A Vast Conspiracy

ALSO BY JEFFREY TOOBIN

Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First Case—United
States v. Oliver North

The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson

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