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Setting the Record Straight (An open letter to Hillary Clinton)
National Review Online ^
| June 12, 2003
| Dick Morris
Posted on 06/12/2003 6:16:09 AM PDT by rockinonritalin
Dear Hillary,
In your new book, Living History, you correctly note that when you asked me to help you and Bill avert defeat in the congressional election of 1994 I was reluctant to do so. But then you assert, incorrectly, that my reluctance stemmed from difficulties in working with your staff. You even misquote me as telling you: "I don't like the way I was treated, Hillary. People were so mean to me."
As you know, I never said anything of the sort. I had, in fact, no experience in dealing with either your staff or the President's at that point, and had not yet met Leon Panetta or George Stephanopoulos. My prior dealing with Harold Ickes had been twenty five years earlier.
The real reason I was reluctant was that Bill Clinton had tried to beat me up in May of 1990 as he, you, Gloria Cabe, and I were together in the Arkansas governor's mansion. At the time, Bill was worried that he was falling behind his democratic primary opponent and verbally assaulted me for not giving his campaign the time he felt it deserved. Offended by his harsh tone, I turned and stalked out of the room.
Bill ran after me, tackled me, threw me to the floor of the kitchen in the mansion and cocked his fist back to punch me. You grabbed his arm and, yelling at him to stop and get control of himself, pulled him off me. Then you walked me around the grounds of the mansion in the minutes after, with your arm around me, saying, "He only does that to people he loves."
I continued to work for Bill since I felt a responsibility to do so until Election Day in 1990. But our relationship was never close and never the same. After the 1990 campaign we parted ways as a direct result of the altercation.
When the story threatened to surface during the 1992 campaign, you told me to "say it never happened."
That, and not the invented conversation in your memoir, was the reason that I was reluctant to work for Bill again.
Yours,
Dick Morris
TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assault; dickmorris; hillary; lies; memoires; offwiththeirheads; putsomeiceonthat; uliewithdogugetfleas; violence
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To: Sunshine Sister
You're welcome!
To: esopman
Interesting analogy about the anthill. Seeing Margaret Carlson, Fineman and some of the nastier reviews of her book, does lead one to believe that the anthill has been stirred.
However, during her reign as the real power behind the throne, fewer people had access to alternative media sources which she and her minions do not manipulate. This fact will let the truth out; they no longer have a seeming stranglehold on the media.
Imagine what there is left to hear about about this sick, depraved couple? Ironically, it may be their own books, their continually skewed perception of reality and their belief in their own lofty intellectual superiority that may bring their downfall.
One always has hope.
To: bootless
When all that was going on with the 900 FBI files, Livingstone at one time said Hillary hired him (something about her knowing his mother); she denied it, and eventually everybody at the White House denied knowing who hired Craig Livingstone.
Here's a thread that discusses it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38ceb3972a91.htm
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posted on
06/12/2003 8:58:09 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Sunshine Sister
>>What's his screen name?<<
Gary Aldrich. Dec. 17, 1997. :-)
84
posted on
06/12/2003 8:58:23 AM PDT
by
bootless
(Never Forget)
To: Howlin
Thank you! You need a scorecard to keep track of the lies...
85
posted on
06/12/2003 8:59:21 AM PDT
by
bootless
(Never Forget)
To: bootless; Howlin
You know you're a full-fledged member of the VRWC when you know about Craig Livingstone, Kaki Hockersmith, and Elizabeth Ward Gracen. :-)
To: bootless
You need a scorecard to keep track of the lies...Whatever do you mean? :-)
87
posted on
06/12/2003 9:04:14 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
AAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!
That's not a scorecard - it's a Black Widow's web!
88
posted on
06/12/2003 9:06:31 AM PDT
by
bootless
(Never Forget)
To: bootless
And I don't even think it's been updated in years!
89
posted on
06/12/2003 9:07:09 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: bootless
This site must have been amazing in those days.
90
posted on
06/12/2003 9:07:54 AM PDT
by
jjm2111
To: Miss Marple
OK, I'll look for "the ladies" as well... thanks!
91
posted on
06/12/2003 9:10:05 AM PDT
by
bootless
(Never Forget)
To: rockinonritalin
Is this really true?
92
posted on
06/12/2003 9:10:24 AM PDT
by
Segale2001
(Old School America will Rise Again.)
To: rockinonritalin
Even little babies don't believe her
93
posted on
06/12/2003 9:18:12 AM PDT
by
Matchett-PI
(Marxist DemocRATS, Nader-Greens, and Religious KOOKS = a clear and present danger to our Freedoms.)
To: Howlin
It must be so crowded as to be unreadable by now...
94
posted on
06/12/2003 9:18:46 AM PDT
by
bootless
(Never Forget)
To: bootless
95
posted on
06/12/2003 9:31:00 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Martha is indicted and the Clintons still walk free.........what a country)
To: doug from upland
Thanks, Doug!
96
posted on
06/12/2003 9:32:02 AM PDT
by
bootless
(Never Forget)
To: Howlin
So, did Livingstone come to the Whitehouse at the behest of Al Gore?
97
posted on
06/12/2003 9:34:11 AM PDT
by
Eva
To: oldironsides
You wrote:
"They should have allowed this information to be made public before the first election of Bill Clinton. He is a sick SOB. Many thanks to their enablers."
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Personally I think we can "thank" the clymer media for the 8 years of SickSlick...If they had done their jobs, ( the way they should have..) there's a chance the sheeple wouldn't have been flim-flamed for 8 years.........
FRegards,
98
posted on
06/12/2003 9:34:41 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Hillary Clinton's heart is darker than the Devil's riding boots.")
To: Eva
That's what I'm thinking, or at the very least, Gore put his name on a list.
I can't even remember where I read about Clinton and Gore's "deal".....but I do remember them saying that Gore had more input into who was hired for what at the White House than any VP before.
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posted on
06/12/2003 9:42:25 AM PDT
by
Howlin
At the time, Bill was worried that he was falling behind his democratic primary opponent and verbally assaulted me for not giving his campaign the time he felt it deserved. Offended by his harsh tone, I turned and stalked out of the room.
Mr. Morris, I would LOVE to know what you said to him as you stalked out
just wondering...
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