Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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No one was lower on the chain than Monica Lewinsky, and some sources say the intern targeted Currie as a way to get to Clinton. "She worked Betty hard," says a Clinton adviser, "to put herself in the eye of the President. She knew the President was in and out...
That style was forged in postwar Waukegan, Ill., a Lake Michigan shore town about 50 miles north of Chicago. A housekeeper's daughter, Betty Williams was ambitious and nimble. When she and her neighborhood friends moved from a mostly black elementary school to the mostly white high school, she left...
Currie retired from government in 1984 and took a volunteer position as office manager of Geraldine Ferraro's vice-presidential campaign. Four years later, John Podesta brought her into Michael Dukakis' organization. And in 1992, she went to Little Rock, Ark., to become the unofficial den mother to James Carville...
But Hobart had lost interest in the press. "You'll notice that when it all started to calm down, we heard from Betty Currie, who was for years a loyal worker in--what else?--the Democratic Party."
But shortly after dinner, in a white tent over the West Terrace, as Wonder began You Are the Sunshine of My Life, an aide handed Clinton confidant Harry Thomason a printout off the Internet of a New York Times story about Betty Currie's testimony. The sight of Thomason hunched...