Lewinsky's Reply

Monica Lewinsky, in a statement released today, in response

to President Clinton's testimony "I have had enough. This

whole experience has eft a bitter taste in my mouth, and I

can't stomach any more. I feel as if I am getting the shaft,

that this ugly matter has come to a head and blown up in

myface.

"This may be a load to handle, but when things are hard,

that is when I am at my best. I have faced hard things in

the past, and I know what is coming. I will meet the

challenge the only way I know how: head-on. "I have licked

bigger things than this before, and I will again. No one

will ever be able to say that Monica Lewinsky isn't a

finisher, that she quit before the job was done. I will work

nonstop and fight this, blow by blow, until I am wiped clean

of this dirty affair. I will not be stained by it. "Thank

you." Monica Lewinsky