Janice, as I have said before here, I found Browning very credible in a television interview. She is very bright, and an attorney. But my opinion is just that--no big deal. I took this excerpt from "Woman Trouble" in the March 16 Newsweek--you probably still have your copy--because it specifically relates to the credibility issue:
"They were the talk of the Hot Springs High School class of '64's 30th reunion. For 45 minutes or so, president Clinton and Dolly Kyle Browning, an attractive Dallas real-estate lawyer, sat on a pair of folding chairs in a corner of the ballroom, talking intensely. 'I can't believe there's a person that didn't see it', says one of their classmates, Mimi Bibb, who now works for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock. At least once a Secret Service agent interrupted, but the President waved him away. As the deejay played old rock-and-roll tunes that July night in 1994, classmates couldn't help but wonder what were the president and his old friend saying to each other?
It depends on whom you believe. Clinton's version of the conversation emerged last week when his sworn and sealed testimony in the Paula Jones case leaked to the Washington Post. In a closed door deposition on Jan. 17, Jones's lawyers had asked Clinton about Browning, as well as several other women rumored to have been Clinton's sexual parners at one time or another. The Jones legal team was trying to establish that Clinton had a 'pattern and practice' of sexual misconduct. Clinton insisted, in effect, that Browning had harassed HIM. At the reunion, Clinton said, Browning had accosted him with a jealous tirade, demanding to know why he had never slept with her. According to the president, Browning complained that she needed money just as much as Gennifer Flowers, who had sold the story of her alleged 12-year affair with Clinton to a supermarket tabloid. Browning went on to warn the president that she planned to write a novel about a woman's affair with a Southern governor and tell people it was a thinly disguised portrait of her relationship with Clinton.
Browning did write a novel called 'Purposes of the Heart' which she sells on her web site. The book begins as the old lovers meet again--at their 30th high-school reunion. But Browning's account of her real-life meeting with Clinton contradicts the version the president gave at his deposition. In Browning's telling, Clinton pursued her across the dance floor, cutting in on her and then following her when she tried to pull away. (Bibb confirms Browning's version: 'If he [Clinton] was anywhere around,' she said, '[Dolly] went the other way.') . . ." |
