By SARA NELSON Monica Lewinsky says former President Bill Clinton lied under oath when he described their relationship during an impeachment trial, a new book claims. The Death of American Virtue, by law professor Ken Gormley, is due to be published in February and also alleges that Clinton had a long-running affair with Susan McDougal, a key player in the Whitewater scandal. Despite offering no concrete evidence of the affair, Gormley told Politico.com: ‘I feel very, very comfortable with that conclusion after having conducted extensive interviews and seen documents that were not generally accessible to the public.’ Allegations: Monica Lewinsky says former President Bill Clinton lied about their relationship during an impeachment trial, according to Ken Gormley's book The Death of American Virtue In an email to Gormley, Lewinsky made it clear she believes the president lied. ‘There was no leeway [there] on the veracity of his statements because they asked him detailed and specific questions to which he answered untruthfully,’ she wrote. The book reportedly paints an unflattering portrait of Clinton and independent counsel Kenneth Starr who led the inquiry into the affair. Clinton was impeached in 1998 but not thrown out of office. According to Gormley, Starr’s successor, Robert Ray, was prepared to indict Clinton after he left office in January 2001 unless he admitted to lying under oath about the Lewinsky relationship, the New York Daily News reported. Ray relented, but ‘President Clinton would never fully grasp how close he came,’ Gormley claims. Clinton initially swore under oath that he ‘did not have sexual relations’ with Lewinsky but later admitted that he had misled the American public. Lewinsky revealed her relationship with the president involved oral sex but not sexual intercourse. She famously kept a blue dress which she claimed held DNA evidence of their affair. Clinton has been dogged by headlines over his private life. During his presidential campaign, nightclub singer Gennifer Flowers made claims of a 12-year affair with the former governor of Arkansas. Clinton denied the affair, but later confessed to a single sexual encounter with her. During his second year in the White House, a 27-year-old former Arkansas employee called Paula Jones claimed that Clinton had made an unwanted sexual advance to her in a hotel and asked her to engage in 'a type of sex' that was ‘humiliating’. She sued the President, but the lawsuit was dismissed. On appeal however, Clinton entered an out-of-court settlement by agreeing to pay her $850,000. In 1998 White House volunteer aide Kathleen Willey alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by the President during his first term. Clinton denied the allegation. In 2007, Clinton's long-suffering wife Hilary gave an interview in which she said marriage to Bill was worth the investment. She said: 'I know the truth of my life and of my marriage, my relationship and partnership, my deep abiding friendship with my husband. It's been enormously supportive to me through most of my life. 'Now obviously we've had challenges as everybody in the world knows,' she reportedly said. 'But I never doubted that it was a marriage worth investing in, even in the midst of those challenges, and I'm really happy that I made that decision.'Monica Lewinsky: Bill Clinton lied under oath about our relationship
Last updated at 1:37 PM on 18th December 2009
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