Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [469]
“old-time speaking affair”: Ernie Dumas, interview by author.
Newbern recalled attending: David Newbern, interview by author.
“wonderboy Clinton”: L. T. Simes II, interview by author.
“I’ve never said I hated”: Nancy Adkins, interview by author.
“You can’t put in there”: Dick Kelley, interview by author.
“Ken was never pushed”: Billie Jeayne (Starr) Reynolds, interview by author.
purchased a barbering license: Pressley, “Ken Starr’s Morality Plays.”
“He polished his shoes”: Bennett Roth, “Starr’s Road to Political Center Stage Began in San Antonio,” Houston Chronicle, 8 Feb. 1998, A23.
“Oh, it played a very important role”: Billie Jeayne (Starr) Reynolds, interview by author.
a cherubic boy who: Roberta Mahan, interview by author.
“He was one of those guys”: James Castillo, “Special Prosecutor Was a Star at Sam Houston High,” San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 1998, A5.
“Ken himself thought”: Roberta Mahan, interview by author.
“probably the most conservative”: Alan Reaves, interview by author.
Starr was devastated: Roberta Mahan, interview by author; Billie Jeayne (Starr) Reynolds, interview by author.
“To think that it all happened”: Alan Reaves, interview by author.
“Now, as we begin to pick up”: Castillo, “Special Prosecutor.”
“had the manners of a country gentleman”: Lou Butterfield, interview by author.
His freshman yearbook included: 1965 Harding University Yearbook.
“In my life, I have never”: Lou Butterfield, interview by author.
“Starr Dust”: Ken Starr, “Starr Dust: Crowded Cities, Plentiful Problems,” Harding (University, Searcy, AR) Bison, 12 Jan. 1966, 2.
“Record players blaring”: Ken Starr, “From the Editor’s Desk: Golden Rule Is Often Forgotten in Every Day Activities on Campus,” Harding (University, Searcy, AR) Bison 15 Apr. 1965, 2.
Together they drove: Lou Butterfield, interview by author; Ken Starr, interview by author.
“Country selling was nice”: Lou Butterfield, interview by author. Starr later liked to tell the story about writing an editorial for the school paper sharply criticizing the construction of the alumni facility, which led to a confrontation with President Ganus (Ken Starr, interview by author). However, a search of the issues of the Harding Bison during the two years he was a student there revealed no such editorial. What is clear, though, is that this issue caused great discomfort for Starr, who had some conversation with President Ganus about it.
“I had never met a Texan”: Alice Starr, interview by author.
“This was genuinely great living”: Ken Starr, interview by author.
After discussing: Ibid. Regarding the insinuation that Starr would be on the short list for the Supreme Court, see Jan Crawford Greenburg, Supreme Conflict, 89.
“We don’t run around”: Alice Starr, interview by author.
Chapter 3: Breathtaking “Whitewater”
“who has served”: Psychology Services Intake Screening Summary, James McDougal, 4 Sept. 1997, Federal Medical Center, Bureau of Prisons, Fort Worth, Texas, obtained through written permission of the executors of the McDougal estate.
McDougal was on a regular diet: Psychology Services Intake Screening Summary, 2 Oct. 1997.
“the original American Gothic couple”: Claudia Riley, remarks made while author was interviewing Susan McDougal.
This propelled: Jim McDougal and Curtis Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief: The Birth of a National Scandal, 47–56, 63, 70.
“The very first time I tried”: Jim McDougal [“Bert,” pseud.], Alcoholics Anonymous Memo, “MCAA 9–25–90,” Heuer papers.
McDougal was running: Susan McDougal, interview by author; George Wells, “McDougal’s Life: Highs and Lows,” Arkansas Gazette, 14 Jan. 1990, A1–A6; Bob Lancaster, “Newsmaker,” Arkansas Times, 8 Sept. 1995, 11; “Whitewater’s Inventor Has Seen a Lot Pass Under the Bridge,” Arkansas Times, 8 Sept. 1995, 10.
McDougal fell: Susan McDougal and Pat Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 21.
He also taught: McDougal, Alcoholics Anonymous Memo; McDougal, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 21; McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 133–35.
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