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Click here for more about Monika and Bill Clinton after his book My Life was published in 2004. The author refers to Monika-Lewinsky-Type by using the descriptions as available about Monika Lewinsky in Newsweek, the Washington Post and other publications. Monika-Lewinsky-Type stands for the antagonist in the Clinton - Lewinsky story. At the heart of the story is a young woman's craving for recognition and attention. Monica Lewinsky grew up pampered but possibly emotionally neglected in Beverly Hills, Calif. Her father was a cancer doctor with a busy practice; her mother was a socialite who loved to drop celebrity names. She lived in a million-dollar house; Dad drove a Cadillac, Mom drove a Mercedes; the housekeeper took Monica and her brother, Michael, to tennis lessons, Hebrew school and the orthodontist. When Monica was 15, her parents went through a nasty divorce. In court papers, mother charged father with "screaming obscenities" and "belittling the children" by, on "many occasions," saying " 'leave the dinner table,' 'go to your room,' and 'we don't want your opinion'." (Bernard Lewinsky denied the allegations.) Other court documents listing the family's expenses included $760 a month for psychiatrists' bills for the children. Last week Monica's classmates at Beverly Hills High remembered her unkindly as a girl who had "gone to a fat farm" and strived to be popular. The real-estate agent who showed the house Lewinsky was renting described her as "cold" and her house as "filthy." Lewinsky "kept a container with about a dozen new condoms by her bed on a table," said the agent, Bob Elston. At the White House, female interns tend to be willowy and well bred. With her heavy makeup, revealing blouses and occasionally ribald comments, Lewinsky did not really fit in. While some colleagues remember her as "bubbly," others called her pushy and self-aggrandizing. She tended to exaggerate the importance of her menial tasks, and to hint at important "political connections." She bragged that she had used her White House pass to get into Democratic Party fund-raisers downtown, where she could be close to the president as he pressed the flesh. Lewinsky may have been trying to impress someone else: her mother. Marcia Lewinsky is an interesting role model for her daughter. After her separation, Monica's mother had helped write a column on showbiz for The Hollywood Reporter. Moving to Washington in 1993, she wrote, under the pen name Marcia Lewis, a saucy celebrity biography called "The Private Lives of the Three Tenors," about opera stars Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo. In November 1996, shortly before the book was published, a gossip-column item appeared suggesting that Lewis had done some firsthand research on the sex life of Domingo. Recounting descriptions of the opera singer's "orgasmic screams," the item, by Cindy Adams in the New York Post, said that Lewis "sort of semi-denies this rumor, but it could account for the inside dish/dope/dirt." The author has not met Monika Lewinsky and has never had the pleasure of her company. His opinion about Monika is in no way negative, for she too has the right to have her life and fun while persueing happiness. Click here for more about Monika and Bill Clinton after his book My Life was published in 2004. 1George Washington, 2John Adamsl, 3Thomas Jefferson, 4James Madison, 5James Monroe, 6John Quincy Adams, 7Andrew Jackson, 8Martin Van Buren,9William H Harrison,10John Tyler,11James K Polk, 12Zachary Taylor, 13Millard Fillmore,14Franklin Pierce,15James Buchanan,16Abraham Lincoln, 17Andrew Johnson, 18Ulysses S Grant,19Rutherford B Hayes, 20James A Garfield, 21Chester A. Arthur, 22Grover Cleveland,23Benjamin Harrison, 24Grover Cleveland, 25William McKinley,26Theodore Roosevelt, 27William H. Taft,28Woodrow Wilson, 29Warren G. Harding,30Calvin Coolidge,31Herbert Hoover,32Franklin D Roosevelt,33Harry S. Truman, 34Dwight D Eisenhower,35John F Kennedy, 36Lyndon B Johnson, 37RichardN. Nixon, 38Gerald R Ford, 39James E Carter,40Ronald W. Reagan, 41George HerbertW. Bush, 42Bill Clinton, 43George Walker Bush 01/09/09
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