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SEXUAL HARASSMENT CHARGES PENDING AGAINST PRESIDENT
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the
gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan] is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I had intended to come to the floor today
and discuss Rwanda and the genocidal slaughter taking place in that
tortured country. Genocide is a word that is overused, but in the case
of Rwanda it fits. In fact, both sides in this horrible tribal war are
attempting it. It is a tragedy.
Last night, speaking live to an audience in Pennsylvania, it occurred
to me that of the six Nazi extermination camps, not labor camps, not
concentration camps, like Dachau, Borgen-Belsen, Ravensbruck,
Buchenwald, but camps built to exterminate human beings, to eliminate
the entire Jewish population of every country in Western and Middle
Europe, that of those six extermination camps, only Treblinka, killing
750,000 people, and the horror of Auschwitz and its huge satellite camp
of Birkenau, which killed a million and a half or more people, only
those two camps out of six, killed more than 500,000 people. It all
took 2 or 3 years in gas chambers and a perversion of science and
technology to do it. But in Rwanda, even more people have been killed
in 3 weeks, most of them with machetes, than at Chelmo, Belzec,
Mydanyck, or Sobibor.
This is an unbelievable slaughter, and I will talk about it next week
for an hour. I could also have spoken tonight about Haiti and the
inconsistency in our policy which is on the front page of all the
papers. Mr. Clinton contradicts himself almost every month now on that
policy. Then there is Bosnia, Bosnia, Bosnia. It will not go away.
There three peoples are engaged in ethnic slaughter with the Bosnian
Serbs the main perpetrators.
But, Mr. Speaker, all of that will have to wait, because in my
remaining 3 or 4 minutes tonight, I must discuss this button that I
have been wearing all day, I will take it off now, because
parliamentary rules say it is a minidemonstration on the floor, which
is not allowed.
The button says, ``I believe Paula.'' That does not mean Paula
Coughlin, lieutenant senior grade of the terrible Navy Tailhook Scandal
in Las Vegas, even though I also believed everything that she said.
What has hurt her was day one when she had her upper thigh shaved and
wrote on a sign, ``You made me see God.'' That is not average conduct
for a Catholic lady in or out of the service. I believed everything she
said about the gauntlet and the degrading treatment of lady officers at
Tailhook.
The Paula referred to on this button is Paula Corbin Jones. I have
known about her story since September of last year, before it went into
print in the American Spectator.
Mr. Speaker, this is the front page of the Washington Post, which by
printing the story has redeemed its integrity. It says, ``Clinton Hires
Lawyers as Sex Harassment Suit Is Threatened.''
This former Arkansas State employee, Paula Corbin, now married so she
is Paula Corbin Jones, alleges improper advance by then Governor
Clinton in 1991, after the presidential campaign was underway. If you
recall former Senator Tsongas, a colleague here of us once, had already
declared. Others were also declaring. This was 5 months before Mr.
Clinton himself declared. It was May 8, 1991.
And Mr. Speaker, this Paula Corbin Jones case makes the charges
against a Member of the other body involving 12, up to 30 instances of
sexual harassment pale in comparison. It makes the Anita Hill story
pale in comparison. It makes Paul Coughlin's story at Las Vegas pale.
After you leave the front page with these two stories written
principally by Michael Isikoff, who was suspended in a fight over this
story, you go inside to discover it fills the entire 14th page. This is
one of the three biggest papers in the country, along with the New York
Times and the Los Angeles Times.
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There is not an advertisement on it.
I am going to ask to put these two stories in the Record.
This is what they call, in the mass media, ``a fire storm.''
Tomorrow the L.A. Times and all of the other big papers will pick up
the wire service stories on Paula Corbin Jones' charges of the grossest
sort of sexual harassment against the now sitting President who was
then the sitting Governor of Arkansas.
Then she will file the case tomorrow, which will be in all the papers
on Friday, coast-to-coast. I understand it is the major topic of
conversation on every talk show, whether the host is liberal or
conservative or a raging moderate, all across the country. And the
President has hired Bob Bennett, who is the lawyer of one of our
colleagues, Mr. Rostenkowski.
I just want to end by reminding my colleagues what I said back in the
fall of 1992. I said if the country elected Bill Clinton all sorts of
stories abut sex and other unsavory aspects of Mr. Clinton's past would
come pouring out. I was ridiculed at the time. Well, I hate to be an
``I told you so,'' but, well, I told you so. I take little satisfaction
in being right, however, because this President is ripping the moral
fiber of our country to shreds. What must the children of America be
thinking.
Mr. Speaker, I include for the Record the articles to which I
referred.
[From the Washington Post, May 4, 1994]
Clinton Hires Lawyer as Sex Harassment Suit Is Threatened
former state employee in arkansas alleges improper advance in 1991
(By Michael Isikoff; Charles E. Shepard, and Sharon LaFraniere)
On Feb. 11, former Arkansas state clerical worker Paula
Jones appeared at a Washington news conference and accused
Bill Clinton of making an unwanted and improper sexual
advance during a brief encounter in a Little Rock hotel room
in 1991.
As Jones told it, a state trooper serving on then-Gov.
Clinton's security detail summoned her to meet Clinton while
she was working at a state-sponsored conference where he was
speaking. Alone with her, Jones said, Clinton tried to kiss
her, reached under her clothing and asked her to perform a
sexual act. She said she felt humiliated and walked out
within minutes.
Asked by reporters to respond, White House aides said the
story was untrue and described it as a cheap political trick
engineered by avowed Clinton enemy Cliff Jackson, who had
helped arrange Jones's news conference at a gathering of
political conservatives. They said Clinton had no memory of
meeting the woman.
Clinton's new attorney, Robert S. Bennett, said yesterday,
``This event, plain and simple, didn't happen.'' Clinton has
retained Bennett as his personal attorney to defend against a
threatened lawsuit by Jones.
Over the past three months, The Washington Post has
interviewed Jones extensively about what she said happened in
Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel. She said she was alone with
Clinton in the room--making it impossible to independently
resolve what, if anything, happened between them.
Jones, who now lives in California, provided the names of
two longtime friends and two family members who said in
interviews that Jones had told them about the May 8, 1991,
episode the day it occurred. One of the friends, a co-worker
at the conference, said she witnessed the trooper's approach.
Jones's then-boyfriend, Steve Jones, now her husband, said
she told him at the time that Clinton had made a pass at her.
Three Arkansas state troopers have said in published
accounts and in recent interviews with the Post that Clinton
used them and other members of his state security detail to
solicit women to whom he was attracted, although none was on
duty on the day Jones alleges she met with Clinton.
Key aspects of Jones' account are a departure from past
allegations about Clinton's personal conduct. Jones worked
for an Arkansas state agency, and she contends that Clinton's
conduct toward her constituted sexual harassment of an
employee. No woman has ever publicly accused Clinton of
workplace harassment or the extreme behavior that Jones
recounts.
``What she alleges is simply inconceivable as Clinton
behavior,'' said Betsey Wright, Clinton's former chief of
staff in Arkansas who helped his 1992 presidential campaign
combat allegations of extramarital affairs.
Aides to Clinton have suggested that, aside from political
motivation, Jones could be seeking financial gain, and her
attorney has acknowledged that before her news conference he
made an effort to negotiate an out-of-court monetary
settlement in exchange for her silence. Yesterday Bennett
accused Jones's attorney of seeking a job for Jones in return
for her silence.
The first account of a story involving Paula Jones appeared
in the January issue of the conservative American Spectator
magazine. The article quoted an unnamed trooper who said he
approached a woman named ``Paula'' on Clinton's behalf, then
stood guard outside a hotel room while Clinton met with her.
The trooper said in the account that she told him, as she
left the room after less than an hour, that she was willing
to be Clinton's girlfriend.
The trooper, later identified as Danny Ferguson, has
refused since Jones's news conference to discuss the American
Spectator article. He declined again last week to be
interviewed.
Jones has said it was indignation over that article and
what she said was the untrue depiction of her encounter with
Clinton that caused her to speak out. Her attorney, Daniel
Traylor of Little Rock, said Jones had to go public because
Clinton indirectly had declined private appeals Traylor made
for a public clarification of the American Spectator story.
Traylor later confirmed that he did not know whether such an
appeal had actually reached the White House.
Jones's allegations revolve around the 1991 Governor's
Quality Conference, a one-day session on management for
manufacturing executives and government officials held at the
19-story Excelsior Hotel at the edge of downtown Little Rock.
Then 44, Clinton was in his fifth term as governor. Already
considered a possible Democratic candidate for the
presidency, he had just returned from a well-received
appearance before the national Democratic Leadership Council.
He was five months from announcing his candidacy.
At the registration desk outside the hotel ballroom, Jones
(then Paula Corbin) and a coworker she had known since
childhood, Pam Blackard, were handing out name tags and
literature. Jones, then 24, had been hired two months earlier
as a $10,270-a-year clerk for the Arkansas Industrial
Development Commission, a job that required regular visits to
the governor's office in the capitol. The job was the
highlight of her resume: After secretarial classes at a
junior college, she had held a string of office and sales
positions, none for more than nine months.
Jones described herself in interviews as sometimes too
trusting and a talkative and outgoing person. ``A lot of
people take that as being a flirt,'' she said. ``That's just
me though. I like people, and I like to talk to people. . . .
It doesn't matter if it's a man or woman.''
At some point during the day of the conference, Jones said,
she noticed Clinton standing nearby, answering questions from
reporters. Jones, who had never met Clinton, said she thought
he was staring at her. A few minutes later, she said trooper
Ferguson, a member of Clinton's security detail with whom she
had chatted earlier, approached the table and told her, ``The
governor said you make his knees knock.''
She said Ferguson returned a short time later, at about
2:30, and handed her a piece of paper with a room number
written on it. ``The governor would like to meet you up in
his room and talk to you . . . in a few minutes,'' Ferguson
said.
Jones said she had recognized the suggestive flavor of
Ferguson's ``knees knock'' comment, but reacted to his words
as a compliment, not a come-on. She said she had no reason to
expect what she said happened later. ``I was brought up to
trust people and especially of that stature--you know, a
governor.'' Jones said he hoped the meeting might yield a
better-paying job in Clinton's office.
Clinton's schedule for that day, provided by the White
House last week after repeated requests, shows the governor
scheduled for ``phone time'' between 2:15 and 2:30 that
afternoon after a luncheon and videotaping at the governor's
mansion.
The schedule indicates Clinton had the option of returning
to the quality conference between 2:30 and 4 p.m. Conference
organizers had asked Clinton to attend as much of the day as
possible.
After Jones's news conference, a White House aide said her
account could not be true and referred The Post to Phil
Price, Gov. Clinton's senior assistant for economic
development in 1991 and now Arkansas' assistant bank
commissioner. Price said he is convinced Clinton did not
return to the Excelsior that afternoon because he does not
remember returning himself and he was Clinton's designated
staff member for such conferences. But management consultant
James Harrington, the featured conference speaker after
lunch, said he talked to and saw Clinton that afternoon. ``He
was milling about, meeting people, saying hello,'' he said.
Jones said she followed Ferguson upstairs, and the trooper
stayed in the hallway. Clinton met her at the door, she said.
She said the room was furnished as a parlor and had no bed.
After asking her about her job, she said, Clinton took her
hand. She said, she pulled it away, and tried to distract him
by chatting about Clinton's wife. But, she said, he
persisted, kissing her neck and putting his hand on her thigh
underneath her culotte.
Jones said she objected, asking Clinton: ``What's going
on?'' She said he told her he had noticed her downstairs and
liked the curves of her body and the way her black hair
flowed down her back. ``I will never forget the look on his
face,'' she said. ``His face was just red, beet red.''
Asked why she didn't leave the room, she said: ``I guess I
didn't know what to do. This is the governor, this is not
just anyone. I feel intimidated . . . by anybody that's
higher than me. I feel I've got to do everything possible not
to make them upset at me. I've always been like that.''
Jones said she walked to the far end of a sofa and sat
down, averting her eyes. The next thing she knew, she said,
Clinton had dropped his trousers and underwear and was
sitting next to her on the couch. Then, she said, he asked
her to perform oral sex.
``I jumped up and I said, `No, I don't do that. I'm not
that type of person. I need to be going back downstairs,'''
Jones recalled saying. Clinton, she said, tried to reassure
her that she would not be in trouble with her boss if she
stayed, but she left the room. As she was leaving, she said,
Clinton asked her not to mention the episode to anyone.
She said she passed Ferguson in the hallway without
speaking, and returned to the table where Blackard still sat
downstairs. She estimated she had been gone for no more than
15 minutes.
In an interview, Blackard said she had seen Clinton staring
at Jones, watched the trooper ask Jones to meet Clinton, and
talked with her about whether to go. ``I did say to her . . .
`Find out what he wants and come right back. . . . If you're
that curious, go ahead,''' Blackard recalled saying.
When she returned, Blackard said, Jones was ``walking
fast'' and ``shaking.'' She said Jones told her that Clinton
had made unwanted advances and Jones implored her to tell no
one. ``We were both kind of scared,'' Blackard recalled. ``We
weren't thinking straight. I thought I could lose my job. She
thought she could lose her job.''
In an interview, Jones said that at the time she feared she
would be fired for leaving the registration desk or because
her refusal might have angered Clinton, who as governor
appointed her boss.
Another friend, Debra Ballentine, said Jones showed up
unexpectedly at her office late that afternoon and told her
the story. Jones trembled and ``was breathing really hard,''
said Ballentine, who has known Jones about six years and is a
marketing coordinator for a large Little Rock company.
Ballentine said Jones ``couldn't believe she was so stupid''
for going upstairs.
Before Jones's news conference, both Balletine and Blackard
signed affidavits supporting Jones's account after
conferences in the office of Jones's attorney, Traylor. The
Post interviewed both women subsequently.
Jones's two sisters said they talked to Jones that evening
at their homes outside Little Rock. Charlotte Brown said her
younger sister told her in a ``matter of fact'' way that
Clinton had propositioned her. Lydia Cathey, now 29 and
closer in age to Jones, said she ushered her sister into her
bedroom, shut the door and comforted her sister as she cried
on the bed.
One voice silent in the Paula Jones controversy is that of
trooper Ferguson, who now guards Clinton's successor in the
Arkansas governor's mansion, Jim Guy Tucker (D).
``I am not going to say anything about it,'' Ferguson told
The Post after Jones's February news conference. ``I have to
think about my family.''
Other troopers said Ferguson told them about soliciting a
woman at the Excelsior soon afterward and again last summer,
when he and three other members of the Arkansas governor's
security detail began talking among themselves about
experiences with Clinton, including times they say they had
sought out women on the governor's behalf.
One story Ferguson told involved a woman named ``Paula,''
according to the troopers. Trooper Roger Perry told The Post
he heard Ferguson tell how Clinton had noticed ``Paula'' at
the Excelsior and had described her as having ``that come-
hither look,'' Perry said in an interview that Ferguson, at
Clinton's request, arranged to get a room, telling the hotel
Clinton expected a call from the White House.
Last summer several of the troopers, looking for a book
deal, enlisted the help of Little Rock attorney Cliff
Jackson, who has worked for years to discredit Clinton
politically. Eager to get maximum impact, he arranged for the
troopers to talk to reporters for the American Spectator
magazine and the Los Angeles Times.
The Spectator article, released in late December, quoted an
unidentified trooper as saying that he had recruited
``Paula'' at Clinton's request and stood guard outside the
hotel room for ``no more than an hour.'' The magazine also
reported that the trooper recalled ``Paula'' saying as she
exited that ``she was available to be Clinton's regular
girlfriend if he so desired''--a remark at odds with Jones's
story. Fellow troopers told The Post that Ferguson had told
them ``Paula'' was willing to be Clinton's girlfriend.
Jones said she learned about the Spectator article from her
friend Ballentine during a visit to Arkansas last January.
Jones said she felt humiliated by the magazine's description
of her encounter with Clinton and believed that some of her
friends and family would conclude that she was the ``Paula''
described in the article. She said she wanted to ``clear my
name.''
Jones said she did not accuse Clinton during the 1992
campaign, when his conduct with women was at issue, because
she still worked for the state and was convinced no one would
believe her.
The day after Jones said she learned about the American
Spectator article, Jones and Ballentine recalled they ran
into Ferguson at a restaurant in the Little Rock area. Jones
said she asked Ferguson if he had been the magazine's source.
Ferguson became apologetic according to both Jones and
Ballentine.
According to the two women, Ferguson said he had been
dragged into the interview with the Spectator by the other
troopers. They said he added that no one would know who Jones
was because he hadn't disclosed her last name and, ``besides,
Clinton told me you wouldn't do anything anyway.''
Jones said she had several more contacts with Ferguson and
Clinton before she left her state job in February 1993. Once,
she said, she ran into Ferguson, who told her Clinton had
been asking about her, wanted her home phone number and was
interested in seeing her. Jones, who was living with the man
she would marry in December 1991, said she refused.
Jones saw Clinton two more times before she left the
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, she said. Once
she got a brief hello. The other time, in fall 1991, she
said, Clinton called out to her under the rotunda of the
Arkansas capitol. He was accompanied by another bodyguard,
Larry Patterson, one of the three troopers who has publicly
accused Clinton of womanizing. Patterson said in an interview
he recalls the encounter as Jones does.
After Clinton spotted her, Jones said, Clinton called out
her name and walked over. Then, she said, ``he squeezed me up
close to him,'' her side to his. He turned with a smile to
Patterson, his arm still around her shoulder and said to
Patterson: ``Don't we make a beautiful couple? Beauty and the
Beast.''
She said she replied, ``Well, you don't look like the
Beast.'' And with that, she said, Clinton bid goodbye,
saying, ``It was nice to see you, ``Paula.''
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[From the Washington Post, May 4, 1994]
Bennett Sets an Aggressive Campaign on Public Relations and Legal
Fronts
(By Michael Isikoff)
President Clinton has retained prominent Washington defense
lawyer Robert S. Bennett as part of an aggressive public
relations and legal strategy aimed at fighting allegations
from a former Arkansas state employee that Clinton sexually
harassed her three years ago.
An attorney for Paula Corbin Jones said yesterday she
intends to file a civil suit in federal court on Thursday
accusing Clinton of violating her civil rights and causing
her ``severe emotional distress'' by making ``unwelcome
physical contact'' and asking her to perform a sexual act.
The three-year statute of limitations on these claims is to
expire at the end of this week.
White House officials have denied Jones's allegations. This
week, believing Jones will make good on her intentions to
file suit, Clinton and White House counsel Lloyd Cutler
turned over the defense to Bennett, well known for his
spirited representation of prominent Washington clients, and
gave him new authority to mount a public relations
counteroffensive, knowledgeable sources said.
``Bennett is . . . savvy about both the law as well as
the ways of Washington and the press,'' said one White House
official ``He brings a lot of assets to this type of case.''
Bennett said in an interview yesterday that the lawsuit was
``really just an attempt to rewrite the results of the
election'' and released an affidavit from a Little Rock
businessman saying that Jones's lawyer, Daniel Traylor,
threatened to publicly ``embarrass'' Clinton last January
unless his client got money. Traylor also said that ``it
would help if President Clinton would get Paula a job out in
California,'' according to the businessman's sworn statement.
Bennett becomes the second Washington lawyer hired by the
president to deal with controversies about Clinton's private
life and investments. David Kendall has been dealing with the
investigation of special counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr. about
Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton's investment in the
Whitewater Development Corp. and its ties to a failed
Arkansas savings and loan, Madison Guaranty. Kendall has also
been monitoring negotiations on Capitol Hill over the shape
and timing of congressional hearings on the matter.
``Bennett obviously has had considerable experience with
congressional hearings and I would expect he would be
involved in giving advice on those kinds of things,'' said
one senior administration official.
Bennett was counsel to the Senate ethics committee in its
investigation of the ``Keating Five'' senators. He
represented Clark Clifford in the BCCI investigation, and is
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski's lawyer in the Justice Department's
investigation of the Illinois Democrat.
The White House said both Kendall and Bennett are being
paid with the Clinton's private funds.
Bennett is known as a lawyer who not only fights behind the
scenes for his clients but also is an outspoken public
advocate. ``there's a sense that a lot of this was political
and needed to be fought on a more public level,'' one source
said.
Jones's charges have been a cause celebre in right-wing
circles since she first appeared last Feb. 11 at a news
conference organized by Cliff Jackson, a Little Rock lawyer
who is a longtime political opponent of Clinton's and
sponsored by the Conservative Political Action Committee.
Jackson had called reporters to attend the launch of a fund-
raising effort for Arkansas state troopers who had accused
Clinton of abusing his office as governor to solicit women
for him.
Charges that Clinton had engaged in extramarital liaisons
arose during the presidential campaign, when he was publicly
accused by an Arkansas woman, Gennifer Flowers, of having
conducted a years-long affair with her and then obtaining for
her a state job. Clinton said her story was untrue, but
confessed to having caused ``pain in my marriage.'' The
matter was largely dropped as other issues came to dominate
the campaign.
It arose again in December, when a conservative magazine,
the American Spectator, published the allegations by the
state troopers.
The mainstream media largely gave limited coverage to
Jones's allegations, leading several publications and
interest groups to publicly accuse them of covering up for
Clinton, and to insist that her charges be afforded the same
attention as the sexual harassment allegations Anita F. Hill
made during the Senate confirmation hearings of Clarence
Thomas for the Supreme Court.
Last month, the conservative watchdog group Accuracy in
Media ran advertisements in The Washington Post and the New
York Times criticizing them for ignoring the story.
Republicans have concentrated their anti-Clinton fire on
the Whitewater investigation of land deals by Clinton and his
wife in Arkansas, rather than allegations by Jones or the
troopers.
Jones has said that while working at a state government
conference on May 8, 1991, she was approached by Arkansas
state trooper Daniel Ferguson and was asked to meet Clinton
in an upstairs room. Once inside, she said, Clinton made
unwelcome sexual advances.
Traylor said that the suit will charge that Clinton had a
regular ``practice'' of using state troopers to approach
women for sex with him and that he also will seek testimony
from the troopers.
``Paula Jones is a victim of that practice,'' Traylor said.
Bennett said the lawsuit Traylor is contemplating is
``unprecedented'' and he questioned whether a president may
be sued for alleged events that took place before he entered
office.
Jones has said she did not file her claims after they
happened because she was frightened she would lose her state
job if she accused the governor of misconduct. Because
federal law requires that sexual harassment claims be filed
within 180 days of the alleged offense, Jones long since
missed her chance to do so.
But Traylor said he intends to make a variety of other
legal claims against the president, including intentional
affliction of emotional distress, and civil rights
violations, based on the allegations that state troopers
targeted women. Both of those claims have a three-year
statute of limitations.
Traylor, a sole practitioner with little trial experience,
said he reached out to prominent trial lawyers around the
country as well as feminist groups and others for help in
handling Jones's case, only to be turned down.
Traylor said he was set to file the complaint last Friday
on his own when he received a last minute fax from the
conservative Landmark Legal Foundation, asking him to hold
off because it had just recruited an experienced litigation
firm that could help him.
But Traylor said that that offer never materialized and he
has since found another experienced trial lawyer, whom he
declined to identify, to assist him in the case.
Yesterday, Bennett focused his attacks on Traylor's
conduct. Traylor said in interviews earlier this year that he
had tried before Jones's news conference to relay a message
to the White House through a Little Rock businessman, George
L. Cook, that his client was willing to say nothing publicly
in return for an apology from Clinton and money to compensate
for the harm she claims Clinton did.
In the affidavit released yesterday by Bennett, Cook said
Traylor had told him that if Jones didn't get money for her
claim, ``she would embarrass him publicly.''
Cook states in the affidavit that he asked Traylor during
their January meeting why he had taken the Jones case. ``He
said he knew his case was weak, but he needed the client and
he needed the money. . . . Traylor said it would help if
President Clinton would get Paula a job out in California
[where she now lives]. I told Traylor that would be
illegal.'' Cook said he decided on his own not to relay
Traylor's message to the White House.
Traylor acknowledged yesterday that he suggested a variety
of possible ways to settle the case out of court, including
arranging jobs for Jones and her husband, an airline ticket
agent and aspiring actor, as well as a public apology from
Clinton. Traylor said he told Cook: ``Bill's got lots of
Hollywood contacts.''
But Traylor insisted there was nothing improper about the
discussions and that Jones had never suggested that he seek a
job for her or money from the president. ``She ain't in it
for the money,'' Traylor said. Traylor said he regrets
``contaminating'' Jones's allegations by the involvement with
Jackson, Clinton's longtime political enemy. Traylor said he
contacted Jackson thinking mistakenly that Jackson was
representing trooper Ferguson, the source for the Spectator
article that named ``Paula.''
That connection prompted Clinton senior adviser George
Stephanopoulos to call Jones's allegation ``a cheap political
fund-raising trick.''
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