To: carl a. mehr who wrote (12443 ) 3/27/1998 8:41:00 AM From: Zoltan! Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 20981
NY Post story on the latest woman to admit to having been sexually assaulted by Clinton: excerpt-BILL PAWED WHILE HILL SAWED ZZZZS By DEBORAH ORIN .........Zercher's name surfaced in a 1994 Washington Post story about Lindsey's efforts to squelch queries about the president's sexual shenanigans soon after Paula Jones first leveled sex-harassment charges against him. Lindsey confirmed to The Post in 1994 that he had talked to Zercher about how to handle reporters' questions. Zercher quoted Clinton as urging her to say "all positive things" and asking her: "Did you say anything to anybody? What did they want to know? Did they want to know if Clinton was flirting on the airplane?" Zercher said she was disgusted by his boorish behavior and nonstop sexual innuendo but was afraid to speak up for fear of losing her job. "He was the boss and that was my only source of income," she said. "For a while, I was embarrassed about some of the things that happened to me during the campaign. Now I realize I'm not the only one whose breast he touched - and there's no reason I should be embarrassed." Zercher said she was sweating and bug-eyed after the breast-stroking incident, which ended when Clinton was finally persuaded by another flight attendant to move back to his seat. "If it had been anyone other than Clinton, I'd have hit him," Zercher said. Willey, an ex-White House volunteer, says she had a similar reaction when Clinton allegedly groped her near the Oval Office. Star editors said they paid Zercher - now a corporate executive assistant who lives in New Jersey - but declined to say how much. She signed a sworn affidavit confirming the story and may appear at a news conference soon. Zercher says fellow flight attendant Debra Schiff witnessed much of Clinton's crude behavior and kept saying: "He's so bad." Schiff later was hand-picked by Clinton to become a White House receptionist and this month was transferred to a cushy State Department protocol job. A former White House steward, Mike McGrath, recently told Star that he'd told the Sexgate grand jury that Schiff once locked him in a pantry near the Oval Office so she and Clinton could be alone. She denies it. Meanwhile, the White House personnel chief - longtime Clinton pal Marsha Scott - testified to the grand jury yesterday as Starr explored Lewinsky's administration jobs, including a transfer to the Pentagon after a top White House aide worried about her behavior toward the president. fll story nypostonline.com