Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [476]
“Bernie, are you hiding”: Stewart, Blood Sport, 304.
Although Vince had been raised: Joe Purvis, interview by author.
“No one ever knows why”: William Kennedy III, interview by author.
“You hypocritical jerk”: Joe Purvis, interview by author.
As this assistant had packed up: Assistant White House Counsel Steve Neuwirth had picked up Vince’s briefcase, the same one from which Nussbaum had removed files during the July 22 search. When he turned it upside down to pack it into a box, “scraps of paper fell out of the bottom of the case” (Bernard Nussbaum, interview by author; Nussbaum Statement/Foster, 15).
“I made mistakes”: Fiske Report/Foster, appendix 5.
“we found [some] scraps”: Bernard Nussbaum, interview by author.
“Why did you wait”: Stewart, Blood Sport, 307.
telephone records later turned over: Final Senate Report/Whitewater, 46–48.
Phone records and sworn testimony: Ibid., 101–105; see also Final Report/Ray, vol. 3, 156–235.
Officer Henry P. O’Neill: Final Report/Ray, vol. 3, 156–235; Final Senate Report/Whitewater, 53–54.
“It brought it all”: James Stewart, interview by author.
had jumped out: Bernard Nussbaum, interview by author.
the Wall Street Journal published: “A Washington Death,” Wall Street Journal, 22 July 1993.
Self-appointed experts began questioning: For a discussion of these questions that seemed to haunt the Foster investigation from beginning to end, see Fiske Report/Foster, 53–57.
Rumors being disseminated: Boyer, “Life After Vince,” 63.
“I heard a lot of”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
The ornery McDougal almost defied: Joel Williams, “Wanted Clintons Out of Whitewater, McDougal Says,” Associated Press, 10 Jan. 1994.
“All of a sudden”: Bernard Nussbaum, interview by author.
Chapter 8: The Special Prosecutor
Dick Kelley, her fourth: Dick and Virginia met in the early 1970s at a horse race, a fitting beginning to any Hot Springs romance. He had gone to the nurse’s office at the Oak Lawn racetrack, with his friend Marge Mitchell, for an aspirin. As soon as he met the on-duty nurse Virginia Clinton, his headache went away. A decade later, after Virginia’s third husband, Jeff Dwire, had passed away and Dick had divorced, they met again at a dinner hosted by friends. Dick and Virginia left together, went to the local drive-in “for a Coca-Cola,” talked all night, and fell in love. He and Virginia were married in 1982 in Marge Mitchell’s living room, just up the street from the lake house where they would settle (Dick Kelley, interview by author).
“Oh, my goodness”: Dick Kelley, interview by author.
Virginia had just returned: Clinton, My Life, 564, 567.
“She drinks Scotch”: Dick Kelley, interview by author.
Virginia called her son: Clinton, My Life, 567.
“Well, I got up”: Dick Kelley, interview by author.
“Virginia was like a”: Clinton, My Life, 568.
“cries out more than”: Woodward, Shadow, 236. Years later, Clinton would say: “I liked and respected Dole and I knew he wanted to be president. But I thought it was wrong and, to his everlasting credit, he apologized to me [later] for it” (Bill Clinton, interview by author).
“You had your two”: Stewart, Blood Sport, 373.
“If we allow”: Bernard Nussbaum, interview by author.
How was the administration: Woodward, Shadow, 237; Stewart, Blood Sport, 373.
“You could appoint”: Bernard Nussbaum, interview by author.
“I’ll sleep on it”: Stewart, Blood Sport, 239.
“He feels he has no choice”: Bernard Nussbaum, interview by author.
President Clinton would describe: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
“At that time, Monica Lewinsky was”: Bernard Nussbaum, interview by author.
Attorney General Reno, wary: Janet Reno, interview by author; Philip Heymann, interview by author.
The New York prosecutor: Robert B. Fiske, interview by author; Department of Justice, press release, 20 Jan. 1994, Fiske papers; Eleanor Randolph, “Fiske Seen as No ‘Publicity Hound,’ and as Totally, Totally Thorough,” Washington Post, 21 Jan. 1994, A20.
assembled a list: Philip Heymann, interview by author.