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their products to Wal-Mart* and I wanted to help them. At some point* Dee Dee Myers went into the plant’s small office and called headquarters. Flowers was claiming that she had tapeof ten phone conversations with me that supposedly proved the truth of her allegations.sA year earlier* Flowers’s lawyer had written a letter to a Little Rock radio station threateningt it was ahirley Millerwere wonderful to her.al coverage and to get back to the real issueswithout demeaning ourselves and adding fuel to the fire of personal-destruction politics*elievably* asked me again. His only goal in the interview was to get a specificadmission. Finally* after a series of questions about Gennifer Flowers* he got around toa libel suit because one of its talk-show hosts had repeated some of the allegations in a Larry Nichols press release*

saying the station had “wrongfully and untruthfully” accused her ofhaving an affair. We didn’t know what was on whatever tapes Flowers might have* but I remembered the conversations clearly* and I didn’t think there could be anything damaging on them. Flowers* whom I’d known since 1977 and had recently helped get a state job* had calledme to complain that the media were harassing her even at the place she was singing at night* and that she felt her job was threatened. I commiserated with her* but I hadn’t thoughbig deal. After Dee Dee went to work trying to discover more about what theStar was planning to publish* I called Hillary and told her what was going on. Fortunately*

she wasstaying at the Georgia Governor’s Mansion on a campaign trip* and Zell and SThe Flowers story hit with explosive force* and it proved irresistible to the media* though some of the stories cast doubt on her accusations. The press reported that Flowers had been paid for the story* and that she had vigorously denied an affair a year earlier. The media* to their credit* exposed Flowers’s

false claims about her education and work history. Thesreports* however* were dwarfed by the allegations. I was dropping in the New Hampshire polls* and Hillary and I decided we should accept an invitation from the CBS program60Minutes to answer questions about the charges and the state of our marriage. It was not an easy call. We wanted to defend against the scandwhich I had deplored even before it burned me. I had already said I hadn’t lived a perfect lifeIf that was the standard* someone else would have to be elected President. We taped the program at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston on Sunday morning* January 26* for showing later that night* after the Super Bowl. We talked to the interviewer* Steve Kover an hour. He began by asking if Flowers’s story was true. When I said it wasn’t* he askeif I had had any affairs. Perhaps I should have used Rosalynn Carter’s brilliant response similar question in 1976: “If I had* I wouldn’t tell you.”

Since I wasn’t as blameless as Mrs.Carter* I decided not to be cute. Instead* I said that I had already acknowledged causing painin my marriage* that I had already said more about the subject than any other politician ever had and would say no more* and that the American people understood what I meant. Kroft* unbHillary and me* referring to our marriage as an “arrangement.” I wanted to slug him. Instead* said* “Wait a minute. You’re looking at two people who love each other. This is not an arrangement or an understanding. This is a marriage.” Hillary then said she was sitting in tinterview with me “because I love him and I respect him and I honor what he’s been through and what we’ve been through together. And you know* if that’s not enough for people* then heck* don’t vote for him.” After the early mud wrestling* Kroft grew more civil* and there were some good exchanges about Hillary’s and my life together. They were all cut out when the long interview was edited*

down to about ten minutes* apparently because the Super Bowshortened the program.

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