parceling out the land and selling lots. the idea was to take this big piece of property and puts roads in it. we did all the work, as far as doing the surveys and road-building. and jim and susan kind of worked on the marketing. but by 1980, things took a turn for the worse. bill clinton lost his re-election bid, and jim mcdougal quit politics. mcdougal and several others bought a bank over in west arkansas. and they loaned money to help the whitewater development. they made one loan in the amount of $30,000 in the name of hillary clinton. the loan was for hillary to build a model home on the property. three decades later, the house still sits on what is now a quiet, tree-lined street. it would just be a home for folks to come look at. but whitewater began to struggle. some blamed its remote location. if you didn t have a pretty rugged old pickup or something like that, you just almost couldn t even get in there. at the same time, interest
it s not true. same old cash to trash. damage control kicked into high gear january 26th, when, following the redskins victory over the buffalo bills in super bowl xxvi, millions of americans tuned into 60 minutes. i have acknowledged wrongdoing. i have acknowledged causing pain in my marriage. if that s not enough for people, then, heck, don t vote for him. the thing that saved bill clinton and allowed him to become president was the 60 minutes interview with hillary. she reached out in the ocean and grabbed him and brought him back. can t make that up. i mean, he hit a long-ball home run. mainstream news organizations were digging into bill clinton s record and his past, and the clinton camp was very much on the defensive. i think that the matter is closed. they did not want embarrassing stories that would get in the way of their march to the white house. february brought fresh controversy over bill clinton s
vince foster was a wonderful man. that changes everything. it changes the white house. it changes the clintons. there seemed to me to be a terrible cloud everywhere. vincent foster was a lifelong friend of president clinton s, and mr. clinton returned to arkansas for the funeral service. in the meantime, he s asked the justice department to coordinate the investigation of this tragedy. but on the night of the suicide and the days that followed, that investigation would be complicated by disputes over the contents of foster s office and who had access to it. vincent foster has died. the president has been informed. mrs. clinton has been informed. people then start visiting vincent foster s office in the white house. there was evidence that documents were removed from foster s office. the white house counsel, bernard nussbaum, presidential aides, mrs. clinton s aides start removing documents. now, what s going on with that? the park police wanted to come in and search t
july 20, 1993, was a busy day. supreme court nominee ruth bader ginsburg began her confirmation hearings before the senate judiciary committee on capitol hill. my approach, i believe, is neither liberal nor conservative. in little rock, the fbi obtained a search warrant for the office of david hale s capital management services. and in the white house rose garden, president clinton announced a major nomination. good morning. please sit down. just one day earlier, bill clinton had become the first president in history to fire a sitting fbi director, after william sessions refused the opportunity to resign over ethical-misconduct allegations. today, i am pleased to nominate a law-enforcement legend to be the director of the fbi, judge louis freeh. in the aftermath of the waco disaster, the appointment of a new fbi director was meant to bring some calm to the justice department and to embattled attorney general janet reno.
from their home state, and this is the team that got him elected. so, who s gonna tell them that they don t know what they re doing? many of them came from the rose law firm. the rose law firm was a prominent little rock, arkansas, law firm. it was prominent because it had a lot of great lawyers, and among them were hillary clinton. there were two men who mentored hillary and guided her and smoothed her path. one was webb hubbell, and the other was vince foster. webster hubbell is a very accomplished lawyer. he was on the arkansas supreme court. vince foster also partnered at the rose law firm. very close with mrs. clinton in particular. foster would be probably the main litigator in the rose law firm. he d been president of the bar association. but he s probably the most highly thought-of lawyer in the whole group. when president clinton was elected, they asked mr. hubbell and mr. foster and another rose lawyer, bill kennedy, to go to washington with them. hillary clinto