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he was deeply saddened: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons scrambled: Statement of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, September 1998, Clark papers.
Richard Clark and others: Richard Clark, interview by author.
“there is no evidence”: Douglas, “Doctors Ignored.”
Clark was particularly concerned: Richard Clark, interview by author.
“You know why I’m here”: Ibid. While Clark identified the name of the agent, it is not repeated in this account for security reasons. However, the individual was indeed employed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
“No, I will not”: Richard Clark, interview by author.
“It’s getting extremely hot”: Ibid.
Chapter 38: The Indictment of Hillary Clinton
On April 25, Ken Starr: Peter Baker and Susan Schmidt, “Prosecutors Question First Lady at Length; Starr Prepares to End Ark. Phase of Probe,” Washington Post, 26 Apr. 1998, A1.
“Forget about [Hillary]”: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
After Currie had allowed: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.
In response to questioning: Catherine Allday Davis, Grand Jury Testimony, 17 Mar. 1998, Evidentiary Record, vol. 4, 842.
Davis was under oath: Catherine Allday Davis, OIC summary of testimony, 20 Mar. 1998, Evidentiary Record, vol. 4, 829, 842, 844, 845.
One of the most startling: Ibid., 831, 833.
“The President is looking”: Ibid., 866.
“It was kind of like I”: Kathleen Willey, transcript of interview by Sixty Minutes, CBS News, 15 Mar. 1998; “Kathleen Willey: ‘I Just Thought It Was Extremely Reckless,’” Federal Document Clearing House, 16 Mar. 1998, A8.
“number one fan”: Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth At Any Cost, 120–21.
Juanita Broaddrick: Ibid., 121; Toobin, A Vast Conspiracy, 140–41. The unwanted assault, allegedly, had taken place in a Little Rock hotel room.
Judge Susan Webber Wright granted: Memorandum Opinion and Order, Jones v. Clinton, No. LR-C-94–290, 1 Apr. 1998, J. Wright. The court also granted summary judgment with respect to Clinton’s co-defendant, Trooper Danny Ferguson.
“even a most charitable”: Ibid., 13, 30. One of the only attempts by the plaintiff to show that she suffered at work, due to her refusal to succumb to Governor Clinton’s alleged sexual advances, was that she did not receive flowers from her boss on Secretary’s Day. The judge was also unimpressed by a last-ditch declaration from a purported expert in education and counseling, Patrick J. Carnes, Ph.D., who had met briefly with Paula and Steve Jones and rendered an opinion that Ms. Jones’s alleged encounter with Governor Clinton in 1991 had caused plaintiff to suffer “severe emotional distress” and “consequent sexual aversion.” Judge Wright found these eleventh-hour assertions to be “vague and conclusory,” as well as legally uncompelling (ibid., 27, 37–38).
In a final blow: Ibid., 39.
At first, Bennett had worried: Robert S. Bennett, In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer, 256.
A teary-eyed Paula Jones: “Jones Says She Will Appeal,” CNN AllPolitics, 16 Apr. 1998.
“You cannot defile the temple”: Andrew Philips, “Clinton Harassment Suit Dismissed,” Maclean’s Magazine, 13 Apr. 1998; “Ken Starr Discusses His Investigation,” CNN AllPolitics, 2 Apr. 1998.
In an earlier decision in which she had excluded: Memorandum and Order, Jones v. Clinton, 9 Mar. 1998, 9 nn. 2, 7, 8; Order, Jones v. Clinton, 29 Jan. 1998, 2.
President Clinton would later admit: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
Mail poured into: Misc. 1998 letters approving Judge Wright’s decision to dismiss the Jones case, Federal District Court Papers.
Just weeks earlier, Ewing: Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 156.
Following this were four documents: Memo, 22 Apr. 1998, “HRC Meeting” binder, confidential source. Redacted versions of some of these documents were obtained through an FOIA request from the Records of Independent Counsel Starr/Ray, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.
Although nobody outside the room: Draft Indictment, “HRC Meeting” binder, confidential source.