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I had a similar experience and, like you, I remember every detail of the conversation with my lawyer and our response to the threat. Cain's ever-changing memory of the allegations and their resolution is troublesome, even if the allegations themselves were baseless. As we learned many years ago with the Watergate affair, the cover-up is often more damaging than the underlying event.

How awful for you, but you're not Herman Cain and it's likely that you have never held a CEO positions like Herman Cain where you were responsible for hundreds and thousands of employees and had lawyers who handled severences and legal matters, right?

Your once in a life time law suit was traumatic to you. His wasn't and his were 12 years ago.

I am far from Herman Cain experiences, but I have been sued probably seven times and I can't recall the details, only the outcomes, (which I won), and I can't recall the names of all the attorneys who represented me nor the plaintiffs who sued me.

held a CEO positions like Herman Cain where you were responsible for hundreds and thousands of employees and had lawyers who handled severences and legal matters, right?

Here's the problem. Herman made it his trademark to remember names. From a recent news report: Herman Cain's former employees at Godfather's Pizza recall him as an energetic and dynamic leader. They say he listened to new ideas and went out of his way to remember everyone's name and wanted his team to do the same.

Second the NRA has something less than 100 employees at it home office. While you may not be close friends with everyone, believe me, with around 100 people, you know just about everyone. As an example, my wife who was an executive at a company that employed about 250 say someone at the grocery she worked with 15 years ago last night. Both remembered each others names, even though she was executive and he was an hourly on the floor. And for the next hour they each rattled off names and little tidbits about each name.

Most men who have strong morals and convictions hate the thought of a sexual harassment situation. For most men who have those strong morals and convictions, they would remember.

Then maybe that should have been his initial and subsequent response. “I have been in leadership positions at several large organizations, and baseless lawsuits come with the territory. Many of these lawsuits are handled routinely by the organization’s legal staff, and I am unaware of the details of this (or any other) particular legal claim against me.”

There; I wrote this in 90 seconds, and wouldn’t have charged Cain a dime for it.