Setting the Record Straight (An open letter to Hillary Clinton)

National Review Online ^ | June 12, 2003 | Dick Morris

[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

[windchime]

You're welcome!

[BlessedByLiberty]

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.

[Howlin]

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

[bootless]

>>What's his screen name?<<

Gary Aldrich. Dec. 17, 1997. :-)

[bootless]

Thank you! You need a scorecard to keep track of the lies...

[Miss Marple]

You know you're a full-fledged member of the VRWC when you know about Craig Livingstone, Kaki Hockersmith, and Elizabeth Ward Gracen. :-)

[Howlin]

You need a scorecard to keep track of the lies...

Whatever do you mean? :-)

[bootless]

AAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!

That's not a scorecard - it's a Black Widow's web!

[Howlin]

And I don't even think it's been updated in years!

[jjm2111]

This site must have been amazing in those days.

[bootless]

OK, I'll look for "the ladies" as well... thanks!

[Segale2001]

Is this really true?

[Matchett-PI]

Even little babies don't believe her

[bootless]

It must be so crowded as to be unreadable by now...

[doug from upland]

THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episode 29 - Filegate; Who Hired Craig Livingstone

[bootless]

Thanks, Doug!

[Eva]

So, did Livingstone come to the Whitehouse at the behest of Al Gore?

[Osage Orange]

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,

[Howlin]

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.

[firewalk]

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...