Clinton testified that during the conversation with Browning he denied Flowers's story of a 12-year affair and emphasized to Browning that their relationship was not sexual, either. She told him she had loved him for years, he said, and that she needed money as much as Flowers did when she sold her story to a tabloid. Browning suggested her novel would be about a woman's affair with a southern governor who becomes president and that she intended to tell people it was a barely fictionalized account of her relationship with Clinton. After he returned to Washington, Clinton was still worried about the encounter, so he wrote out two pages of notes longhand about his memory of the confrontation and then asked Scott to read it and write her recollections, which generally concurred with his. He testified that he then put the notes in a file folder, put that in a briefcase and stored it under his desk.
Browning has a different memory of the event.
She said he placed his hand on hers during the dance and, after she pulled away, he followed her. Browning said that she was angry with the president for his persistence, and that a Secret Service agent was alarmed when she swore at Clinton, but that he waved the agent off and they sat in a corner of the ballroom together and spoke quietly for about 45 minutes. At no time, she said, was Scott listening to the conversation, although a woman with blond hair did interrupt their conversation twice to entreat Clinton to end the conversation, which he did not do. Browning said she and the president discussed a variety of things, including his relationship with Flowers, which he denied to Browning during the conversation. Browning did not grant the Star an interview.