Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [510]
“I don’t think her angst”: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
“Certainly, Billy [Martin] milked it”: Sol Wisenberg, interview by author.
“I have no response”: Marcia Lewis Straus, interview by author.
“I think anybody who would allow”: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
“Here we are as prosecutors”: Ken Starr, interview by author.
Monica Lewinsky, still at home: Monica Lewinsky, interview by author.
one newspaper story trumpeted: Jonathan Broder, “Prosecuting—or persecuting—the prosecutors,” Salon, 24 Feb. 1998. See also Martin Berg, “Starr Aide No Stranger to Sex Tapes Inquiries,” Los Angeles Daily Journal, 6 Feb. 1998; Martha Ezzard, “Starr’s Tainted Lieutenant,” Atlanta Constitution, 14 Feb. 1998.
Sol Wisenberg, saw them: Sol Wisenberg, interview by author.
As a result of this power play: Ibid.; Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
Starr’s prosecutors were itching: Ken Starr, interview by author.
Starr’s office was suddenly: Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars, 410–11. See also Howard Kurtz, “Prosecutor Lobs a Grenade: Blumenthal’s Subpoena Sends Press Corps a Shock,” Washington Post, 25 Feb. 1998. With respect to the more germane topic—what President Clinton had told Blumenthal in the days after the Monica Lewinsky affair became public—Blumenthal quietly invoked “executive privilege.” Yet this fact quickly got lost in the clamor over the Clinton adviser’s First Amendment rights.
Starr himself, taking out the garbage: “White House Prepares to Assert Executive Privilege,” CNN AllPolitics, 25 Feb. 1998.
“Forget about that”: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
He also told Starr’s prosecutors: Ibid. For instance, Ewing had come to believe that the mysterious Madison Guaranty check for $27,600, marked “Payoff Clinton”—in Susan McDougal’s handwriting—found in the trunk of a junked car after a tornado, represented a payoff of the Clintons’ Whitewater loan. If this was true, as McDougal now alleged, Bill Clinton had committed perjury during the Whitewater trial when he denied ever receiving a loan from Madison Guaranty. The other possibility, as Ewing himself would admit, was that McDougal moved around money, paid off the loan with Madison funds, and didn’t even tell Clinton.
Chapter 37: Last Night in Solitary Confinement
“was indicating that his mood”: Richard Clark, interview by author.
Although McDougal’s conviction: Monthly Mental Status Reports, 15 Jan. 1998, Clark papers.
prison medical records indicate: Brief Counseling Session, 2 Feb. 1998, Clark papers.
Clark found the situation extremely odd: Richard Clark, interview by author.
After McDougal complained to the guards: Richard Clark, interview by author; Jack Doug las, Jr., “Doctors Ignored McDougal, Report Says,”Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sept. 1998, B1.
the guard confided to Clark: Richard Clark, interview by author.
“unresponsive”: Autopsy Report of Jim McDougal, Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Tarrant County, Texas, 8 Mar. 1998.
“at the quickest, it would have”: Richard Clark, interview by author.
One inmate: Jack Douglas, Jr., “The Mysterious Death of Jim McDougal,” George, Oct. 1998.
The autopsy report issued: Autopsy Report of Jim McDougal, 8 Mar. 1998, 3.
numerous “wild rumors”: Richard Clark, interview by author; Claudia Riley, interview by author.
an “animalistic cry”: Claudia Riley, interview by author.
Ewing seemed shaken up: Richard Clark, interview by author.
“I didn’t think that they”: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
“It was obviously Jim”: Claudia Riley, interview by author.
As she sat: Susan McDougal, follow-up interview by author.
This complex and tragic man: McDougal, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, 302–303; Susan McDougal, interview by author.
“always wanted a jazz band”: Claudia Riley, interview by author.
had personally requested: Bill Simmons, “Starr Deputy Eulogizes Jim McDougal,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 14 Mar. 1998, A1.
“But his death”: Claudia Riley, interview by author.
Although Hickman Ewing: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
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