A Vast Conspiracy

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Copyright © 1999 by Jeffrey Toobin

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Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Cast of Characters

Chronology

Prologue: “This Is Danny”

  1.   
What the Bubbas Wrought
  2.   
“Isn’t That What Happened?”
  3.   
Party Girl
  4.   
“I Love This Man”
  5.   
A Really Big Crush
  6.   
“Joan Dean”
  7.   
Their Tabloid Hearts
  8.   
“Good Strong Christian Men”
  9.   
“Draw the Penis for Me”
10.   
Consensual Sex
11.   
Revenge of the “Peace Corps”
12.   
The Definition of Sex—and L-E-W-I-N-S-K-Y
13.   
The Richard Jewell File
14.   
“I Guess That Will Teach Them”
15.   
“Words of Assent”
16.   
“Eighteenth-Hand” Rumors
17.   
“I Don’t Care If I’m Impeached …”
18.   
Winning by Losing
19.   
Mr. Genitalia and the Perjury Ladies
20.   
These Culture Wars

Epilogue: Private and Public

Acknowledgments

Source Notes and Bibliography

About the Author

Cast of Characters

KEY PLAYERS

William Jefferson Clinton
, president of the United States
Hillary Rodham Clinton
, first lady of the United States
Paula Corbin Jones
, plaintiff in civil lawsuit against President Clinton
Monica Lewinsky
, White House intern and staffer, July 1995–April 1996; Pentagon staffer, April 1996–January 1998
Linda Tripp
, Monica Lewinsky’s coworker and confidante at the Pentagon; former White House staffer
Lucianne Goldberg
, Linda Tripp’s literary agent
Michael Isikoff
, journalist,
The Washington Post
and
Newsweek

ATTORNEYS FOR PAULA JONES (in order of appearance)

Daniel M. Traylor
Gilbert Davis
Joseph Cammarata
John Whitehead
, the Rutherford Institute
Donovan Campbell, James Fisher, and David Pyke
of Rader, Campbell, Fisher & Pyke
“ELVES” (advisers to the Jones legal team)
George Conway
Ann Coulter
Richard Porter
Jerome Marcus

OTHER SUPPORTERS OF PAULA JONES

Cliff Jackson
, Arkansas-based anti-Clinton activist
Peter W. Smith
, Chicago-based anti-Clinton financier
David Brock
, journalist,
The American Spectator
Randall Terry
, founder of Operation Rescue
Patrick Mahoney
, clergyman, director of the Christian Defense Coalition
Cindy Hays
, fund-raiser
Susan Carpenter-McMillan
, antiabortion activist
Rick and Beverly Lambert
, private investigators

FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF PAULA JONES

Stephen Jones
, husband
Debra Ballentine
, friend
Pamela Blackard
, friend and coworker
Dennis Kirkland
, alleged former boyfriend

ARKANSAS STATE TROOPERS

Larry Patterson
Roger Perry
Ronnie Anderson
Danny Ferguson
L. D. Brown

ATTTORNEYS FOR MONICA LEWINSKY (in order of appearance)

Francis Carter
William Ginsburg
Nathaniel H. Speights III
Plato Cacheris
Jacob Stein
Sydney Hoffmann

FAMILY OF MONICA LEWINSKY

Bernard Lewinsky
, father
Marcia Lewis
, mother
R. Peter Straus
, fiancé of Marcia Lewis

ATTORNEYS FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON

Office of the White House Counsel
Bernard Nussbaum
, counsel to the president
Charles F. C. Ruff
, counsel to the president
Bruce Lindsey
, deputy counsel to the president
Cheryl Mills
, deputy counsel to the president
Jane Sherburne
, special counsel to the president
Lanny Davis
, special counsel to the president
Lanny Breuer
, special counsel to the president
Gregory Craig
, special counsel to the president
Personal Attorneys
Robert S. Bennett, Mitchell Ettinger, and Amy Sabrin
of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
David Kendall and Nicole Seligman
of Williams & Connolly

FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON

Jim and Susan McDougal
, Whitewater investors
David Hale
, former judge and businessman
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
, writer and producer
Harry Thomason
, director and producer
Dick Morris
, political adviser
James Carville
, political adviser
Mickey Kantor
, former trade representative and commerce secretary
Mark Penn
, pollster, Penn, Schoen & Berland
Kathleen Willey
, White House volunteer and accuser of sexual misconduct
Julie Hiatt Steele
, onetime friend of Willey’s
White House Staff
Betty Currie
, personal secretary to the president
Nancy Hernreich
, director of Oval Office operations
George Stephanopoulos
, senior adviser to the president for policy and strategy
Rahm Emanuel
, senior adviser to the president for policy and strategy
Sidney Blumenthal
, assistant to the president
Paul Begala
, counselor to the president
Bayani Nelvis
, Navy steward
Glen Maes
, Navy steward
Lewis Fox
, uniformed Secret Service officer
John Muskett
, uniformed Secret Service officer

OFFICE OF INDEPENDENT COUNSEL (OIC)

Kenneth Starr
, independent counsel
Selected Other Attorneys (in approximate order of appearance in Starr’s office)
Mark Tuohey III
Roger Adelman
John Bates
W. Hickman Ewing, Jr.
Jackie Bennett
Robert Bittman
LeRoy Jahn
Ray Jahn
Bradley Lerman
Brett Kavanaugh
Samuel Dash
Amy St. Eve
Solomon Wisenberg
Paul Rosenzweig
Bruce Udolf
Mary Anne Wirth
Michael Emmick
Karin Immergut

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