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It's August 2, 1998, a Sunday in the summertime. When the pace of Washington slows a bit,

Congress goes on vacation, schools and colleges are on summer break, and interns have

descended on the city for a few months. That summer, there's one story everyone seems

to be talking about.

As you know, in a deposition in January, I was asked questions about my relationship

with Monica Lewinsky. That's President Bill Clinton addressing the

nation the day he testified before the grand jury. At that point, independent council

Ken Star was still investigating Clinton. His report wouldn't come out until September.

It was the biggest presidential scandal since Watergate. But this podcast isn't about

Monica Lewinsky, it's about another intern who came to DC in 1998, 28-year-old Christine

Marzion.

She didn't come to Washington to work in the White House. Christine was a scientist

by all accounts brilliant. She had studied cell biology at Yale, and earlier that spring,

she completed her PhD in biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.

She was at the very end. It was a summer intern at the National Academy of Sciences. She

had spent the summer there. That was the only time in our relationship where we were

separated. I was still finishing up my PhD at UCSF. That's David Hackos. Christine's husband

at the time. He was planning to join her in DC after he finished his PhD. He'd lined up

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