PART ONE

Early June, 1999

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Even presidents have private lives. It is time to stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on with our national life.

—WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, statement from the White House following his Grand Jury testimony, August, 1998

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I want this room as shiny as two dogs’ balls under a bed.

—MARGARET GRACE MCCANN