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in which Hubbell ruminated about pursuing a lawsuit against the Rose Law Firm, he told his wife, Suzy, “I will not raise those allegations that might open it up to Hillary. And you know that. I told you that.” Suzy replied that she had heard from Marsha Scott, one of Hillary’s closest aides at the White House, and that Marsha “is ratcheting it up and making it sound like if Webb goes ahead and sues the firm, then any support [the Hubbells] have at the White House is gone. I’m hearing the squeeze play.” Hubbell answered with a sigh, “So I need to roll over one more time” (ibid., tapes 4A and 5B).

Democrats on the House Committee: House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Memorandum Re: Analysis of Hubbell Master Tape Log (by Minority Staff), 4 May 1998. In the actual tape recording of the above conversations, for instance, Hubbell went on to tell his wife that the First Lady was totally blameless: “OK. Hillary’s not. Hillary isn’t… She just had no idea what was going on,” he said. “She didn’t participate in any of this.”

Burton’s top aide: Jackie Koszczyk, “Hubbell Tapes Imbroglio Puts GOP Finance Probe on the Defensive,” Congressional Quarterly, 9 May 1998.

Starr’s prosecutors took the unusual step: Labaton, “Testing of a President: The Grand Jury,” A20.

The White House: Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 157.

In a rare interview granted to BBC Tonight: (BBC Tonight) 3 April 1998, Peter Marshall Interview with Susan McDougal in Jail, Susan McDougal film clips.

OIC’s “most wanted” list: Labaton, “Testing of a President: The Grand Jury;" “Excerpts from Ruling on Compelling Testimony of 3 in the Lewinsky Case,” New York Times, 28 May 1998, A24.

In a sealed ruling that was swiftly leaked: Stephen Labaton, “Testing of a President: The Prosecutor; Starr Asks Supreme Court to Speed Process for Ruling on President’s Privilege Claims,” New York Times, 29 May 1998, A14.

“Having tried and tried, I will”: Robert J. Bittman to David E. Kendall, 3 Apr. 1998, Kendall papers.

“Alice-in-Wonderland nature”: David E. Kendall to Robert J. Bittman, 17 Apr. 1998, Kendall papers.

“show cause why your office”: David Kendall to Kenneth Starr, 6 May 1998, Kendall papers. Jackie Bennett, on behalf of OIC, issued a sizzling reply to Kendall that same day, writing that Kendall’s latest accusations against OIC were “not only wrong, but reckless.… Although we understand your keen desire to once again change the subject when you receive bad news [from the judge], we demand that you withdraw the motion forthwith” (Jackie Bennett to David Kendall, 6 May 1998, Kendall papers). Of course, the president’s lawyer did no such thing.

Judge Susan Webber Wright had slammed: Order relating to Secret Service Motion for a Protective Order, Jones v. Clinton, 30 Jan. 1998.

OIC had continued to gather up: Jackie Bennett, interview by author.

Starr, a scholar of the Constitution: Ken Starr, interview by author. Through information and “movement logs” within the White House, the Secret Service had shown that Colonel North was not someone “who was so intimate with the president that he could walk into the Oval Office.”

Although the press: Clint Hill, interview by author; Lew Merletti, interview by author.

“We provide a protective umbrella”: Clint Hill, interview by author.

“Praetorian guard”: Woodward, Shadow, 137.

No “protective function privilege” had: Brief in Support of Motion to Compel, In Re: Grand Jury Proceedings, May 1998.

In sending one former: Ruth Marcus, “John son Strict with Officials and About Her Privacy,” Washington Post, 20 Mar. 1998, A20.

“all of [Judge Johnson’s] body language”: Lew Merletti, interview by author. See also Lewis C. Merletti, declaration, In Re: Grand Jury Proceedings, May 1998.

this highly confidential: Manning J. O’Connor, interview by author.

“spending too much time”: Starr Report, 62–66.

As the presidential entourage wound: Photo of Manila bridge, Merletti papers.

This thwarted assassination attempt was never: Lew Merletti, interview by author, and follow-up interview by author, 30 June 2006.