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Merletti would later say: Lew Merletti, follow-up interview by author.
A review of the archives: Monica Lewinsky to Agent Lewis Merletti, 28, Oct. 1996, Lew Merletti papers.
Kelleher “felt that from past experience”: Lew Merletti, interview by author.
Merletti dimmed the lights: Lew Merletti, interview by author; Merletti Power Point presentation, Lew Merletti papers.
proximity of the agents was critical: President William McKinley, while visiting Buffalo in 1901, had been shot fatally in the stomach by a gunman named Leon Czolgosz, because the Secret Service agent posted next to McKinley had been moved aside at the request of a dignitary who wanted a spot close to the president. Merletti next showed classified photos of the shooting of President Reagan by John W. Hinckley, Jr., in March 1981; followed by haunting photos of that same would-be assassin stalking President Carter five months earlier in Dayton.
“swarming up on top”: Clint Hill, interview by author.
Merletti cut to: Clint Hill, interview by Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes, CBS, 8 Dec. 1975.
“the men of [the USSS]”: John E. Wilkie to Charles D. Norton, 1910, 7, Merletti papers.
That committee had subpoenaed: John W. Magaw to John F. Kerry, 24 July 1992, Merletti papers.
“And I mean”: Lew Merletti, interview by author.
Starr would later defend himself: Ken Starr, interview by author.
“He could not have been more dismissive”: Lew Merletti, interview by author.
“You’d better fight this”: Lew Merletti, interview by author.
“Mr. President, …”: Ibid.
A retired uniformed USSS officer assigned: Bob Niedbala, “Greene Man Witnessed Lewinsky Visits,” Washington (PA) Observer-Reporter, 4 Feb. 1998.
the Washington Post was announcing: Susan Schmidt, “Clinton, Lewinsky Met Alone, Guard Says,” Washington Post, 11 Feb. 1998, A1.
“It was inappropriate”: Lew Merletti, interview by author.
Lew Fox knew no damning details: OIC interview with Lewis C. Fox, 9 Feb. 1998, Evidentiary Record, vol. 4, part 3, 1171. See also Grand Jury Testimony of Lewis Fox, 17 Feb. 1998, Evidentiary Record, vol. 4, part 3, 1175–88.
Chapter 34: One Nation Divided
“it had to be investigated”: Ken Starr, interview by author.
“What should never”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
The Scaife foundations: Richard Mellon Scaife, interview by author. For a fuller discussion of the so-called Arkansas Project, see Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, The Hunting of the President, chapters 7 and 10; David Brock, Blinded by the Right, chapter 10.
Tyrell’s cousin: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., interview by author.
“I was angry”: Sam Dash, interview by author.
Dash’s exclusion: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
“I’ve got to talk to everybody”: Sam Dash, interview by author.
“like a bolt out of the blue”: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
He had also drafted: Robert J. Bittman, interview by author.
“It was like he was raptured”: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
Tucker might finally cough up information: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author. Tucker pleaded guilty soon thereafter, giving Ewing a proffer that included some statements that Ewing believed helped to accomplish his goal.
Ewing was still cobbling: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author. Paul Rosenzweig was summoned back to Little Rock to help Ewing “put together a possible indictment” with respect to the First Lady.
“This is not going to look good”: Ken Starr, interview with author; Jackie Bennett, interview with author. See also Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 63–65.
“Increasingly urgent overtures”: Ken Starr, interview with author; Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 67–71.
the first question that he would have asked: Archibald Cox, interview by author.
avoided taking sides: Robert B. Fiske, inter view by author.
“We’d have been long since done”: Julie O’Sullivan, interview by author.
“I have always said that”: William S. Duffey, Jr., interview by author.
Chapter 35: The Vilification of Ken Starr
“She was not in good health”: Ken Starr, interview by author.
“I didn’t want to start”: Alice Starr,