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NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN
Drudge Report ^ | 01/17/98 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 01/17/2013 8:29:47 AM PST by McGruff

BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT

**World Exclusive** **Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**

At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!

The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that reporter Michael Isikoff developed the story of his career, only to have it spiked by top NEWSWEEK suits hours before publication. A young woman, 23, sexually involved with the love of her life, the President of the United States, since she was a 21-year-old intern at the White House. She was a frequent visitor to a small study just off the Oval Office where she claims to have indulged the president's sexual preference. Reports of the relationship spread in White House quarters and she was moved to a job at the Pentagon, where she worked until last month.

The young intern wrote long love letters to President Clinton, which she delivered through a delivery service. She was a frequent visitor at the White House after midnight, where she checked in the WAVE logs as visiting a secretary named Betty Curry, 57.

The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that tapes of intimate phone conversations exist.

The relationship between the president and the young woman become strained when the president believed that the young woman was bragging about the affair to others.

NEWSWEEK and Isikoff were planning to name the woman. Word of the story's impeding release caused blind chaos in media circles; TIME magazine spent Saturday scrambling for its own version of the story, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The NEW YORK POST on Sunday was set to front the young intern's affair, but was forced to fall back on the dated ABC NEWS Kathleen Willey break.

The story was set to break just hours after President Clinton testified in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.

Ironically, several years ago, it was Isikoff that found himself in a shouting match with editors who were refusing to publish even a portion of his meticulously researched investigative report that was to break Paula Jones. Isikoff worked for the WASHINGTON POST at the time, and left shortly after the incident to build them for the paper's sister magazine, NEWSWEEK.

Michael Isikoff was not available for comment late Saturday. NEWSWEEK was on voice mail.

The White House was busy checking the DRUDGE REPORT for details.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: anniversary; bettycurry; billclinton; drudge; monicalewinsky; newsweak; paulajones; spiked; x42
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To: Darksheare
There already was and it was covered up. the actor that was on ‘House’ who left the show to join bathhouse barrys' administration was sexually harassed and quit.
21 posted on 01/17/2013 9:11:19 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: McGruff

Same here...under a different screen name in those days, tho


22 posted on 01/17/2013 9:13:19 AM PST by QualityMan (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: longfellow

Ah.


23 posted on 01/17/2013 9:14:09 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: martin_fierro
Unnngh.

Ya got that right, esp. since Chelsea is Webb Hubbell's kid, anyway.

Of course, Bill might be Daddy to a few that are unacknowledged.

24 posted on 01/17/2013 9:36:00 AM PST by wbill
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To: ßuddaßudd
Øbama would be caught with a woman

Yeah that was my 1st reaction, too, esp after reading "she claims to have indulged the president's sexual preference".

I wondered if they dressed her up like a boy and she escorted him to a bathhouse.

25 posted on 01/17/2013 9:39:14 AM PST by wbill
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To: McGruff

me too. Can’t imagine life without it.


26 posted on 01/17/2013 10:11:23 AM PST by ynotjjr (Under Construction)
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To: McGruff
"Michael Isikoff was not available for comment late Saturday."

Newsweek's spiking the story got Isikoff the nickname of "Spike." Can somebody jog my memory? Was it Lucianne Goldberg who gave him that nickname?

27 posted on 01/17/2013 10:13:03 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: McGruff
...the president believed that the young woman was bragging about the affair to others.

And keeping souvenirs.


28 posted on 01/17/2013 11:13:53 AM PST by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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