The offer is part of a strategy designed by her new team of lawyers, the paper said, and is part of a deal being negotiated with independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who is investigating Presidential misconduct.

Starr, however, wants Lewinsky to plead guilty to some offence as part of any agreement that would grant her immunity from prosecution, lawyers close to the talks told the Post.

Most importantly for Clinton, Lewinsky's lawyers have told Starr she would say that she was not encouraged by the President or Clinton's friend Vernon Jordan to deny the affair under oath in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit, the Post reports.

This would presumably clear Clinton of any charges of obstruction of Justice in theJones suit, which earlier in the year seemed to threaten his Presidency on impeachment charges. However once the Jones lawsuit was thrown out by an Arkansas judge in April, Clinton's possible coercion of a witness in the case lost some importance, but would still tarnish the Presidency.

Meanwhile, the magazine US News and World Report wrote on Sunday that recordings of Lewinsky indicate she was obsessed with forging a romantic relationship with Clinton.

The telephone conversations, secretly taped by Lewinsky's ``friend'' Linda Tripp, indicate that Lewinsky was on the verge of a nervous breakdown when her advances on Clinton were getting nowhere, according to the report in the magazine's Monday edition. Lewinsky at one point suggests in a tape recording mailed to Clinton that she visit the White House at night after the people ``who hate me'' have departed.

Lewinsky played the message for Tripp, who then turned them over to Starr.The tapes show Lewinsky lobbying for a job two months beforeshe was subpoenaed in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. Starr is looking into whether Clinton helped find work for Lewinsky in exchange for her silence in the Jones case.

Lewinsky ``is insecure, apologetic, vulnerable, whiny and immature,'' according to the magazine. ``She comes across as a desperate romantic, teetering on the edge of an emotional collapse, obsessively focused on the unobtainable''.