I asked the Republicans to work with the White House and the Democrats in the same spirit that had produced the bipartisan welfare reform bill in 1996 and the Balanced Budget Act in 1997

On September 24, Hillary and I hosted an event in the Old Executive Office Building to celebrate the success of bipartisan efforts to increase the adoption of children out of the foster-care systemThey had increased almost 30 percent in the two years since our legislation had passedI paid tribute to Hillary, who had been working on the issue for more than twenty years, and to perhaps the most ardent supporter of the reforms in the House, Tom DeLay, himself an adoptive parent

I would have liked a few more moments like that, but with this one exception, DeLay didnt believe in consorting with the enemy

Partisanship returned in early October, when the Senate rejected, on a party-line vote, my nomination of Judge Ronnie White to a federal district judgeshipWhite was the first African-American man to serve on the Missouri Supreme Court and was a highly regarded judgeHe was defeated after Missouris conservative senator John Ashcroft, who was in a tough fight for reelection against Governor Mel Carnahan, grossly distorted Whites record on the death penaltyWhite had voted to uphold 70 percent of the death penalty cases that had come before himOn more than half of those he had voted to reverse, he was part of a unanimous state supreme court rulingAshcroft got his Republican colleagues to go along with the smear because he thought it classic chanel handbag would help him and hurt Whites supporter Governor Carnahan with prodeath penalty voters in Missouri

Ashcroft wasnt alone in completely politicizing the confirmation processBy this time, Senator Jesse Helms had refused for years to allow the Senate to vote on a black judge for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, even though there had never been an African-American on the courtAnd the Republicans wondered why African-Americans wouldnt vote for them

Our partisan differences extended even to the nuclear test ban treaty, which had been supported by every Republican and Democrat President since EisenhowerThe Joint Chiefs were for it, and our nuclear experts said tests werent necessary to check the reliability of our weaponsBut we didnt have the votes of two-thirds of the senators necessary to ratify the treaty, and Trent Lott tried to get me to promise not to raise it for the rest of my termI couldnt figure out whether the Senate Republicans had really moved that far to the right of their own partys traditional position or just didnt want to give me another victoryRegardless, their refusal to ratify the test ban treaty weakened Americas ability to argue that other nations shouldnt develop or test nuclear weapons

I continued doing political events for Al Gore and the Democrats, including two with gay activists who were strongly supportive of both Al and me because of the substantial number of openly gay and lesbian citizens serving in the administration, and because of our strong support of the Employment vintage rolex watch Nondiscrimination Act and the hate crimes bill, which made crimes committed against people because of their race, disability, or sexual orientation a federal offenseI also went to New York whenever I could to support HillaryHer likely opponent was New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was a combative, controversial figure but was much less conservative than the national RepublicansI had had a cordial relationship with him, largely because of our shared support for the COPS program and gun safety measuresBush seemed well on his way to winning the Republican nomination, as several of his challengers dropped out, leaving only Senator John McCain with any chance of stopping himI had been impressed with Bushs campaign since I first saw him articulate his compassionate conservative theme in a farm setting in IowaI thought it was a brilliant formulation, virtually the only argument he could make to swing voters against an administration with approval ratings in the 65 percent rangeHe couldnt dispute the fact that we had 19 million new jobs, the economy was still growing, and crime was down for the seventh year in a rowInstead, his compassionate conservative message to the swing voters was this: Ill give you the same good conditions you have now, with a smaller government and a bigger tax cutWouldnt you like that? On most issues, Bush was in line with the conservative congressional Republicans, though he had criticized their budget for being harsh to the poor because it raised taxes for low-income Americans by cutting back on the Earned tiffany jewelry wholesale Income Tax Credit, while reducing taxes on the wealthiest Americans

Although Bush was a formidable politician, I still thought Al Gore would win, despite the fact that only two previous vice presidents, Martin Van Buren and George HBush, had been elected directly from the vice presidency, because the country was in good shape and our administration had strong supportAll vice presidents who run for President have two problems: most people dont know what theyve done and dont give them credit for the accomplishments of the administration, and they tend to get typecast as number two menI had done everything I could to help Al avoid those problems by giving him many high-profile assignments and making sure he received public recognition for his invaluable contribution to our successesYet even though he was indisputably the most active and influential vice president in history, there was still a gap between perception and reality

The biggest challenge Al faced was how to show independence while still getting the benefit of our recordHe had already said he disagreed with my personal misconduct but was proud of what we had accomplished for the American peopleNow I thought he should say that no matter who became the next President, change was inevitable; the question for the voters was whether we would keep changing in the right way or make a U-turn to the failed policies of the pastGovernor Bush was clearly advocating a return to trickle-down economicsWe had tried it that way for twelve years and our way for sevenOur way chanel necklace worked better, and we had the evidence to prove it

The campaign gave Al the chance to remind voters that I was leaving, but that the Republicans who had pursued impeachment and supported Starr were stayingAmerica needed a President to stand up to them so that they couldnt abuse their power like that again, or succeed in implementing the harsh policies I had stopped in the budget battles, beginning with the government shutdownThere was ample evidence, less than a year old, that if the voters saw the election as a choice for the future and were reminded of what the Republicans had done, the advantage would shift markedly to the Democrats

When a few people in the press began pushing the theory that I could cost Al the election, I had a funny telephone conversation with him about itI said I was interested only in his winning, and if I thought it would help I would stand on the doorstep of the Washington Posts headquarters and let him lash me with a bullwhipHe deadpanned, Maybe we ought to poll thatI laughed and said, Lets see whether it works better with my shirt on or off

On October 12, Pakistans prime minister Nawaz Sharif was overthrown in a military coup headed by General Musharraf, who had led the Pakistani armed forces over the Line of Control in KashmirI was concerned about the loss of democracy, and urged the restoration of civilian rule as soon as possibleMusharrafs ascendancy had one immediate consequence: the program to send Pakistani commandos into Afghanistan to catch or kill Osama bin Laden was coco chanel handbags cancel

I said I had no objection to Perots inclusion, not because I agreed that Perot would hurt Bush moreI wasnt convinced of thatbut because I felt that, in the end, he would have to be included and I didnt want to look like a chickenBy October 4, both campaigns agreed to invite Perot to participate

In the week leading up to the first debate, I finally endorsed the controversial North American Free Trade Agreement, which the Bush administration had negotiated with Canada and Mexico, with the caveat that I wanted to negotiate side agreements ensuring basic labor and environmental standards that would be binding on MexicoMy labor supporters were worried about the loss of low-wage manufacturing jobs to our southern neighbor and strongly disagreed with my position, but I felt compelled to take it, for both economic and political reasonsI was a free-trader at heart, and I thought America had to support Mexicos economic growth to ensure long-term stability in our hemisphereA couple of days later, more than 550 economists, including nine Nobel Prize winners, endorsed my economic program, saying it was more likely than the Presidents proposals to restore economic growth

Just as I was determined to focus on economics in the run-up to the debates, the Bush camp was equally determined to gold gucci watches keep undermining my character and reputation for honestyThey were facilitating a search request with the National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland, for all the information in my passport files on my forty-day trip to northern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia back in 196970Apparently, they were chasing down bogus rumors that I had gone to Moscow to pursue anti-war activities or had tried to apply for citizenship in another country to avoid the draftOn October 5, there were news reports that the files had been tampered withThe passport story dragged out all monthThough the FBI said the files had not been tampered with, what had occurred put the Bush campaign in a bad lightA senior State Department political appointee pushed the National Records Center, which had more than 100 million files, to put the search of mine ahead of two thousand other requests that had been filed earlier, and that normally took months to processA Bush appointee also ordered the Uembassies in London and Oslo to conduct an extremely thorough search of their files for information on my draft status and citizenshipAt some point, it was revealed that even my mothers passport files were searchedIt was hard to imagine that even the most paranoid right-wingers could think that a country girl from dior rasta bag Arkansas who loved the races was subversive

Later, it came out that the Bush people had also asked John Majors government to look into my activities in EnglandAccording to news reports, the Tories complied, although they claimed their comprehensive but fruitless search of their immigration and naturalization documents was in response to press inquiriesI know they did some further work on it, because a friend of David Edwardss told David that British officials had questioned him about what David and I did in those long-ago daysTwo Tory campaign strategists came to Washington to advise the Bush campaign on how they might destroy me the way the Conservative Party had undone Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock six months earlierAfter the election, the British press fretted that the special relationship between our two countries had been damaged by this unusual British involvement in American politicsI was determined that there would be no damage, but I wanted the Tories to worry about it for a while

The press had a field day with the passport escapade, and Al Gore called it a McCarthyite abuse of powerUndeterred, the President kept asking me to explain the trip to Moscow and continued to question my patriotismIn an interview on CNN with Larry King, I said I loved my country and had dior rasta never considered giving up my American citizenshipI dont think the public paid much attention to the passport flap one way or the other, and I was kind of amused by the whole thingOf course it was an abuse of power, but a pathetically small one compared with Iran-ContraIt just showed how desperate the Bush people were to hang on to power, and how little they had to offer for Americas futureIf they wanted to spend the last month of the campaign barking up the wrong tree, that was fine with me

In the days leading up to the first debate, I worked hard to be well preparedI studied the briefing book diligently and participated in several mock-debate sessionsPresident Bush was played by Washington lawyer Bob Barnett, who had performed the same role four years earlier for DukakisPerots stand-in was Congressman Mike Synar of Oklahoma, who had Rosss sayings and accent down patBob and Mike wore me out in tough encounters before each debateAfter each of our sessions, I was just glad I didnt have to debate them; the election might have turned out differently

The first debate was finally held on Sunday, October 11, Hillarys and my seventeenth wedding anniversary, at Washington University in StI went into it encouraged by the endorsements in that mornings editions of the Washington Post and chanel white watches the Louisville Courier-JournalThe Post editorial said, This country is drifting and worn down; it badly needs to be reenergized and given new directionBill Clinton is the only candidate with a chance of doing thatThat was exactly the argument I wanted to make in the debateYet despite my lead in the polls and the Post endorsement, I was on edge, because I knew I had the most to loseIn a new Gallup poll, 44 percent of the respondents said they expected me to win the debate, and 30 percent said they could be swayed by itPresident Bush and his advisors had decided the only way to sway that 30 percent was to beat people over the head with my alleged character problems until the message sunk inNow, in addition to the draft, the Moscow trip, and the citizenship rumor, the President was attacking me for participating in anti-war demonstrations in London against the United States of America, when our kids are dying halfway around the world

Perot got the first question from one of three journalists, who rotated in a process moderated by Jim Lehrer of The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHourHe was given two minutes to say what separated him from the other two candidatesRoss said he was supported by the people, not parties or special interestsBush and I got one minute to respondI said I represented gucci faux chang

It was a takeoff on one of my best campaign lines, a pledge to end welfare as we know itI reminded my mostly urban budgeteers that farmers were good people who had chosen hard work in an uncertain environment, and though we had to make some cuts in their programs, we dont have to enjoy itSince we couldnt restructure the whole farm program, reduce the subsidies in other nations budgets, or eliminate all the foreign barriers to our food exports, we ended up reducing the existing farm benefits modestly

Another thing we had to consider in proposing cuts, of course, was whether they had a chance to passFor example, someone said we could save a lot of money by eliminating all the so-called highway-demonstration projects, which were specific spending items members of Congress obtained for their districts or statesWhen the suggestion came up, my new congressional liaison, Howard Paster, shook his head in disbeliefPaster had worked in both the House and Senate and for both Democratic and Republican lobbying firmsA New Yorker with a brusque, candid manner, Howard snapped, How many votes does the bond market have? Of course, he knew we had to convince the bond market that our deficit-reduction plan was credible, but he wanted us to remember that it first had to pass, and inflicting personal pain on members of Congress was unlikely to prove a successful strategy

Some of the proposals we considered were so absurd they were comicalWhen someone suggested we impose fees for Coast Guard services, I asked how they would workIt was prada bags online explained that the Coast Guard was quite often called upon to bring in boats that were in distress, often due to the negligence of the operatorsI laughed and said, So when we pull up alongside, or throw down a rope from a helicopter, before we do the rescue, were going to ask, Visa? MasterCard??We let that one go, but eventually we did come up with more than 150 budget cuts

Deciding on the tax increases was no easier than choosing the budget cutsThe toughest issue for me was the BTU taxIt was bad enough that I was going back on my commitment to cut middle-class taxes; now I was told we had to raise them, both to reach the $140 billion deficit reduction target in the fifth year and to turn the psychology of the bond marketThe middle class had been shafted in the eighties, and Bush had been crippled by signing a gas-tax increaseIn one fell swoop, if I proposed the BTU tax I would make the Republicans the anti-tax party again, largely to satisfy the hunger of the prosperous interest-rate setters for a little middle-class pain, in this case about $9 a month in direct costs, rising to $17 when indirect costs, in the form of higher prices for consumer products, were includedLloyd Bentsen said that he had never had any fallout from voting for energy taxes, and that Bush was hurt by signing the 1990 gas-tax increase because of his read my lips pledge and the fact that the most militant anti-taxers were hard-core RepublicansGore again pushed for the BTU tax, saying it would promote energy conservation and independence

Finally, I gave in, chanel diamond watches but made some other changes in Treasurys tax proposals that I hoped would reduce the tax burden on average AmericansI insisted that we include in the budget the full $26 billion cost of my campaign proposal to more than double the tax cut for millions of working families with incomes of $30,000 or less, called the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and for the first time offer a more modest EITC to more than 4 million working poor Americans without dependentsThis proposal would ensure that, even with the energy tax, working families with incomes of $30,000 or less would still receive a meaningful tax cutOn the campaign trail, I had said at virtually every stop, No one with children who works full-time should live in povertyIn 1993, there were a lot of people in that situationAfter we doubled the EITC, more than four million of them moved out of poverty into the middle class during my presidency

As we were trying to close the deal, Laura Tyson said she felt she had to point out that there was no significant economic difference between a fifth-year reduction of $140 billion and one of $120 or $125 billionCongress would probably pare back whatever I proposed anywayShe argued that, if it eased our political problems or was simply better policy, we would save ourselves some headaches by reducing the figure to $135 billion or even a little lessReich, Sperling, Blinder, Begala, and Stephanopoulos all agreed with herThe others held out for the high numberBentsen said we could save $3 billion by dropping the estimated cost of welfare borse louis vuitton reform from the budgetAfter all, we hadnt developed our proposal yet, and the number was just a guessWe knew wed have to spend more on training, child care, and transportation to help poor people move from welfare to work, but if we moved enough people off the rolls, the net cost might go down, not upMoreover, I believed we could pass welfare reform separately with bipartisan support

Later, Lloyd Bentsen added a final piece to the plan, removing the $135,000 earnings cap on the 15 percent payroll tax that funded MedicareThis was necessary to make sure that our numbers on extending Medicares solvency added up, but it did ask for more from the wealthiest Americans, whose top rate we were already proposing to raise to 39 percent, and who would almost certainly never cost the Medicare program as much as they would now pay into itWhen I asked Bentsen about it, he just smiled and said he knew what he was doingHe was confident that he and other high-income Americans who would pay the extra tax would more than make it back in the stock market boom that our economic program would spark

On Monday, February 15, I gave my first televised address from the Oval Office, a ten-minute outline of the economic program I would unveil two days later to a joint session of CongressEven though the economy was in a statistical recovery, it was a jobless one, burdened by the quadrupling of the debt in the last twelve yearsSince all the deficits were the result of the tax cuts for the wealthy, soaring health costs, and increases in defense spending, replica miu miu we were investing less in the things that make us stronger and smarter, richer and safer, like education, children, transportation, and local law enforcementAt the rate we were going, our living standards, which usually doubled every twenty-five years, wouldnt do so again for another one hundred yearsReversing the trend would require a dramatic change in our national priorities, with a combination of tax increases and spending cuts to reduce the deficit and invest more in our futureI said that I had hoped to pursue this course without asking more of middle-class Americans, because they had borne hardships and had been treated unfairly in the previous twelve years, but the deficit had grown far beyond the earlier estimates on which I had built my budget proposals in the campaignNow more Americans must contribute today so that all Americans can do better tomorrowHowever, unlike what had happened in the 1980s, most of the new taxes would be paid by wealthier Americans; for the first time in more than a decade, were all in this togetherIn addition to deficit reduction, my economic plan would provide incentives to businesses to create new jobs; a short-term stimulus to add 500,000 jobs right away; investments in education and training, with special programs to help displaced defense workers; welfare reform and the big increase in the EITC; Head Start opportunities and vaccinations for all children who need them; and the national service initiative to allow young people to earn money for college in return for serving in their vintage chanel jewelry communit

On a couple of occasions, when the talks were in danger of being derailed, Warren Christopher had done a good job of keeping them on trackThe talks were kept confidential, which enabled the negotiators to deal candidly with the most sensitive issues and agree on a set of principles that both sides could acceptMost of our work lay in the future, in helping with the immensely difficult task of resolving the tough issues, hammering out the terms of implementation, and raising the money to finance the costs of the agreement, from increased security for Israel to economic development and refugee relocation and compensation for the PalestiniansI had already gotten encouraging signs of financial support from other countries, including Saudi Arabia, where King Fahd, though still angry about Yasser Arafats support for Iraq in the Gulf War, was supportive of the peace process

We were still a long way from a comprehensive solution, but the Declaration of Principles was a huge step forwardOn September 10, I announced that the Israeli and Palestinian leaders would sign the agreement on the South Lawn of the White House on kelly hermes bags Monday, the thirteenth, and that because the PLO had renounced violence and recognized Israels right to exist, the United States would resume its dialogue with themA couple of days before the signing, the press asked me if Arafat would be welcome at the White HouseI said that it was up to the parties directly involved to decide who would represent them in the ceremonyIn fact, I badly wanted Rabin and Arafat to attend and urged them to do so; if they didnt, no one in the region would believe they were fully committed to implementing the principles, and, if they did, a billion people across the globe would see them on television and they would leave the White House even more committed to peace than when they arrivedWhen Arafat said he would be there, I again asked Rabin to comeHe accepted, though he was still a bit on edge about it

In retrospect, the leaders decision to come may look easyAt the time, it was a gamble for both Rabin and Arafat, who couldnt be sure how their people would reactEven if a majority of their constituents supported them, extremists on both sides were bound to be inflamed by the compromises on tiffany heart tag fundamental issues inherent in the Declaration of PrinciplesRabin and Arafat showed both vision and guts in consenting to come and speakThe agreement would be signed by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas, better known as Abu Mazen, both of whom had been intimately involved in the Oslo negotiationsSecretary Christopher and Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev would witness the accord

On the morning of the thirteenth, the atmosphere around the White House was alive with excitement as well as tensionWe had invited more than 2,500 people to the event, which George Stephanopoulos and Rahm Emanuel had labored overI was especially happy Rahm was working on this because he had served in the Israeli armyPresident Carter, who had negotiated the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, would be thereSo would President Bush, who, with Gorbachev, had co-sponsored talks in Madrid in 1991 involving Israel, the Palestinians, and the Arab statesPresident Ford was invited but couldnt get to Washington before the celebration dinner in the eveningAll former secretaries of state and national security advisors who d

In fact, the discussions were a result of the need to answer press questions arising out of leaks about the Madison investigation, and they had been approved by the Treasury Departments ethics counsel

Edwin Yoder, an old-fashioned progressive columnist, said Washington was being overtaken by ethical cleansersIn a column on the Nussbaum-Altman meeting, he said:

I wish someone would begin by explaining to me why it is so very wicked for White House staff to want information from elsewhere within the executive branch about charges and rumors concerning the president

Robert Fiske found the contacts between the White House and the Treasury Department to be legal, but that didnt stop the smearing of Nussbaum and AltmanBack then, all our political appointees needed to be read their Miranda warnings three times a dayBernie Nussbaum resigned in early March; he never got over my foolish decision to ask for an independent counsel, and he didnt want to be a source of further problemsAltman would leave government service a few months laterThey were both able, honest public servants

In March, Roger Ailes, a longtime Republican operative who had become president of CNBC, accused the administration of a cover-up with regard to Whitewater that includes land fraud, illegal contributions, abuse of power suicide cover-uppossible murderSo much for the credible evidence of wrongdoing standard

William Safire, the New York Times columnist who had been a speechwriter for Nixon and Agnew, and who seemed determined to vintage omega watches prove that all their successors were just as bad as they were, was especially avid in his unsupported assertions that Vinces death was linked to illegal conduct by Hillary and meOf course, Vinces suicide note had said exactly the reverse, that we had done nothing wrong, but that didnt prevent Safire from speculating that Vince had improperly kept records damaging to us in his office

We now know that a lot of the so-called information that fueled the damaging but erroneous stories was fed to the press by David Hale and the right-wingers who adopted him for their own purposesIn 1993, Hale, the Republican municipal judge in Little Rock, was charged with defrauding the Small Business Administration of $900,000 in federal funds that were supposed to have been used to make loans to minority businesses through his company, Capital Management Services (a later GAO audit indicated he had defrauded the SBA of $3Instead, he gave the money to himself through a series of dummy corporationsHale discussed his plight with Justice Jim Johnson, the old Arkansas racist who had run against Win Rockefeller for governor in 1966 and against Senator Fulbright in 1968Johnson took Hale under his wing, and in August put him in contact with a conservative group called Citizens United, whose principals were Floyd Brown and David BossieBrown had produced the infamous Willie Horton ads against Mike Dukakis in 1988Bossie had helped him write a book for the 1992 campaign entitled Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton, in chanel purse white which the authors gave special thanks to Justice Jim Johnson

Hale claimed that I had pressed him to lend $300,000 from Capital Management to a company owned by Susan McDougal, for the purpose of giving it out to leading Arkansas DemocratsIn return, McDougal would lend Hale more than $800,000 from Madison Guaranty, enabling him to get another million dollars from the Small Business AdministrationIt was an absurd and untrue story, but Brown and Bossie peddled it hardApparently, Sheffield Nelson also helped, by pushing it to his contact at the New York Times, Jeff Gerth

By March 1994, the media was wringing its hands about some documents shredded by the Rose firm; one of the boxes that held the papers had Vince Fosters initials on itThe firm explained that the shredding involved material unrelated to Whitewater and was a normal procedure involving papers that were no longer neededNo one in our White House knew about the routine destruction of unneeded records unrelated to Whitewater at the Rose firmMoreover, we had nothing to cover up, and there still wasnt a bit of evidence to indicate that we did

It got so bad that even the highly respected journalist David Broder referred to Bernie Nussbaum as unfortunate for allegedly tolerating arrogance and abuse of power that led to the all-too-familiar wordsinvestigation, subpoena, grand jury, resignation that had echoed through Washington again this past weekBroder even compared the war rooms that managed our campaigns for the economic plan and NAFTA to Nixons gucci bookbag enemies list

Nussbaum was unfortunate, all right; there would have been no investigation, subpoenas, or grand jury if I had listened to him and refused to give in to the demands for an independent counsel to clear the airBernies real offense was that he thought I should abide by the rule of law and accepted standards of propriety, rather than the constantly shifting standards of the Whitewater media, which were designed to produce the very results they professed to deploreNussbaums successor, longtime Washington attorney Lloyd Cutler, had a justifiably good reputation in the Washington establishmentIn the coming months, his presence and advice would help a great deal, but he couldnt turn the Whitewater tide

Rush Limbaugh was having a field day on his show, wallowing in the Whitewater mudHe claimed that Vince had been murdered in an apartment Hillary owned, and that his body had been moved to Fort Marcy ParkI could not imagine how that made Vinces wife and kids feelLater, Limbaugh falsely charged that journalists and others working on or involved in Whitewatergate have been beaten and harassed in Little Rock

Not to be outdone by Limbaugh, former Republican congressman Bill Dannemeyer called for congressional hearings on the frightening number of people connected to me who had died under other than natural circumstancesDannemeyers grisly list included my campaign finance co-chairman, Vic Raiser, and his son, who had died tragically in a plane crash on a trip to Alaska in 1992, and Paul Tully, the sac kelly hermes political director of the Democratic Party who had died of a heart attack while working on the campaign in Little RockI had delivered eulogies at both funerals, and later appointed Vics widow, Molly, as chief of protocol

Jerry Falwell outdid Dannemeyer by releasing Circle of Power, a video about countless people who mysteriously died in Arkansas; the film implied that I was somehow responsibleThen came Falwells sequel, The Clinton Chronicles, which he promoted on his television show, The Old Time Gospel HourThe video featured Dannemeyer and Justice Jim Johnson, and accused me of being involved with cocaine smuggling, having witnesses killed, and arranging the murders of a private investigator and the wife of a state trooperA lot of the witnesses were paid for their testimonials, and Falwell sold a great many videos

As Whitewater unfolded, I tried to keep some perspective, and to remember that not everyone was caught up in the hysteriaFor example, USA Today ran a fair story on Whitewater that included interviews with Jim McDougal, who said Hillary and I didnt do anything wrong, and Chris Wade, the real estate agent in north Arkansas who supervised the Whitewater land, who also said we were telling the truth about our limited involvement with the property

I could understand why right-wingers like Rush Limbaugh, Bill Dannemeyer, Jerry Falwell, and a paper like the Washington Times would say such thingsThe Washington Times was avowedly right-wing, financed by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and edited by Wes Pruden cartier love