In February 1997, he gifted her a hat pin

an affair that would shape history, Monica Lewinsky said she fell for former President Bill Clinton's "lethal charm" when she was a White House intern in 1995.

Their first dalliance was in November 1995 during a colleague's birthday party at the White House when Lewinsky lifted her jacket to show him the straps of her thong, The Washington Post reported in 1998. Shortly afterward, they had a sexual encounter where he took a phone call from a member of Congress — something Clinton would do repeatedly during their 18-month affair.

As the details of the affair came to light via the independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation, they would show a starstruck intern lovesick over a hot-and-cold man twice her age who "grew angry at times at her persistent attentions," according to The Post.

In one instance, she threatened to tell her parents about their affair after he had ignored her, and he soothed her by alluding to the future when he might be out of the office and more available to her.

"I just knew that he was in love with me," Lewinsky recalled, The Post reported.

Their secret gifts to each other during the affair would later come back to haunt them.
lewinsky dress
Among the evidence gathered in the Clinton investigation was a semen-stained dress belonging to Lewinsky. Hulton Archive/Getty
The pair exchanged notes, phone calls, and gifts over the course of several months while they rendezvoused in the Oval Office and the adjoining study and bathroom. She gave him about 30 small presents while he gave her 18. Some of these would come back to haunt them both, according to The Post.

In February 1997, he gifted her a hat pin and a Walt Whitman poetry collection. They had a sexual encounter where semen stained her blue dress. The dress would later be submitted as evidence in the Starr investigation.

Another time, she gave him a yellow tie — one of many — that he later wore amid the Starr investigation. Prosecutors questioned whether he was sending her a signal by wearing it on the day of her testimony, CNN reported.

an affair that would shape history, Monica Lewinsky said she fell for former President Bill Clinton's "lethal charm" when she was a White House intern in 1995.

Their first dalliance was in November 1995 during a colleague's birthday party at the White House when Lewinsky lifted her jacket to show him the straps of her thong, The Washington Post reported in 1998. Shortly afterward, they had a sexual encounter where he took a phone call from a member of Congress — something Clinton would do repeatedly during their 18-month affair.

As the details of the affair came to light via the independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation, they would show a starstruck intern lovesick over a hot-and-cold man twice her age who "grew angry at times at her persistent attentions," according to The Post.

In one instance, she threatened to tell her parents about their affair after he had ignored her, and he soothed her by alluding to the future when he might be out of the office and more available to her.

"I just knew that he was in love with me," Lewinsky recalled, The Post reported.

Their secret gifts to each other during the affair would later come back to haunt them.
lewinsky dress
Among the evidence gathered in the Clinton investigation was a semen-stained dress belonging to Lewinsky. Hulton Archive/Getty
The pair exchanged notes, phone calls, and gifts over the course of several months while they rendezvoused in the Oval Office and the adjoining study and bathroom. She gave him about 30 small presents while he gave her 18. Some of these would come back to haunt them both, according to The Post.

In February 1997, he gifted her a hat pin and a Walt Whitman poetry collection. They had a sexual encounter where semen stained her blue dress. The dress would later be submitted as evidence in the Starr investigation.

Another time, she gave him a yellow tie — one of many — that he later wore amid the Starr investigation. Prosecutors questioned whether he was sending her a signal by wearing it on the day of her testimony, CNN reported.