- All the President's victims II:
- More on Bill Clinton's long history of sexual violence against women
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- Capitol Hill Blue
- 2/21/99 Daniel J. Harris & Teresa Hampton
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- (EDITOR'S NOTE: Two weeks, Capitol Hill Blue first published an account
- of more than a dozen women who have reported being either assaulted or
- raped by Bill Clinton over the last 30 years. Since that story was first
- published, Juanita Broaddrick, one of the women mentioned in this story,
- has gone public with an interview and two other victims have given us
- permission to use their names. The updated story appears below)
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- By Daniel J. Harris
- & Teresa Hampton
- Capitol Hill Blue
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- Juanita Broaddrick's terrifying story of a violent rape by Bill Clinton
- is only one of more than dozen cases of sexual assualt by the President
- that go back 30 years.
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- Capitol Hill Blue has confirmed that the charge is but one of many
- allegations of sexual assault by the President.
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- A five month investigation into the President's questionable sexual
- history reveal incidents that go back as far as Clinton's college days,
- with more than a dozen women claiming his sexual appetites leave little
- room for the word ''no.''
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- Juanita Broaddrick, an Arkansas woman who worked on Bill Clinton's
- campaign when he was attorney general, told NBC's Lisa Meyers two weeks
- ago she was raped by Clinton. NBC, under intense pressure by the White
- House, shelved the interview. The White House also threatened Fox News
- Tuesday after it reported the story. Broaddrick finally took her story
- to The Wall Street Journal, which published her account of the brutal
- rape at the hands of the future President.
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- But Broaddrick's story is only one account of many sexual assaults by
- Clinton. Among the other incidents:
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- A 1969 charge by a Eileen Wellstone, 19-year-old English woman who said
- Clinton assaulted her after she met him at a pub near the Oxford
- University campus where the future President was a student. A retired
- State Department employee, who asked not to be identified, confirmed
- this week that he spoke with the family of the girl and filed a report
- with his superiors. Clinton admitted having sex with the girl, but
- claimed it was consensual. The victim's family declined to pursue the
- case;
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- In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that
- she was sexually assaulted by Clinton, who was a law student at the
- college. No charges were filed, but retired campus policemen contacted
- by Capitol Hill Blue confirmed the incident;
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- In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that
- then-law professor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his
- office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand
- inside her blouse. Clinton claimed the student ''came on'' to him and
- she left the school shortly after the incident. Several former students
- at the University have confirmed the incident in confidential
- interviews;
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- Broaddrick, a volunteer in Clinton's attorney general campaign, said he
- raped her in 1978;
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- From 1978-1980, during Clinton's first term as governor of Arkansas,
- state troopers assigned to protect the governor reported seven
- complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force,
- himself on them sexually. One retired state trooper said in an interview
- that the common joke among those assigned to protect Clinton was "who's
- next?";
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- Elizabeth Ward, the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in
- 1982, told friends she was forced by Clinton to have sex with him
- shortly after she won her state crown. Last year, Ward, who is now
- married with the last name of Gracen, told an interviewer she did have
- sex with Clinton but said it was consensual. She later recanted that
- interview and said had been threatened by Clinton supporters into
- claiming the sex was consensual.
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- Paula Corbin, an Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case
- against Clinton after an encounter in a Little Rock hotel room where the
- then-governor exposed himself and demanded oral sex. Clinton settled the
- case with Jones recently with a cash payment.
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- Sandra Allen James, a former Washington, DC, political fundraiser says
- Presidential candidate-to-be Clinton invited her to his hotel room
- during a political trip to the nation's capital in 1991, pinned her
- against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress. She says she screamed
- loud enough for the Arkansas State Trooper stationed outside the hotel
- suite to bang on the door and ask if everything was all right, at which
- point Clinton released her and she fled the room. When she reported the
- incident to her boss, he advised her to keep her mouth shut if she
- wanted to keep working. Miss James has since married and left
- Washington.
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- Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed
- her, fondled her breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during
- an Oval Office meeting in November, 1993. Willey, who told her story in
- a 60 Minutes interview, became a target of a White House-directed smear
- campaign after she went public.
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- In an interview with Capitol Hill Blue this week, the retired State
- Department employee said he believed the story Miss Wellstone, the young
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- English woman who said Clinton raped her in 1969.
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- ''There was no doubt in my mind that this young woman had suffered
- severe emotional trauma,'' he said. ''But we were under tremendous
- pressure to avoid the embarrassment of having a Rhodes Scholar charged
- with rape. I filed a report with my superiors and that was the last I
- heard of it.''
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- Miss Wellstone, who is now married and lives in London, confirmed the
- incident when contacted this week, but refused to discuss the matter
- further.
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- Capitol Hill Blue also spoke with the former Miss James, the Washington
- fundraiser who confirmed the incident, but first said she would not go
- public because anyone who does so is destroyed by the Clinton White
- House.
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- ''My husband and children deserve better than that,'' she said when
- first contacted two weeks ago. After reading the Broaddrick story
- Friday, however, she called and gave permission to use her maiden name.
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- The other encounters were confirmed with more than 30 interviews with
- retired Arkansas state employees, former state troopers and former Yale
- and University of Arkansas students. Like others, they refused to go
- public because of fears of retaliation from the Clinton White House.
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- Likewise, the mainstream media has shied away from the Broaddrick story.
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- Initially, only The Drudge Report and other Internet news sites have
- actively pursued it.
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- The White House did not return calls for comment.
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