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“It wasn’t like”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
Congress marched: Woodward, Shadow, 263.
“No court would ever”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
Attorney General Janet Reno wrote: Janet Reno, interview by author.
“reputation for integrity”: Jo Ann Harris, interview by author.
Chapter 10: Paula Corbin Jones
“His Cheatin’ Heart”: David Brock, “Living with the Clintons: Bill’s Arkansas Bodyguards Tell the Story the Press Missed,” American Spectator, Jan. 1994, 18.
“We keep dishing”: Jane Fullerton, “Mainstream Media in Tug of War Over Play of Troopers’ Allegations,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 20 Jan. 1994, A10.
“Their motivation, I mean”: David Brock, interview by author.
Indeed, Brock later disclosed: David Brock, Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, 154.
Tyrrell recalled: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., interview by author.
“He’d embarrassed hisself”: Paula Jones, interview by author.
Traylor was hardly known: Daniel M. Traylor, interview by author.
“Never talk about it”: Paula Jones, interview by author.
Ballentine briefed her: Daniel M. Traylor, interview by author.
“But the world’s made up”: David Ellis, “The Perils of Paula,” People, 23 May 1994, 88, 90, 92.
During this period of experimenting: Ibid., 90–91.
“So what do you”: Daniel M. Traylor, interview by author.
“a nice Christian girl”: Ibid.
At this time, her name was Paula Corbin: Conservative Political Action Conference, Washington, D.C., 11 Feb. 1994, transcript, 4 (hereinafter cited as CPAC Transcript); Michael Isikoff, “Clinton Hires Lawyer as Sexual Harassment Suit Is Threatened; Bennett Opens an Aggressive Campaign on Public Relations and Legal Fronts,” Washington Post, 4 May 1994, A4.
Her employment file indicated: Ellis, “The Perils of Paula,” 90.
She had worked: Rudy Maxa, “The Devil in Paula Jones,” Penthouse, Jan. 1995, 107, 112.
Although her handwritten application listed: Paula Corbin, application for employment, 21 Jan. 1991, State of Arkansas employment file; State of Arkansas Office of Personnel Management, memorandum, 23 Jan. 1991.
Paula Corbin received marginal: State of Arkansas, Performance Evaluation Plan Rating Form, Mar. 1991 to Mar. 1992.
Her employment records reveal: Paula Corbin, State of Arkansas employment file.
At the time that she was asked: Clydine Pennington to Paula Corbin, Re: Six-Month Probationary Period, 28 Aug. 1991, Paula Corbin, State of Arkansas employment file.
“come over just to chat”: Isikoff, “Clinton Hires Lawyer,” 4; Paula Corbin Jones Deposition, Jones v. Clinton, vol. 1, 101–102. Most accounts suggested these events took place in the morning. Paula herself would later maintain that they occurred at 2:30 in the afternoon (CPAC Transcript, 4), which now seems unlikely, given documentary evidence.
“I love your curves”: Declaration of Paula Jones, 11 Mar. 1998, 2.
“come over there”: Paula Corbin Jones Deposition, 106–108.
“Well, I don’t want”: Declaration of Paula Jones, 11 Mar. 1992, 3.
This account of her quick exit: Danny Ferguson Deposition, 49–52.
The entire sequence: Pamela Blackard Deposition, 67.
“From far off I could tell”: Ibid., 68.
“I’m just going”: Debbie Ballentine Deposition, 50. Emphasis in original.
“She cried most”: Lydia Cathey Deposition, 53–54.
Ferguson meandered: Danny Ferguson Deposition, 49–50.
“asked for a piece”: Answer to Complaint, Jones v. Clinton, para. 16.
“She came up”: Danny Ferguson Deposition, 63–64.
“Mr. President, did you ever make”: Bill Clinton Deposition, 17 Jan. 1998, 204–205. Years later, while scrupulously avoiding a flat-out denial of the facts outlined by Paula Jones in her testimony, President Clinton would instead emphasize: “I didn’t sexually harass her.” (Bill Clinton, interview by author).
’fessed up, apologized: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
Chapter 11: Danny Traylor: “Can We Settle for Five Thousand Dollars?”
His research papers reveal: Daniel M. Traylor legal files.
“So I laid it out”: Daniel M. Traylor, interview