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BILL and

Christopher Andersen Author

of the #1

New York

Timhs Bestseller

The Day Diana Died

ISBN 0-688-16755-

"They've

underestiniatea

all

our capacity for pain."

— They

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HiUary

by any definition, one of histoiys most

are,

remarkable couples: he the irrepressible country-boy populist (xizinu; ambition and Southern charm, she

the brilliant lawyer with a taste for

power and,

man

end, an unshakable allegiance to the Together,

Bill

power and

and

in

in the

her

life.

Hillary Clinton scaled the heights of

prestige,

only to have his wantonly reckless

behavior bring them to the brink o{ personal and political ruin.

Despite die billions of words that have

been written about

and

Bill

Hillary, the true nature of

their relarionship remains a jealously

Until now.

guarded

manner of

the

In

making #1

i\ai> )brk Tii)ics bestseller

Died and

his

books

bestselling

his

secret.

headline-

Vic Day Diana another

about

President and First Lady, Jad^ and Jackie and Jackie

Andersen draws on impor-

After Jack, Christopher

sources

tant

time

—

—

many speaking on

to take readers

a

here for the

first

fascinatingjourney inside

the world s most talked-about marriage.

Among the

revelations:

What the

really

goes on in the private residence

—

White House

between the President and the he

finally

at

including the stormy clash First

Lady when

confessed his adultery to her.

Never-before-known

details

of their courtship,

the real reason they stay together, and their bizarre links to Jack

From Barbra

and Jackie Kennedy.

Streisand

tc:)

a

Miss America to

Sharon Stone and Monica, the hundrecis of

women

—and how

in Bill's life

Hillary has han-

dled them.

The

A

day

Bill's infidelity

sent Hillaiy to the hospital.

riveting account of how Chelsea

her shock and grief,

how

coped with

Hillary tried to shield

her daughter, and the heartbreaking

toll

the

Presidents self-destructive acts have taken on

both women. (

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Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage

Young Kate: The Remarkable Hepburns and Shaping of an American Legend Citizen Jane

The Best of Everything (with John Marion) TThe Serpent's Tooth

The Book of People Father

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The

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States

we

For

my

wife,

Valerie

—

still

the one

I

wonder what

history

is

going to say about our marriage.

—

Hillary

r

|Y

rei

1

generational passing of the torch. Kincaid spoke for everyone

as a

when

she described the evening in a single word: "Thrilling."

would become painfully evident that him get elected his willingness many to talk with anyone who managed to collar him, his desire to please people by telling them what they wanted to hear, his disregard for schedules if they got in the way of making another convert now worked against him. The open and easy management style that had served Bill well as a campaigner undermined his authority. For example, instead of a Before long, however,

it

—

of the qualities that helped

—

chief of staff his office was run by a triumvirate of unshaven liberal tyros

known

the "Children's Crusade"

as

—an

arrangement that

quickly led to dissension in the ranks.

Nor was Governor Clinton any more

inclined than Candidate

Clinton to be punctual. Routinely showing up two or more hours late for

and

important meetings, he quickly alienated key business, labor,

legislative leaders.

And

famously short attention span

Bill's

snapped "What else?" whenever he grew impatient during ing

—sabotaged

efforts to actually

— he

a brief-

implement some of the grandiose

reforms outlined in his ambitious agenda.

The

result:

The

governor's

inexperienced, too-liberal staff was branded in the press and even

by members of Bill's own party During

his first term,

political missteps

as

both ineffectual and incompetent.

Clinton himself would make a

— most notably pushing an

series

of

increase in car licensing

To make matters worse, not long after anyone who exceeded the state's fifty-five-mile-

fees that incensed motorists.

he declared that

per-hour speed limit would be ticketed, the governor's limousine

was clocked by reporters going eighty miles an hour on the way a library dedication.

Clinton shook

Asked about the incident

his fist

at a press

and angrily denounced the

to

conference,

press for "trying

make me look bad."

to

But much of what transpired was beyond tional ers

economy.

went on

Little

his control.

A

strike,

series

in Arkansas during 1979

There was

a serious

downturn

and 1980

in the na-

of twisters tore through the region, truck-

and the

Ku Klux

Klan held

its

national rally in

Rock.

These paled

in

comparison to the decision made by

[172]

Bill's

friend

President

Jimmy

Carter to relocate some twenty thousand

Cuban

refugees to Fort ChafFee, near Fort Smith, Arkansas, for processing.

"You're fucking me!"

screamed

Bill

chief of staff over

at Carter's

phone when the decision was made. That was as far as the protests went Bill was not willing to jeopardize his standing with the

—

the Democratic Party's national leadership, and his

own

the national stage, by pubHcly defying the President. price

when

among

rioting erupted

More

paid the

Bill

Cuban males pro-

the younger

testing their lengthy confinement.

on

future

than one thousand broke

out of the camp and began marching toward town, forcing him to call

out the National Guard.

Through could not a

baby

it all,

resist

Arkansas Gazette political cartoonist George Fisher

depicting the

bonnet or

in a

a

state's

his friends

new

chief executive

cowed by

overbearing wife,

his

pointed out, was doing him

ley said.

him enough

to take his

"She didn't shave her

legs.

who

had preceded her

unfounded rumors close to

these

know was

as

Hillary

Lady led

"They wore

go gray, and swore Hke

smart and

about her and

women she was woman fund-raiser

as

as

sailors.

she was."

knew

but she just laughed

Bill,

busi-

But mostly

and she liked them

for years,

ambitious

boxy

unflattering,

about the persistent gay gossip? "Hillary

said

and the Southern

to a resurgence of the

types," said a top

were people she had known

because they were

a ball-busting feminist."

was gay. "Some of the

in Arkansas.

ness suits, let their hair

She was

as First

were tough-as-nails

Democrats

for the

that she

wife

his

name," journaHst Meredith Oak-

between

Inevitably, the stark contrast belles

damage

political

by remaining Hillary Rodham. "People thought even didn't like

as

toddler pedaling a tricycle. There was also

the growing perception that Bill was

who, even

callow

Did

everythitii^

that

Once

she

off

it

Hillary

'When look at what's available in the man department, Tin surprised more women aren't gay.' She thought the whole gay thing

joked,

was

just too

I

silly

for her to waste her time on."

During the 1978 campaign,

Hillary had sidestepped the issue of

her name. But after moving into the Governor's Mansion, she

fi-

name

of

nally addressed the issue.

"I

had made speeches

the

in

Rodham. I had taught law under that name. was, after all, twenty-eight when I married, and was fairly well-established." As Hillary

I

I

/

t

7

J(

I

for her decision to continue practicing that being a governor's wife could

"But

I

was

it

was

that his wife

Rose:

at

my

and

"We

realized

job," she allowed.

commitments.

need

I

to Bill to convince the people of Arkansas

left

just plain folks. "It depresses her

when

she thinks

hurting me," he said in Hillary's defense. "But she's a lawyer

and she doesn't want If

interests

law

a full-time

identity, too."

In essence,

it's

my

need to maintain

my own

be

people

knew how

to

go into the courtroom

old-fashioned she

somebody's wife.

as

in every conceivable

is

way,

they probably wouldn't say these things about her."

CHnton went on to insist that Hillary was not the hard-nosed Yankee she had been made out to be. "She's just a hard-working, no-nonsense,

weU, who

much the

no-frills intelligent girl,"

extramarital sex,

Hillary did, in fact, say she

done

doesn't care a stick in

and

a fountain

felt

Quapaw

home

right at

in the governor's

two-story redbrick Georgian-style mansion circular drive

on

restored nineteenth-century houses that toric

who

has

She's just great."

official residence, a

behind

to

who's witty and sharp but without being

for drink,

mud.

any sense

doesn't see

"who

Bill said,

made up

set

Encircled by the

six acres.

Rock's

Little

his-

Quarter, the Governor's Mansion housed an eclectic

collection of furnishings, a silver service that

from an eighteenth-century sideboard

had been used by the

officers

to

of the battleship

Arkansas to a two-hundred-year-old crystal chandelier that had been

imported from

To

be

in the

One

Paris.

sure. Bill

and Hillary did seem during those

Governor's Mansion to be

of the

state

troopers

membered "him and

who

first

as

they had ever been.

often acted

as

Clinton's driver re-

Hillary sitting in the backseat, eating fried

chicken and throwing the trash on the floor trooper were both starving to death

and laughing and smooching

like

—me

— and they

sat

and the other

back there eating

newlyweds."

In late July 1979, Hillary told Bill she was pregnant. spective father

was overjoyed. Despite

Broaddrick that

a case

months

happy

as

of the

his bizarre

mumps had

The pro-

claim to Juanita

rendered him

sterile, Bill

and Hillary had been trying to conceive for more than two

[174]

years.

— were on the verge of consulting

In fact, they

when Bill it

Hillary's doctor

wanted

would

help,

announce the coming blessed event immediately Dick Morris had pointed out, to bolster their standing

to

But Hillary preferred

in the polls.

a fertihty speciaHst

telephoned with the happy news.

on the

to err

waited until September to make the

side

of caution, and

announcement.

official

"HiUary did everything she could to bring her child into the

world under the best circumstances,"

Crane

it

big

a great

me that what she wanted more than Tab over crushed ice but she was afraid

—

might not be the best thing

termined, however, not to ule

— or

stand in the

Law. But work on

mention her

ham had

longtime friend Rose

"Hillary once told

said.

anything was that

Hillary's

let

pregnancy interfere with her sched-

way of her being named Lady

a partner at

tough child custody case

a particularly

duties as First

was de-

for the baby." Hillary

— took

its

toll.

Clinton and

prepared themselves for natural childbirth, and

ready to coach her through the delivery. Instead, almost

he returned labor three Hillary

home from

weeks

Rod-

Bill

as

to

was

soon

as

Washington, Hillary went into

early.

was rushed

she endured four

a trip to

Rose

— not

to Little

Rock's Baptist Medical Center, where

more hours of labor

at

the hospital before doctors in the

womb,

they would perform a cesarean. Natural childbirth or no.

Bill in-

reached

sisted

a decision.

Because of the baby's position

on being present when

child was bom.

his

"He was

discussion about it," Hillary recalled.

they were worried that cause

more of

a

as a father

commotion

"We

had

a little

the governor but

he would pass out or

fall flat

and

than a help. Eventually, they were

convinced that he wouldn't."

On

February 27, 1980,

a

nurse handed Bill

one-and-three-quarter-ounce newborn gerly, as

do most nervous

to pass her

CHnton

daughter.

first-time fathers.

He

his

But when

back to the nurse, he refused. Instead,

six-pound,

held her ginit

was time

he walked around

room cradHng her in his arms. It was, their friend Diane Blair said of the moment, "like he'd invented fatherhood." The baby had arrived on William Blythe's birthday, an irony not the

lost

to see. "I think for a long time,

on the son Blythe never got

I

t

75

1

because

died before he was born, Bill didn't believe he'd

his father

ever Hve to be a parent," Hillary explained. "That was something

He

almost beyond his imagination."

told her

once

that seeing his

"was more than my father got to do." They had decided on the name Chelsea Victoria

child

on

a

a year earlier,

ten-day vacation to England they took before he was sworn

"We

in as governor.

were trying

were working on," Hillary morning. Chelsea

We

were going

—you know,

started singing,

a

'It's

trip.

the flower pots

was

"It

we were

brunch and

to

something

to have a child,

of the

said

walking through

were out and everything.

Remember

Chelsea Morning.'

we

this glorious

Bill

that old song?

Judy Collins's song?" ("Chelsea Morning" actually described not London's but New York's Chelsea district, and was written and popularized by Joni Mitchell, then a resident of the Chelsea Hotel.

However, Collins

also

recorded her

own

hit version

of the song.)

After the difficult deHvery, Hillary was told by her doctors that

both she and Chelsea were perfectly healthy. But they

also

warned

her that another pregnancy wasn't worth the added

risk.

Hillary

would

later confess to

a sibHng,

enough,

but

feeHng "sad" that Chelsea would never have

seemed unaffected by the news.

Bill

Bill figured, that

For three days.

Bill

It

was miracle

he had Hved to see one child bom.

and Hillary shared

a suite at the hospital

while

Chelsea shuttled back and forth between them and the nursery. As

wdth any

new

parent, there

summoned

feeding, Hillary

were moments of panic. While the nurse

when milk

breast-

started streaming

out of Chelsea's nose.

"What's wrong? What did

I

do?"

"Well," the nurse said calmly, propping the baby up. "Maybe

you hold her up a Not long after,

little

higher that won't happen."

Hillary

became the

Law

i6o-year history of the Rose

$25,000 per year, family with

this

mother did

While

for

first

Firm.

was an important

some degree of

breathing a sigh of

if

relief,

woman

With step

Bill

do

earning only

toward providing her

financial security.

"I can

partner in the

still

"Now,"

for Chelsea a Httle of

she said,

what

my

me."

Hillary took a

with their baby,

four-month paid leave of absence

Bill dealt

with the various

[176]

crises

to

—from

bond

natural

disasters to the Fort

ChafFee mess that threatened to cut short

his

pohtical career. Neither the pleasures of parenthood nor the pressures

of

were enough

his office

Even before

Chelsea's birth,

going to

let his

this time,

Susan

in television

dampen Bill's libido, however. Chnton had decided that he was not to

new job interfere with McDougal was making

commercials for their

tured Susan, clad in tight shorts,

his extramarital exploits. a

for herself appeanng

real estate business.

cowboy

leading a white Arabian horse through a

Dubbed "Hot

name

At

The

ads fea-

boots, and a cHngy shirt,

meadow.

Pants" by the press, Susan became a fixture in the

would make a grand entrance every time she dropped by," remembered Clinton aide Randy White. "She hked to flaunt herself with low-cut blouses and miniskirts," another staffer said. "She acted Hked she owned the place with 'Bill this' and 'Bill that.' She'd disappear into his private office for two governor's office. "She

hours

— or

come back. We got the nothing to make us think oth-

they'd go out for lunch and not

message loud and

clear,

and he did

erwise."

"Hot Pants" was not town,"

said a junior

come on over and of

office,

alone.

"As soon

member of his

play." Barely

staff,

as

Hillary was out of

"he was lining up

one month

girls to

after taking the oath

know Washington. He

Clinton called "Pretty Girl" Dolly Kyle to

let

her

"The Warden" was on a speaking engagement in if she would like to come to the Governor's Mansion for "a game of hearts." asked Dolly

Following

very specific instructions, she drove her Cadillac

Bill's

convertible to within five hundred feet of the Governor's Mansion, flashed her brights twice,

and watched

as the

mansion's gates swung

open.

When

she got inside, Dolly was surprised to see several

sitting at a card table actually playing hearts. It

she reahzed that each card in Bill's personal the portrait of an

That night, friends,

American

Bill

most of

whom

name

to Dolly.

It

a

moment

before

deck was decorated with

President.

merely introduced Dolly to

mention was made of the

was

men

had heard him

talk

Hillary. In fact. Bill

his tight circle

about her for

'

77

I

No

had never once uttered

was always "The Warden."

I

years.

of

"He didn't talk when it came to matter. She

is

about Hillary," Dolly

a

—not

a factor in his

emotional

issue

for that

life,

any-

long time ago. That's pretty obvious. She

does not figure in his thinking

at all.''

Dolly showed up

after

woman

dealing with me, or any other

not a factor

way. They made a deal

The day

"She was not an

said.

the Governor's

at

Mansion

to

play cards, Bill invited her out again. This time he took her to a

home of a

cocktail party at the Little

Rock

friend,

and then for

Hmousine. With

in his official

a drive

through

a state trooper at the

wheel, they stretched out in the backseat, holding each other, until the stretch Lincoln pulled up in front of the capitol. Then, with his

arm abound her and the trooper trailing thirty feet behind them, they strolled in the moonHght. "Billy never made the slightest attempt to conceal me from his friends or his staff or lot

anyone," she

thought he was taking

said. "I

of chances, but he never thought

He

so.

was

just so sure

a

of

even consider the possi-

himself, so totally self-involved he didn't

bihty that he could actually get caught."

Dolly claimed that only once did she see

"The minute he

temper.

terms that

may even

I

I

let

wouldn't put up with

it,"

away with

get

think

Billy will

started

him know

in

of

his fabled

no uncertain

she said. "I told him, 'You

treating other people like that, but don't

He

of talking that way to me.'

push you

a flash

as far as

you

will let

you

backed off right away.

him push you."

At the time, Dolly was unaware of Bill's alleged sexual

assault

on

would later hear the story of attacks on other women. "Do I be-

Juanita Hickey Broaddrick. But she his attack

heve Billy cruel

side

woman but

I

on her is

— and

similar

capable of rape? Absolutely," she

to

Billy.

—who

He

gets in his

never saw

it

is

"There

said.

destroy anyone

willing to

way. That was part of

is

a

very

—man

or

his nature then,

until later."

There were those few, however,

who

reaHzed

at the

time what

"Billy" was capable of At the height of his reelection campaign in 1980, Bill spotted Juanita and

greeted

David Broaddrick

them warmly. Suddenly,

guests, Juanita's

husband grabbed

in Bill's

[178]

full

at

a

party and

view of the assembled

hand hard, yanked

Bill to-

— ward him, and warned him, "Stay away from my wife and away from Brownwood Manor or I'll kill you."

stay

—

moment and aware

Bill, startled for a

were on them, tned

But Broaddrick would not

release Clinton's

Guests looked on in amazement

grip.

that

eyes in the

all

some

to pass the incident off as

sort

hand from

as Bill,

turning

room

of joke.

his viselike

cnmson and

laughing nervously, struggled and eventually freed himself. In 1980,

it

other

women

called

"our

way

—

was not enough

that Juanita Broaddnck and all the were keeping what Gennifer Flowers

in Bill's Ufe

httle secret." Bill's political career

him would

in large part, those close to

was unraveling anysay,

because an in-

explicable malaise had set in following the birth of Chelsea. "Bill Clinton

was not the same person psychologically

insisted his chief

of

Rudy Moore. He was

staff,

though by what no one could "fliUy

den

mood

shift in

distant, distracted

say with certainty.

engaged" in the way he needed

obstacles strewn in his path.

to

in 1980,"

He was

simply not

be to overcome the poUtical

At the time, Moore speculated

sud-

this

might have stemmed from "something personal,

perhaps in his relationship with Hillary, but he was ambivalent and

preoccupied." So preoccupied, in

fact, that

he spent hours

time

at a

playing a pinball machine in the basement of the Governor's Mansion rather than attending to the political fight at hand.

To make

matters worse, Hillary was not paying attention to the

campaign. Ordinarily, he went on, she "was Bill,

who

tended to

optimistic.

a perfect

balance to

everybody and sometimes to be hopelessly

trust

She saw the dark

side

of events, and she could see

that

programs and ideas wouldn't work."

certain

When

it

came time

for a reality check, Hillary did not

—

mince

words

—

"Bill,

don't be such a fucking Pollyanna!" she said during one such

session.

or soften her language

"Some of these

at

staff

meetings she attended.

people you think are your friends

aren't.'"

But Hillary the pohtical infighter was nowhere to be seen. "Hillary had her baby, the law practice, and a lot of things going on,"

Moore

observed, "and

cation.

I

paign.

I

Hterally

brought

Bill's

pohtical instincts took a temporary va-

begged him it

up

all

to

make some changes

the time."

I

i

7 9

I

in the

cam-

Repub-

In this case, perhaps neither Hillary nor Bill took their lican

opponent

who

executive

Frank White,

seriously.

a garrulous savings

had never before sought elective

and loan

had

office,

actually

switched parties in 1980 just to run against Clinton.

White's most effective weapon was footage of

Cuban

no one could

a television spot

refugees rioting at Fort Chaffee.

possibly hold

him

showing

Convinced

that

accountable, Bill did not counter-

attack. Within a matter of days after the first spot was aired, CHnton plummeted ten full points in the polls. With only one week remaining in the campaign, Hillary suddenly awoke to the reahzation that they might be turned out of office. In 1979, after Dick Morris had helped him win the governorship, Clin-

New

ton concluded the

him.

Now

wife,

Yorker's

Hillary picked

Eileen.

"We

style

was "undignified" and

up the phone herself and

need Dick down here

right

fired

called Morris's

away," Hillary

pleaded. "Bill's losing the race badly."

But

it

was too

late.

margin, no one was

When

more

won by a He

Frank White

31,000-vote

surprised than White.

called

Gov-

victory for the Lord." Clinton, meanwhile, holed up in the

Mansion watching the

ernor's

no one.

It

returns

on

television

was an emotion-filled evening,

alternately railed at their

before midnight he

as

both

and speaking to

made an appearance

concession speech that lasted

The next morning, some

in the as

and Hillary

Bill

enemies and choked back

Hotel, where supporters wept openly

"a

it

tears.

Shortly

ballroom of Camelot

he solemnly delivered

a

than five minutes.

less

three

hundred

friends

and supporters

gathered on the lawn behind the Governor's Mansion to hear Bill

of several farewell speeches, each more poignant than

give the

first

the

"They

last.

all,"

journalist

Meredith Oakley

said

of the

assembled throng that morning of defeat, "looked a

little

hastily shell-

women and men aHke wept, Bill's hirsute halfnow looking every inch the rock star he was trying

shocked." While brother Roger, to be,

waved

Later,

bade

his

hands in the

air

and shouted, "We'll be back!"

with Hillary and ten-month-old Chelsea

a similarly

melodramatic farewell to

his side,

"Remember me," he said, his eyes welling one who reached for all he could for Arkansas."

legislature.

"as

at

a joint session

[

1

80

J

he

of the

state

with

tears,

m*#'

2.

-=

At fourteen

Billy played

Hot Springs High School band. Soon the

saxophone

in the

outgoing Virginia (pictured below with Billy and his

Roger, in 1959) was taking the underage

half brother,

"Bubba,"

as

she called Billy,

to nightclubs as her "date."

A

self-proclaimed "'Goldwater Girl," Hillaiy spars for the camera before debat-

ing LBJ Ellen Press

A defmmg moment:

a sixteen-

year-old President-

to-be meets the President

at

the

White House

in

1963. Eventually, Bill

would come

to

resent the fact that

the

Washington press did not

"protect" w^ay

it

him

the

did JFK.

Democrat and Maine South High School

Murdoch on

classmate

the eve of the 1964 presidential elections.

8.

m Texas m iv7 While Hillan- campaigned for George McGovern Democratic Part>' Arkansas and candidate the met Bill mop-topped Chairman joe Parcel! at the Little l^ock air^xirt.

Hillary, looking

over the shoulder of Bernie Nussbauni during House

Watergate hearings in 1974, sent her

father

and brother

down

to

to

Arkansas

keep

Bill

tabs

when

on she

heard her fiance

had been dating other

women.

The newlyweds happy pose October

strike a

after their

11, I975>

wedding.

wept when Bill told her Hillary was keeping her maiden name.

Virginia Clinton

"Diamonds and Denim" was the theme of the Clintons' 1979 inaugural ball

kicking off his

first

Governor o\ Arkansas. Six weeks later. term

Bill

as

and Hillary were

White House dinner honoring

guests at a Carter

the nation's governors.

13-

After a difficult labor, Chelsea Victoria was delivered by cesarean section

on Februarv'

27, 1980. Chelsea's birth, Hillary later said,

"transformed our

lives."

Hillarv', Bill's

widely blamed for

being turned out

office in 19S0 after

ot"

one

temi, took the Clinton

name, underwent

a

— and helped

makeover

him recapture

the

Arkansas Governors

Mansion

j

in 1982.

U-

HillaiT and Chelsea .It

about the time

the four-year-old started asking

her mother

why

left

each

day for work. "Ah," Hillary said, "there's

the guilt that strikes \iuir he.nt."

—

C^helsea watches

Daddy

vote in the 1986 elections that returned hini to office

for a fourth as

two-year term

governor.

this

It

was about

time Hillaiy and

Bill

began poUtically "drilling" Chelsea

at

the dinner

table, at times

reducing

her to

tears.

16.

Vince Foster and

his

wife, Lisa, out with

the Clintons in 1986. left,

at

Whenever

Bill

said the guards

the Governor's

Mansion, Foster

showed up clockwork"

"like to

spend

time with Hillary

and often did not leave until the

next morning.

warned that womanizing

Hillan', Hill's

would destroy career

if

his

he ran for

president in the

wake of the Gary Hart scandal, wipes

away

a tear as Bill

announces he not the in

Chelsea, eleven, with her parents

term

as

governor

in

his

1991.

He

1988.

her father was inaugurated for a ran promising that he would fill out

when

term and luu seek higher

ofVice.

will

make a run for White House

fitth

—

20.

On

the hustings in Bill

New

Hampshire dunng the 1992

and Hillan' stop for coffee

Admitting to "problems

in

our

marriage,"' Hillar\'

stood bv her

man

during the pivotal 6c Minutes inter\'iew

and turned the

tide

in Bill's favor.

21.

at

pnniar\- season, a

wean-

Blake's Restaurant in Manchester.

In the bar in Macy's near

Square Garden,

site

Madison

of the 1992

Democratic National Convention, the

CUntons watch the delegate and cheer

count on television

when Ohio (below):

—

puts Bill over the top.

Savoring the

moment

of triumph.

-3-

The

President-elect and Mrs.

Clinton take

a

bike ride along

the beach in Hilton Head,

South Carolina. Hillary was

where and would be

already in charge of

when

the press

allowed to cover them.

A

tender

moment between

father

and twelve-year-old daughter the Little

1993 their

Her

3S

new

Rock

at

airport in January

they prepare to leave tor life in

the

White House.

parents comforted

Chelsea

when

a

shattered

became the jokes on TV's

she

butt of cruel

Saturday Night Live.

After being sworn the

in. Bill

hugs

two most important people

in his

life.

Later, in a spariding

blue lace gown, Hillary danced

with her husband for the first

time

as

the First Lady

and the President.

2K.

29.

Super Bowl Sunday

Ann

m

the

on the

other. Bill, Chelsea,

1993

left),

Hillary listens to

Bill after

Little

Rock

funeral

she arrives

m

for her father's

on April

S,

1993.

With Texas Governor York Governor Mario Cuomo

He:)use theater.

New

and the

game between

Comforted by Vince Foster (on her

White

Richards on one side and

First

Dallas

Cat Socks watch the

and Buffalo.

31-

teenage Clinton meeting her husband so impressed Jackie C^nassis Vineyard that she invited the Clintons to cruise with her off Martha's her stand to Hillan.in August 1993. Privately, Jackie urged

Film of

a

ground and offered

tips

on

raising C-helsea.

The

Women — a

then admitted to

Gennifer Flowers Elizabeth

sampler:

(bottom).

Ward

(below

admitted to her reportedly sneaked

Mansion

denied,

with

Miss America iy8i

left) first

affair

with

denied, then Bill.

He

also

away from the Governor's

spend time with Miss Arkansas

to

1980 Lencola Sullivan she denied

Bill first

his extramarital affair

it.

(ii'cann- 12, lyyy.

that included the videotaped

Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan, and Clinton

tesdmony

ot

advisor Sidney Blu-

menthal, the Senate voted 55-45 to acquit the President on perjur>' both tailcharges and ded 50-50 on obstruction of jusdce charges

—

ing

far short

While

of the two-thirds needed to convict.

their

countrymen

glued to their television

sat

sets,

the

Chntons, rightly confident there would be no detectors among the Senate's forty-five Democrats, went about their business. C:helsea

f

3

'

3

1

was back attending her regular

classes

at

Stanford, while Hillary

played host to a few close friends in the family residence.

worked out

while,

on

white

a fresh

in the

and

shirt

mean-

Bill,

White House gym, showered, then put a

blue-and-white patterned

He

tie.

then

put a few finishing touches on the 129-word statement he would

make

to the press.

Standing alone and solemn-faced, the scene that had followed the earlier.

"Now

sibihty,

bringing

said

I

did not want a repeat of

House vote

that the Senate has fulfilled

say again to the

what

Bill

its

to

impeach

weeks

six

constitutional respon-

process to a conclusion," he said, "I want to

this

American people

how

profoundly sorry

I

am

for

and did to trigger these events and the great burden

they have imposed on the Congress and the American people.

am humbled and

"I also

prayers

I

year," he

very grateful for the support and the

have received from millions of Americans over

went

onciliation

this past

on. "This can be and this must be a time of rec-

and renewal for America."

Sam Donaldson of

ABC

rose to ask

if,

"in your heart,

sir,

you

can forgive and forget?" "I believe

any person

who

asks for forgiveness," the President

rephed, "has to be prepared to give

it."

months following her father's Senate acquittal, Chelsea's welfare would weigh heavily on her mother's mind. At Stanford, where she finished up her sophomore year, Chelsea would get up In the

before her seven roommates and

about her parents in

USA

Today.

sit

alone in the kitchen reading

Not even her

closest friends

dared

bring up the impeachment, and in the words of one, "She doesn't

on

let

at all."

Observed longtime Clinton family friend Dr. Nancy

Snyderman: "Chelsea has her mother's strength. She's been bred for it."

Yet Roger CHnton

told Paris Match that the scandal

foundly affected" Chelsea, and

about the long-term

done

it

was

"When she talks one FOH, "that's the

effects.

to Chelsea," said

had "pro-

clear that Hillary

about what

worried this has

only time you hear

her voice cracking. That's the thing that grieves her and hurts her the most ... I'd be surprised if she ever really forgives

Meantime, HiQary saw her

own

him

for that."

ratings in the polls soar in

[314]

1999

as

Democrats urged her

2000. After

a

New

to seek a

York Senate

quarter-century standing by

seat in the year

she had quite simply

Bill,

—

—

become the most popular figure female or male in public life. "The most important legacy of the CUnton years," said Democratic activist Mary Louise Oates, "will be Hillary Rodham CHnton."

Of

course, the Senate was only

one of

several possibilities that

would be open to Hillary after leaving the White House. If Al Gore were to succeed her husband as President, she could be almost assured of an appointment

as

ambassador to the United Nations. She

could pen her memoirs for $5 million, accept one of several to

become

university. to wait in her

CEO

of

Then

there

— one

home

But

of

own

There was an analogy

The

F.

When

found

the idea was

first

in

after

they

Rock would

Library in Little

York Con-

"He was

if

she did.

when I

said.

asked about

think she

would

now, the CHntons had disagreed

terrific in the Senate." Until

about where to Hve

New

not need persuading.

"She'd be great

office.

Senate seat was

him about anything," Rangel

decision she'll have to make," Bill said

her running for

2004 or 2008.

particularly compelling:

broached by veteran Bill did

York

— perhaps with an

who won a New York Kennedy, who then ran for president.

excited than I've ever seen

"It's a

be

Giuliani

White House

try for the

that Hillary

gressman CharHe Rangel,

more

Rudy

other carpetbagger

Robert

New

Senate race against

a

Republican Mayor

eye on making her

was willing

races, if she

none seemed more appealing

options,

than the rough-and-tumble of City's popular

offers

leading

2004.

Illinois in

weighed her

she

as

were other Senate

at a

Arkansas was coming up in 2002, and another

seat in state

major corporation, or teach law

a

left office.

The Clinton

Presidential

always be their base, but he wanted

of the time hobnobbing with their show business friends in Los Angeles while she talked of setding in Manhattan. It Hillary ran for the Senate and won, she would be spending most of to

spend the

rest

her time in the

town

There were other, the wings

if

Whitewater a

she had

come

potentially

to Filegate

Senate campaign.

more ominous problems

Once

she chose to run.

would almost

And

again,

3

'

5

all

lurking in

the scandals from

dunng remember

certainly be resurrected

then there was

/

Washington.

to loathe:

I

Bill.

"Wc

all

what happened back was out of

office for

went crazy

basically

York

in

when he

1980

two

years," said a close family friend. "Bill

sexually.

in the Senate, we're

governor's race and

lost the

With

Hillary busy representing

terribly afraid

all

it'll

curred a longtime advisor: "If Hillary runs and wins.

be able to take

and

it,

he'll

have even

less

New

happen again." Conego won't

Bill's

control over his urges

than he does now. He'll definitely go off the deep end."

Whatever road she would choose,

own

pect of pursuing her

Not

support.

that she didn't

everything she wants," is

dreams

a

Hillary

— and

count on

was buoyed

the pros-

at

grateful for her husband's

it.

"He

probably has to do

"He

longtime Arkansas friend conceded.

much owned by her now." On the contrary, to many it seemed

pretty

Bill

had the upper hand. At

still

Baldwin and

actor Alec

his wife,

a

that,

Long

Kim

emotionally

at least,

Island dinner hosted

Basinger, the Clintons

by

were

noticeably frosty toward each other until she got up to speak. She surprised the

crowd

—and

clearly Bill

—by rhapsodizing about

achievements and dreams for the future. him, the President

jumped

startled guest, "like

ing

New

this,

Hope

observed,

State

"He

she introduced

and embraced

to his feet

Rhett Butler taking

York

When

his

her, said

one

O'Hara." Watch-

Scarlett

Democratic Party Chairwoman Judith

just keeps seducing this

woman, over and

over again. This kind of chemistry can't be faked. She can't

resist

him." Hillary aside. Bill

himself

Far from

in.

much ado

was not it.

at all contrite

Privately,

he raged

about the mess he found enemies. "This

at his

is

about nothing," he told one old colleague. "I beat the

odds." Agreed one advisor: "I think there's real honest regret for

behaving stupidly and being shabby to

his family

.

.

.

But he doesn't

believe he lied or obstructed justice."

Even rape

as

— an

motivated

Juanita Broaddrick stepped forward to accuse

accusation both Bill and Hillary dismissed

—

Bill

continued

his

desk-pounding

tirades

set

made

the confounding claim that he was

politically

against his

Dan

Rather,

"proud"

to have

right-wing tormentors. In an interview with CBS's

Clinton

as

him of

an example for America's young people during the impeachment

by "defending the Constitution."

[3^6

]

Arkansas refuses to

going to

FOB

start all

to

peachment

gets

FOB:

some

help,

as Bill

it's

just

"It already has."

The ballroom of Beverly

Century

Hills's

has been only tw^o weeks since the Senate im-

It

crowd attending

verdict, but the

the Democratic

Committee Women's Leadership Forum

tional

long

afraid that as

problem and

Arkansas

Friday, February 26.

Plaza Hotel.

a

over again."

FOB

Washington

FOB: "I'm

Washington

to

admit that he has

fund-raiser

is,

Nathe

Los Angeles Times will later report, "rowdy." Donors wearing tiny

saxophone pins

honor of

in

a striking,

willowy young blonde gets up

and makes her way between the outside, she takes a

few

to the

Voodoo Daddy. Clutching

high-voltage swing band Big Bad

evening bag,

main speaker gyrate

tonight's

tables

toward the

her

to leave

exit.

steps in the direction of the ladies'

Once room

w^hen someone taps her on the shoulder. She turns and sees

man wearing

tall

a

dark

suit,

a

an earpiece, and a solemn expres-

sion.

"Excuse me, miss," the stranger whispers, Service identification.

"The

would

President

could join him upstairs for a drink

lowing

know

if

.

you

.

military officer complains

immediate superior that the President "groped" her

fol-

yet another ghttering black-tie fianction in Washington.

Her commanding "They'll never years,

like to

."

The following month, an anguished to her

flashing his Secret

officer tells her pointedly: "It didn't

split

up," insisted

happen."

confidant of nearly thirty

a

echoing the sentiments of most Clinton

friends.

"I

mean

never.'' Still,

the crucial questions remain:

other, or has

power? Yes

in

her,

awe of

Bill

and Hillary love each

always been a calculated arrangement based on

— and

grace, beauty, is

it

Do

yes. Just as

Jack Kennedy admired Jackie tor her

and courage even

as

he pursued other women.

Hillary's intelligence, grit,

and unwavering

he represents not only an avenue to power

[

3

t

7

J

Ioyalt>'.

Bill

To

— and by extension

a

means of accomplishing

of

historical

—but above

great things

all

else a figure

importance. Together, they became the most powerful

married couple in history.

When

this

mutual respect was fractured by

Bill's self-destructive

behavior, their daughter was the glue that held the Clinton marriage together. In the end, Chelsea

emerged

as a

hero in her

own

right.

Betrayed and publicly humiliated by the father she adored, she nonetheless hid her private pain behind a brave smile and

mother

—

soldiered on.

Even

the President's most bitter poHtical foes

marveled

at the dignity displayed

of

There was,

crisis.

Kennedy,

In the end, both private and

pubHc

Hillary's fatal flaw

will

be

—

as

a "gallantry"

by Hillary and Chelsea

Arthur Schlesinger

once

Jr.

in this time

said

of Jackie

about them.

women

have needed such

saga that has is

—Hke her

Bill,

and

all

the makings of a

Bill's fatal

himself.

I

qualities to

3^8

]

flaw

is

endure

a

Greek tragedy.

— and

likely always

a

jr\ck:nowlecl0"ments

O

"You

don't pick out

who you

arine

Hepburn

me. Indeed,

told

my

cess Diana,

were devoted

draw people

that hold

them

friend Kath-

books about Hepburn and

Spencer Tracy, Jack and Jackie Kennedy, and

that

my

in love with,"

fall

—

saddest of all

—

Prin-

largely to exploring the mysterious forces

to each other

and the equally mysterious

forces

together, often against seemingly insurmountable

odds.

Like Jack and Jackie,

and Hillary

Bill

is

the biography of a some-

times inspiring, often harrowing, always spellbinding relationship

marriage of hearts and minds that has betrayal, I

am

and heartbreak.

delighted to be working for a

grateful to

my

commitment, did to Vie

fifth

time with

WilHam Morrow. Once

talented friends at

my

somehow

—

survived scandal,

who

editor Betty Kelly,

and

insight,

Day Diana

again,

The

my

supremely

am

especially

brought the same passionate

editorial skill to Bill

Died.

I

folks at

and

Hillar}> that

Morrow may

be

she

tired

of

thanking them, but I'm going to anyway because each of them

more than

deserves

it

—

pardcularly Bill Wright, Michael Murphy,

Sharyn Rosenblum, Marly Rusoff, Alice Lee, Brad Folz, Debra Weaver, Lisa Queen, Fritz Metsch, Richard Aquan, Kathy Antrim,

Kim

Lewis, and Camille McDuffie of Goldberg-McDutlie

Com-

munications. After sixteen years and seventeen books, Ellen Levine docs not

have to be told

how much

I

f

depend on her counsel, support, and

J

'

9

]

friendship

—

she

agent around. sociates,

My on

my

a

I

as

is,

am

I

have

said before, simply the finest literary

also indebted, as always, to

her two gifted

as-

Diana Finch and Louise Quayle.

daughters, Kate and Kelly, delight and astound their parents

more or

less

parents, are

continual

no

less

"Greatest Generation"

basis.

who

Edward Andersen, members of the more curious than ever

Jeanette and

astounding to

me

—two

are, if anything,

about the events shaping the world around them. Incredibly,

my

it

has

met on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. Those mysterious forces that hold people together have, if anything, grown

been thirty-two years since

wife, Valerie,

and

I

first

stronger with time.

Additional thanks to David Leopoulos, Carolyn Yeldell Staley,

Mary Ann Campbell, Dick Dolly Kyle Browning,

Morris,

Woody

Ann

Henry, Juanita Broaddrick,

Bassett, Carl

kinson, Morris Henry, Kathleen Willey,

McGann, Harry

Criner, Larry Klayman,

Whillock, Richard At-

Guy CampbeD,

Eileen

Vada Sheid, Rosemary Mc-

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Wes Holmes, Tom Fitton, Jean Chapin, Esther Devine, Smolka, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Ed Coulter, Thomas

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Mary

the Litchfield Library, the

New Milford Library, the Southbury Pub-

He Library, the Boston Public Library, the

Woodbury

Library, the

University of Arkansas, Oxford University, Yale University, Wellesley College,

John tos,

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!j>ources cind VJnapter

The

following chapter notes are designed to give

the sources

drawn upon

by no means intended

Notes

a general

view of

in preparing Bill and Hillary, but they are

to be all-inclusive.

The author

has respected

—including government longtime Clinton and Washington, D.C. — remain

the wishes of many interviewed sources ficials still

friends

serving in

Washington

from Arkansas,

as

well

of-

family

as

to

Illinois,

anonymous and accordingly has not listed them either here or elsewhere in the text. The archives and oral history collections of,

among

F. Kennedy Library, WeUesley Georgetown University, Yale University, Oxford UniverColumbia University, the University of Arkansas, and the Lyn-

other institutions, the John

College, sity,

don Baines Johnson Library yielded a wealth of information. Court documents and sworn depositions generated by numerous civil and criminal investigations State

Troopers

—ranging from

in the Paula

the testimony of the Arkansas

Jones case to the mountain of testimony

Report

—proved

and evidence contained

in the Starr

viously, there have also

been thousands of news report and

concerning the President and the first

First

valuable.

Ob-

articles

Lady pubHshed since he was

elected to state office nearly a quarter century ago. These re-

ports appeared in such publications as The

New

York Times,

Tlie

Washington Post, Tlie Wall Street Journal, Vie Boston Globe, Tlic Arkansas Democrat, The Arkansas Gazette, the Chicago Tribune, the Los

Angeles Times,

The

New

Vanity Fair, The

York Observer, U.S.

New

News

f

32

& t

Yorker,

Time,

World Report,

]

Life,

Newsweek,

USA

Today, Tlie

(London) Times,

and Le Monde, and carried on the

Paris Match,

Associated Press, Knight-Ridder, Gannett, and Reuters wires.

Chapters

and

i

Interview

2

David Leopoulos, Carolyn Yeldell

included

subjects

Ann Campbell, Harry Criner, Dick Morris, John Dunbar, Joe Newman, Bill Bushong, ClifFJackson, Gared Mankowitz, Lou Ann Vogel, Larry Klayman, Ed Coulter, Betty Monkman, Brownie Ledbetter. Published sources included "Clinton Admits Lewinsky Liaison to Jury," The New York Staley,

Dolly Kyle Browning, Mary

Times,

August

1998;

18,

"The

Starr

Report: The Independent

Counsel's Complete Report to Congress on the Investigation of President Clinton," September

August

9,

1998; U.S.

News

&

World Report,

31, 1998; Gail Sheehy, "Hillary's Choice," Vanity Fair, Feb-

"How Low Can

Go?" Newsweek, September 28, 1998; David Maraniss, First in His Class (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995); "Why She Turned, What He Can Do," Time, August 10, 1998; "Under Oath," Newsweek, August 24, 1998; Virginia Kelley, Leading with My Heart (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994); Kenneth T. Walsh, "Portrait of a Marriage," U.S. News & World Report, August 31, 1998; "The Pohtics of Yuck," Time, September 14, ruary 1999;

1998;

It

George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human (New York:

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Brown

Company,

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Strong

Is Starr's

Chapters

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1999);

1998;

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Evan Thomas and Michael

Isikoff,

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3 to 5

For these chapters, the author drew on conversations with Juanita Broaddrick,

Woody

Bassett,

Ann Henry, David

Leopoulos, Carl

Whillock, L. D. Brown, Larry Gleghorn, Vada Sheid, Richard Atkinson,

Guy

Campbell, Brownie Ledbetter, Harry Criner, Thomas

Mars, CUff Jackson, ice Kizer,

Joe

Mary

Dillard.

Sheid, Ernie Wright, Larry Nelson, Bern-

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vid Freeman, Sherrill,

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1993; Meredith Oakley,

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327

J

White House.

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York: Pocket

1

1

Ind ex

Addington, Ron, 130, 131, 145

Bell,

Afghanistan, 34

Beloved (Morrison), 309

Ailes, Roger, 247 Alexander, Wannetta Ellen, 44, 45, 272 Alexis, Anik, 1 1

Bennett, Robert,

Alinsky, Saul, 96, 99, 100 Aller, Frank, 82, 84, 105,

114

Tom,

126

6, 288,

307-308

Bentsen, Lloyd. 285 Berry, Marsha, ^i

Bhutto, Benazir, 293 Blackard, Pam, 228-229, 230 Blair, Diane, 175, 205, 298 Jim, 143, 147, 166-167, J?'

All Tilings Considered, 9

Blair,

Altman, Lawrence K., 267

Bloodworth-Thomason, Linda.

Spectator, 282, 287 Anthony, Beryl, 275, 277 Anthony, Sheila, 275

Blumenthal, Sidney,

Arafat, Yasir, 273

Blythe, William Jefferson,

American

Arkansas Democrat Gazette,

8, 27,

Sharon li.

43-45.

47-48, 175-176, 210

womanizing

I'ji

Arkansas Gazette, 146, 173, 194, 203,

of.

44-45, 48, 271

Bolton. Lucille. 199-200

Bolton, Michael, 257

219

Bone, Robert

Arkansas Times, 221

L.

"Red," 166

Arsenio Hall, 249

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 95 Borger, Gloria, 3 1

Ashby,

Kit,

Bosnia, 273, 302

Austin,

J.

Arnold, Richard

S.,

275

66

Bosson, Paul, 52 Bowles, Erskine, Bradley, Ed, 285

Paul, 105

Baird, Zoe, 261, 276

309

1

20-121. 137

Branson, Johanna, 99 Brandey, Ellen. 148 Brantley, Max, 221. 222

Ballentine, Debra, 230

Kim, 316

Woody,

5.

Branch, Taylor, 118,

Baldwin, Alec, 316 Ballard, Karen, 210

Bassett,

313

Blythe, Sharron Lee, see Pettijohn,

Arkansas Democrat, 182, 209

Basinger,

21.

226, 247, 262

Altshuler, Fred, 139

Broaddnck. David,

124, 142, 147

231

Begala, Paul, 27, 28, 249

/

329

/

162. 164. 178-179.

Cassidy, James Eldridge, 45-46, 48, 50

Broaddrick, Juanita Hickey, 161-165, 167, 174, 178-179, 193, 201,

Chally, Chff, 247

219, 229, 231, 316

Champ, Bebe,

Brokaw, Tom, 251-252, 257 Brooke, Edward, 87-88 Brown, Larry Douglass, 190-191,

1 19 Chicago Tribune, 91

Christian Science Monitor,

195,

205, 224

Brown, Ron, 215, 239, 302 Brown, Tracey, 239 Browning, Dolly Kyle, 132-134, 158, 184, 216,

EC's

affair

CHnton,

adolescent sexuality

250

206-207

153,

alleged rape of Broaddrick by, 162165, 167, 178, 193, 201, 219,

of BC's medical records,

231, 316

antiwar

223 threatened by Clinton

staff,

movement

and, 80, 82—83,

107, 108-110, 113, 141, 245

239—

appearance

240, 290-291

Bruck, Connie, 202 (Clinton dog), 30, 33, 34 Bumpers, Dale, 132, 133, 141

124, 123, 143,

Arkansas attorney general, 152—

as

Bush, Barbara, 247, 257, 262, 292 Bush, George, 37, 218, 220, 226, 251,

of, 50,

249-250

186,

Buddy

167 Arkansas attorney general campaign of,

1

51-152

78-79 Boys Nation, 61-63 childhood and dysfunctional family history of, 43-59, 60, 68, 210-

athleticism lacked by, 71,

257, 258, 262, 265, 273

Byrd, Robert, 312 Byrne, Gary, 290

at

211

Cabe, Gloria, 228 Callahan, H. L. "Sonny," 302

chronic lateness

Cammarata, Joseph, 289 Campbell, Guy, 129, 152, 186 Campbell, Tom, 65, 67, 68

Tommy,

74-

111-112

alleged drug use by, 83-84, 141,

178, 201

Caplan,

194, 205,

of, 63, 67,

75, 81-84, 105,

120, 130-131, 154, 177-178,

release

2, 5, 31,

216, 234, 235-236, 304, 310

154,

214, 218, 219, 220, 239—240

on

Bill:

accused of lying,

with, 63, 65, 74-75,

on Clinton marriage, 133-134,

230

Christophe, 247, 262 Cisneros, Henry, 254

condoms hated

Al, 52

Caputo,

Lisa, 268,

140,

by, 75, 159, 163,

222 congressional campaign

65—66, 68—69, 75

Capone,

of, 26, 124,

172, 272

of,

126—

134, 138, 140-146

Democratic National Convention (1988) speech of, 225-226

274

Carlson, Margaret, 277

35-36, 180-182, 183,

Carmichael, Stokely, 99 Carpenter-McMillan, Susan, 288

depression

Carson, Johnny, 226

early education of, 49, 50—51, 52,

Carter,

of,

184

Jimmy, 152-153, 172-173, 181

54,

64

Carvey, Dana, 18

election fraud endorsed by, 145-146

Car\dlle, James, 233-234, 244, 246,

family troubles hid by, 58-59 as father to

249

Chelsea, 18, 19, 23, 25,

Cash, Clarence, 151

175-176, 213-214, 221, 239,

Cassidy, Edith, 45-46, 48-49, 50, 51,

256, 261, 264, 265, 298, 299300, 302, 318

53-54, 69, 89

I

3 3

}

Foster's suicide and,

274-275, 280-

post-grand jury speech of, 26-30 premantai infidelities of. 118-119.

281

147-148, 189, 260

as freeloader, at

Georgetown, 65-71, 74-75

as

governor, 1

120. 122. 124-125. 130-132.

J33-134. 143-144. 146 258-293. 297-318

10, 17-18, 157,

3, 4,

as President.

71-180, 288-214, 217-224,

as President-elect,

225-252 grand jury testimony

of, 26,

310

77. 78. 114. 217-218, 221. 231

gubernatorial campaigns of, 153181, 182, 185-188, 220,

214, 217-222

226-

presidential

228, 233, 316

dated by,

prostitutes visited by, 198-201,

142-149

HRC

first

by, 101-103, 105,

religious faith of, 31-32, 54, 68. 72.

informed about Lewinsky 6-8

181-182

Rhodes Scholarship

affair by,

HRC's

Senate ambitions supported of,

inaugural address

sex addiction ascribed to, 10, 43, 210, 218, 250, 317

209, 310-314, 317 of,

257-258

sex

interracial child allegedly fathered

as

222-223

by, 28, 38, 60, 62-63,

sexual urges of, 10, 41, 85, 136,

64, 65, 66, 76, 148, 155-156,

170, 316

Soviet

266, 267, 303

Holmes from, 108- no, affair

affair

9, 12,

state

denied by, 5-6,

marital infideUties of, 3, 4,

iio-ii

i

144, 146

troopers used for

affairs

by,

198-199, 205, 282

8,

10,

5, 8,

sterility

claimed by, 163, 174

temper

of, 25,

"Truth Squad" needed for campaign of, 244 at University of Arkansas, 122. 124-

177-179, 184, 189-201, 202, 204-205, 216, 218-221, 222-

125, 126-127, 147

224, 228-231, 232-236, 237-

Vietnam War and,

245, 256-257, 274, 281, 282-

of,

223, 266-267

1

12,

82-

113.

128, 245

womanizing

of, 48, 59, 64,

chances

81

as hurtful for political of,

146. 185, 201. 217.

218-221, 222, 223, 230-231.

music played by, 60-61, 195, 226 at Oxford, 77-81, 82-84, 105-106, 107, 108, 1 1 1-

at

232-236. 237-240. 244 Law School. 101-103. 112-

Yale

113,

12

I

77, 79-81.

83, 84, 105-110,

286, 287-291, 302-307, 317

mother's adoration

119, 140, 148, 178,

203, 204, 228, 263-264, 272

11-12, 16-17, 20-21, 33, 150, 154, 156-158, 161-165, 167,

1

of.

178, 189-191, 195, 196-197,

13-14, 307

medical records

trip of,

Starr hated by, 30, 36

admitted by, 20, 26,

28, 302

Lewinsky

Union

"Special Friends"

141, 245

Lewinsky

defined by, 21, 26, 196

sexually transmitted diseases and,

by, 199-201

JFK admired

and, 71, 73-74,

76

by, 316

impeachment

letter to

219

109

of, 70, 74,

reckless driving of, 129-130, 154

113

HRC

views

racial

met

campaign of (1992), 226-

227, 230-252

13-127, 130-134,

1

campaign of (1988).

presidential

154, 158-160, 165, 167, 179-

HRC

255-257

presidential aspirations of. 65-66.

33

'

I

1

1

7-1 18. 122

2

Clinton, Chelsea,

3,

173, 187-188, 202-204,

15-20, 21,

14,

269 childhood and family history

186, 190, 196, 203, 232, 236,

246, 251, 255, 263, 274, 287,

313-314

303, 308,

appearance

EC's

of,

89—

97, 104

children's issues and, 95, 104—105,

18—19, 261

of,

205-

206, 210, 211, 245-246, 268-

22, 28, 29, 32, 33-35, 38, 180,

relationship with, 18, 19, 23,

118, 122, 134, 151, 247, 273,

25, 175-176, 184, 213-214,

292

221, 239, 256, 261, 264, 265,

as

298, 299-300, 302, 318

damaging to BC's bid, 245-247

presidential

birth of, 175-176, 179

early education of, 92, 93,

HRC's

Eleanor Roosevelt admired by, 36—

relationship with, 15, 16, 17-

18, 19, 23,

34-35> 169, 211-

election fraud forbidden by, 145-

300, 314

146 equanimity and discipline ot, 13, 92, 95, 96, 98, 102-103, 114-

Jackson's comforting

of,

23—26

13,

115, 118, 135, 140, 170, 298

political indoctrination of, 17-18,

family important to, 32-33

21 1-2 I

Foster's suicide and, 274—275, 277,

press and, 15-16, 17, 37, 246, 256,

279-280, 281-282 arranged by, 31-32

259-260, 292-293, 299

"God Squad"

reason for parents' staying together, 32-33, 223-224, 304,

as greatest ally in

stress-induced stomach pains of, 16, 19,

health care reform and, 268—269,

287, 291

34

White House

transition of,

258-261

hurt and pain

Chnton, Hillary Rodham:

of, 94, 100,

298, 308, 309 image makeover of, 246-248 informed about Lewinsky affair, 6—

102, 123,

8

JacqueUne Onassis's friendship with,

133, 142, 143, 151, 167, 173, 186, 188, 246-248, 301 first

137 dated by,

37-39, 259 rumors about, 143, 173 maiden name kept by, 149, 151—

visited by, 122-124,

1

lesbian

152, 167, 173-174,

13-127, 130-134,

BC

281-282

first met by, 101-103, 105, 113 BC's alleged rape known by, 164—

marriage pondered by, 148—149

165 infidehties

186-187

marital infideUty of, 224-225, 274,

142-149

BC's

by, 36, 170, 182,

269, 283, 291-292, 295, 297-

255-256, 262, 267-269, 273, 287, 291 ambition of, 89, 94-95, 137, 173 appearance

felt

185, 201-202, 222, 239, 254,

administration policy shaped by,

Arkansas

BC's deception,

14-15, 185

318

BC

292

37, 39, 267,

213, 215, 219, 221, 247,

259261, 268, 286, 292-293, 298-

as

94-97

as

known

by, 122,

mother

to Chelsea, 15, 16,

18, 19, 23,

17—

34-35, 169, 211-

130-132, 133, 144, 146, 164-

213, 215, 219, 221, 247, 259-

165, 192, 201-202, 204-205,

261, 268, 286, 292-293, 298-

219, 220, 222-223, 230-231,

300, 314

move

238, 256 belligerence and pushiness attributed to, 142, 143, 152,

/

to Arkansas considered by,

137-139 newspapers not read by, 14-15, 21

332

]

New

York Senate

seat and, 3

5-

drinking

1

316

on Nixon impeachment

staff,

125-

object of pity, 19

savvy

political

political strategies

drug use

12—13

of,

on

devised by,

BC

174-175

52-53, Ki, 123-

adored by, 48,

220

carousing

36-37, 39 rehgious faith of, 32, 36

Elvis

210

worshipped by, 155

HRC

of, 88, 97,

and, 11 5-1 16, 123-124. 137-

138, 142, 149, 150, 210, 273, of,

286

14,

Clinton marriage:

310-311

Rose Law Firm,

153, 156,

analyzed on 60 Minutes, 235-237

160-

arguments

161, 165-167, 174, 175, 176,

in, 7,

20-21, 145, 183-

248-

179, 182, 186, 211, 224, 226,

184, 202-205, 222, 223,

269

249, 257-258, 264-265, 270.

speeches

of, 8,

88-89, loo-ioi,

103, 173, 271,

301

arranged photos

273-274

conflict caused

Starr hated by, 24, 27, 30

University of Arkansas, 142, 146-

in,

Vietnam War and, Virginia

of,

CHnton

8-9, II, 13, 19, 32-35.

304 views on,

HRC's

85, 135. 170,

205, 235-237

210, 273, 286

wealth desired by, 166 at Wellesley, 88-89, 97-101

Kennedy marriage

White House 264—266

marriage ceremony

Law

staff fired by, 262,

power dynamics

model

for. 7.

ot,

149

in. 86,

115, 153,

166, 188-189. 232

School, 101-105, 113,

as presidential partnership.

256. 267-

269, 273, 291

Cbnton, Ina Mae, 49 Clinton,

as

37-38, 267

117-118, 122 Clinton,

307

divorce and, 32-33, 184, 223, 237.

98, 99, 103 and, 11 5-1 16, 123-

124, 137-138, 143, 149, 150,

Yale

15,

by Lewinsky scandal

308, 309-310

148

at

49-50. 51,

of, 45, 47, 48,

53, 54, 59,

98 right-wing conspiracy theory

59, 64, 81

BC's paternity and, 48, 57 cancer of, 232, 286-287

reflective meditation practiced by,

at

of, 44,

124

private investigator hired by, 185,

at

41-142, 150. 206-211

58

appearance

297, 308-309, 310

28,

1

137

199, 208, 209. 270, 272 abused by husband, 51-52, 53. 55-

226-227, 232, 234, 235, 238239, 241, 244, 245-246, 248250, 282-283, 285, 288, 289,

Republican background

of,

HRC,

73, 74. 84, 92, 157, 159. 192,

208, 214, 217-218, 219-220,

of,

half

Clinton, Virginia, 44-45, 46-50. 5159, 62-63, 64, 65, 68-69. 71-

4, 12,

21-22, 23, 27-28, 31-32, 141, 179, 180, 185, 187-188, 207-

pregnancy

55-56. 58

brother), 55. 56, 57. 73. 123. 159. «8o, 240. 287. 314

127, 130, 134, 139 as

of, 49, 51. 54.

Roger Cassidy (BC's

Clinton,

separate

Raymond, 57, 69, 77, 128 Roger (BC's stepfather), 49-

50, 53. 54-58, 72-73, 93 domestic abuse by, 49, 51-52, 5557, 58

[

bedrooms

ot. 7,

n

,

2H6

sexual activity absent from. 201.

308

Coca-Cola. 104-105 Coleman, William T..

3 3 3

1

ML

113

of 1978, 153-154, 158-160, 165,

Collins, Judy, 176, 257

Conscience of a Conservative, The

167

(Goldwater), 97 Cornelius, Catherine, 262, 290,

of of of of of

306 Coulson, Beth, 306 Coulter, Beth, 225 Coulter, Mike, 225

1980, 179-181, 316 1982, 182, 185-188, 220 1988, 214, 217—222

1990, 226-228, 233

1992, 226-227, 230-252, 265,

272 of 1994, 291 of 1996, 297-298

Craig, Greg, 103

Crane, Rose, 175 Crane, Stephen, 95

EUis, Carolyn, 104, 137

Crawford, Gabe, 128 cunimings, e. e., 95

EUis, Opal, 77

Currie, Betty, 4—6, 7 Curtis, Arthur, 95

Emanuel, Rahm, 27 Esquire, 209 Evans, Sharon Ann, 76, 82-83 Exner, Judith Campbell, 155-156

Dalton, Harlon, 105 Daniels, Chariie, iii

Family

Darden, Jean, 164

Farenthold, Sissy, 121

Davis, Wylie H., 139

Feinstein, Dianne, 29 Female Eunuch, The (Greer),

Cuomo,

Dear

Mario, 238

Socks,

Fails,

Dear Buddy (H. R.

Dershowitz, Alan, 36 Disraeli, Benjamin, 78

Doar, John, 125 Donaldson, Sam, 314 Dubcek, Alexander, iii

Fields,

Fineman, Howard, 268 Fisher, George, 173, 188 Fiske, Robert, 269 Fleetwood, Mick, 196 Fleetwood Mac, 232, 257

DufFey, Joseph D., 113 Dukakis, Michael, 225, 226 Ernest, 146

Dunlap,

J. E.,

Flowers, Gennifer, 179, 193 abortion of, 159

127

Durham, Jim, no Dwire, George Jefferson, 81—82,

Angela, 240, 241-242

Filegate, 3, 315

Ivan, 185, 220

Dumas,

BC's

affair admitted by, 233-234, 237-238, 241, 244, 245 BC's affair with, 4, 157-158, 159, 185, 191-192, 194, 219, 220,

105,

138, 272

Dylan, Bob, 95, 257 Eakeley, Douglas, 79, 113

233-234, 235, 237-238, 239,

Eastwood, Clint, 278 Eccles-Williams, Tamara, 82, 83 Edelman, Marian Wright, 103, 104,

241, 244, 245 Floyd, Pretty Boy, 81

Ehrlichman, John, 126

Fonda, Jane, 104 Ford, Gerald R., 152 Fortas, Abe, 117, 118

Ehrman,

Foster,

118, 122, 134

Sara, 139

Eisenhower,

D wight

in

Fenwich, Richard, 45 Ferguson, Danny, 228-229, 230, 282

Clinton), 292

Duda,

Connie, 171 Circle, 247—248

D., 91

Brugh, 275, 278

Foster, Lisa, 225, 275, 278,

elections:

279

Foster, Vince, 128-129, 183, 271

HRC's

of 1974, 126-134, 138, 140-146 of 1976, 1 51-152

I

affair

281-282

3 3 4

]

with, 224-225, 274,

suicide of, 4, 274-282, 286, 287,

Hamzy, "Sweet. Sweet Connie," 196-

291, 306

198. 232

Frankin, Aretha, 257 Fray,

Mary

Hargraves, Ruth, 152 Harrison Daily Times, 127 Hart, Gary, 217, 218, 220

Lee, 140, 142, 144, 145-

146, 147

Fray, Paul, 140, 141, 143, 144, 145-

Hatch,

146, 148

Freeh, Louis, 278 Friedman, Richard, 34 Frost, David, 237 Fulbright,

J.

Onn, 29

Hawkins, Willard "Lefty." 106 Henley, Don, 196 Henry, Ann, 146-147. 150 Henry, Helen, 67

William, 61-62, 69-70,

Henr\',

Moms,

150

71, 76, 77, 106, 112, 130, 132,

Herbst. William

133, 141, 143, 156

Hemreich, Nancy, 266, 290 Hershey, Lewis B., 80 Hinton, Karen, 198

Gaddy, William, 238 Garcia, Franklin, 122

Hobbes, Thomas, 78 Hodson, Philip, 79 Holmes, Eugene, 106-107, 108-110,

Gash, Adele, 44, 271 Gash, Faye, 44 Geigreich, William, 152

Georgetown

141, 245

University, 65,

Holt, Frank, 69

66-67

Holt, Mary, 69

Gergen, David, 30, 282 Giancana, Sam, 155

Hope, Judith, 316

Gieve, Katherine, 83 Gingrich, Newt, 291, 309, 312 Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 278

Hot Springs Sentinel Houston, Jean, 36

Hot

Webb, 262

Humphrey, Hubert, 74

Larry, 204, 205,

Hussein, Saddam, 5, 273, 312-313 Hutchinson, Asa, 209 Hyland, Denise, 6-J-6S, 69, 75, 76

206

Glespeny, Michael, 131 Goldwater, Barry, 97

Goodwin, Tommy, 208 Gore, Al,

Record, 63

Huber, Carolyn, 224, 239

Gladstone, William, 78 Gleckel, Jeffrey, 101-102

Gleghom,

Springs, Ark., 52

Hubbell,

Rudy, 315

Giuliani,

266

P.,

18, 248, 257, 258,

Iraq, 273,

312-313 296

Ireland, Patricia,

315

Irons, Edith, 65

Gore, Tipper, 248, 257 Gracen, EUzabeth Ward, 193, 194,

//

Takes a Village (H. R. Clinton).

292

219, 233

Greenberg, Stanley, 230, 246 Greer, Frank, 230

Jackson, Chff, 78-79. 80. 106. 112

Greer, Germaine, 111-112

Jackson, Jesse,

Grigsby,

Ann

i

Jamieson,

Jet,

Jefferson,

Thomas. 256

64

Jemigan, George, 151 Johnson. Andrew. 312 Johnson. Lyndon B.. 37. 61. 70. 74.

Hackler, Hugh, 127-128

Haldeman, Bob, 126 249

Hammerschmidt, John, 126-127,

23-26

Jagger, Mick, 80

Grunwald, Mandy, Guernica (Picasso), 95—96

Hall, Arsenio,

13,

Jackson, Michael, 257

Blythe, 81

98, 99, 112

134,

Jones, Clinton, 141

140, 145, 146

I

335

I

1

1

Jones,

Don,

36, 86, 95-96, 97, 98,

Lasater,

Jones, Paula,

Dan, 207, 209, 211

Lattimore, Neel, 14, 292

292 228-230, 243, 285,

4,

Lauer, Matt, 14 Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 13, 302

287, 288-289, 297, 307, 308 lawsuit of, see Paula Jones lawsuit

Jordan, Vernon,

6, 7, 33,

313 Journal of Economics and

Lee, Burton, 265-266, 267 Lehrer, Jim, 9 Leopoulos, David, 54 Levin, Jerome, 43

103, 305,

167

Statistics,

Lewinsky, Monica, 21, 285, 290, 293, Kantor, Mickey, 27

302-310

BC

KautTman, John, 157 KeDey, Richard, 199, 286

loved by, 296 BC's admission of

Kelley, Virginia, see Clinton, Virginia

302 BC's denials of affair with, 5—6,

Kelsey,

Norma,

161, 163

Kennedy, CaroUne, 38, 259 Kennedy, Edward, 37, 238 Kennedy, Jacqueline, see Onassis, Jacqueline

Kennedy, John

Kennedy

8,

12,

303 blue dress

37-38, 60, 92, 150-151, 184-185, 217, 224,

Lewinsky

247, 262

of,

19, 20, 25,

303

scandal, 3-36, 290, 302-307,

309

BC's grand jury testimony

96—97 38, 60, 62-

assassination of, 62, 64, 76, of, 28,

63, 64, 65, 66, 76, 148,

of, 39,

in, 26,

310

BC's post-grand jury speech

155-

156, 266, 267, 303

womanizing

with, 20,

13-14, 307 BC's ending of affair with, 304 BC's meetings with, 5—6, 290, 293, 9,

F., 7,

BC's admiration

affair

26, 28,

of,

26—

30

155-156, 185,

as private

matter, 23, 28, 29, 31

pubUc apology

266, 267, 317

poll-tested in, 10—12

Kennedy, John F., Jr., 37, 259 Kennedy, Robert F., 74, 75—76, 107,

Lewis, Darlene, 199 Lewis, Huey, 196

247, 315 Kerrey, Bob, 263

Lewis, Susan, 164 Liberace, 53

Kincaid, Diane, 121-122, 147, 166, 171, 172

King, Larry, 239, 274 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 74, 76, 96,

Life,

loo-ioi

Lincoln, Abraham, 34, 78 Lincoln, Evelyn, 66 Lincoln on Leadership, 34

Lindsey, Bruce,

99

6, 7,

230, 243, 251

Livingston, Robert, 312

Kirby, EfFie, 199 Kirk, Lauren, 158, 192 Koestler, Arthur, 8

Locke, John, 78 Longhorn One, 232, 240—244 Los Angeles Times, 317

Kohl, Helmut, 251 Kopold, Jan, 1 1

Lowe, Lynn, 167 Lowe, Rudi, 1 1

Koppel, Ted, 235 Kosovo, 273 Kreth, K. M., 159 Kroft, Steve, 235-236

Luciano, Lucky, 52

Kirkpatrick, Terry, 43, 142, 147

McCarthy, Eugene, McClellan, John L.,

McCooey, Chris, 79 McCoy, Ann, 190 McCoy, Becky, 190

Kucinich, Dennis, 313 Kyle, Dolly, see Browning, Dolly

Kyle

/

336

]

74, 99, 107

61, 153, 158

1

McCurry, Michael D., 6, 30, 267 MacDonald, Gordon, 3 McDonald, Neal, 141 McDougal, James, 43, 156, 165-166, 191, 21

1,

Mondale, Walter

Monkey

Moon,

Morris, Dick, 20, 182, 191, 228. 263. 282, 291, 292-293, 302

on EC, 35-36,

177, 191,

219 Whitewater scandal and, 165-166, 191, 211, 269, 288

McGovem, McGovem,

220

Keith, 196

Moore, Rudy, 179

225, 269, 288

McDougal, Susan: EC's affair with, 156-157,

104, 306

F.,

Business, 217.

135. 205, 218. 264.

270

EC's pubUc apology

poll-tested by.

10-12

HRC,

Eleanor, 120

on

George, 118, 119, 120,

political strategies of,

122, 125, 139

McGrath, Mike, 270, 289 Mcintosh, Robert "Say," 200 McLarty, Mack, 50, 61, 151, 181,

36, 135, 170,

277 9-12, 158-

159, 160, 165, 175, 180, 185186, 217, 226, 227, 297

Morris, Eileen, 180 183,

Morris, Willie, 198

Morrison, Toni, 309 Myers, Dee Dee, 29-30, 263, 265 Myers, Mike, 18

262, 274, 280, 663

McRae, Tom, 227 McSorley, Richard, no Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan,

My

155-156

Life (Exner),

211, 245, 269

Magaziner,

Ira,

268

Nadler, Jerrold,

Maitland, Sara, 83, 84, 105, 111-112

Major, John, 251 Maraniss, David, 64, 145 Margolies-Mezvinsky, Marjorie, 299 Mariano, E. Connie, 266

Markesun, Ann,

11

National Enquirer, 9 Paul, 292

News Hour,

Tlie, 9,

13

Newsweek, 268

Newton, Huey, 104 Newton-John, Ohvia, 197

75, 76, 82

New New

Matahn, Mary, 249 Mathis, Deborah, 194, 219 Matthew, Ed, 36

Yorker, 8

York Times, 13, 21-22, 30, 33. 248, 267

Nichols, Larry, 194

Niebuhr, Reinhold. 95 Ni^htline, 235 Nixon, Freddie, 127 Nixon, Richard M., 60,

Louise, 164

Medved, Michael, 103, 113, 114 Mercer, Jan Dustman, 89 Merck, Mandy, 83, 111-112

88. 92.

125-

126, 134, 141, 145, 245

Mezvinsky, Marc, 299 Miami Herald, 217 Miller, Mark, 268 Millie's

10-3

Newman,

Mars, Thomas, 183, 239 Marty, Mary, 60

Maw,

3

Nannygate, 261-262, 276

Nixon, Victor, 127, 149-150 Nussbaum, Bernard, 126, 276, 278279, 280

Book (Bush), 292

MiUs, Wilbur, 121

Minute Maid, 104-105

Oakley, Meredith, 112. 173, 180, 227

Mitchell,

Oates,

Mitchell, Joni, 176

Mary Louise, 315 O'Connor, Sandra Day. 94

Mitchell, Sadie, 213

Oglesby.

Mixner, David, 107-108

Oklahoma City bombings.

Modghn,

Onassis, Jacqueline

Bill,

55

Terry, 70

C'arl.

99

150-151. 317. 31^

Mondale, Eleanor, 306, 307

I

3

37

I

5

Kennedy,

7. f'5.

Onassis, Jacqueline

HRC's

Kennedy

(cont.)

friendship with, 37-39, 259

JFK's womanizing and, 39, 155, 184-185, 267, 303 Oprah Winfrey, 301

Rattner, Steven, 35 Reagan, Nancy, 246, 247

Reagan, Ronald, 181 Rector, Ricky Ray, 234-235

Oxford University, 77-78

Rehnquist, William, 258, 313 Reich, Robert, 76—77, 79, 102, 113,

Palestine, 273

Relemar, 38-39

Palladino, Jack, 244

Repa, Barbara Kate, 286

297

Paris Match,

314 Parks, Jane, 206

Reveille for Radicals (Alinsky),

Parton, Dolly, 153 Patterson, James N., 165

Ritzenthaler,

Patterson, Larry, 189-190, 195, 196,

Rockefeller, Winthrop, 82

Rodham, Dorothy,

22, 89-92, 94,

116-

117, 150, 219, 223, 274

Peck, Gregory, 183

as closet

Pelczynski, Zbigniew, 78

Democrat, 92

troubled childhood

Penthouse, 241

of, 32,

Rodham, Hugh (HRC's

Perdue,

Sally, 194-195, 207, 219, 244 Peron, Evita, 245 Perot, H. Ross, 248, 251

89-90

brother), 91,

139, 150

Rodham, Hugh (HRC's

father),

as

204, 205, 249, 282

authoritarian father,

conservative views

Pettijohn, Sharon, 44, 272-273

death

258

of,

91—92, 97

270, 271, 286

Rodham, Tony,

Picasso, Pablo,

of,

90-

219 91, 92—93

94, 116, 131, 150,

Perry, Roger, 189-190, 195, 202, 203,

91, 116, 131, 139,

150 17, 22, 26, 313

Rogers, Kenny, 257 Rogers, Kris, 104, 117, 134, 137, 210 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 36—37, 233, 267,

Piercy, Jan, 86, 135

Barbara, 282 Pogue, Donald, 113 Post, Markie, 262 Plafflin,

Presidential Leadership,

271—

Rockefeller, Jeanette, 82

307—308

95—96 Pierce, Matthew, 16,

44,

Robbins, Tony, 292

Paula Jones lawsuit, 243, 297 EC's testimony in, 4, 5, 10, 26

Phillips, Sarah,

Henry Leon,

272, 273

201, 203-204, 205, 224, 231, 237-238, 256, 282

dismissal of,

96

Race, Donna, 217 Richardson, Frank, 262

273, 292

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 156, 233, 262, 78

267 Roosevelt, Theodore, 306 Rose Law Firm, 153, 156, 160-161,

Presley, Elvis, 60, 154, 155

Pryor, Barbara, 151 Pryor, David, 151, 153-154, 159, 160,

174, 175, 176, 183, 185, 186,

165

211, 224, 225, 226, 239, 245,

Pullen, Penny, 95 Purposes of the Heart (Browning), 291 Purvis, Joe, 277

Quigly, Carroll, 68

269, 275, 297 Ross, Diana, 257 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 78 Ruff, Charles, 26

Rule, Herb, 153, 160 Rush, Van, 106

Rabin, Yitzhak, 273 Rainwater, Gene, 127, 134 Rangel, Chariie, 315 Rather, Dan, 316

J. D., 95 Sandburg, Carl, 78

SaHnger,

[

338

]

Santa Cruz, Susan, 266 Schechter. Alan, 100

Amy, 224. 275. 277 Stokes, Judy, 193 Stone, Alan, 139

Scheibner, Nancy, 88-89

Stone, Sharon, 270

Stewart,

Saturday Night Live, 18, 261

Schiff,

Debra, 240, 241, 242-243, 289-

Streisand, Barbra, 257, 270-271,

290, 306

287

Schlesinger, Arthur,

Jr.,

318

Scott, Marsha, 281, 291,

Students for

306

Bobby, 104 276—277

Scale,

a

Democratic Society

(SDS), 80. 87 Styron, Rose, 34

Segal, David, 78

Sudan, 34 Sullivan, John, 107

Severinsen, Doc, 226

Sullivan, Lencola, 193-194, 219, 233

Sheehy, Gail, 35, 291

Susman. Carolyn, 93 Sutherland, Donald, 104

Sears, Loretta,

Shields, Geoffrey, 98, loi

Shullaw, Richard, Siegel,

no

Sutherland, Sandra, 244

Bugsy, 52

Simmons,

Bill,

Swatzyna, Sheila, 241

Sweeney,

181

Julia, 18

Sinatra, Frank, 155

Singer, Daniel, 77 Sirhan, Sirhan B., 76

Taft,

60 Minutes, 235-236, 285

Templesman, Maurice, 38 Thomas, Dylan, 78 Thomases, Susan, 279-280 Thomason, Harry, 13, 24, 25, 225-

Smith, Stephen, 120

Snyderman, Nancy, 314 Socks (Clinton cat), 259 SomaUa, 273 SperUng, Godfrey, Jr., 230

226, 262, 279

Thomasson,

SpurUn, Virgil, 61 Staley,

Robert, 91

Taylor, EHzabeth, 257

Patsy,

279

Tillich, Paul, 95

Carolyn Yeldell, 41,

52, 55,

Time, 73, 255, 277, 301 i 60-1 61

58, 75, 76, 82, 181, 205, 212,

Tiny,

277

Today, 14

Stanley, Alessandra, 81

Tonight Show, The, 226

201, 233, 238, 239-240

Travelgate,

Starr,

John Robert,

Trimble, James W., 127

Starr,

Kenneth,

Star,

182, 219

4, 6, 8, 20, 23, 24, 25,

3,

262, 276, 277, 279

Tripp, Linda, 290

26-28, 29, 30, 31, 36, 209,

Troopergate, 282, 286, 287

269, 279, 308, 309

Truffaut, Francjois, 95

Steams, Rick, 77, 83, 107, 119 Steenburgen, Mary, 247, 262

Tsongas, Paul, 37, 214

234, 250-251, 255, 261, 262,

Tucker, Jim Guy, 159. 160, 165. 269 Tunney, Gene, 90

265, 267, 287

Tyson, Don, 142-143, 144

Stephanopoulos, George, 183, 232-

on BC, 248-249, 270, 282 BC's tirades at, 204, 263, 276 "bimbo eruptions" and, 233-234 on HRC, 232, 239, 248-249, 269,

United States, S.S., 76-77

USA

Today, 257. 314 World Report. 311

U.S. News

&

270, 301

Lewinsky scandal and, 29-30 Stephens, Jackson,

1

Vanity Fair, 121

52

Vereker, Kathonne, 83

Stevens, Wallace, 95

/

3 3 9

I

181,

3

Vietnam War,

6i, 68, 70, 74, 77,

81, 82-83, 84,

79"

98-99, 105-110,

Willey, Kathleen, 283-286

Williams, Bobbie Ann, 198-199, 200, 201

112, 113, 128, 245

Williams,

Vogue, 308

Dan

(father),

WilHams, Danny

H%'

the

Dog,

3

(son),

200 199-201

Williams, Lee, 69

1

Wallace, Doug, 142

Williams, Maggie, 264-265, 279

Wallace, Mike, 35 Wall Street Journal, 245, 276, 280

WiUiams, Mariane, 292 Williams, Rawls, 93

Walters, Barbara, 264

Wills, Gary, 136, 249 Wilson, Edith, 267 Wilson, Sharlene, 206

Walters, Mrs., 53

Wanderer, Marge, 89 Warner, Judith, 225 Washington

Post, 6, 8,

Wilson, William R., 211, 244, 263,

Wilson,

160-161

Winfrey, Oprah, 301, 309 Wogamon, J. PhiUp, 32, 36

272, 302

Watergate, 125-127, 134, 141, 148 Watkins, David, 278

Wonder,

Stevie, 194,

257

Wood, Kimba, 261-262 Woodward, Joanne, 292

Watkins, Ileene, 278, 281 Watkins, Larry, 278 Weicker, Lowell, 113

Wright, Betsey, 187, 209, 214, 244, 280, 282 on BC, 182, 210, 216, 219-220,

Weiss, Elaine, 214

Welch, Diane, 272, 273 Welch, JefF, 272, 273

225

HRC,

on

Wellesley College, 97-98, 99 Wells, Chris, 164 Whillock, Carl, 127-128, 129

121, 134, 136, 182, 225

Wright, Susan Webber,

Wynette,

White, Frank, 180, 187-188, 211 White, Randy, 177 Whitewater, 3, 157, 165-166, 191,

Yale

4,

307

Tammy, 236

Law Journal, 101-102

Yeltsin, Boris, 251

211, 245, 269, 276, 282, 286,

Young, Raymond

L.

"Buddy,"

282

287-288, 315 Whitman, Walt, 13, 302 Willey, Ed, 283-284, 285

Jr.,

Woodrow, 267

Zercher, Cristy, 240-244, 284

[340

]

199,

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disturbing reason the President's medical

records remain under

How

Bill

.