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THE BOOK LEFT BEHIND BY JIM MCDOUGAL! **Exclusive** There are strong indications that fallen Whitewater star Jim McDougal got it all down on paper before he died of a heart attack in federal prison Sunday. In fact, the Ghost of McDougal may soon turn the White House haunted. "He left behind a workable manuscript that offered up everything he knew about Whitewater -- in his own words!" a top publishing source revealed to the DRUDGE REPORT late Sunday. During one of his final public comments, McDougal promised to get serious about his desire to tell the tale -- and to tell it straight -- about the chain of events that have become the Whitewater maze. "I have no intention of giving any other further interviews talking about Whitewater... I am writing a book. Anyone with questions about Whitewater or any related matter should buy the book when it becomes available," smiled McDougal. "I think I've given away too much information to the media types over the past three years and I let the Republicans go on the newspapers and television stations get rich on my comments. So henceforth I'll not be giving any interviews concerning the Whitewater matter. I am engaged in writing a book, and anybody interested in the facts concerning this matter and all the subtopics involved in it would do well to read the book for a factual account... It will raise many eyebrows." Publishing sources are confident that McDougal was not just putting on a dog and pony show. ARKANSAS MISCHIEF, written with BOSTON GLOBE reporter Curtis Wilkie, will now be rushed into print -- likely to be published this summer by HENRY HOLT. The book is described as containing evidence that will end up being extremely damaging to First Lady Hillary Clinton. Among the highlights: McDougal's still secret grand-jury testimony about Whitewater. One publishing source tells the DRUDGE REPORT, "Ken Starr's investigation better be completed by the time this book hits the shelves, otherwise the American people will hear it all first -- first from McDougal's grave!" Wilkie became friends with McDougal in 1995 while covering Whitewater for the GLOBE. At the time, McDougal described to Wilkie his feelings about his long-ago friend Bill Clinton: "He's a rogue who thinks he can always get his way." Wilkie asked McDougal if he considered himself a rogue? "Yeah," McDougal replied. "And an agent provocateur. It's like Mencken said: I like to throw dead cats into the mansions of the mighty." More recently, according to Monday's WASHINGTON POST, on learning of the Monica Lewinsky allegations involving President Clinton, McDougal told a reporter: "Hell's a-burnin'!" drudgereport.com