More than two decades after the scandal that tore her life apart, Monica Lewinsky is still nervous about giving interviews. After news broke of her affair with president Bill Clinton in 1998, she became the object of international scrutiny, shame, and ridicule.
The White House made a public push to defend President Bill Clinton during a series of investigations related to the Whitewater real estate deal to his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, according to thousands of pages of documents released by the National Archives.