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...city's leading law firms, they called the Governor's mansion home, and had only one child to put through college. Still, she got the family enmeshed in a shabby get-rich-quick land deal and cattle futures, which led to the Whitewater investigation, which led to Ken Starr, which led to impeachment. The most interest Governor Clinton ever showed in Whitewater was when he famously dripped sweat on James McDougal's office chair after a jog, stopping by for a look at the books at Hillary's behest. Ever angling, the Clintons actually took a tax deduction for donating...
...meeting was as secret as any that Bill Clinton had ever held. Just after the new year, he sat down with his nemesis, independent counsel Robert W. Ray, for Ray's first visit to the White House since taking over from Ken Starr--and Clinton's first meeting with prosecutors since the videotaped deposition in which he admitted to an affair with Monica Lewinsky. In the Map Room, where Franklin Roosevelt plotted World War II, they discussed the broad outlines of an agreement that would avoid the first indictment of a man who had been President. On Friday, the last...
...planted the seeds for an accord at his swearing-in as Starr's successor, in October 1999, when he said it is more important to assure that "justice shall be done" than to win cases. Within days, Ray received a call from the President's private lawyer, David Kendall, who'd spent six ugly years battling Starr. But Ray and Kendall had a clean slate. A tough prosecutor in New York City, Ray had joined Starr's team as an assistant in April 1999--months after the Clinton impeachment ended. Now he and Kendall began a series of regular talks...
SUSAN MCDOUGAL Ex-wife of Arkansas con man Jim McDougal went to jail for 18 months rather than cooperate with Ken Starr's Whitewater investigation. She was seen by Clinton as the victim of overzealous federal prosecution...
WEBSTER HUBBELL A tough call. Squeezed hard by Ken Starr but convicted of bilking Rose Law firm out of thousands. The right would have howled...