A Woman in Charge (99 page)
“Ooh, I'm goingâ¦stand”: Ibid., p. 183.
“a distant cousin”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 265.
“We need toâ¦interest”: Brock,
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham,
p. 382.
“At the timeâ¦Harryâ¦control”: Report of the Independent Counsel.
“Hillary Clintonâ¦Wonk”: Nita Lelyveld, “In America's Magazines, Hillary Clinton Gets (A Teeny Bit), More Personal,” Associated Press, May 8, 1993.
“Hillary Rodham Clintonâ¦that?”: Margaret Carlson Washington, “At the Center of Power: The First Lady Wants More Than Clout,”
Time,
May 10, 1993.
“The Incredible Shrinking President”: Michael Duffy, “That Sinking Feeling; Is Clinton Up to the Job?,”
Time,
June 7, 1993.
“Her words wereâ¦target”: Gergen,
Eyewitness to Power,
p. 298.
“You don't need itâ¦it”: Author's interview with Wendy Smith.
“You know, your staffâ¦well”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“Everybody [was] justâ¦is”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“She was very nervous about the press”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“I said [in response]â¦at”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“the outside”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“a national staffâ¦staff”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“probably the firstâ¦judgments”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“mind doing allâ¦do”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“Bill Clinton can beâ¦it?”: Gergen,
Eyewitness to Power,
p. 265.
“I didn't wantâ¦will”: Author's interview with David Gergen.
“She was veryâ¦Washington'”: Ibid.
“If he's askingâ¦comfortable”: Ibid.
“In the newâ¦rarity”: Gergen,
Eyewitness to Power,
p. 264.
“One felt thatâ¦loyalty”: Author's interview with David Gergen.
“She'd say, âThatâ¦time'”: Author's interview with Dick Morris.
“She was veryâ¦her”: Author's interview with Roy Neel.
“own little subculture”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 133.
“camaraderie”: Ibid., p. 133.
“Kool-Aid drinkers”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“They think becauseâ¦happen”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“Based on everythingâ¦But itâ¦When thereâ¦Basicallyâ¦And thereâ¦it?”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“At the timeâ¦Diet”: Hubbell,
Friends in High Places,
p. 232.
“carelessness about following the law”:
Wall Street Journal,
editorial, June 17, 1993.
“No doubt Mr. Fosterâ¦attention?”: Ibid.
“We suspect thatâ¦off”:
Wall Street Journal,
editorial, June 24, 1993.
“Why was noticeâ¦president?”:
New York Times,
editorial, July 11, 1993.
“I made mistakesâ¦group”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 283.
“I'm sureâ¦defeat”: Hubbell,
Friends in High Places,
p. 258.
“Vince had her heartâ¦herself”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“He was completely outâ¦her”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“The mores onâ¦affair”:
Wall Street Journal,
editorial, July 19, 1993.
Foster declinedâ¦two days later: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 531.
“I can't believeâ¦Let's hopeâ¦know?”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 29.
“I'm okayâ¦home”: Hubbell,
Friends in High Places,
p. 25.
“Of a thousandâ¦Vince”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“extraordinary sense ofâ¦family”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 298.
“As I tried to explainâ¦happen”: Harris,
The Survivor,
p. 75.
“Webb, did youâ¦with health careâ¦have”: Hubbell,
Friends in High Places,
p. 254.
“was messed up”: Ibid.
“We shouldn't haveâ¦It would'veâ¦asked”: Ibid.
“I know you're beingâ¦I couldâ¦advice”: Ibid., p. 255.
“Hillary saw usâ¦When areâ¦Italian”: Ibid., p. 232.
“Hillary said thatâ¦before”: Ibid., p. 233.
“Hillary asked ifâ¦boxes”: Ibid., p. 234.
“Webb, you allâ¦coming”: Ibid.
“âOh, I'm sorry'â¦âSo am Iâ¦Vince”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 175.
“sulk”: Hubbell,
Friends in High Places,
p. 234.
“It was soâ¦away”: Ibid.
“opened up someâ¦lament”: Ibid.
“A Song for Youâ¦. mine”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 177.
“I can't dealâ¦it”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 306.
“destroyed”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“I think sheâ¦that”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“She was soâ¦there”: Author's interview with David Gergen.
“that the actionsâ¦life”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 173.
“automatic pilot”: Ibid., p. 178.
“private”: Ibid., p. 179.
“sheer willpower”: Ibid.
“She often weighedâ¦evil”: Author's interview with Dick Atkinson.
“pretty seriously off on the wrong track”: Richard Harwood, “Over the Heads of the Press,”
Washington Post,
August 16, 1993, p. 17.
“got the impressionâ¦I recallâ¦Hillary wasâ¦She absorbedâ¦They wereâ¦House”: Author's interview with William Styron.
Chapter 14: Not a Crook, Not a Degenerate
“campaign storyâ¦work”: Author's interview with Mark Fabiani.
“it was reasonableâ¦Clintons”: Ibid.
“help conceal earlierâ¦governor”: Jeff Gerth and Stephen Engelberg, “U.S. Investigating Clinton's Links to Arkansas S&L,”
New York Times,
November 2, 1993, p. 20.
“From [the Clintons'â¦solidified it”: Author's interview with Harold Ickes.
“He was thisâ¦him”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“He was workingâ¦Yes”: Author's interview with Jim Blair.
“And at oneâ¦weren't”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“It was aâ¦this”: Ibid.
“Before this deathâ¦death”:
NBC Nightly News,
November 11, 1993.
“Whitewater became theâ¦down”: Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human,
p. 245.
“The
Post
wasâ¦documents”: Ibid., p. 226.
“I don't wantâ¦on”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 354.
“We can't justâ¦it”: Ibid., p. 353.
“They have managedâ¦anything”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“I don't have aâ¦Hillary”: Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human,
p. 227.
“Saying her nameâ¦treated'”: Ibid.
“On this issueâ¦veto”: Ibid.
“She would getâ¦There wasâ¦saying”: Author's interview with Dee Dee Myers.
“These are myâ¦to”: Harris,
The Survivor,
p. 105.
“As you knowâ¦documentation”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 355.
“strong-armed”: David Brock, “Living with the Clintons: Bill's Arkansas Bodyguards Tell the Story the Press Missed,”
The American Spectator,
January 1994.
“Hillary Watch”: Ibid.
“Basically I thinkâ¦hotel”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“was on aâ¦later”: Ibid.
“They were allâ¦them”: Ibid.
“Bruce was notâ¦answers”: Ibid.
“Bill had toldâ¦situation”: Ibid.
“very much alone”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 208.
“I thought weâ¦do”: Author's interview with Mack McLarty.
“My first thoughtsâ¦much”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 194.
“was deep inâ¦days”: Gergen,
Eyewitness to Power,
p. 308.
“I cannot recallâ¦that”: Ibid., p. 309.
It is a federalâ¦weeks: For a fuller account, see Drew,
On the Edge,
p. 382.
“The allegations areâ¦him”: Drew,
On the Edge,
p. 383.
“about the craftsâ¦having”: Lois Romano, “The Reliable Source,”
Washington Post,
December 23, 1993.
“I find itâ¦feelings”: “White House: Clinton Told Money Offered Troopers to Talk of Affairs,” Associated Press, December 21, 1993.
“smear artistâ¦facts”: Frank Rich, “Journal: David Brock's Women,”
New York Times,
January 6, 1994.
“I Was a Conservative Hit-Man”: David Brock, “Confessions of a Right-Wing Hit Man,”
Esquire,
July 1997.
“the most bizarreâ¦administration”: Drew,
On the Edge,
p. 384.
“I think I'm going to throw up”: Ibid.
“Clinton Papers Lifted After Aide's Suicide”: Jerry Seper, “Clinton Papers Lifted After Aide's Suicide: Foster's Office Was Secretly Searched Hours After His Body Was Found,”
Washington Times,
December 20, 1993.
“Foster's office wasâ¦found”: Ibid.
“a man whoâ¦Roger)”: Drew,
On the Edge,
p. 384.
“It was Hillaryâ¦tension”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“Sadly, the Whitewaterâ¦it”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 371.
“I accidentally found someâ¦all”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“I told herâ¦And Iâ¦There's goingâ¦Well, Iâ¦lawyer?”: Ibid.
“Assuming we didâ¦forthcoming”: Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human,
p. 230.
Whitewater overshadowedâ¦indictment”: Brock,
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham,
p. 401; Fiske report.
“Mother called me atâ¦her go”: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 567.
“showed more affectionâ¦other”: David Maraniss, “The Woman Who Shaped the President Dies in Her Sleep,”
Washington Post,
January 7, 1994, p. 1.
“I hate to evenâ¦hand now”: Bob Dole, interview,
CBS This Morning,
January 7, 1994.
“background noise”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 211.
“utterly stricken”: Ibid.
“It is in theâ¦reauthorized”: Carolyn Skorneck, “White House Decries âCannibalism' in Attacks on Clinton,” Associated Press, January 7, 1994.
“I just have toâ¦. town”: Carolyn Skorneck, “Reno Rejects Dole Suggestion of Political Interference,” Associated Press, January 8, 1994.
“You know, I'veâ¦mother”:
The Hotline,
January 10, 1994.
“Clearly, she hadâ¦come”: Gergen,
Eyewitness to Power,
p. 299.
“Kendall would notâ¦know”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“Turn over theâ¦hide”:
The Hotline,
January 10, 1994.
“If it comesâ¦is”: Ibid.
“I have nothingâ¦trip”: Drew,
On the Edge,
p. 406.
“You had yourâ¦trip”: Ibid.
the scene hadâ¦don't”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 215.
He citedâ¦us”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p.
373; author's interview with Bernard Nussbaum.
“I've lived withâ¦institution”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 237.
“Mr. President, oneâ¦earth”: Ibid.
“If you createâ¦beyond”: Ibid., p. 238.
“terrible precedent, basicallyâ¦decision”: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 573.
Hillary wentâ¦noose”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 239; author's interview with Bernard Nussbaum.
“whether any individualsâ¦way”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 399.
“I want youâ¦over”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 242.
Chapter 15: Truth or Consequences
“I'm telling youâ¦that”: Terence Hunt, “Clinton Defends Wife, Self: âNo Credible Charge' in Whitewater,” Associated Press, March 7, 1994.
“try and explainâ¦of”: Howard Kurtz, “ABC News Plunges into Whitewater,”
Washington Post,
February 11, 1994.
“How do you counterâ¦You don'tâ¦Are youâ¦I blowâ¦teenagers”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 418.
“Don't Pillory Hillary”: Dan Balz, “GOP Assailed for Attacks on Clintons,”
Washington Post,
March 12, 1994.
“Her integrity andâ¦issue”: John King, “While Defending Clinton, Democrats Have Whitewater Jitters,” Associated Press, March 11, 1994.
Under this intensifyingâ¦investment”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 415.
“Top Arkansas Lawyerâ¦$100,000”: Dean Baquet, Jeff Gerth, and Stephen Labaton, “Top Arkansas Lawyer Helped Hillary Clinton Turn Big Profit,”
New York Times,
March 18, 1994, p. 1.
“numerous people”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 417.
“There was no
â¦Times
”: Ibid.
“committed to aâ¦destruction”: Ruth Marcus, “Clinton Angrily Denounces Republicans: Party Is âCommitted to Politics of Personal Destruction,' President Says,”
Washington Post,
March 15, 1994.
“Have you takenâ¦I think thereâ¦I've alsoâ¦wrong”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 420.
“I don't thinkâ¦answered”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“Yes, I doâ¦I think if myâ¦me”: “Excerpts from Hillary Clinton's News Session on Whitewater,”
New York Times,
April 23, 1994.
“she essentially revertedâ¦so”: Author's interview with Roger Altman.
“She started offâ¦often”: Ibid.
“Whitewater is evaporatingâ¦office”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 420.
“She felt goodâ¦her”: Robert Reich, interview,
PBS Frontline.