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Spacy and Dim. To be sure, the Congressman's accuser is no more admirable. A frustrated would-be actress and model, Liz Ray wandered from job to job (airline ticket agent, waitress, car-rental clerk) after her graduation from high school in Asheville, N.C., in 1962. She first appeared in Washington in the mid-'60s, landing a job as hostess in a restaurant. Her ex-employer says he called her "Excedrin-she was such a headache," and fired her after about five months because "she was hustling...
...took up briefly with a trial lawyer, Charlie Schulze, who recalls: "She wasn't very intelligent. If I took her out somewhere, I'd tell her not to say anything. Now and then she'd forget and call me the next day to apologize." Then Liz latched onto Tom Sarris, a Washington restaurateur. She scratched the paint on the car of a woman she thought was competing for Sarris' attention-and was given a suspended sentence for "destruction of property." Her former boy friends generally describe her as nutty, spacy, neurotic...
According to Liz, her first job on Capitol Hill developed in 1972, when she was a hostess at the Terrace Restaurant in the Watergate complex. Kenneth Gray, then an Illinois Democratic Congressman, phoned up to ask for a former hostess there. Liz told Gray that she wanted to meet him. Recalls Liz: "I had heard about him-the limousines, the boat, the good looks, the sharp clothes." They dined that night and, she says, he offered...
...kind of crying," pleading for work. He made her his receptionist. Says he: "She made all my appointments and typed letters into the thousands." But she typed so slowly, she insists, that other secretaries had to finish her letters. "I could never learn the keyboard," she says. To Gray, Liz was "an exhibitionist. She'd call up at midnight and say she was going to kill herself...
...Liz, who admits to being depressed often and seeing a psychiatrist, claims that when Gray retired from the House in 1974, he suggested she seek a job with Hays. Claims Liz: "Hays said, 'Let's have dinner and talk about it.' We had dinner, he came to my apartment afterwards for sex and he told me, 'Show up tomorrow, keep your mouth shut, make yourself available to me, and I'll pay you $11,000. If it turns out you can do any work...