Word: paulas
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...couch, magazines scattered about and, these days, a new boom box. As he flew home from Africa Thursday night, he listened to Charlie Parker and Wynton Marsalis. Like the music, his mood was a complex mix of mellowness and energy in the aftermath of the dismissal of the Paula Jones suit. Although the feeling inside the White House is that he has been the victim of a protracted personal assault funded by right-wing money, Clinton is wary about speaking out publicly, because he and his advisers feel that his success in the polls has come from his ability...
TIME: Is there any truth to Paula Jones' allegations...
Last week it emerged that another conservative moneyman was present at the creation of Clinton's other legal headache, the Paula Jones case. Jones brought suit after she recognized herself as the woman named "Paula" in the 1994 Spectator story about Clinton's alleged caperings while Arkansas Governor. Last week the Chicago Sun-Times reported that two of the troopers who were sources for that article, Larry Patterson and Roger Perry, were paid by Peter W. Smith, a Chicago investment banker and large G.O.P. contributor, who spent about $80,000 over 18 months to get tales about Clinton's personal...
Upon hearing the news, President Clinton banged a drum to an uneven beat, and strummed a guitar that he cannot play, and chewed a cigar that his wife will not let him smoke. Paula Jones' response was even more typical of the person she is: she wept, we are told, and then announced to reporters gathered at her condo, "I want to go work...
...listen to the naysayers and skeptics, the professional doom-mongers and moralizing tut-tutters; this is still a great country, and Paula Jones has proved it to be so. There was a time when only domestic fat cats and foreign tyrants could bring a presidency to the brink of destruction. But Paula Jones has democratized the calculus of scandal. She earned $12,000 working for something called the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission--surely the bureaucratic equivalent of the Maytag repair service. One spring day, as she manned a registration desk at a conference, fate brought her into the line...