Retired Navy Rear Adm. Connie Mariano — the former White House doctor who now lives in Arizona and popped in the news last week when she offered a long-distance diagnosis of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — was also the first person to see Bill Clinton on the morning of Jan. 21, 1998, when The Washington Post broke the Monica Lewinsky story. (Mariano served in the Clinton White House for eight years and briefly in the White Houses of both Bushes.) Bill Clinton, according to an insider I interviewed for my book on Bill Clinton’s post presidency, saw Mariano as a wise, sympathetic ear. (She apparently served him well and counseled him successfully on losing weight.)

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