1. Currie's cell phone records were important because they apparently proved that she had called Monica Lewinsky before picking up Clinton's gifts, suggesting that Currie, not Lewinsky, had initiated the gift retrieval. This, in turn, suggested that the president had instructed Currie to fetch the gifts. The president's lawyers turned the same cell phone records against prosecutors by pointing out that Currie had called Lewinsky only after the gifts had been retrieved.

2. The Gorton-Lieberman plan was the proposal by Sens. Slade Gorton and Joe Lieberman to cut the Senate trial short and vote immediately on the articles. It went nowhere.