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“we both cried”: Susan McDougal, interview by author. For Susan McDougal’s written account of these events, which is similar but not identical, see McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 206–207.
“Susan, they’re going”: Susan McDougal, interview by author; McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 209.
Susan McDougal had returned: “Sentencing Date Altered for Susan McDougal,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 7 Aug. 1996, B12.
had been sentenced: Howard also ordered Tucker to pay a fine of $25,000 and restitution to the Small Business Administration of $293,951 (Joe Stumpe, “Susan McDougal Used to Breathing Society’s Rarefied Air,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 21 Aug. 1996, A7).
“attempted to camouflage”: Memo of the United States Regarding the Sentencing of Susan McDougal, 19 Aug. 1996, Susan McDougal papers; Stumpe, “Susan McDougal Used to Breathing.”
Judge Howard hammered: Ibid.; McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 212.
as Bill Clinton boarded: “Le Grande Show Démocrate va Faire la fête à Clinton,” Soir, 26 Aug. 1996, Susan McDougal papers.
“It is tempting”: “McDougal” clipping, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 3 Sept. 1996, A7, Susan McDougal papers.
A raw transcript: Susan McDougal, interview by Diane Sawyer, Prime Time Live, ABC News, 30 Aug. 1996, unedited transcript, tape 4, pages 4–18, 4–19 (obtained from Office of Independent Counsel through Freedom of Information Act request).
“that I was hiding something”: McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 218.
Can you tell us, ma’am: Susan McDougal and Ray Jahn, Grand Jury Testimony, 4 Sept. 1996, transcript, contained in OIC indictment of Susan McDougal, 4 May 1998.
“I was shaking”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
“clashed with their theory”: “McDougal” clipping, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 3 Sept. 1996, A7, Susan McDougal papers.
Judge Wright tapped: Stumpe, Supra; McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 227.
“An abiding, unrelenting”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
(The FBI’s own analysis): Final Report/Ray, vol. 2, 42–44, 61–63.
“No. No. I was in love”: Susan McDougal, interview by author.
“We’re not that kind”: Ray Jahn, interview by author.
McDougal threw: McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 233–34.
Chapter 17: Paula Jones Goes to Washington
Even the conservative Washington Times observed: Frank J. Murray, “Clinton Won’t Face Jones Suit Before Election,” Washington Times, 25 June 1996, A1.
“high-profile controversial”: Susan Carpenter-McMillan, interview by author.
She had launched: Ibid. Carpenter McMillan would later say, “Thank God—glory goes to God—it succeeded.”
Where she came: Joseph Cammarata, interview by author.
“What Clinton is asking”: Memo to File, 2 Nov. 1994. See also these documents from Gilbert Davis papers: Memo to File, “Demeaning the Integrity,” undated; Memo to File, “Oral Argument on Immunity,” undated.
Davis was ready to go it alone: Gilbert Davis, interview by author.
Robert Bork and Theodore Olson: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 110.
“The president has confused”: Gilbert Davis, interview by author.
Dellinger had clerked: Walter Dellinger, interview by author. Dellinger had served as assistant attorney general and headed the Office of Legal Counsel before becoming acting solicitor general.
“The receptionist says”: Joseph Cammarata, interview by author.
stated that the event in question: Joseph Cammarata, “Telephone Call with Woman,” handwritten notes, undated, Joseph Cammarata papers; Affidavit of Joseph Cammarata, 5 Sept. 1997, Cammarata papers.
As she walked out: One was later identified as Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, whose calendar confirmed that he met with Clinton at 3 P.M. that afternoon (Matt Drudge, “Tripp Turns on Clinton, Tells of Willey Episode,” Drudge Report, 3 Feb. 1997).
“couldn’t locate her husband”: Cammarata, “Telephone Call with Woman;" Affidavit of Joseph Cammarata, 5 Sept. 1997, Cammarata papers; Mark Johnson, “Willey Death Likely Suicide,” Richmond Times, undated, Cammarata