In August 1997, Michael Isikoff from Newsweek reported that Tripp said that she had encountered Kathleen Willey coming out of the Oval Office "disheveled" and that "her face red and her lipstick was off." Willey alleged that Clinton groped her. After Lewinsky revealed to Tripp that she had been in a physical relationship with Clinton, Tripp, acting on the advice of the literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, began secretly recording phone conversations with Lewinsky and encouraging Lewinsky to document details of her relationship with the president. According to Tripp, who was about 24 years older than Lewinsky, they had known each other for a year and a half before the scandal began to reach its critical stage. Tripp became a close confidante of Monica Lewinsky, another former White House employee, while both were working in the Pentagon's public affairs office. Involvement in Clinton Impeachment scandal During the summer of 1994, senior White House aides wanted Tripp removed from the White House and transferred her to the public affairs office in the Pentagon, which raised her salary by $20,000. Later, she was moved to a position in the White House Counsel's office under Bernard Nussbaum. Bush administration, she kept her job when Bill Clinton became president in 1993. In 1971, she married Bruce Tripp, a military officer with whom she had a son and a daughter. She graduated from Hanover Park High School in East Hanover, New Jersey in 1968 and then worked as a secretary in Army Intelligence at Fort Meade, Maryland. They divorced in 1968, after he had an affair with a fellow teacher. She was the daughter of Albert Carotenuto, a high school math and science teacher, and his wife, Inge, a German woman whom he had met while he was an American soldier stationed in Germany. Tripp was born Linda Rose Carotenuto in Jersey City, New Jersey. 2.3 Termination from government employment.2 Involvement in Clinton Impeachment scandal.