Clinton 'moved ex-lover to the Pentagon'
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Little Rock
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A WHITE House aide was transferred abruptly to a job at the Defence
Department after she was named as a long-standing lover of President
Clinton in Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit, The Telegraph has
learned.
Robyn Dickey, the former White House Director of Special Projects and
Special Needs, was appointed chief of the protocol office at the Defence
Department last November, days after her alleged affair with Bill Clinton
was raised in a deposition.
Mrs Dickey, a divorcee now aged 50, is a core member of the so-called
Arkansas Group in Washington. She was administrator of the governor's
mansion in Little Rock in the mid-1980s, handled finance for Mr Clinton's
presidential campaign in 1992, and accompanied him to Washington after
his inauguration. Her daughter, Helen Dickey, was Chelsea Clinton's nanny
and lived on the third floor of the residence at the White House.
Sources familiar with the case have told The Telegraph that a former
Arkansas state trooper, Douglas "L D" Brown, testified to Paula Jones's
lawyers that Mr Clinton had had a sexual relationship with Mrs Dickey
during the 1980s.
Mr Brown served as a member of the governor's security detail in the
mid-1980s and was known as a close friend and confidant of Mr Clinton.
He later told the American Spectator magazine that he had solicited more
than 100 women for the governor - with mixed success.
The President's lawyer, Robert Bennett, was present at the deposition on
Nov 13 last year. Four days later, Mrs Dickey was transferred quietly to
the Pentagon.
Monica Lewinsky, the former intern at the centre of the sex scandal in
Washington, was also given a job in the Pentagon as an assistant in the
public affairs office.
Mrs Dickey's sudden transfer is likely to attract the attention of the
independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, who has already issued subpoenas for
six depositions taken in the Paula Jones lawsuit.
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