Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [495]
“The President of the”: Ibid., 17–18.
Clinton would also give: Gilbert Davis, interview by author.
“Yes. I mean”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
Chubb seemed eager: Gilbert Davis, interview by author. The Clintons had two umbrella policies that they had purchased for $120 and $130 respectively. One happened to cover claims for “false imprisonment” and the Jones complaint contained one count that alleged then-Governor Clinton had falsely detained Paula Corbin in the hotel room, allowing Clinton to receive several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of coverage.
“that she could get more”: Gilbert Davis, interview by author.
“Twenty-million-dollar settlement”: Susan Carpenter-McMillan, interview by author.
Conservative activist-lawyer: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 182–84.
“The parties agree”: “Stipulation of Settlement,” undated, attached to Gilbert Davis and Joseph Cammarata to Paula Jones, 29 Aug. 1997, Gilbert Davis papers.
“It is a complete victory”: Gilbert Davis and Joseph Cammarata to Paula Jones, 19 Aug. 1997, 1, Gilbert Davis papers (emphasis added).
Davis and Cammarata offered: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 182.
“Serious differences of opinion”: Gilbert Davis and Joseph Cammarata to Paula Jones, 29 Aug. 1997, 1, Gilbert Davis papers.
“Mr. Davis and Mr. Cammarata are”: Order, Jones v. Clinton, 520 U.S. 681, 9 Sept. 1997, 58.
He called Jones; Daniel M. Traylor, interview by author.
“She was the front”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
Chapter 21: Trapped Outside the White House
“The early sort of halcyon”: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
The President wasn’t responding: Descriptions of the end of the relationship between Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton and their discussion of Kathleen Willey and Linda Tripp in July 1997 are from Lewinsky, Grand Jury Testimony, 68–71 and 75–79; Evidentiary Record, vol. 3, part 1, 788–91 and 795–97; and Morton, Monica’s Story, 121 and 123.
an illegal form of “punishment”: Mark Geragos, interview by Geraldo Rivera, Rivera Live, CNBC, 20 May 1997.
Susan was facing: “Susan McDougal’s Ordeal,” Dateline with Stone Phillips, NBC, 5 Oct. 1997. Nancy Mehta was a somewhat different plaintiff, on top of her wealth and her own status as a former Hollywood celebrity. She was former actress Nancy Kovack, a tall, long-legged beauty who had starred with Elvis Presley in Frankie and Johnny and then appeared in episodes of Star Trek, Bewitched, and a Tarzan film. The embezzlement charges against Susan related to a heap of credit card bills, most traceable to a single charge card in Nancy Mehta’s name with bills sent to a different address accessed only by Susan. The eccentric conductor’s wife insisted that the money had been stolen; Susan McDougal countered that she was given “permission” to use the credit card—the funds were voluntarily given to her as a bonus for “spending time” with Mrs. Mehta. That Susan virtually moved in with Nancy Mehta and became a house mate during her famous husband’s prolonged absences added to the odd factual circumstances.
Geragos now openly charged: Dateline, 5 Oct. 1997; McDougal and Harris, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 261–64.
locked in a cell: Alexander Cockburn, “The Torture of Susan McDougal,” Nation, July 14, 1997, 9. This syndicated column appeared in papers across the country, detailing the allegedly inhumane nature of her incarceration.
Susan’s family weighed: Susan McDougal family, interviewed on Dateline with Stone Phillips, NBC, 5 Oct. 1997.
The Promoter: Richard Clark, interview by author; Curtis Wilkie, interview by author.
“increased feelings of depression”: Monthly Mental Status Report, 31 Oct. 1997, Richard Clark papers.
“he did not know”: Richard Clark, interview by author.
“very irritated”: Ibid.; Notes of Counseling Session, Dr. Clark, 6 Nov. 1997.
As the abandoned car was getting: Dan Sewell, “McDougal Now Claims Clinton Took Loan from S&L,” Associated Press, 12 Nov. 1997; “McDougal: Mystery Check a Secret Loan to Clinton,” Arkansas