The Clintons' War on Women (7 page)

“We were required to work overtime so we could sit outside some place and block the road or sit in some driveway or apartment complex while he went in to take care of his female friends,” remembered state trooper Larry Patterson. “State money was utilized.”
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Patterson, along with Roger Perry, Danny Ferguson, Ronnie Anderson, and L. D. Brown, formed the inner ring of troopers who would run security to procure and protect the sexual indiscretions of their governor.

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I saw on several occasions Bill Clinton engaging in sexual acts while I was either blocking a road or working security at the Governor’s Mansion,” said Patterson. “I saw this with my own eyes take place, so it is not a rumor, it is firsthand.”
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Years later, Patterson and Perry would come forward with intimate details from the debauched lifestyle of then governor Clinton. “These two have had the courage to come forward,” said Jim Johnson, “and the evidence that they have presented has not only been credible, but has been overwhelming and the truth is I’m convinced that it is just the tip of the iceberg.”
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Arkansas state employee Paula Jones was another who came forward with dirt on Governor Clinton and his state troopers.

Governor Clinton had seen Jones working a conference table in the lobby of the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock, where he was scheduled to speak. Clinton asked Danny Ferguson, the state trooper on his private detail that day, to summon Jones to his upstairs suite. When Jones entered the room, Ferguson carefully kept watch outside the door.

Jones said that Clinton tried to run his hands up her dress and attempted to kiss her on the lips. “I like your curves,” Clinton said. “I love the way your hair flows down your back … I was watching you.”

“His face was red, beet red. I’ll never forget that look,” Jones recalled.
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“What are you doing?” Jones asked incredulously. She escaped Clinton’s grasp and quickly moved to the end of a sofa near the door. The governor followed.

“Are you married?” Clinton asked. Jones said that she had a regular boyfriend. Clinton then approached the sofa and as he sat down he lowered his trousers and underwear, exposing his erect penis. “Would you kiss it for me?” Clinton asked.

Jones became horrified, jumped up from the couch, and exclaimed that she was “not that kind of girl.” She said, “Look, I’ve
got to go,” and he attempted to explain that she would get in trouble for being away from the registration desk.

“Well, I don’t want to make you do anything you don’t want to do,” Clinton said, fondling his erect penis.
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Paula Blanchard, the wife of a close Clinton ally, said that Jones arrived back to the registration desk from her visit in a state of “embarrassment, horror, grief, shame, fright, worry, and humiliation.”
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Jones’s recollection of the encounter is detailed. Jones’s sister Lydia Cathey said while deposed that Jones described Clinton’s turgid member as “crooked and hard and gross.” Debra Lynn Ballentine, a friend of Jones, said Paula ran back to her office after the incident and “she told me that [Bill] had an erection but that it was, like, bent, real bent and she asked me if I had even seen anything like that before and I said no.”
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The incident left Jones shamed and appalled. Years later, she would file a sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton and Ferguson, which would bring her story and many others out of the shadows and into the light.

Remember Elizabeth Ward Gracen? She said she had sex with Clinton in 1983 when she was the reigning Miss America and former Miss Arkansas. After Gracen told her good friend Judy Stokes that a forced sexual act had occurred, Stokes relayed this information to the Paula Jones investigators who were looking at Clinton’s deviant sexual history. Judy Stokes was 100 percent convinced that Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted Elizabeth, based on her comments.

After years of denying an affair with Clinton, in early 1998, Gracen confirmed that she had a one-night consensual fling with the then governor. This is not what her friend said both under oath and privately. Stokes stated under oath that Gracen was in tears as she privately described Clinton pushing himself on her as she pleaded she did not want to have sex.

Gracen had mournfully told Stokes that sex with Clinton was “something I did not want to happen.”
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Revealingly, Gracen told
Newsweek
’s Michael Isikoff that Bill, in trademark fashion, had severely bitten her lip in bed.

It is rumored that in the early 1990s, Gracen benefited from help from Bill’s Hollywood friends Mickey Kantor and Harry Thomason. They landed her a miniseries job on the television show
Highlander
with no audition.

“I learned later that movie director Harry Thomason [a longtime Clinton friend] and White House bigwig Mickey Kantor sat down with my agent, Miles Levy, and worked out some kind of a deal that would have me deny anything to do with Bill Clinton, Gracen said.”
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Later in the decade, the Paula Jones investigators were hitting pay dirt looking into Bill Clinton’s violent, deviant, and criminal sexual history. Bill Clinton exposed himself to Paula Jones in May of 1991, and after her name became publicly associated with him in December of 1993, Paula sued Clinton for sexual harassment.

The Paula Jones legal team was a Dallas-based law firm that hired private investigators Rick and Beverly Lambert. In late 1997 and early 1998, Gracen was attempting to avoid contact with the Paula Jones investigators as well as dodge a subpoena in the Jones case.
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However, Rick Lambert did find Gracen confidant Judy Stokes. “I talked to Judy Stokes for an hour and a half,” said Lambert, who interviewed Stokes in December 1997. “At first, she was reluctant to burn her bridges with Liz. But I finally asked, ‘Do you believe Clinton raped her?’ She said, ‘Absolutely. He forced her to have sex. What do you call that?’ Stokes was totally convinced it was rape.”
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Stokes said under oath in her Paula Jones deposition that Gracen was tearful when she talked about the sex that transpired with Clinton and said that it was not consensual.
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Miles Levy, the Hollywood agent for Gracen, told Rick Lambert the reason why Gracen did not want to get involved in the Paula Jones case was that it “would be career suicide for Liz and you know it.”
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The case of Gracen is a textbook example of how the Clintons abuse people. There was the initial, physical assault by Bill in 1983 when she was the reigning Miss America. Then years later, in 1997, after she was subpoenaed to be a sexual harassment witness in the Paula Jones case, the psychological assault of Gracen began as the Clintons attempted to silence her. Hillary for decades has been personally in charge of the intimidation and terror campaigns to silence Bill’s sex victims and former girlfriends.

In December of 1997, Gracen began to receive threatening phone calls, including a reminder that she had been subpoenaed in the Paula Jones case with the advice that she should dodge the subpoena.
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Gracen left the country and traveled around Paris, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Gracen’s belongings were ransacked by three men in suits while she was on vacation in St. Martin. Her manager, Vincent Vento, said intimidating phone had callers advised her to “keep your mouth shut about Bill Clinton and go on with your life. You could be discredited. You could have an IRS investigation.”
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Within weeks, the IRS
was
sending audit letters to the home of Gracen’s parents, which was not listed on her tax filings. It is worth mentioning that the head of the IRS from 1993 to 1997 was Margaret “Peggy” Richardson, who was a longtime and college friend of Hillary Clinton. During the 1990s, four Clinton victims received IRS audits: Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, and Gracen.
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In 1998, Gracen was interviewed by Steve Dunleavy of the
New York Post
.

She related that some frightening and suspicious things had been happening to her. She had started to receive “friendly” phone calls that warned her to get out of town in order to avoid
a subpoena from independent counsel Kenneth Starr. There were nastier calls, too, warning of an impending character assassination. Her friends started to tell her they were being asked about a tape.

Things got even weirder when, she said, her beach cabana was ransacked while she vacationed with her boyfriend in St. Martin. Whoever did the ransacking left a Rolex and $2,000 cash; they were, apparently, looking for something.

“Yes, I was physically scared,” Gracen told Dunleavy. “We are talking about the [president] of the country here, and between the friendly calls on one hand telling me to get out of town for my own good and then talking about smear tactics on the other, I got scared. Yes, physically scared. There were always veiled threats. Always. I did nothing wrong except one stupid night a long time ago. But now this last year has become very frightening.”
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Steve Dunleavy’s article for the
New York Post
was titled “Elizabeth Gracen: I was a victim of Clinton’s reign of terror” with the subtitle “Investigating Clinton’s goons.”

“I think [Bill] is a very dangerous, manipulative man and I’ve had to be very careful,” the former Miss America told the
Toronto Star
in September 1998. “There was a lot of pressure on my family and friends, people were being staked out. I was a little bit afraid for my safety at one point. It’s just not an area where you are safe.”
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L. D. Brown described the time the Clintons, Chelsea, and his girlfriend, Becky, went to New York where Gracen was living. The Clintons went to a taping of
Sesame Street
, and young Chelsea had her picture taken with all the characters. Becky told Brown that by chance the whole Clinton entourage ran into Gracen on the streets of New York. “Becky said it was very uncomfortable and could tell Bill was a little embarrassed.”
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Although Gracen has maintained a public denial that Clinton assaulted her, she has dropped hints that their short “affair” was not entirely consensual. “To use the word rendezvous would imply that
it was romantic,” Gracen said during one interview. “But it was far from romantic.”

CHAPTER 4

TOSSING FLOWERS

I
n the fall of 1991, Bill Clinton announced his candidacy for president. The Clintons, aware they would have to stamp out as much of the allegations of sexual impropriety against Bill as they could, made a list of twenty-six women with whom they knew Clinton had had sex.

In January 1992,
Star
magazine ran an article about a lawsuit that accused Bill Clinton of spending state money on trysts with a series of five women including Flowers. Clinton called the story “trash,” “an absolute lie,” and “totally bogus.” “You know the
Star
says Martians walk on earth and people have cow’s heads,” he added in jest.

On the night of January 26, 1992, shortly after the Washington Redskins upended the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVII, Clinton and his wife, Hillary, sat down with
60 Minutes
correspondent
Steve Kroft for another prime-time spectacle. With more than thirty million Americans tuned in, Clinton combated allegations of a twelve-year affair the then Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful had conducted with former television reporter Gennifer Flowers.

Clinton categorically denied all notions of an affair with Flowers and other women who had come forward, attributing the allegations to an overambitious and deceitful supermarket tabloid.

“It was only when money came out, when the tabloid went down there offering people money to say that they have been involved with me that she changed her story,” Clinton told Kroft. “There is a recession on … times are tough … and I think you can expect more and more of these stories as long as they’re down there handing out money.”
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But Clinton stopped short of saying he had never committed adultery in his past. “You are trying to put this issue behind you,” Kroft said. “And the problem with the answer is it’s not a denial. And people are sitting out there, voters, and they’re saying, ‘Look, it’s really pretty simple … if he’s never had an extramarital affair, why doesn’t he just say so?’”

Years later,
60 Minutes
producer Don Hewitt admitted that he intentionally edited the interview to portray Clinton in a more sympathetic light. “It was strong medicine, the way I edited it,” said Hewitt. “He was a very sick candidate, he needed a very strong medicine and I’m not in the business of doctoring candidates, but he got up out of his sick bed that night and walked to a nomination.”
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The real story is that Clinton was obsessed with Gennifer Flowers for approximately twelve years, from 1977 (when he got her pregnant and then paid for an abortion in early 1978) until 1989, when Bill replaced his Flowers obsession with a fixation on Marilyn Jenkins, with whom he openly carried on an affair.

Flowers said that she and Clinton were so enamored they agreed to think of each other every day at noon. “When we think of each other, let’s picture ourselves in bed making wild, passionate love,”
Clinton suggested.
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In her book,
Passion and Betrayal,
Flowers went into graphic detail regarding the sex games she and Clinton used to play.

Flowers recalled that after she had used silk scarves to tie him to her bedposts, “Bill, as always, wanted to take it a step further, so the next time I tied him to the bed, he asked me to use a dildo-shaped vibrator on him. It was exciting to see him getting so aroused, and I couldn’t wait to untie him so he could use it on me.”
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