Washington - President Clinton's Oval Office "gatekeeper", Ms Betty Currie, and a White House steward testified yesterday before the grand jury investigating White House sex-and-perjury allegations.
Ms Currie, the president's personal secretary who sits just steps from the Oval Office, was questioned by the panel for about three hours, following a full day before the grand jury on Wednesday.
"We will be back. I'm not sure when," Mr Lawrence Wechsler, Ms Currie's lawyer, told reporters as he and his client left the federal courthouse. Both of them declined to say what the grand jury session focused on, or how it went.
Following Ms Currie was a White House steward/valet, Mr Glen Maes, who testified for the first time before the closed grand jury proceeding a month ago. He was the fourth White House steward summoned by the prosecutors of the independent counsel, Mr Kenneth Starr.