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“Oddly, but perhaps not”: David B. Sentelle to author, 19 Dec. 2002.
Judge Sentelle also later insisted: Ibid.
“I think we differed”: John D. Butzner, Jr., to David B. Sentelle, 21 Oct. 1998, Butzner papers, box 12, folder 1994–95.
“You know,” he said: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
“I wanted there to be”: Robert B. Fiske, interview by author.
As Fiske introduced: Julie O’Sullivan, interview by author.
“I love this”: William S. Duffey, Jr., interview by author.
Now Starr had been: Julie O’Sullivan, interview by author.
said the scene resembled: Rusty Hardin, interview by author.
Before Ken Starr caught: Dennis Cauchon, “Starr Easing into Whitewater, May Signal a Long Investigation,” USA Today, 10 Aug. 1994.
“He agreed”: Robert B. Fiske, interview by author.
had been friendly: Locy, “Lunch Among ‘Old Friends’;" David B. Sentelle to author.
An unidentified witness now told: Schneider, “Judge Met Sen. Faircloth,” 1.
most of the conversation had revolved: Howard Schneider, “Judge Met Senator Faircloth Before Fiske Was Ousted; Sentelle Says Special Counsel Wasn’t Discussed,” Washington Post, 12 Aug. 1994, A1.
“[gave] rise to the appearance”: Robert Toricelli, “It’s Time to Reconsider Independent Counsel Statute’s Effectiveness,” Roll Call, 20 Mar. 1997.
Thirty-six Democratic members of Congress wrote: U.S. Congress, letter to David B. Sentelle, 17 Aug. 1994.
“Neither Faircloth nor Helms ever attempted”: David B. Sentelle to author, 19 Dec. 2002.
“We did not discuss”: Ibid.
“There is no vast right-wing conspiracy”: Senate Government Affairs Committee, Testimony of Judge Sentelle, questions by Senator Lieberman, 14. Apr. 1999.
Among other things: Carl Levin to David B. Sentelle, 12 Aug. 1994, Butzner papers, box 11, folder 1994.
“Mr. Starr did not mention”: “Presidential Immunity; Fertility Rights; America’s Values,” MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, PBS, transcript 4,934, 24 May 1994. In response to the argument that the president should enjoy some special immunity from civil suit, Starr replied forcefully: “I think the President is one of us and should be treated like one of us, except with respect and with accommodating the President’s schedule.… [W]e don’t say to the President, ‘don’t bother to file your tax returns because we know that you’re busy with very compelling issues of state.’ We ask the President to obey the law and to be like other citizens, except with respect to protecting his actions as the President of the United States” (ibid., 4).
ill considered: Judge Sneed fired off a confidential fax from San Francisco, cautioning Sentelle not to be drawn “into the arena of public discourse” and urging the special court to stand strong in defense of Starr. “Let me say emphatically I would vote to designate Starr Independent Counsel [again] tomorrow were that before us,” he wrote. “My confidence is not shaken.” Sneed went on to conclude: “I certainly hope Starr does not cut and run from his assignment.” Joseph T. Sneed to David B. Sentelle and John D. Butzner, Jr., 16 Aug. 1994.
“I was against Starr”: John D. Butzner, Jr., interview by author.
Chapter 13: Ken Starr: Special Prosecutor
President Clinton blamed himself: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
Starr noted: Ken Starr, interview by author.
two decades’ worth: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
He had served for eight years: Joan I. Duffy, “Prosecutor Ewing Up and At ’Em Again, Whitewater Job Returns Him to Legal Specialty,” Memphis Commercial Appeal, 10 July 1996, A1.
“rendered infamous”: Ibid.; Glenn R. Simpson, “Southern Edge: A Veteran Prosecutor of Political Corruption Steers Whitewater Case,” Wall Street Journal, 31 July 1996, A1.
The family’s home was: Duffy, “Prosecutor Ewing.”
It was also what: Simpson, “Southern Edge.”
Ewing came to embrace: Hickman Ewing, Jr., “Combating Official Corruption by All Available Means,” Memphis State University Law Review 10 (1980): 423.
A state senator: Lewis Lord and Julian Barnes, “Whitewater Mind Games,” U.S. News & World Report, 3 Mar. 1997.
“We had lots of chicken