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Although Danny Traylor would later tell Jane Mayer of The New Yorker that “in my many hours of interviews [with Paula],” she had never mentioned anything about a “distinguishing characteristic,” he also admitted that maybe he “never asked the right question” (Jane Mayer, “Distinguishing Characteristics,” The New Yorker, 7 July 1997, 36).

pop star Michael Jackson: Joseph Cammarata, interview by author; Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 89.

“Goddamn it!”: Gilbert Davis, interview by author; Joseph Cammarata interview by author.

The Jones lawyers next insisted: Joseph Cammarata, interview by author; Toobin, A Vast Conspiracy, 45.

Charlotte stated: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 92.

“White House sources?”: Joseph Cammarata, interview by author; Gilbert Davis, interview by author.

Bob Bennett and the rest: Robert Bennett, interview by author.

Paula remained silent: Joseph Cammarata, interview by author.

The twenty-page complaint against: Complaint, 6 May 1994, Daniel M. Traylor legal files. The complaint included a count alleging deprivation of federal constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983; one for conspiracy to deprive the plaintiff of civil rights under 42 U.S.C. Section 1985(3); one for intentional infliction of emotional distress under Arkansas law; and one for defamation under Arkansas law.

they had piggybacked: Joseph Cammarata, interview by author. A Title VII action would have required filing an administrative complaint within 180 days of the incident. The claim under Section 1983—part of the old Ku Klux Klan Act from the period after the Civil War—was creative, but an uphill battle. Claims under Section 1983 for sexual harassment required concrete proof of adverse job consequences, which the Jones lawyers knew was a challenge at best. The federal claim under Section 1985(3) was almost a throwaway; that statute dealt with private conspiracies to deprive constitutional rights. It was used primarily to deal with conspiracies against African American civil rights workers and other such situations; its application here was dubious.

“I do not seek”: Paula Corbin Jones, public statement, 5 May 1994, distributed and read 6 May 1994, Gilbert Davis papers.

“Elf” Jerome Marcus had faxed: Jerome Marcus to Gilbert Davis, 10 June 1994, Gilbert Davis papers.

Davis and Cammarata had ordered: Ken Starr, interviewed on MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, PBS, transcript 4934, “Presidential Immunity,” 24 May 1994.

So they left: Gilbert Davis, interview by author; Joseph Cammarata, interview by author.

“And I think”: Gilbert Davis, interview by author; Gilbert Davis, record of phone conversation with Ken Starr, 10 June 1994, Gilbert Davis papers.

Starr, it turned out: Ken Starr, interview by author; Robert B. Fiske, interview by author.

Davis’s billing records reveal: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 109; Gilbert Davis, interview by author.

young lawyer named Paul Rosenzweig: Memo: Immunity Question, 16 June 1994, Gilbert Davis papers; Gilbert Davis, follow-up interview by author, 28 April 2006.

“as a person who can do”: GKD to file, memorandum, 16 June 1994, Gilbert Davis papers.

Chapter 12: Three Judges in Black

“whether we [OIC] should do”: Ken Starr, interview by author.

Fiske and Starr quietly agreed: Robert B. Fiske, interview by author.

“something was wrong”: Dennis McInerny, interview by author.

“a really decent”: Julie O’Sullivan, interview by author.

“I was in an alien landscape”: Gabrielle Wolohojian, interview by author.

“We needed to close”: Ibid. See also Jerry Seper, “In Limbo, Fiske Team Continues Probe,” Washington Times, 9 Aug. 1994, A1.

“It certainly never crossed”: Jo Ann Harris, interview by author.

“To my knowledge, he had limited”: Janet Reno, interview by author.

“We’re going to”: Julie O’Sullivan, interview by author.

“No one really knew”: Gabrielle Wolohojian, interview by author.

MacKinnon felt: John D. Butzner, Jr., interview by author; Viola “Pete” Butzner, interview by author.

The lone Democrat: John D. Butzner, interview by author; William H. Rehnquist to John D. Butzner, Jr., 26 Oct.