Two hours of previously undisclosed recordings of conversation between Monica Lewinsky and her friend Linda Tripp depict the former White House intern as infatuated with President Clinton and at one point angry with him because he was avoiding her, a news magazine reported Saturday.
"The first time I looked in his eyes, I saw something I didn't expect to see," Lewinsky told Tripp according to an account in U.S. News & World Report, on the newsstands Monday.The magazine said its associate editor, Elise Ackerman, was given access to about two hours of the roughly 20 hours of tape secretly made by Tripp. It said Ackerman spent about three hours reviewing the material and immediately afterward typed a summary of her recollections.
U.S. News said that while its story was based on noncontemporaneous notes, the general account of its report has been checked and confirmed by an independent source.
Based on Tripp's tapes, independent counsel Kenneth Starr is investigating an alleged sexual relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky and whether the president urged her to lie about it under oath. Both have denied any sexual relationship.
In the tapes, Tripp sometimes seemed to be raising subjects in order to have Lewinsky discuss them on tape. She also seemed to encourage the former intern to ask the president for a job, said the magazine.