he did not have his personal lawyer purchase Lewinsky's silence. - Sure he did...
N.Y. JOB OFFER COINCIDES WITH LEWINSKY AFFIDAVIT By Amy Goldstein January 31, 1998
On Jan. 7, former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky signed an affidavit denying she had a sexual relationship with President Clinton. It was a document of great legal and political value to the president, but for the next nine days, it would remain locked away in her lawyer's office.
In the meantime, Lewinsky on Jan. 13 received a letter of great value to her own future: Revlon, which had granted her a job interview at the urging of Clinton's friend Vernon E. Jordan Jr., was offering her just the kind of corporate job in New York she had been trying to land for months.