But I think that the schedule itself - these uniform people -you

But I think that the schedule itself - these uniform people -you know, somebody shouldn't just be able to come up on the street, and because they know who the Secret Service agent is, he says who the president's with. I don't think that's proper.Q I agree, Mr President.A But, on the other hand, I didn't - you know, I wanted to know what happened I think we found out what happened. I think, on the whole, people in the uniformed Secret Service who are working on the gate have no business telling anybody anything about the president's schedule, just as a general principle. I didn't mind anybody knowing that she was there, if that's what you're saying I could care less about that. I think that, you know, you could just tell them not to do that anymore.Q In fact, it would kind of be an overreaction to get irate or terminate somebody for revealing to a former White House staffer who visits where the president is, don't you think, sir?A Well, it would depend upon the facts. And it - I could have just said, well, I'm not so mad about it anymore. But I don't remember the whole sequence of events you're talking to me about now, except I do remember that somehow Monica found out Eleanor Mondale was there.

And I learned either that day or later that one of the uniformed division personnel had told her. I thought then it was a mistake; I think now it was a mistake. I'm not sure it's a mistake someone should be terminated over. And I remember - as I usually do when I'm mad, I - after a while, I wasn't so mad about it And I'm quite aware that Ms. Lewinsky has a way of getting information out of people when she's either charming or determined. You were so mad that you wanted somebody fired.A I don't remember that, first of all I remember thinking it was an inappropriate thing to do.

So I would think that if that in fact is what I heard when I heard it, I would have thought that was a bad thing I don't know that I said that. I don't remember what I said, and I don't remember to whom I said it.Q You don't recall that you later gave orders to the effect that we're going to pretend this never happened...A No, sir.Q .. or something like that?A No, sir I don't recall that. First of all, I don't recall that I gave orders to fire anybody, if that was the implication of your first statement.Q It wasn't an implication. Actually, the question was that you initially wanted somebody fired.

But let me tell you that the uniformed Secret Service - if that is in fact what happened, and I - we'll stipulate that that is. But no one should be telling anybody, not anybody - not a member of my staff -who the president is meeting with That's an inappropriate thing to do. That leads into my second question, which is, weren't you irate at the Secret Service precisely because they had revealed this information to Ms. Lewinsky on that very day - so irate that you told several people - or at least one person - that somebody should be fired over this, on that very day?A I don't remember whether it happened on that very day. I had a conversation with Ms Scott about it, and I tried to do that. But I did not tell her I would order someone to hire her, and I never did, and I wouldn't do that. It wouldn't be right.Q When you received the book, this gift from Monica, the "Presidents of the United States", this book that you liked and you talked with Monica about, did it come with a note? Do you remember the note that it came with, Mr President?A No, sir, I don't.Q Do you agree with me that the statement, "I was never alone with her", is incorrect? You were alone with Monica Lewinsky, weren't you?A Well, again, it depends on how you define alone.

I'm trying to protect my privacy, my family's privacy, and I'm trying to stick to what the deposition was about.Q Did you ever tell Ms Lewinsky, or promise to her that you would do your best to get her back into the White House after the 1996 presidential elections?A What I told Ms Lewinsky was that I would, I would do what I could to see, if she had a good record at the Pentagon, and she assured me she was doing a good job and working hard, that I would do my best to see that the fact that she had been sent away from the Legislative Affairs section did not keep her from getting a job in the White House, and that is, in fact, what I tried to do. 1, did you find out at some point during that day that Monica had overheard from somebody in the Secret Service that you were meeting with Ms. Mondale and that Monica got very irate about that? I knew that at some point I don't know whether I found out that, that day. I knew that they - I knew that somehow she knew that among - that - that Eleanor Mondale was in to see us that day I knew that I don't know that I knew how she knew that on that day I don't remember that.Q Pardon me. I remember I was - I thought her conduct was inappropriate that day.Q I want to go back, and I want to take them one at a time.A No. And we couldn't see her.Q Now, I did arrange to see her later that day.