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To: grimalkin
The allegation was passed on to reporters for The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times in the waning days of the 1992 Presidential campaign. Regarding it as the kind of toxic waste traditionally dumped just before Election Day, both newspapers passed on the story -- that a nursing-home executive had been sexually assaulted in 1978 by Bill Clinton, then the Attorney General of Arkansas.

The rumor persisted in the shadowlands of the Internet, even after a sworn denial by Juanita Broaddrick, the woman involved. Mrs. Broaddrick reversed herself last spring, during questioning by investigators for the independent counsel, Kenneth W. Starr. Last month, during the impeachment process, she decided to make the assault charges public in an interview with NBC News. Then she chafed because the interview was not broadcast.

Now, Mrs. Broaddrick has found a different avenue to tell her story, giving several news organizations, including The New York Times, an account of an encounter with Clinton in an Arkansas hotel room. The interviews represent the first time she has spoken openly about an accusation first made public last March. In the interview, she describes a scene in which Clinton invited himself to her room and then attacked her.

President Clinton's personal lawyer, David A. Kendall, has strenuously denied the charge. "Any allegation that the President assaulted Mrs. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false," he said in a statement released on Friday in response to reporters' inquiries. "Beyond that, we're not going to comment." The White House declined further comment Tuesday.

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How different things are when you're on the Left Wing Media's hit list!

2 posted on 04/07/2002 8:00:06 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: kiryandil
"I said I should get compensation, but I didn't say I was in it to get compensation," she said.

. . .saw this 'woman' on TV and thought immediately how pathetic this was; and that she surely was not telling the truth; and what she was saying, was not for the right reasons.

4 posted on 04/07/2002 8:08:27 PM PDT by cricket
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