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To: Grainne who wrote (19057)3/22/1998 2:10:00 PM
From: Janice Shell  Respond to of 108807
 
As far as the Christmas party goes, I think the Willeys had been regularly invited to White House social functions. She was complaining about one particular Christmas where there was no invitation.

Taht's not my impression. Ed Willey killed himself in 1993, on the day Clinton made his alleged pass. Writing in the fall of 1997, Willey says "before my husband's death" they'd been promised an invitation to a White House Christmas party, but that they seemed to have "fallen through the cracks". And I think also that if they had been invited to WH functions, Kathy would have sent thank-you notes; she seems to have needed only the feeblest of excuses to write to him.

More on Willey from yesterday's New York Times:

Kathleen Willey's severe financial problems began closing in on her last summer. Since her husband committed suicide in 1993, Mrs Willey has inherited many of his debts, including a $274,500 judgment that she was ordered to pay in June, court records show.

It was shortly thereafter that Mrs Willey and her lawyer, Daniel Gecker of Richmond, Virginia, began exploring ways that she could make money by selling her account of an unwanted sexual advance by President Bill Clinton that she said occurred in November 1993, according to Mr Gecker and others...