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Chapter 1: The Impeachment Vote
Article I accused William Jefferson Clinton: House, Impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton, Debate of the House on H. Res. 611, 614 (18–19 Dec. 1998), H11774–75; C-SPAN videotape, impeachment proceedings, 19 Dec. 1998.
Chairman Hyde would remember: Henry J. Hyde, interview by author.
Pornographer Larry Flynt: Peter Baker, The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton, 120.
Flynt had dubbed: Larry Flynt, Sex, Lies and Politics: The Naked Truth, 15, 20–21.
Now, thirty-three years later: Henry J. Hyde, interview by author; Baker, The Breach, 98.
Capitol Hill’s Roll Call: Flynt, Sex, Lies and Politics, 16.
“Well, that’s right”: Larry Flynt, interview by author.
“You know,” Hyde whispered to Livingston: Robert L. Livingston, interview by author.
Those who knew: Larry Flynt, who was watching these events seated in a wheelchair in his glittering Hustler offices in Beverly Hills, understood what was causing Livingston’s nervous ness. “You could have stuck a fork in him at that time,” Flynt said, smiling. “He was done” (Larry Flynt, interview by author).
“It just needs a kicker”: Robert L. Livingston, interview by author.
“I hope to God”: David Schippers, remarks made while author was interviewing Henry J. Hyde.
Two counts passed: Amy Keller, “House Impeaches President: Two of Four Articles Go to Senate for Trial,” Roll Call, 21 Dec. 1998, 1, 26.
“This has not been”: Ed Henry, “Over whelming Events Overwhelm Everyone,” Roll Call, 21 Dec. 1998, 1.
“I knew nothing about it”: William Jefferson Clinton, interview by author (hereinafter cited as Bill Clinton).
A cold front: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 19 Dec. 1998, D6.
“Impeached”: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 20 Dec. 1998, A1.
He watched: Skip Rutherford, interview by author.
“My God”: Joe Purvis, interview by author.
Sitting with his wife: David Newbern, interview by author.
Marge Mitchell had known Bill: Marge Mitchell, interview by author.
Marge and some of Virginia’s: Nancy Adkins, interview by author.
“I was a basket case”: Betsey Wright, interview by author.
“I just believe”: Liz Green, interview by author.
“I mean, it was proven”: Kathleen Cavoli, interview by author.
“I think the House gets”: Alice Starr, interview by author.
“I had very little to say”: Kenneth W. Starr, interview by author (hereinafter cited as Ken Starr).
Holed up in an apartment: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
“I was so numb”: Paula Jones, interview by author.
“I started watching”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
“I think he [President Clinton] is tired”: “A ‘Sober Moment’ Then Up and at ’Em at the White House,” Democrat-Gazette Press Services, 20 Dec. 1998, A1.
Chapter 2: Bill Clinton and Ken Starr
“I always thought I understood him”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
The Church of Christ believed: Ken Starr, interview by author; Sue Anne Pressley, “The Roots of Ken Starr’s Morality Plays,” Washington Post, 2 Mar. 1998, C1.
The name recorded: Bill Clinton, My Life, 4; David Maraniss, First in His Class: The Biography of Bill Clinton, 28–29.
Virginia Clinton Kelley would marry: Maraniss, First in His Class, 41.
Kenneth Winston Starr was born: Ken Starr, interview by author.
The elder Starr passed along: Ibid.; Billie Jeayne (Starr) Reynolds, interview by author.
Vannie worked tirelessly: Billie Jeayne (Starr) Reynolds, interview by author.
Vannie Starr would live: Pressley, “Ken Starr’s Morality Plays.”
He was elected: Maraniss, First in His Class, 69–73,96–121.
Ken Starr likewise entered: Ken Starr, interview by author.
He was haunted: Bill Clinton to Marge Mitchell, air letter, 13 May 1969, Marge Mitchell papers.
“He was an avid reader”: Marge Mitchell, interview by author.
“I always knew him to be”: Elizabeth Buck, interview by author.
“He liked world history”: Paul Root, interview by author.
Leopoulos would never forget: