She was the operator of a nursing home chain in Arkansas, and he as governor was holding out an offer of improving regulations that would have affected her constituents and her business. As she has explained over and over, including in this article, she had been a campaign volunteer for him, and at the time of the meeting, he complained that the public area of the hotel was too noisy, and suggested they meet in his room.
What is not in this article, but had been explained in many other accounts, Clinton made sure the women he cornered were accompanied by his state troopers to his meeting places, thus believing they would be "chaperoned" by the Governor's guards. But the troopers had been trained by Clinton to leave him alone with his victims -- this was brought out in many accounts by several of his victims.
Before the fact, few honest women would believe that these men charged with upholding the law would conspire to break it so that an American government official could rape an American citizen with impugnity.
Thanks. I’d forgotten about the state troopers angle with her though I remember it with Paula Jones.
When the initial story mentioning “Paula” was published, it was alleged that after the encounter with Bill Clinton she said she wanted to be his girlfriend. That had to effect of making her version seem untrustworthy. It only came out later that she never said anything like that—one of the troopers made it up.