The Truth About Hillary (32 page)

Chapter Eleven: The Other “Smoking Gun”

1. She was twenty-six:
   Morris,
   Rewriting History
   , p. 37.
   

2. “The women in this office”:
   Maraniss,
   First in His Class
   , p. 312.
   

3. John Doar kept his window shades drawn:
   Zeifman,
   Without Honor
   , pp. 95–96.
   

4. Among other things:
   Ibid.
   

5. footnote:
   “a single intelligence unit”:
   Ibid.
   

6. “The fact that underlay the [impeachment] ordeal”:
   Renata Adler, “Searching for the Real Nixon Scandal,”
   Atlantic Monthly
   , December 1976.
   

7. “Doar fixes”:
   Maraniss,
   First in His Class
   , p. 309.
   

8. As part of Richard Nixon’s defense:
   Interview with Jerome Zeifman, March 4, 2004.
   
9. “When Nixon entered office”:
   Interview with Geoffrey Shep- ard, December 27, 2004.
   

10. The answer was contained:
    Zeifman,
    Without Honor
    , pp. 95–96.
    

11. While Hillary was at Yale:
    Brock,
    The Seduction of Hillary Rod- ham
    , p. 47.
    

12. Now, as the attorney-general-in-waiting:
    Zeifman,
    Without Honor
    , p. 11.
    

13. From his professor’s perch:
    Ibid.
    

    274
    Notes
    

14. “Don Edwards of California”:
    Ibid., p. 48.
    
15. Among those who agreed:
    Ibid., p. 110.
    
16. They argued that a president:
    Ibid., pp. 122–23.
    
17. The Doar irregulars further:
    Ibid.
    
18. After Doar finished reading:
    Ibid., p. 214.
    

19. footnote:
    In fact, all the internal memoranda:
    Interview with Geoffrey Shepard, December 27, 2004.
    

20. “When Congressman Charles Wiggins”:
    Renata Adler, “Search- ing for the Real Nixon Scandal,”
    Atlantic Monthly
    , December 1976.
    

21. “Now with our inquiry as a precedent”:
    U.S. Congress, House,
    Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon,
    1974, p. 296.
    

Chapter Twelve: The Misfit

1. While Hillary was still in Washington:
   Maraniss,
   First in His Class
   , p. 319.
   

2. “I’m Hillary’s dad”:
   Ibid., pp. 319–20.
   
3. “One of the worst-kept secrets”:
   Ibid.
   
4. “That’s exactly what he did”:
   Paul Fray quoted in Sheehy,
   

   Hillary’s Choice
   , p. 113.
   

5. “You should have seen her!”:
   Interview with Dolly Kyle Browning, February 27, 2004.
   

6. “Virginia loathed Hillary then”:
   Mary Lee Fray quoted in Maraniss,
   First in His Class
   , p. 326.
   

7. “Listen,” . . . “I don’t need to be married”:
   Bill Clinton quoted in Sheehy,
   Hillary’s Choice
   , p. 119.
   

8. “You have to remember”:
   Morris,
   Partners in Power
   , p. 151.
   

9. “If you looked at her in that day”:
   Paul Fray quoted in Sheehy,
   Hillary’s Choice
   , p. 112.
   

10. “This rumor has to be faced”:
    Paul Fray and Hillary Rodham quoted in Sheehy,
    Hillary’s Choice
    , p. 112.
    

11. “I know he’s ready”:
    Hillary Rodham quoted in Morris,
    Part- ners in Power
    , p. 186.
    

12. “was capable of understanding”:
    Jim Guy Tucker quoted in Morris,
    Partners in Power
    , p. 100.
    

13. “Hillary’s keeping”:
    Bill Clinton and Virginia Kelley quoted in Morris,
    Partners in Power
    , p. 187.
    

14. “a person in my own right” and not a “ ‘sacrificial’ political
    

    Notes
    275
    

    spouse”:
    Hillary Rodham quoted in Morris,
    Partners in Power
    , p. 188.
    

15. “all the women”:
    Interview with Juanita Broaddrick, Febru- ary 18, 2005.
    
16. “He turned me around”:
    Ibid.
    
17. “I felt responsible”:
    Ibid.
    

Chapter Thirteen: A Night to Remember

1. “I’m going back to my cottage”:
   Bill Clinton quoted in inter- view with an anonymous source who was with the Clintons in Bermuda.
   
2. “The next morning”:
   Interview with an anonymous source who was with the Clintons in Bermuda.
   
3. “One time,” . . . “Billy told me”:
   Interview with Dolly Kyle Browning, February 21, 2005.
   

Chapter Fourteen: All the Governor’s Women

1. “At times,” . . . “he flirted outrageously”:
   Milton,
   The First Partner
   , pp. 115–16.
   

2. “He had two levels of women”:
   Nancy “Peach” Pietrefesa quoted in Sheehy,
   Hillary’s Choice
   , pp. 149–50.
   

3. was rumored:
   Milton,
   The First Partner
   , p. 104.
   

4. “He knows human nature”:
   Nancy “Peach” Pietrefesa quoted in Sheehy,
   Hillary’s Choice,
   pp. 149–50.
   

5. “One Saturday morning”:
   Maraniss,
   First in His Class
   , p. 394.
   

6. “Bill was like a kid”:
   Connie Bruck, “Hillary the Pol,”
   New Yorker
   , May 30, 1994.
   

7. People in small towns:
   Morris,
   Partners in Power
   , p. 242.
   

8. And to drive the point home:
   Ibid., p. 245.
   

9. “I was her worst critic”:
   Richard Herget quoted in Brock,
   The Seduction of Hillary Rodham
   , p. 133.
   

10. “It shook both of them”:
    Connie Bruck, “Hillary the Pol,”
    

    New Yorker
    , May 30, 1994.
    

11. “The experience of watching”:
    Ibid.
    

12. “She conformed”:
    Morris,
    Partners in Power
    , p. 278.
    

13. “I don’t have to change”:
    Hillary Rodham Clinton quoted in Sheehy,
    Hillary’s Choice
    , p. 145.
    

    276
    Notes
    

14. “Did you change”:
    Ibid.
    

15. “ ‘No,’ came the ice cold answer”:
    Times-News
    (McGehee, Alabama) quoted in Maraniss,
    First in His Class
    , p. 400.
    

16. “The deal was”:
    Nancy “Peach” Pietrefesa quoted in Sheehy,
    

    Hillary’s Choice
    , p. 146.
    

17. She telephoned Dick Morris:
    Sheehy,
    Hillary’s Choice
    , p. 146.
    

18. “Hillary was intrigued”:
    Dick Morris quoted in Sheehy,
    

    Hillary’s Choice
    , p. 146.
    

19. “Wright wasn’t romantically interested”:
    Brock,
    The Seduc- tion of Hillary Rodham
    , p. 139.
    

20. “She asked to see me”:
    Interview with Ivan Duda, March 5, 2005.
    
21. “Hillary made her trade-offs”:
    Jan Piercy quoted in Sheehy,
    

Hillary’s Choice
, p. 151.

PART III: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS

Chapter Fifteen: Her Husband’s Keeper

1. “After Monica admitted to an affair”:
   Louise Branson, “The Truth about HRC,”
   Scotsman
   , August 12, 1998.
   

2. “Whenever I go out and fight”:
   Stephanopoulos,
   All Too Hu- man
   , p. 389.
   

3. No sooner:
   “Don’t Call Me,”
   American Spectator
   , March 1998.
   

4. “I got a call from Walter Kaye”:
   Interview with former official of the Democratic National Committee who requested ano- nymity, March 11, 2004.
   
5. “Monica started working”
   : Interview with former White House official who requested anonymity.
   
6. “We never saw her in the East Wing”:
   Interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey, January 22, 2005.
   

7. “Hillary gave an ideological edge”:
   Johnson, “42. William Jef- ferson Clinton,” in
   Presidential Leadership
   , p. 204.
   

8. “Vote for Hillary’s Husband”:
   Irene Sege, “Hillary & Com- pany; Spirit of ’69: The Wellesley Connection Pays Off,”
   Boston Globe
   , September 3, 1992.
   

9. “In Clinton’s cabinet”:
   Andrew Sullivan, “Counter Culture:
   

   Notes
   277
   

   Not a Straight Story,”
   New York Times Magazine
   , December 12, 1999.
   

10. “Evelyn was a force for order”:
    Interview with former White House speechwriter who requested anonymity, April 5, 2004.
    
11. “She called one day”: ”
    : Interview with former White House official who requested anonymity, April 5, 2004.
    
12. “Bill couldn’t have possibly”:
    Interview with a U.S. senator’s wife who requested anonymity, April 5, 2004.
    
13. “Sexual snobs”:
    Tina Brown, “The bookworm and the Viking,”
    

salon.com,
June 13, 2003.

Chapter Sixteen: “Bill Owes Me”

1. “graduates”:
   Isikoff,
   Uncovering Clinton,
   p. 135.
   

2. “
   Bill’s girlfriend from our hippie days”:
   Marsha Scott quoted in Karen Tumulty, “Who Is Marsha Scott? Another Arkansas Transplant Becomes Mired in Questionable White House Ac- tivities,”
   Time
   , March 24, 1997.
   

1. “The assumption among the women”:
   Interview with former White House official who requested anonymity, March 18, 2004.
   

2. The President had other rumored girlfriends:
   Milton,
   The First Partner
   , p. 265.
   

3. “She is so shrewd”:
   Jan Piercy quoted in Connie Bruck, “Hillary the Pol,”
   New Yorker
   , May 30, 1994.
   

4. “I’m not sure how many”:
   Interview with Clinton campaign donor who requested anonymity, April 2, 2004.
   

5. “Watching [Bill Clinton] was very much like”:
   David Gergen quoted in “The Clinton Years,” a
   Frontline
   special anchored by Chris Bury, WNET, January 16, 2001.
   

6. “A Secret Service officer”:
   The Starr Report: The Findings of In- dependent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair, with analysis by the Staff of the
   Washington Post,
   

   p.
   XII
   .
   

7. By that time, however, rumors about Monica:
   Interview with a former fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee, March 11, 2004.
   

278
Notes

Chapter Seventeen: Payback Time

1. “She was upset”:
   “Don’t Call Me,”
   American Spectator
   , March 1998.
   

2. “In the spring of 1992”:
   Interview with a former White House official, March 18, 2004.
   

3. “We were using these dial meters”:
   Paul Begala, George Stephanopoulos, and James Carville quoted on “The Clinton Years,” a
   Frontline
   special anchored by Chris Bury, WNET, January 16, 2001.
   

4. “We found out from those focus groups”:
   Interview with a former White House official, March 18, 2004.
   

5. In late April:
   Michael Kelly, “The Transition: Packaging the Candidate; The Making of a First Family: A Blueprint,”
   New York Times
   , November 14, 1992.
   

6. “
   DRAFT
   /
   CONFIDENTIAL
   ”:
   Campaign memorandum published in Goldman,
   Quest for the Presidency 1992
   , pp. 657–64.
   

7. “What is most striking”:
   Michael Kelly, “The Transition: Packaging the Candidate; the Making of a First Family: A Blue- print,”
   New York Times
   , November 14, 1992.
   

8. Hillary suddenly became a kinder:
   Interview with a former White House official, March 18, 2004.
   

9. “I told [the President] that he was terribly out of position”:
   David Gergen quoted on “The Clinton Years,” a
   Frontline
   spe- cial anchored by Chris Bury, WNET, January 16, 2001.
   

10. “Some in the White House”:
    “The Clinton Years,” a
    Frontline
    

special anchored by Chris Bury, WNET, January 16, 2001.

Chapter Eighteen: Hibernation

1. As Hillary sat on the stage:
   Author’s observation.
   

2. “
   I am a product of my own experience”:
   Ibid.
   

3. “After health care”:
   Interview with former White House offi- cial who requested anonymity.
   

4. “And the public liked very much”:
   Dick Morris quoted on “The Clinton Years,” a
   Frontline
   special anchored by Chris Bury, WNET, January 16, 2001.
   

5. “Although she was less visible now”:
   Stephanopoulos,
   All Too Human
   , pp. 387–88.
   

   Notes
   279
   

6. “I made my speech at Goucher’s winter convocation”:
   Clin- ton,
   Living History
   , pp. 442–43.
   

7. “Certainly I believe they are false”:
   Ibid.
   

Chapter Nineteen: Hillary’s Brain

1. “heated exaggeration”:
   Richard Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,”
   Harper’s
   , November 1964.
   

2. “Since what is at stake”:
   Ibid.
   

3. “perhaps the most partisan”:
   Toobin,
   A Vast Conspiracy
   , p. 241.
   

4. “vast, obscure Manichean fantasies”:
   Klein,
   The Natural
   , p. 106.
   

5. His enemies list:
   Kurtz,
   Spin Cycle,
   p. 87.
   

6. Blumenthal was also behind:
   Toobin,
   A Vast Conspiracy,
   

   p. 280–81.
   

7. “[Hillary] explained”:
   Blumenthal,
   The Clinton Wars
   , p. 339.