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Riley had surmounted: Claudia Riley, interview by author.
a Latin scholarship student: Susan McDougal, interview by author; James B. Stewart, Blood Sport: The Truth Behind the Scandals in the Clinton White House, 46.
“I don’t think they even sold”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
Jim kicked open: Stewart, Blood Sport, 46; McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 17–18; McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 136.
“shy” and “private” person: Claudia Riley, interview by author.
“They just showed up”: McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 136.
“He seemed to admire”: Claudia Riley, interview by author.
had served as an intern: Stewart, Blood Sport, 47.
“a big, raw-boned hammy kind”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
In attendance: McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 120, 18–86; Lancaster, “Newsmaker;" McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 41.
“I made a little money”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
obtained her real estate: OIC/FBI interview of Susan McDougal, 23 June 1995, Heuer papers; Lancaster, “Newsmaker.”
“There were people who would go”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
he had splurged: McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 135.
“looked like a cigar shop”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
“almost see-through”: Ibid.; Stephen A. Smith, interview by author.
In McDougal’s master plan: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
the project hauled: McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 149.
“We must have been there”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
They had already entrusted: McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 148; Stewart, Blood Sport, 56–57.
“As a native Arkansan”: Interrogatory Responses of William Jefferson Clinton to RTC, 24 May 1995, 45, 53.
Jim and Susan McDougal had slid: McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 48–49; McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 150–51.
“You’ll want to go”: Stewart, Blood Sport, 60.
“it was just like”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
the Clintons shook hands: Stewart, Blood Sport, 61–62.
A simple two-page: Deed, 2 Aug. 1978, Heuer papers.
the Clintons became co-owners: George J. Church, “Investigations: Raw Nerves and Tax Returns,” Time, 14 Feb. 1994, 26–27; Stewart, Blood Sport, 61–63.
Real estate was: Stephen A. Smith, interview by author.
“Talk about beautiful sights”: Whitewater brochure, Susan McDougal papers.
Bill Clinton won: Maraniss, First in His Class, 357.
Chapter 4: McDougal Paints the Town
“in the middle of nowhere”: Gene Lyons, interview with author; Gene Lyons, Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater, 32 n.1.
usury laws in Arkansas: Susan McDougal, interview by author; McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 96; Susan Wesson, “A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Arkansas Usury Law and Its Effect on Arkansas Residents and Institutions,” Academic Forum Online 18 (2000–2001), Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR.
as the nation sunk: Interrogatory Responses of Hillary Rodham Clinton, In the Matter of: Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association (7236) McCrory, Arkansas, United States of America, Resolution Trust Corporation, Washington, D.C. (hereinafter Hillary Clinton, “RTC Interrogatory Responses”), 24 May 1995, no. 10, pp. 15–16.
“We were selling”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
McDougal accepted a position: McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 153–55; Stewart, Blood Sport, 85. McDougal’s formal title was Liaison for Industrial Development, Banking, Insurance and the Highway Department.
The day Jim walked: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
“Don’t worry, baby”: McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 51.
“And we let the business go”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
a failed effort to organize: George Wells, “McDougal’s Life: Highs and Lows,” Arkansas Gazette, 14 Jan. 1990, A1–A6.
Already tired: Stewart, Blood Sport, 93; McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 61; McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 171.