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Dishing with Lucianne Goldberg, the den mother of the vast right-wing conspiracy. (TWQ Interview).

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WHEN LUCIANNE GOLDBERG, the Vikingesque New York literary agent turned Clinton nemesis turned web hostess extraordinaire, chortled, early in the Clinton administration, that a White House secretary was willing to come forward to reveal the secret sex life of the leader of the free world, the future editor of TWQ rolled her eyes in disbelief She lived to recognize a simple truth: When Luci speaks, you'd better listen. Lucianne is an expert on the foibles of the human heart. Remember how she got Monica Lewinsky to keep that semen-stained Gap dress in its-er--pristine condition? Lewinsky was on the verge of sending the outfit to the evidence-destroying cleaners before a party. Canny Luci told Linda Tripp, said secretary, to inform image conscious Lewinsky that the historic frock made her look fat. That meant that it was saved for Ken Starr--and for posterity.

Versed in the art of public relations, scandals, and life in general, Lucianne spoke to TWQ Editor Charlotte Hays by phone from her elegant apartment on New York's Upper West Side.

TWQ: Are you watching Hillary? Is she going to run for president?

GOLDBERG: There was a very well reasoned piece in the Washington Times this morning that laid it out step by step. She has the Clinton money machine, and she's going to have to strike by 2004 or the window of opportunity will slam shut. Because if she doesn't move in 2004 she's going to have to run for the Senate in 2006 and she may have to run against Rudy Giuliani, and God save her. It ain't going to be prostate cancer time this time. She'll lose, and there goes everything down the drain, because she must run for president as a senator. I say she'll run. I think she can take the nomination away from Al Gore because it's her money machine. Gore just borrowed it for his campaign and screwed it up.

TWQ: Will she carry the women's vote? GOLDBERG: No. It's one thing to cut her...