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Prosecutors in the Sixth Judicial: Larry Jegley, interview by author; Conason and Lyons, The Hunting of the President, 221.
Evidence had also surfaced: Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, “Nabbing David Hale,” Salon, 3 March 2000; Conason and Lyons, The Hunting of the President, 88. A judgment was eventually entered against Hale, in this scheme, in the amount of $486,000.
Hale was now singing: Robert B. Fiske, interview by author.
McDougal had spoken: Bill Nichols, “McDougal: No S&L Funds in Whitewater,” USA Today, 29 Mar. 1994, A4.
“Nancy had made me her husband”: McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 132–146,160–65.
According to Susan: Ibid.; Robert McDaniel, interview by author.
Ken Starr indicted: Indictment, 17 Aug. 1995, Heuer papers.
Chapter 14: Paula Jones on Film
Journalist Michael Isikoff had quit: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 72–77, 96–97.
“It couldn’t have been”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
“I was at the point where”: Paula Jones, interview by author.
Cammarata had already drawn: For Cammarata, this was no different from a car accident case, in which a lawyer sends a private investigator to “videotape the [alleged victim].” The lawyer can then use this as leverage, telling the other side: “I’ve got this surveillance tape of you, but I’m not going to show it to you until after your deposition” (Joseph Cammarata, interview by author; Motion to Permit Filing of Affidavit of Paula Corbin Jones, under seal, Jones v. Clinton, 3 Oct. 1994).
When Judge Susan Webber Wright disallowed: Order, Jones v. Clinton, 23 Oct. 1994.
Cammarata placed a copy: Joseph Cammarata, interview by author.
A copy of that affidavit: Distinguishing Characteristic Affidavit, 26 May 1994, Gilbert Davis papers.
“An investigative team needs”: GKD to Joseph Cammarata, 16 May 1994, Gilbert Davis papers.
This move was designed: Joseph Cammarata, interview by author.
It was also aimed at shaming: Joseph Cammarata to Arthur B. Spitzer, 8 May 1994, Cammarata papers; Joseph Cammarata, interview by author.
“Happy decision-making”: Arthur B. Spitzer to Steven R. Shapiro and Rita Sillinger, 10 May 1994, Cammarata papers.
After a few “whereas”: Joseph Cammarata to Office of Senator Nickles, 28 July 1995, Cammarata papers.
Wright had been a student: Jeffrey Toobin, “Presiding Over the President,” The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 1998, 45.
“I thought we’d get”: Robert Bennett, interview by author.
Bennett filed: President Clinton’s Motion to Dismiss, Jones v. Clinton, 10 Aug. 1994; Memorandum in Support of President Clinton’s Motion to Dismiss, Jones v. Clinton, 10 Aug. 1994; Statement of Interest of the United States, Jones v. Clinton, 19 Aug. 1994, 2–3.
a lawsuit against President Teddy Roosevelt: People ex rel. Hurley v. Roosevelt, 71 NE. 1137 (N.Y. 1904); Devault v. Truman, 194 S.W.2d 29 (Mo. 1946); Bailey v. Kennedy, No. 757, 200 (Cal. Super. Ct., 5 July 1962). See also Statement of Interest of the United States, Jones v. Clinton, 19 Aug. 1994, 2–3, for a discussion of these cases.
there was no clear precedent: 457 U.S. 731 (1982).
with a sobbing Paula Jones: Thomas Galvin, “Paula: I’ll Put Prez’s Privates on Parade,” New York Post, 26 Oct. 1994, 18; press release, re: Press Conference, 25 Oct. 1994, Gilbert Davis papers.
“The rights to”: Memorandum Opinion and Order, Jones v. Clinton, 28 Dec. 1994, 20.
Attorneys on both sides: Patricia Manson, “Clinton Wins Trial Deferral in Jones Sex Suit,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 29 Dec. 1994, A1.
Davis announced: Gilbert Davis, interview, Daybreak, CNN, transcript, 29 Dec. 1994, Gilbert Davis papers.
swiftly overturned: Jones v. Clinton, 72 F.3d 1354 (8th Cir. 1996). Judge Pasco Middleton Bowman II, a Reagan appointee, wrote that President Clinton was not immune from suit, particularly where “only personal, private conduct by a President is at issue.”
Clinton himself seemed to bristle: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
A number of anti-Bill Clinton suits: Two of the most prominent of these pre-Jones lawsuits were Larry Nichols v. Bill