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...Jones team, the May 27 trial would come none too soon. Last week the right-leaning groups backing Jones looked more like bratty children than cogs in a well-oiled conspiracy machine. John Whitehead, who runs the Rutherford Institute, the legal foundation bankrolling her lawsuit, complains that another group, the Paula Jones Legal Fund, is siphoning away fund-raising cash. "The fund implies it's going to pay the lawyers," he says, but the money actually pays for Jones' expenses, including her makeover and clothes (more than $4,000), phone bills and savings for the $800,000 lien held...
Meanwhile, some conservatives are attacking Rutherford for what they say is his move toward the left. Two Christian radio networks have announced plans to drop Rutherford's daily radio spots; other groups have complained about Whitehead's sympathetic views toward gays. But with a trial now virtually certain, it's small comfort for Clinton that his tormentors are bickering among themselves...
...that he might as well have been Moses. Two decades later, in Sunrise at Campobello, there is Roosevelt again, this time played by Ralph Bellamy as the last word in ripening decencies. Nobody in those days thought of making a movie about F.D.R. and his sometime mistress Lucy Mercer Rutherford. Or about Dwight Eisenhower and his wartime companion Kay Summersby. Or about J.F.K. and...well, whomever. The Kennedy film Hollywood did make...
...fact, the fund was turned over to Jones herself -- to be used, sources say, for tickets to Little Rock or clothing for TV interviews. All perfectly legitimate, but hardly litigious expenses. And that, according to TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan is what got Rutherford all riled up. "They want truth in advertising," says Branegan. Especially when Jones' legal costs are spiralling up towards $800,000, and Rutherford itself has only raised...
...Which is why Rutherford Institute chief Paul Whitehead fired off a series of angry letters last November to Everly & Associates, the frontmen for Paula's legal fund. His threats included taking Everly to the IRS. Everly replied that Whitehead was not taking a very Christian attitude. Whitehead's response to that was unprintable...