Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [493]
Two nights later: Lewinsky, Grand Jury Testimony, 16; Evidentiary Record, vol. 3, part 1, 736.
She would enter: Lewinsky, Grand Jury Testimony, 57; Evidentiary Record, vol. 3, part 1, 777; Morton, Monica’s Story, 66–71.
there was never: Lewinsky, Grand Jury Testimony, 36; Evidentiary Record, vol. 3, part 1, 756.
Did the relationship with: Lewinsky, Grand Jury Testimony, 17–18; Evidentiary Record, vol. 3, part 1, 737–38.
“She told us how”: Bernie Lewinsky, interview by author.
“Those who know”: Barbara Lewinsky, remarks made while author was interviewing Bernie Lewinsky.
When the Lewinsky family gathered: Morton, Monica’s Story, 86.
“Monica insisted”: Barbara Lewinsky, comments made while author was interviewing Bernie Lewinsky.
“Girly, the President sure”: Morton, Monica’s Story, 86.
Marcia would describe: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
President Clinton confessed: Lewinsky, Grand Jury Testimony, 25; Evidentiary Record, vol. 3, part 1, 745.
“We had not hidden”: Gilbert Davis, interview by author.
Chapter 19: Inside a Texas Prison
In an article: “McDougal Changes Story,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 16 Feb. 1997, 12.
“It was just a country”: Joe Stumpe and Jim Brooks, “McDougal’s Claim of Intercepted Call Highly Improbable,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 15 Feb. 1997, A10 (emphasis added). McDougal’s lawyer, Sam Heuer, would later recall no mention by McDougal of a purported affair between Susan and Clinton (Sam Heuer, interview by author).
A remarkable FBI document: Office of the Independent Counsel, “Dates of Interviews with James McDougal,” 9 June 1997.
On occasion, McDougal’s “coloring”: Ray Jahn, interview by author.
Yet Jahn did ascertain: Ray Jahn, follow-up interview with author, 2 Dec. 2008.
Another defining moment: Ken Starr, interview by author.
Bob Bittman, the young prosecutor: Robert J. Bittman, interview by author.
The National Law Journal: “His Reach Knows No Bounds,” National Law Journal, 6 Jan. 1997, B12.
“a wonderful and right”: Joe Stumpe, “Starr Has New Job in August,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 18 Feb. 1997, A1.
It would put to rest: Jack Nelson, “Starr Report Rules Out Foul Play in Foster Death,” Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 1997, A1.
Since the investigation was still centered: Ken Starr, interview by author.
“I thought that he had”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
Former Independent Counsel: Stumpe, “Starr Has New Job.”
Ted Olson: “Investigation of Clintons Is Far from Completed, Starr Insists,” Commercial Appeal, 19 Feb. 1997, A1. See also Glenn R. Simpson, “Whitewater Counsel Takes University Post,” Wall Street Journal, 18 Feb. 1997, A3.
Rumors began sweeping through: Rodney Bowers, “Juries in 4 Mock Trials Let Clintons Off, Source Says,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 15 Feb. 1997, A1.
“It was like”: Ken Starr, interview by author.
“What do you think”: Sam Dash, interview by author.
William Safire, in a New York Times piece: William Safire, “The Big Flinch,” New York Times, 20 Jan. 1997; Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars, 330.
called Starr’s departure: “A Waning Starr,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 19 Feb. 1997, A10.
He arranged: “Investigation of Clintons Is Far from Completed, Starr Insists,” Memphis Commercial Appeal, 19 Feb. 1997, A1; Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
“When I make”: Craig S. Karpel, “Conflict of Interest,” Strategic Weekly Briefings, Agora Financial Publishing, 28 Jan. 1997, 2.
“You know, the first rule”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
“Starr can now kiss”: Karpel, “Conflict of Interest,” 1.
Richard Mellon Scaife, the conservative: Nelson, “Starr Report Rules Out Foul Play.”
Starr was “unproductive”: Richard Mellon Scaife, interview by author.
“Maybe Ken Starr’s a mole”: John F. Kennedy, Jr., “Who’s Afraid of Richard Mellon Scaife?” George, January 1999, 54, 57; Richard Mellon Scaife, interview by author.
Nothing in the historical: Sam Dash, interview by author.
The months leading: Bob Woodward, interview by author.
Woodward and Schmidt revealed: Bob Woodward and Susan Schmidt, “Starr Probes Clinton Personal Life,” Washington