According to Betty Currie, the President instructed her and Marsha Scott to help Ms. Lewinsky find a White House job.(482) Ms. Currie testified that she resisted the request, because her opinion of Ms. Lewinsky had shifted over time. At first, she testified, she considered Ms. Lewinsky ''a friend'' who '' had been wronged'' and had been ''maligned improperly.''(483) But ''[l]ater on, I considered her as a pain in the neck, more or less.''(484) The change of heart resulted in part from Ms. Currie's many phone calls in 1997 from Ms. Lewinsky, who was often distraught and sometimes in tears over her inability to get in touch with the President.(485) Deeming her ''a little bit pushy,'' Ms. Currie argued against bringing Ms. Lewinsky back to work at the White House, but the President told her and Ms. Scott, in Ms. Currie's words, ''to still pursue her coming back.''(486) Indeed, according to Ms. Currie, the President ' 'was pushing us hard'' on the matter.(487) To the best of Ms. Currie's recollection, it was the only time the President instructed her to try to get someone a White House job.(488)

According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President told her to talk with Ms. Scott about a White House job in spring 1997.(489) On June 16, she met with Ms. Scott.(490) The meeting did not go as Ms. Lewinsky anticipated. She later recounted in an email message:

There is most certainly a disconnect on what [the President] said he told her and how she acted. She didn't even know what my title or my job was . . . . She didn't have any job openings to offer. Instead, she made me go over what happened when I had to leave (who told me), and then proceeded to confirm the Evelyn [Lieberman] story about my ''inappropriate behavior.'' Then she asked me: with such nasty women there and people gossiping about me, why did I want to come back? I was so upset. I really did not feel it was her place to question me about that. Later on, I said something about being told I could come back after November and she wanted to know who told me that! So I have placed a call to him but I don't know what is going to happen.

Ms. Lewinsky added that she was inclined ''to walk away from it all,'' but acknowledged that ''I'm always saying this and then I change my mind.''(491)

Though she characterized her recollection as ''all jumbled,'' Ms. Scott corroborated much of Ms. Lewinsky's account.(492) Ms. Scott said that at some point she did ask Ms. Lewinsky why she wanted to return to the White House.( 493) Ms. Scott also said that she was unaware of Ms. Lewinsky's job title before their meeting.(494)

Over the next three weeks, Ms. Lewinsky tried repeatedly, without success, to talk with the President about her job quest. In a draft of a letter to Ms. Currie, she wrote that the President ''said to me that he had told [Ms. Scott] I had gotten a bum deal, and I should get a good job in the West Wing,'' but Ms. Scott did not seem eager to arrange for Ms. Lewinsky's return. Ms. Lewinsky wrote:

I was surprised that she would question his judgment and not just do what he asked of her. Is it possible that, in fact, he did not tell her that? Does he really not want me back in the complex? He has not responded to my note, nor has he called me. Do you know what is going on? If so, are you able to share it with me?(495)

Ms. Currie testified to ''a vague recollection'' of having seen this letter.(496)

On June 29, 1997, Ms. Lewinsky wrote several notes. In a draft letter to Ms. Scott, Ms. Lewinsky wrote that ''our last conversation was very upsetting to me,'' and added:

Marsha, I was told that I could come back after the election. I knew why I had to leave last year by mid-April, and I have been beyond patient since then. I do not think it is fair to . . . be told by the person whom I was told would get me a job that there is nothing for me and she doesn't really hear about positions [in] the complex anyway. I know that in your eyes I am just a hindrance -- a woman who doesn't have a certain someone's best interests at heart, but please trust me when I say I do.(497)

Ms. Lewinsky also drafted a note to the President pleading for a brief meeting the following Tuesday. Referring to her inability to get in touch with him, she wrote: ''Please do not do this to me. I feel disposable, used and insignificant. I understand your hands are tied, but I want to talk to you and look at some options.''(498) Around this time, Ms. Lewinsky told a friend that she was considering moving to another city or country.(499)