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“It was Lucianne who suggested”: Linda Tripp, interview by author.
One day when she arrived: Ibid.
Tripp received: Ibid.; Morton, Monica’s Story, 155.
“toyed with the idea”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author. See also Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 200–201, 207–209.
time to hit the road: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
On October 7: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 201, 207, 212.
Monica was scheduled: Ibid., 215–16; Morton, Monica’s Story, 138–39.
Betty Currie arranged: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 219–20.
“There certainly was”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
Clinton had added: Morton, Monica’s Story, 156–58.
Monica would forever: Monica did tell her biographer, years later, that she had confessed to Jordan that she and Clinton had engaged in some form of hanky-panky, but that “it had stopped just short of full sex” (ibid., 165).
“I thought”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
Tripp had recently made a bizarre proclamation: Morton, Monica’s Story, 155–56.
Her friend’s strange behavior: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
“Mr. Carter, this is”: Frank Carter, interview by author.
Carter ran off: Ibid.; Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
Wednesday, January 7: Jane Doe No. 6 (Monica Lewinsky), Affidavit, 7 Jan. 1998, in Evidentiary Record, vol. 3, part 1, 1235; Morton, Monica’s Story, 166; Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 265.
“No one else”: Frank Carter, interview by author.
“I have never had”: Morton, Monica’s Story, 166–67.
“Okay, I can argue”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
The president had already answered: Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, 225.
she was offered: Morton, Monica’s Story, 168; Toobin, A Vast Conspiracy, 195.
“We had exchanged”: Monica Lewinsky to author, January 26, 2009.
Chapter 25: Pinning the Tail on Clinton
“I’ll never forget”: Paula Jones, interview by author.
“I knew we had”: Susan Carpenter-McMillan, interview by author.
after the Virginia lawyers had bowed: Carla Hall and David G. Savage, “Dallas Lawyers Take On Paula Jones’ Case,” Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 1997, 14.
Within days, found er: For a thorough discussion of the role of John Whitehead and the Rutherford Institute, see Lindsay Barnes, “Suing the President: Charlottesville Lawyer John Whitehead Reflects on How Paula Jones Changed Him, the Lives of the Clintons and the Course of History,” (Richmond, VA) Style Weekly, 13 Feb. 2008, 14.
He had led the picketing: Thomas G. Watts, “Dallas Firm to Represent Paula Jones,” Dallas Morning News, 2 Oct. 1997, A1.
Two of his partners: Wesley Holmes, interview by author.
“Well, to state”: Jim Fisher, interview by author.
Here was a chance: Wesley Holmes, interview by author.
“Among her good qualities are”: Jim Fisher, interview by author.
“some sort of parallel”: Wesley Holmes, interview by author.
The Dallas lawyers quickly filed: First Amended Complaint, Jones v. Clinton, 27 Oct. 1997.
the attorneys also filed: This was actually filed on October 1, in the interim before the Dallas lawyers were officially hired to take over the case. Plaintiff’s Second Set of Interrogatories, Jones v. Clinton, 1 Oct. 1997, No. 8.
At a secret status conference: Wesley Holmes, interview by author; Toobin, A Vast Conspiracy, 207.
“And I have candy”: Jones v. Clinton, incamera hearing, 12 Jan. 1997, 3.
agreed that Carpenter-McMillan: Jones v. Clinton, incamera hearing, 12 Jan. 1997, 10, 32.
He had served as counsel: Claude R. Marx, “Lawyer Robert Bennett,” Investor’s Business Daily, circa 1995.
“I regret”: Pine Bluff Transcript, 27, 30–31; Toobin, A Vast Conspiracy, 209; Wesley Holmes, interview by author; Jim Fisher, interview by author.
“I’m also aware”: Wesley Holmes, interview by author.
Fisher spoke nonchalantly: Pine Bluff Transcript, 35–39. See also Jim Fisher, interview by author; Wesley Holmes, interview by author.
“All right”: Pine Bluff Transcript, 37–38.
“We had hit pay dirt”: Jim Fisher, interview by author.
Bob Bennett again spoke: Pine Bluff Transcript, 45.
“I think, really”: Ibid., 47, 53.
“I felt she”: Robert Bennett, interview