If the story of the rape was an elaborate lie, why didn’t Broaddrick just go that extra mile and make it really count?Īt the beginning of this season, I mentioned that growing up in a Democratic household, I absorbed a lasting affection for Bill Clinton-a sense that he had been unfairly hounded and framed by hypocrites who opposed his liberal policies. There’s also this: If Broaddrick was some kind of right-wing activist, carrying out a mission to take down Bill Clinton by any means necessary, why didn’t she just make something up when Starr’s team asked her if Clinton had pressured her into denying the rape in her affidavit to the Jones lawyers? That would have made her allegation directly relevant to the impeachment inquiry. And when she finally did, it wasn’t because she was being coached by some shady intermediary it was because Ken Starr had sent FBI agents to Arkansas to talk to her. For years, she had passed up and actively resisted opportunities to go public. She had told people about the alleged incident right after it happened. Why did Juanita Broaddrick’s story never get traction? In many ways, she was the perfect accuser: She had volunteered for Clinton’s campaign. You also didn’t want to overlook things that were true, and in Clintonworld, the border between true and crazy was kind of murky at times.
PETER BAKER: Was Vince Foster really not a suicide-he was actually he actually murdered and rolled up in a carpet the way some people said? Was there really this drug ring that Clinton was involved in? There are so many fanciful far-fetched conspiracy theories out there about Clinton, that you never knew how to sort truth from fiction and you didn’t want to be part of spreading nonsense, spreading lies. But Clinton said he preferred to see her right away. She proposed they meet at his campaign headquarters during her lunch hour. Sure enough, when Broaddrick dialed the number, Clinton picked up.
A woman there gave Broaddrick a number for Clinton, and said that he was expecting her call. On April 24, 1978, they checked into the Camelot Hotel, and early the next morning, Broaddrick called Clinton’s campaign office. I worked for probably two or three days on graphs and information, gathering what all was needed, what it cost me to care for one patient versus what the state reimbursement was on Medicaid.īroaddrick and a colleague, Norma Rogers, had plans to go to Little Rock for a conference of the Arkansas State Nursing Home Association. So I started to go into this, and he sort of stopped me and he said, “Are you ever in Little Rock?” I said, “Yes, I’ll be there in three weeks.” And he said, “Well, call my campaign office when you get there and we’ll sit down and talk about this.” And I was so excited. JUANITA BROADDRICK: We were struggling in 1978.
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