Independent Counsel. President, we are first going to turn to some of the details of your relationship with Monica Lewinsky that follow up on your deposition that you provided in the Paula Jones case, as was referenced, on January 1. I will try to be as brief and direct as possible. President, were you physically intimate with Monica Lewinsky? PRESIDENT CLINTON: Mr. Bittman, I think maybe I can save the – you and the grand jurors a lot of time if I read a statement, which I think will make it clear what the nature of my relationship with Ms. Lewinsky was and how it related to the testimony I gave, what I was trying to do in that testimony. And I think it will perhaps make it possible for you to ask even more relevant questions from your point of view. And, with your permission, I'd like to read that statement. PRESIDENT CLINTON: When I was alone with Ms. Lewinsky on certain occasions in early 1. I engaged in conduct that was wrong. These encounters did not consist of sexual intercourse. They did not constitute sexual relations as I understood that term to be defined at my January 1. But they did involve inappropriate intimate contact. These inappropriate encounters ended, at my insistence, in early 1. I also had occasional telephone conversations with Ms. Lewinsky that included inappropriate sexual banter. I regret that what began as a friendship came to include this conduct, and I take full responsibility for my actions. While I will provide the grand jury whatever other information I can, because of privacy considerations affecting my family, myself, and others, and in an effort to preserve the dignity of the office I hold, this is all I will say about the specifics of these particular matters. I will try to answer, to the best of my ability, other questions including questions about my relationship with Ms. Lewinsky; questions about my understanding of the term . Draft of resolution and Article I. Impeaching William Jefferson Clinton. Bittman, is my statement. And, with that, we would like to take a break. PRESIDENT CLINTON: Would you like to have this? As a matter of fact, why don't we have that marked as Grand Jury Exhibit WJC- 1. Can we have the camera off, now, please? BITTMAN: It's 1: 3. BITTMAN: Q: Good afternoon again, Mr. PRESIDENT CLINTON: Good afternoon, Mr. President, your statement indicates that your contacts with Ms. Lewinsky did not involve any inappropriate, intimate contact. KENDALL: The witness does not have – PRESIDENT CLINTON: – that it did involve inappropriate and intimate contact. BY MR. BITTMAN: Q: Pardon me. That it did involve inappropriate, intimate contact. PRESIDENT CLINTON: Yes, sir, it did. MR. Bittman, the witness – the witness does not have a copy of the statement. We just have the one copy. The Lewinsky scandal was an American political. During the grand jury testimony Clinton's responses. Clinton admitted in taped grand jury testimony on. Get this from a library! The grand jury testimony of William Jefferson Clinton : August 17, 1998. Text of Clinton's grand jury testimony. CLINTON: William Jefferson Clinton. QUESTION: My name is Sol Wisenberg. Impeaching William Jefferson Clinton. Clinton's Grand Jury Testimony. WHEREUPON, William Jefferson Clinton. The Grand Jury Testimony of William Jefferson Clinton on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. MR. BITTMAN: If he wishes –MR. BITTMAN: – his statement back? BY MR. BITTMAN: Q: Was this contact with Ms. President, did it involve any sexual contact in any way, shape, or form? PRESIDENT CLINTON: Mr. Bittman, I said in this statement I would like to stay to the terms of the statement. I think it's clear what inappropriately intimate is. I have said what it did not include. I – it did not include sexual intercourse, and I do not believe it included conduct which falls within the definition I was given in the Jones deposition. And I would like to stay with that characterization. Q: Let us then move to the definition that was provided you during your deposition, we will have that marked as Grand Jury Exhibit WJC- 2. BITTMAN: Q: This is an exact copy, Mr. President, of the exhibit that was provided you during that deposition. And I'm sure you remember from the deposition that paragraph (1) of the definition remained in effect. Judge Wright ruled that that was to be the guiding definition, and that. Do you remember that, Mr. Specifically what I remember is there were two different discussions, I think, of this. There was quite an extended one in the beginning, and everybody was entering into it. And in the end, the Judge said that she would take the first definition and strike the rest of it. Q: Did you – well, at page 1. And later on in the deposition, you did, of course, refer to the definition several times. Were you, during the deposition, familiar with the definition? PRESIDENT CLINTON: Yes, sir. My – let me just ask a question. If you are going to ask me about my deposition, could I have a copy of it? Deleting a title from your collection is like throwing away a DVD. You will no longer be able to watch this title on Flixster or any other UltraViolet. Does anybody have a copy of it? Q: Yes. We'll provide you with a copy. MS. WIRTH: We will mark it as Grand Jury Exhibit WJC- 3. BITTMAN: Q: It was at page 1. Mr. President, beginning at line 2. I'll read it in full. This is from the Jones attorney. Yes, that starts on 1. But let me say that there is a – just for the record, my recollection was accurate. There is a long discussion here between the attorney and the Judge. It goes on until page 2. And in the end the Judge says, ? Jones says he's only talking about part one and asked me if I understand it. And I say, I do, and that was my understanding. This is my circle here. I remember doing that so I could focus only on those two lines, which is what I did. Q: Did you understand the words in the first portion of the exhibit, Mr. PRESIDENT CLINTON: Yes. My – I can tell you what my understanding of the definition is, if you want me to – Q: Sure. My understanding of this definition is it covers contact by the person being deposed with the enumerated areas, if the contact is done with an intent to arouse or gratify. That's my understanding of the definition. Q: What did you believe the definition to include and exclude? What kinds of activities? PRESIDENT CLINTON: I thought the definition included any activity by the person being deposed, where the person was the actor and came in contact with those parts of the bodies with the purpose or intent or gratification, and excluded any other activity. For example, kissing is not covered by that, I don't think. Q: Did you understand the definition to be limited to sexual activity? PRESIDENT CLINTON: Yes, I understood the definition to be limited to, to physical contact with those areas of the bodies with the specific intent to arouse or gratify. That's what I understood it to be. Q: What specific acts did the definition include, as you understood the definition on January 1. PRESIDENT CLINTON: Any contact with the areas there mentioned, sir. If you contacted, if you contacted those parts of the body with an intent to arouse or gratify, that is covered. Q: What did you understand – PRESIDENT CLINTON: The person being deposed. If the person being deposed contacted those parts of another person's body with an intent to arouse or gratify, that was covered. Q: What did you understand the word ? No portion of this transcript may be copied, sold or retransmitted without the written authority of Federal News Service, Inc. 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