Reclaiming the office lunch

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Published 4/16/2025 on economist.com

Apr 16th 2025

When Monica Lewinsky, once an intern at the White House, was cajoled into a lunch date by Linda Tripp, a colleague wearing a wire, she was met by fbi agents and taken to a room in Washington’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel to be interrogated. What seemed like an innocent lunch date was one of the first steps towards a presidential impeachment. Yet one of the more remarkable aspects of the story is that even lowly workers took lunch in a restaurant back in those days.

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