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White House staff share somber details of how Hillary Clinton coped with the Monica Lewinsky affair

In November 1995, US President Bill Clinton infamously began an affair with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky. 

For the next year and a half, America's 42nd president would engage in a dozen sexual encounters with Lewinsky, most of which took place in the Oval Office. 

And while the nation wouldn't find out about President Clinton's scandal until January 1998, White House staff "witnessed the fallout from the affair and the toll it took on Hillary Clinton," explains Kate Brower, author of "The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House."

"You just felt bad for the entire family and what they were going through," White House maid Betty Finney told Brower. "You could feel the sadness."

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