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Goldberg: Lewinsky furor 'fun'

WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) - Conservative literary agent Lucianne
Goldberg says the furor she helped start when she urged Linda Tripp to
tape her conversations with Monica Lewinsky has been ``fun.''

Goldberg, who has heard the tapes, said on NBC's ``Today'' she is
convinced that both President Clinton and Lewinsky lied under oath when
they denied a sexual relationship.

The White House declined comment.

Goldberg is making the rounds of the talk shows, telling NBC today:
``I'm having fun because it's fun to be a player.'' She added: ``I'm not
going to be coy about that. Yeah, I think, all told, 20 percent of it
has been kind of nasty and 80 percent of it has been fun.''

Goldberg defended Tripp, whom she described as the real victim -
despite widespread opinion that she betrayed her friend Lewinsky by
recording her remarks about an alleged sexual relationship with the
president.

She said: ``Linda was being betrayed, because the president's
girlfriend - let's call her that - was telling her friend Linda to lie..
..And the only way she could protect herself was to have some sort of
proof.''

Goldberg has had no contact with Tripp since the scandal broke in
January.

She said: ``I have heard Linda called the most terrible things on
television. I mean, please, you know, in a millennium where we've had
Hitler and Stalin, they're lumping Linda Tripp into the same thing.''

Goldberg said ``it is no secret that I'm not a fan of the Clintons''
but said she is not part of a right-wing conspiracy to bring down the
presidency.

She said: ``I don't wake up every morning saying, 'Oh, my God, is
today the day we can get this guy out?' I'm not driven by that. I know
there are people that are. I'm not one of them.''
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