Clinton Cornered
Weekly Standard
March 30, 1998 David Tell
On Friday, March 13, Paula Jones's attorneys filed several hundred pages of sworn testimony and corroborating evidence with Judge Susan Webber Wright's U.S. District Court in Arkansas. There's a lot to be learned from these documents. First of all, there's the fact of Bill Clinton's animal grip on the female sexual imagination. According to Bill Clinton.
Paula Jones confided in two close friends immediately after Clinton exposed himself to her in Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel on May 8, 1991. Both those friends confirm her story under oath. One of them, Debra Lynn Ballentine, reports that Paula told her there was something peculiar about Clinton's genitals. Did she tell you anything else about his anatomy, Ballentine was asked in her October 1997 deposition? "She said he was really white and really overweight."
Peculiar. Pasty. Fat. But somehow, nevertheless, irresistible to the ladies. That's what Clinton's one-time friend and self-described mistress Dolly Kyle Browning, in another sworn deposition, says he told her during a 1987 conversation they had in Texas. "Women are everywhere," Browning testifies he told her. "I can't even walk down the street without someone literally trying to pick me up."
Could Clinton really believe this, the hoariest of all lecher's self-justifications: that they want it? He could. Browning and the president had a long conversation at their 1994 Hot Springs High School reunion. Clinton made extensive notes about this talk and kept them "in a briefcase that was always either under my desk in the White House or in my little private office." Clinton's notes say Browning was frustrated because he never had sex with her. In his sworn deposition, the president restates this point more forcefully. Browning has falsely claimed to have been his mistress, Clinton insists, to punish him for being an unattainable object of uncontrollable lust. "She was mad at me because I'd never been her lover."...........
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