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“Dear Jim: You do move fast”: J. W. Fulbright to Jim McDougal, 15 Apr. 1983, Heuer papers.
he came to believe: McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 220.
“close the Savings and Loan”: McDougal to Heuer, 10 July 1990, Heuer papers.
Susan McDougal had begun: McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 216k17; McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 88–92.
“Jim helped me pack”: Susan McDougal, interview by author; McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 91–92.
Clinton personally called: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
He wanted to take: Simmons, McDougal, and Heuer, transcript of conversation, 89–94.
Susan dutifully drove: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
“All these years of our paying”: Stewart, Blood Sport, 133.
“has been for isolated”: Hillary Rodham Clinton to Jim McDougal and John Latham, 14 July 1986, Gene Lyons papers.
“Baby, I’ve found a piece of land”: McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 100; McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 320–21.
“It’s obvious that our marriage”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
McDougal said he knew: McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 218; McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 100–101.
“Sure, of course”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
She engaged: Robert W. Ray, Final Report of the Independent Counsel, In Re: Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association, vol. 1, filed 2 Mar. 2001, 74, 101 (hereinafter cited as Final Report/Ray).
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board examiners announced: McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 93.
Jim McDougal would later rant: Simmons, McDougal, and Heuer, transcript of conversation, 30, Heuer papers.
Yet there was now: McDougal, Borod & Huggins Report, 2.
The Arkansas Gazette ran: “Madison Has Shakeup,” Arkansas Gazette, 16 Sept. 1986; Stewart, Blood Sport, 146.
Jim McDougal was suffering: Transcript of Proceedings Before the Hon. George Howard, Jr., vol. 1, 16 Jan. 1996, 107, Heuer papers; McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 222, 226.
“very, very sick”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
Jim jumped up: Jim Guy Tucker, interview by author.
McDougal was taken: McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 226; Stewart, Blood Sport, 139–40.
“I got him out”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
Susan had begun seeing: McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 86, 89.
“It was in this climate”: Jim McDougal to Sam Heuer, 10 July 1990, Heuer papers.
“I was so scared”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
Hillary began “cross-examining”: Stewart, Blood Sport, 150.
So Susan “packed up”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
“get all that behind us”: Hillary Clinton to Jim McDougal, 28 Nov. 1988, Gene Lyons papers.
“Well, I did the power of attorney”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
gave Jim McDougal: For Jim McDougal’s account of this incident, see McDougal and Wilkie, Arkansas Mischief, 239.
Chapter 5: Seeds of Scandal
The first was born: “Indictment,” 20 Nov. 1989, Heuer papers; George Wells, “Ex-Banker: No Assets: Court Names Attorney for Fraud Charge Defense,” Arkansas Gazette, 1 Dec 1989, B1.
McDougal had picked: The Castle Grande property was necessary to gain access to the highway, making the development attractive for commuters. It was thus a puzzle piece in McDougal’s grander scheme. Final Report/Ray, vol. 1, 39–48; Borod & Huggins Report, 22–35; Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author; Susan McDougal, interview by author.
Castle Grande and its companion deals: Final Report/Ray, vol. 1, 39–48. Prominent investors included Jim Guy Tucker, David Hale, and the elderly Senator Fulbright. Another key figure turned out to be Seth Ward, retired businessman and father-in-law of Webster Hubbell, Hillary’s partner at the Rose Law Firm. Ward served as a “straw man” to purchase the Castle Grande property, so that it would not appear on Madison Guaranty’s books, earning a handsome $300,000 commission in the process. Hubbell himself handled some of the legal work for his father-in-law, which