Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [494]
“The story was”: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
“The report in today’s”: David E. Kendall, press conference statement, 25 June 1997.
Starr would resent: Kenneth W. Starr to Honorable Henry J. Hyde and Honorable John Conyers, Jr., 11 Dec. 1998. Starr insisted that the questions directed at the troopers were designed to elicit information “whom then-Governor Clinton and Mrs. Clinton might have been close to and confided in.” However, Starr respectfully declined to turn over rough notes of the interviews, “because the troopers interviewed were explicitly promised confidentiality” (ibid.).
Dash had laid out: Ken Starr, interview by author.
“a Stalinist show trial”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
“I always had”: Bob Woodward, interview by author.
The new prisoner attended: Richard Clark, interview by author.
From his review: Federal Bureau of Prisons, Monthly Mental Status Report, 2 Oct. 1997, Richard Clark papers.
Clark summarized: Richard Clark, interview by author.
Chapter 20: The Settlement That Never Happened
The white-haired Justice John Paul Stevens, considered: Joan Biskupic, “Legal Setback for Clinton,” The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record, 28 May 1997, A1.
“only three sitting Presidents”: Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681, 684 (1997). The only justice to distance himself from the opinion was Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer, who concurred and noted that he was “less sanguine” than his brethren about the practical ramifications of this ruling (ibid., 722).
Dellinger worried: Walter Dellinger, interview by author.
The New York Post blared: Rita Delfiner, “Paula’s Lawyer Wants ‘Private’ Peek at Prez,” New York Post, 28 May 1997, 20.
As President Clinton posed: Clinton, My Life, 756.
the American press was already predicting: Biskupic, “Legal Setback.”
“She was ecstatic”: Joseph Cammarata, interview by author.
“The two of us just screamed”: Biskupic, “Legal Setback.”
“one of the most naive”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
“The opinion was just part”: Justice John Paul Stevens, interview by author.
Michael Isikoff published: Michael Isikoff, “A Twist in Jones v. Clinton,” Newsweek, 11 Aug. 1997, 30.
A week earlier: Matt Drudge, “Tripp Turns on Clinton, Tells of Willey Episode,” Drudge Report, 3 Aug. 1997, www.drudgereport.com/2.txt.
Both publications revealed: According to Isikoff, “A Twist,” 30, Tripp said that she had bumped into Willey in the West Wing immediately after she left the Oval Office, and Willey looked “disheveled. Her face was red and her lipstick was off.” Willey then confided that the president had taken her into a small, private office, where he “kissed and fondled her.”
Now Steele had recanted: Steele’s revised story was that Willey had not (in fact) told her about the brush with Clinton until weeks after it happened; Willey had stated only that Clinton “made a pass at her,” and Willey had not appeared upset when she conveyed the story (Isikoff, “A Twist,” 30).
“I really smell”: Drudge, “Tripp Turns on Clinton.”
“They weren’t crazy”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
Judge Susan Webber Wright had: Opinion and Order, Jones v. Clinton, 520 U.S. 681, 22 Aug. 1997.
“What I would hope”: Status Conference, Jones v. Clinton, 520 U.S. 681, 22 Aug. 1994, 7, 28–30.
“The goal was to try”: Robert Bennett, interview by author; Robert S. Bennett, In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer, 237–38.
called his bluff: Joseph Cammarata, interview by author.
“donate all amounts”: Paula Jones, press statement, 1 June 1997, Gilbert Davis papers.
The talk-show chatter: Charles D. Willis to Joseph Cammarata, 8 Aug. 1997, Gilbert Davis papers.
“any treatment or advice sought”: Subpoena, Jones v. Clinton, 520 U.S. 681, 25 July 1997.
Cammarata also took: Joseph Cammarata to Daniel M. Traylor, 23 June 1997, Gilbert Davis papers.
in which he said: Stuart Taylor, Jr., and Timothy J. Burger, “Jones’ Credibility,” Legal Times, 23 June 1997, 20.
“effective immediately”: Joseph Cammarata to Daniel M. Traylor, 23 June 1997.
both sides exchanged: Joseph Cammarata