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Show DAILY f H R A I Af D Schedules: Hillary was home on days when Bill had sex with intern Calvin Woodward IK ASStXA'lDMliS V WASHINGTON -- Miliary Rodham Clinton was home in the White House on at least seven days when her husband had sexual encounters there with intern Monica Lewinsky, according to Sen. Clinton's schedule, released Wednesday among 11,000 pages of papers from her years as first lady. The words of the schedules are dry, but they take on emotional weight when coupled with revelations about the sex scandal that eventually came to light. A year later, the schedules show her pressing ahead and showing her face at public events as revelations about the scandal upended her life and threatened Bill Clinton's presidency. The papers also shed light J, "' ' National (ialkry of Art That afternoon, Ifwimky saij. she and Bill Clinton had a sexual encounter in the hallway by the private study. The schedules indicate Hillary Clinton was home on at least four other days when her husband and the intern got " I on her struggle for health care reform early in the Clinton administration, her scaling back when that effort failed, her travels abroad and the legal woes that dogged the Clintons in the White House. She also was an early champion of the North American Free Trade Agreement that she now criticizes in her campaign for the Democratic presi-- , dential nomination. The papers MARK WEBB, Associated Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Wednesday at the American Legion in Huntington, W.Va. Press speaks with veterans Clinton challenges Obama to back new primaries in Michigan, Florida David Espo ' show her holding at least five meetings in 1993 aimed at helping win congressional approval of the deal. It's unlikely she would be surprised at this late date to THE of numerous legal challenges and embarrass ment to the party. Florida and Michigan both held primaries in January on a schedule that violated Democratic Party rules and have been stripped of their convention delegates as a result. Clinton made a hurriedly arranged trip to Michigan to dramatize her support for new primaries, at a time when some state party officials have been drafting legislation to hold a primary in June. Clinton said nothing less than the outcome of the general election may be at stake in the dispute over the two states. "The road to a Democratic White House goes through Michigan and Florida," she said. But there were strong political calculations at work, as well. Clinton trails Obama in convention delegates after primaries and caucuses in more than 40 states, and her chances of catching up are remote at best. Lopsided victories in second primaries in Florida and Michigan would help narrow the delegate deficit. ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly challenged Barack Obama to agree to new primaries in Michigan and Florida on Wednesday and said it was "wrong, and not to have the two frankly delegations seated at the Democratic National Convention. "Senator Obama speaks passionately on the campaign trail about empowering the American people," said the former first lady, who trails her rival in delegates won to date, "Today I am asking him to match those words with actions." Obama has yet to declare his support or opposition, although his campaign has raised a number of procedural and legal questions about the most recent proposal for an early June primary in Michigan. "The proposal offers a rerun for the state but not for all the voters," Bob Bauer, Obama's election lawyer, wrote in a memo during the day. He warned of the possibility learn that the president was : cheating on her while she was home in the White House. But the release of the documents reminds voters anew about Bill Clinton's affair and the impeachment proceedings that brought Washington to a halt for a year. : The private crisis came at the most public of times for the first lady. She had speeches scheduled, at home and abroad. She appeared by President Clinton's side at an education event where he angrily dismissed the reports of having sex with Lewinsky. Her schedule has her choos-- . ing flowers for a black-ti- e dinner, congratulating "Guns on Feb. 28, 1997, the day the report by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr says Bill Clinton had a sexual encounter with 12:30 p.m. that day, according to her schedule. It also lists Aren't Cool" award winners plays that night and a concert, but it's not clear whether she and reading to kids in the attended. week in January 1998 when al- Lewinsky in an Oval Office More than a year earlier, bathroom in the early evening, legations of the scandal begin on Nov. 15, 1995, the first lady coming out. She denounced a staining her blue dress. "meet Mrs. Clinton had "drop by" went to a "vast right-win- g conspiracy" in events or meetings in the Map & greet" photo opportunity at a TV interview. Almost a year earlier, the Room and Diplomatic Recepthe White House with Nobel schedules show, she was home tion Room between 11 a.m. and Laureates and their families. That night, Lewinsky had what she later said was her first sexual encounter with the president, in the private study off the Oval office. On Jan. 21, 1996, the first lady and the president privately toured an exhibit at the I UI KHIS ptOMMlliW'S. h ruJ MibixunaedilK' mmds tt months earlier, ordered Mrs. Clinton to testify More a federal grand jury ntxmt the records. She appeared on Jan. 2t, l!!H. Her calendar for Jan. 2() says "No Public Schedule," altogether. though the first lady sUxxi before a bank of microphones in Twice, Mrs. Clinton was overseas at such times. front of the federal courthouse in Washington, and declared: The National Archives "1 am happy to answer the released the papers in Washington and at the Clinton presigrand jury's questions." Several hours of testimony she gave dential library in Arkansas after months of pressure from that day made her the f irst , first lady to ever be hauled in critics who say the Clintons were delaying the disclosure. for such questioning. The issue has dogged her bid Neither the federal probe by for the White House. Independent Counsel Starr nor In all, 11,046 pages have Republican-le- d investigations on Capitol Hill were ever able been made available. Nearly 4,800 pages have parts blacked to sort out why the records of Mrs. Clinton's work had never out. Archivists said that's to been turned over to investigaprotect the privacy of third tors. She said she had no idea parties. Schedules for more than 30 days of activities were where the billing records had been. not included in this release. Prosecutors concluded they Clinton, now New York did not have enough to prove senator, said in her memoir that she had little choice but to she was a knowing participant carry on with her appearances in criminal conduct by others, after the Lewinsky revelaincluding Whitewater business tions. It was on Jan. 21, 1998, partner Jim McDougal. Her Democratic presidential when her husband woke her up, sat on the edge of the bed campaign released a statement Wednesday saying the and said, "There's something schedules spanning her two in today's papers you should know about." He told her of terms as first lady "illustrate the reports of his relationship the array of substantive issue's with the former intern, and she she worked on" and her travel said she believed his denials. to more than 80 countries "in But on Saturday, Aug. 15, pursuit of the administration's domestic and foreign policy 1998, with the investigation closing in on the real story, he goals." Clinton says her years as woke her up again and owned up to his misbehavior. She said first lady equip her to handle in her book that she was grateforeign policy and national seful there were no public events curity as president. But the schedules show trips that weekend. Before the Lewinsky ordeal, packed with plainly traditional activities for a first lady, along Mrs. Clinton faced her own legal troubles in 1996 during the with some substance. For example, in her Janu-ar- y criminal investigation of the 1994 visit to Russia with Clintons' Whitewater her husband, her schedule is dealings in Arkansas. focused on events with other In the Whitewater probe, wives. She sat in on a birthing one of the pivotal events occurred on Jan. 4, 1996, a day in class at a hospital, toured a which Mrs. Clinton's personal cathedral and joined prominent calendar for late that afternoon women in a lunch of blinis with is marked "Private Meeting" caviar and salmon. The Clinton campaign said with her chief of staff, MargE ret Williams. the schedules are merely a Several hours earlier, guide and don't reflect all of aide had discovered inside the her activities. 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