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“I need some family time”: Statement by Governor Bill Clinton on his decision not to seek the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, July 15, 1987.

443
“this reminds me of the Fuhgawe”: Int. David Leopoulos, June 9, 1993.

444
“the conflict between”: Felix B. Arnold Lecture, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Feb. 9, 1988.

444
Clinton had stayed up all night: Ints. Betsey Wright, July 1992, and Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994.

445
“No matter what happens”:
Arkansas Gazette,
July 22, 1988.

445
Betsey Wright stood at the back: Ints. Betsey Wright, July 1992; Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994; and Harry Truman Moore, June 15, 1994. Also,
Arkansas Gazette,
July 21-22, 1988.

446
“God, Lindsey,”: Int. Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994.

447
The Clintons tried to defuse:
Arkansas Gazette,
July 22, 1988: “I Just Fell On My Sword.”

447
“We felt like we had made”: Int. Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994.

447
Betsey Wright had flown back: Int. Betsey Wright, July 1992.

447
“So this is the guy”: Int. Judy Trabulsi, Feb. 2, 1993.

447
Friends in Hollywood: Ints. Harry Thomason, July 16, 1992, and Mickey Kantor, Sept. 14, 1994.

448
Gloria Cabe said there were times: Int. Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994.

448
“He was upset that Dukakis”: Int. Woody Bassett, June 21, 1993.

448
Not long after Dukakis lost: Rhodes class of 1968 annual letter,
American Oxonian
(Winter 1988).

448
White left the meeting: Int. Randy White, April 14, 1994.

449
“The Great Communicator in Washington”: An Address to a Joint Session of the 77th General Assembly, Jan. 9, 1989.

450
Major Betsey: Int. Carol Willis, June 30, 1993.

450
Now she was exhausted: Ints. Betsey Wright, Aug. 25, 1994; Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994; and Dick Morris, Aug. 4, 1994.

450
They had argued over the death penalty: Int. Betsey Wright, Feb. 15, 1993.

450
He was into self-denial again: Ints. Betsey Wright, Feb. 15, 1993, Aug. 25, 1994. (Wright also confided contemporaneously in Gloria Cabe, although she and Cabe later had a falling out.)

451
Nearly every week: Ints. Mary Frances Vaught and Gary Vaught, May 1992.

452
He was getting strong advice: Ints. Betsey Wright, June 28, 1993, and Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994.

452
“dithering and depressed”: Int. Dick Morris, Aug. 4, 1994.

452
On the day before the event: Int. Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994.

453
convinced that up to thirty minutes: Int. Betsey Wright, June 28, 1993.

453
“you could have knocked Hillary over”: Int. David Leopoulos, June 9, 1993.

454
He was accepting free rides:
WP
, March 22, 1992: “In Arkansas, the Game Is Chicken,” David Maraniss and Michael Weisskopf, p. 1.

454
called him “Pards”: Int. John Jacoby, April 1994.

454
Many of his longtime county chairs: Ints. Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994, and Woody Bassett, June 21, 1993.

454
Wright felt that Cabe: Int. Betsey Wright, Aug. 25, 1994.

455
Cabe wanted nothing to do: Int. Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994.

455
Clinton suddenly lost control: Ints. Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994, and Betsey Wright, Feb. 15, 1993. Dick Morris would neither confirm nor deny the incident.

455
At a strategy meeting the day before: Int. Dick Morris, Aug. 4, 1994.

455
“If Sheffield Nelson called”. Int. Randy White, April 11, 1994.

456
“You always wanted me to run”: Int. Frank Greer, June 29, 1993.

456
Nichols was a familiar character: Associated Press Little Rock bureau chief Bill Simmons broke the story that led to Nichols's firing: “Arkansans Financed Contra Calls,” Sept. 11, 1988.

456
workers at his campaign headquarters: Clinton press secretary Mike Gauldin kept a chronological diary of events related to the Nichols lawsuit. It mentions several times when Clinton campaign aides called Nelson's headquarters and were told about the suit.

456
they had taped a commercial: Int. Paula Unruh, December 1991.

457
Morris did not consider: Int. Dick Morris, Aug. 4, 1994.

457
Gloria Cabe recruited: Int. Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994.

457
“I stuck it up their ass”: Gennifer Flowers tape-recorded four telephone conversations with Clinton between December 1990 and December 1991. When she revealed the existence of the tapes during the 1992 presidential campaign, certain questions were raised about whether they had been altered or edited, but Clinton did not deny their authenticity. Gloria Cabe, in an interview on Sept. 13, 1994, said she was in the kitchen of the Governor's Mansion and overheard Clinton talking to Flowers one night about Chuck Robb, a topic in one of the tapes.

458
As Ed Howard was moving: Ints. Ed Howard, July 19, 1993, Sept. 18, 1994.

458
As Clinton prepared to speak: Int. Bruce Reed, Sept. 21, 1994.

459
“We're here to save”: Later transcript of Cleveland DLC speech, May 6, 1991.

459
Two days later:
WP
, May 4, 1994, Michael Isikoff, Charles E. Shepard, and Sharon LaFraniere, p. 1.

459
They had known Clinton and Rodham: Ints. Roy Spence, Feb. 8, 1993, and Garry Mauro, July 11, 1994.

460
Everywhere he went: Ints. Mike Gauldin, June 1992; Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994; and Betsey Wright, Aug. 25, 1994.

460
Kantor gingerly broached: Ints. Mickey Kantor, Sept. 14, 1994; Carl Wagner, Feb. 4, 1994; and Gloria Cabe, Sept. 13, 1994.

460
Greer had come to realize: Int. Frank Greer, June 29, 1993.

461
“Hell, I just had dinner”:
Ibid

461
In the early morning: Ints. Frank Greer, June 29, 1993; Tom Caplan, Sept. 12, 1994; and Bruce Reed, Sept. 21, 1994.

462
As Diane Blair approached. Int. Diane Blair, Aug. 19, 1994.

462
Clinton gave a speech: Remarks of Governor Bill Clinton, Little Rock, Arkansas, Oct. 3, 1991.

462
His mother was there: Int. Virginia Kelley, Jan. 13, 1992. Also
Leading,
p. 272.

463
The two friends from Hot Springs: Ints. David Leopoulos, July 17, 1994, and Carolyn Yeldell Staley, July 17, 1994.

463
Tommy Caplan, Clinton's Georgetown: Int. Tom Caplan, Sept. 12, 1994.

463
Bob Reich had flown down: Int. Robert Reich, Sept. 16, 1994.

463
Here, finally, is the day: Int. Carl Wagner, Sept. 21, 1994.

463
Diane Blair looked up: Int. Diane Blair, Aug. 19, 1994.

463
Betsey Wright could not bring: Ints. Betsey Wright, Feb. 15, 1993, Aug. 25, 1994.

464
Cliff Jackson was also at home: Int. Cliff Jackson, Sept. 22, 1994.

464
Chelsea took a place: Int. Tom Caplan, Sept. 12, 1994.

464
Clinton stayed up: Ints. Carolyn Yeldell Staley, July 17, 1994, and Tom Caplan, Sept. 12, 1994.

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