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Setting the Record Straight
An open letter to Hillary Clinton.
June 12, 2003By Dick Morris
[I am not making this up...this letter
is real. --Tony] |
Dear Hillary,
In your new book, Living History, you correctly
note that when you asked me to help you and Bill avert
defeat in the congressional election of 1994 I was
reluctant to do so. But then you assert, incorrectly, that
my reluctance stemmed from difficulties in working with
your staff. You even misquote me as telling you: "I don't
like the way I was treated, Hillary. People were so mean
to me."
 As
you know, I never said anything of the sort. I had, in
fact, no experience in dealing with either your staff or
the President's at that point, and had not yet met Leon
Panetta or George Stephanopoulos. My prior dealing with
Harold Ickes had been twenty five years earlier.
The real reason I was reluctant was that Bill Clinton had
tried to beat me up in May of 1990 as he, you, Gloria Cabe,
and I were together in the Arkansas governor's mansion. At
the time, Bill was worried that he was falling behind his
democratic primary opponent and verbally assaulted me for
not giving his campaign the time he felt it deserved.
Offended by his harsh tone, I turned and stalked out of
the room.
Bill ran after me, tackled me, threw me to the floor of
the kitchen in the mansion and cocked his fist back to
punch me. You grabbed his arm and, yelling at him to stop
and get control of himself, pulled him off me. Then you
walked me around the grounds of the mansion in the minutes
after, with your arm around me, saying, "He only does that
to people he loves."
 I continued to work for Bill since I felt a responsibility
to do so until Election Day in 1990. But our relationship
was never close and never the same. After the 1990
campaign we parted ways as a direct result of the
altercation.
When the story threatened to surface during the 1992
campaign, you told me to "say it never happened."
That, and not the invented conversation in your memoir,
was the reason that I was reluctant to work for Bill
again.
Yours,Dick Morris
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