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Slow Burn

The Clinton Impeachment | Secret Tracks

Slow Burn

Slate Audio

Politics, Society & Culture, History, News, Documentary

4.625.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Every week, Slate Plus members get a special episode of Slow Burn in which Leon Neyfakh talks to people connected with the Clinton impeachment saga. This week, we’re presenting excerpts from those bonus episodes, featuring interviews with Linda Tripp, consultant Dick Morris, former acting solicitor general Walter Dellinger, and Dillon Teachout, an intern in the independent counsel’s office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:06.5

The prosecutors in Ken Starr's office had a codename for their planned confrontation with Monica Lewinsky at the Ritzcarleton Hotel.

1:08.6

They called it prom night.

1:15.2

As you may remember from episode one, this was the secret operation scheduled for January 16th, 1998.

1:20.3

The plan was to convince Lewinsky to wear wire in order to catch the president committing a crime.

1:24.7

The prosecutors referred to it internally as prom night in the days leading up to it.

1:28.6

I recently had the opportunity to ask Kent Starr in an interview what Prom Night meant. Here's what he said. I didn't fashion that. It just kind of emerged out of

1:35.3

our process of bantering and reflecting on it, but it has become, to my colleagues and comrades,

1:43.5

forever known as by that name.

1:46.6

But it could have been a very happy event, and it didn't turn out to be so happy given the fact that she just said, no, I'm not going to make the deal.

1:56.9

And the rest of the story had to unfold.

2:00.1

I guess my curiosity was who was the one, who was going to prom in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the analogy or in the metaphor?

2:08.1

Well, she was being invited to be a part of our community. So welcome to the truth-seeking party.

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