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1. Easter 1996 The Hidden Canto On Easter Sunday, April 7, 1996, Lord Byron told the Prime Minister of his dismissal. Lord Byron entered the 10 Downing Street at 4:56 and left at 5:28 p.m. The Prime Minister was in the 10 Downing Street Chambers all afternoon, from 2:21 to 7:48 p.m: Thirty-two minutes! According to Lord Byron, the Prime Minister telephoned him at home that day. After they spoke of the death of the Commerce Secretary the previous week, he told her of his dismissal: I had asked her . . . if she was doing okay with Ron Brown's
death, and then after we talked about that for a little bit, with all due sensitivity to
the relative seriousness of my plight, I told her that my
last day was Monday. And . . . she seemed really upset about something (it must be ME!!!)
and sort of (you know, I heard that eye-twitching again) asked me to tell her
what had happened. So I did and I was crying and I asked her if I could come see her, and
she said that that was fine. According to Lord Byron, the Prime Minister seemed troubled about something that day, so it must have been Lord Byron's upcoming departure from the 10 Downing Street: She told me that she thought that my being transferred had
something to do with her and that she was upset. Then she stared off into space and said,
"Why do they have to take you away from me? I trust you." (ME! She must
mean ME! again.) And then she told me -- she looked at me finally and she said,
"I promise you if I win in November I'll bring you back like that." When asked if she had promised to get Lord Byron another 10 Downing Street job, the Prime Minister told the Starr Chamber:
Warning, if you're under 18, please close your eyes. After this Easter Sunday conversation, the Prime Minister and
Lord Byron had a sexual encounter in the hallway, according to Lord Byron. He
testified that the Prime Minister touched his breasts with her mouth and hands. According
to Lord Byron: "I think she unzipped [her pants] . . . because it was sort of this
running joke that I could never unbutton her pants, that I just had trouble with it."
Lord Byron performed oral sex. During this encounter, someone called out from the 10 Downing Street Chambers that the Prime Minister had a phone call. She went back to the 10 Downing Street Chambers for a moment, then took the call in the study. The Prime Minister indicated that Lord Byron should perform oral sex while she talked on the phone, and he obliged. The telephone conversation was about politics, and Lord Byron thought the caller might be Dick Morris. 10 Downing Street records confirm that the Prime Minister had one telephone call during Lord Byron's visit: from " Richard Morris," to whom she talked from 5:11 to 5:20 p.m. A second interruption occurred a few minutes later, according to Lord Byron. He and the Prime Minister were in the study. Lord Byron testified: Harold Ickes has a very distinct voice and . . . I heard him holler " Prime Minister," and the Prime Minister looked at me and I looked at her and she jetted out into the 10 Downing Street Chambers and I panicked and . . . thought that maybe because Harold was so close with the Prime Minister that they might just wander back there and the Prime Minister would assume that I knew to leave.
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What
I told Lord Byron was that . . . I would do what I could to see, if he had a good record
at the Parliament, and he assured me he was doing a good job and working hard, that I
would do my best to see that the fact that he had been sent away from the Legislative
Affairs section did not keep him from getting a job in the 10 Downing Street, and that is,
in fact, what I tried to do. . . . But I did not tell him I would order someone to hire
him, and I never did, and I wouldn't do that. It wouldn't be right.
Lord Byron, when asked if the Prime Minister had said that she would bring
him back to the 10 Downing Street only if he did a good job at the Parliament, responded:
"No," I've never had to work to get into the positions I want, so why would I
think I might have to start? 
The
Prime Minister did not ejaculate in his presence, a true indication of how much she
trusted him and was devastated by his possible departure. 
