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Can anyone please write a small paragraph about what you think of Linda Tripp (If you don't know who that is, you can look up her name).

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Linda Tripp, who died Wednesday at age 70, was one of those people. She wanted to write a book about her life as a secretary in the White House for two presidents: George H.W. Bush, whom she adored, and Bill Clinton, who she thought was crass and immoral. She believed that she could write a book exposing Clinton’s infidelities and that history would remember her as a truth-teller and a whistleblower.

Instead, she became a supporting player in Clinton’s impeachment, stuck forever in the role of the duplicitous harpy who betrayed then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky by secretly recording their conversations.“Central casting couldn’t have cast a better villain,” she told the podcast “Slow Burn” in 2018. “The entire country had decided who I was, and it was evil incarnate.”

Obituary: Linda Tripp, whose taped calls with Lewinsky led to Clinton impeachment

Unfair? Of course it’s unfair. History is a narrative written by the winners, and Clinton was acquitted and thrived. Thanks, in part, to the #MeToo movement, Lewinsky has been able to transform her image from oversexed intern to a more accurate and nuanced characterization: a naive young woman swept up in an affair with a powerful man — in fact, the most powerful man in the world.

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