[peyton randolph]

Complain about the source if you will...it was the story that caused the Clintons to publicly distance themselves from Morris. There was at least smoke...probably fire. Remember, the prostitute talked.

[lainie]

On the third day of the '96 Democratic convention in Chicago, word spread that the supermarket tabloid Star, which had carried the Gennifer Flowers story, was about to reveal Morris's toe-sucking relationship with Rowlands. Clinton dispatched aide Erskine Bowles to see Morris, who admitted the allegations were true but didn't see the need to resign.

"Why?" Morris asked. "What the hell did I do that he wasn't accused of doing in the exact same magazine four years ago?"

"You've admitted it's true," Bowles replied, according to Morris's book. Morris, in tears the next morning, agreed to leave the campaign and would later describe himself as a sex addict.

Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/morris020399.htm
Wednesday, February 3, 1999