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Actually, it was 1978:

April 25, 1978

Juanita Broaddrick, the operator of an Arkansas nursing home, will later state in a nationally-broadcast interview on NBC that the following events occurred today:

Broaddrick, then a registered nurse who had started a nursing home in Van Buren, Arkansas, says she met state Attorney General Bill Clinton for the first time earlier in 1978 when Clinton made a campaign stop at the nursing home.
According to Broaddrick, Clinton invited her to "please stop by our campaign office" on her next visit to Little Rock.
Broaddrick will say she called Clinton's campaign office when she arrived in Little Rock for a nursing administrators' conference and was given the phone number of his apartment. At first, she will say, he offered to meet her at the hotel coffee shop, but then suggested he come to her room because there were reporters in the coffee shop.
Broaddrick will say she felt no danger when she let Clinton into her Little Rock hotel room. But she says once Clinton was in the room, he forced himself on her even though she rejected his advances by pushing him away and saying "no."
- Broaddrick will say, "I first pushed him away and just told him, No, please don't do that ... I said, I'm married, and I have other things going on in my life, and this is something that I'm not interested in."
- She will tell NBC's Lisa Myers, "...I tried to get away from him and I told him, No, that I didn't want this to happen, but he wouldn't listen to me."
Broaddrick will be asked: "You're saying that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted you, that he raped you?" "Yes," she will answer.
"It was a real panicky, panicky situation," Broaddrick will tell Myers. "I was even to the point where I was getting very noisy, you know, yelling, to -- you know -- to please stop. But that's when he would press down on my right shoulder and he would bite on my lip."
MYERS: You're saying that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted you, that he raped?
Ms. BROADDRICK: Yes.
MYERS: And you have no--there's no doubt in your mind that that's what happened?
Ms. BROADDRICK: No doubt whatsoever.
Broaddrick will say she didn't report the alleged incident at the time because she didn't think she would be believed. Since Clinton was the attorney general of Arkansas at the time, "I didn't think anyone would believe me in the world," she will say.
She will state that she went to a fund-raising event for Clinton weeks after the alleged assault. "I think I was still in denial," she will say. "And I still felt very guilty at that time that it was my fault by letting him come to the room."
Broaddrick will tell NBC nobody tried to intimidate her to remain silent and no one paid her to keep quiet or to speak out.
She will say she filed an affidavit in the Jones case denying she'd had any unwelcome advances from Clinton because she was unwilling to tell her story at that time.
"I just couldn't hold it inside any longer," Broaddrick wll say in trying to explain why she is finally coming forward with her account. She will say she didn't want her granddaughters and nieces asking her, "Why didn't you tell what this man did to you?" Broaddrick will say, "... I don't want to do anything. I do not have an agenda. I want to put all these rumors to rest."

This event might be worth attending, too:

Spring, 1978

Matt Drudge will later report on a campaign fundraiser at which Juanita Broaddrick met Hillary Clinton:
"It happened at a political rally, in Van Buren, Arkansas in the spring of 1978, at the home of local dentist," Broaddrick begins.
"She [Hillary] came directly to me as soon as she hit the door. I had been there only a few minutes, I only wanted to make an appearance and leave. She caught me and took my hand and said 'I am so happy to meet you. I want you to know that we appreciate everything you do for Bill.'"
Broaddrick was stunned by Hillary's comments.
Only weeks had passed, Broaddrick claims, since she had been raped in a Little Rock hotel room by then attorney general Bill Clinton.
"Here her husband had just done this to me, and she was coming up to thank me? It was scary... I started to turn away and she held onto my hand and reiterated her phrase -- looking less friendly and repeated her statement----'Everything you do for Bill'. I said nothing. She wasn't letting me get away until she made her point. She talked low, the smile faded on the second thank you. I just released her hand from mine and left the gathering."
"I was in state of shock... nausea went all over me... You know, I should not have gone to that political gathering, but I think I was in denial at the time. I actually became physically ill. I went outside and told my first husband I had to go home."
Broaddrick says that while Hillary was quick to approach her, Bill Clinton stayed on the other side of the crowded room.
"He never spoke or came near me," Broaddrick recalls.
Broaddrick, who had been a 'Clinton for governor' campaigner, says that one of her friends had driven the Clintons to the rally from the airport that day -- and the topic of conversation throughout the ride was Broaddrick!
"Hillary knew something---- I just don't know what exactly. For years, I thought she knew what had happened to me, but now I just don't know."