According to Lewinsky, she and the President had a sexual encounter on Thursday, February 28 -- their first in nearly 11 months. White House records show that Lewinsky attended the taping of the President's weekly radio address on February 28. She was at the White House from 5:48 pm to 7:07 pm. Wearing a navy blue dress from the Gap, Lewinsky attended the radio address at the President's invitation (relayed by Currie), then had her photo taken with the President. President Clinton told her to see Currie because he wanted to give her something.

``So I waited a little while for him and then Betty and the President and I went into the back office,'' Lewinsky testified. In the study, according to Lewinsky, the President ``started to say something to me and I was pestering him to kiss me, because... it had beena long time since we had been alone.'' Lewinsky testified that after the President gave her gifts, they had a sexual encounter. Lewinsky testified that she and the President hugged, and ``he said he didn't want to get addicted to me, and he didn't want me to get addicted to him.'' They looked at each other for a moment.

Then, saying that ``I don't want to disappoint you,'' the President consented. For the first time, she performed oral sex through completion. When Lewinsky next took the navy blue Gap dress from her closet to wear it, she noticed stains near one hip and on the chest. FBI Laboratory tests revealed that the stains are the President's semen. In his grand jury testimony, the President -- who, because the OIC had asked him for a blood sample , had reason to suspect that Lewinsky's dress might bear traces of his semen -- indicated that he and Lewinsky had had sexual contact on the day of the radio address. He testified: I was sick after it was over and I, I was pleased at that time that ithad been nearly a year since any inappropriate contact had occurred with Lewinsky. I promised myself it wasn't going to happen again. The facts are complicated about what did happen and how it happened. But, nonetheless, I'm responsible for it. Later the President added, referring to the evening of the radio address: ``I do believe that I was alone with her for 15 to 20 minutes. I do believe that things happened then which were inappropriate.''

He said of the intimate relationship with Lewinsky: ``I never should have started it, and I certainly shouldn't have started it back after I resolved not to in 1996.''