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Office of' the Press SeCrf:!tal;:"Y ,
March 18,,1994
For Internal Use On,ly
AN INTERVIEW OF THE FIRST ~DY
CONDUCTED BY MARY MCGRORY
QHow do you think it's going?
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MRS. CLINTON: I think it's going fine. I mean,
that's my perspective, which,is obviously ,influenced by how I
see the world.' I think health care is going much better than
people realize within, the CongresS. You know, last week,
last two,weeks'I spent lots of time with members'of Congress,
had'lots of one:-on....,one, meetings and lots of group meetings.
I was delighted.
I mean, Milan (phonetic) was in a lot of my one-on
ore meetings with me. We would meet with somebody for an
hour and'a half, two hours, and :by the end of it, their
concerns wer~ narrower than they were when ,they came in.
Their underst.anding of the alternatives wa~ much greater.
Their commitment to seeing it through was really great. It
was mostly moderate and conservative Democrats, a couple
Republicans. So I;feel good about where the Congress is in
dealing with the hard issues,theyirefacing.
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Did anyone suggest to you that this commotion
would be getting in the way of health care, 'of the
legislat.ive progra~s?
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MRS. :CLINTON:
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You mean the members of' Congress?
Yes.
MRS. CLINTON:' Not 'to me personally. They,
expressed a lot of personal support and, you know, would'say
things, like just keep going, don't get deterred, ,we're making
progress, 'we're ,with you. I mean, there was a lot ,of
personal reinforcement. It may be because obviously ',they'
,were" with me, butt.,hat' s ;wh~t they were saying.
Q They didn't say look, it was 'going to be tough
anyway, and now wit;h ,this diversion, and suspicion, and
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controver"sy, and rancor, it's <joing· to be that. much harder?
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MRS. CLINTON:
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They did not say that.
A PARTICIPANT: Mary, what they usually say is she
needs to be out aro.und· the country every day .with them.
MRS .. CLINTON: What they say to me is when can you
come,to my district, how much time can. you give me, how many
people can you see with me, how"many phone calls can you make
to my c,onstituents, I have a doctor I want you' to talk to.
They are asking me t;to 'get even more :involved and .more visible
and spend more time traveling. .
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Q Well, now, how' has this hullabaloo affected ,you?
,I mean, it seems t6. me as if all the raves you've gotten' have
now been, to some extent, replaced by people who say here is
this impossible woman with '~ll this, .information for the
public, stonewarls~, fires her usher,' fires her cook.
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MRS . CLINTON: That ,sounc:is terrible . · I t really
does. I don't like that person you just described. How is
it for me? lam coming:to terms, I guess, ,with some .hard
facts about. political life. ,Maybe I'm a slow learner, but
I've made s<;>me mistakes ,.in th~ !'lay that Iperceived this:..
wholesituation and what I thought, I' shc)\~ld be'spending my
time on~ I'm trying to ,learn from those mistakes and kind'of
keep my focus' and do what"'I need. to do to take care of my
family and work onh~althcare and deal.with everything else.
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Q.Anything you 'regret? Anything you would undo?
I mean, what aboutth.e. propriety of ,representing the Madison
:when it was an institution that hac;t business before state
agencies? what about that?·
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MRS .. CLINTON:' weil, obviously in hindsight I
regret it because I never· would have thought anybody could
have. put.theinterpretation9n· it'· that' 'peOple ,have., At the
time, I, 'had no rea~on to.believe that anyone would think I
\ was acting inappropriat.ely:: 'In .fact, if 'you look at the
events that occurr,ed', I didn't get any special favors, I
qidn't have' any action taken on bellalf of tha~client. In
fact, the securities comriliss;i.oner actedf I thought, very
appropriately andeff~ctively in dealing with the. issues that
were presented. So it was never a matter that anybody at the
. time would, have,thpught ,to. ,be a conf,lict. ,or a problem.
Q' Do youth.ink. thi3,t w~s; just because it was
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Arkansas' wher.e ,you all know each other so well?
, MR~;. CLINTON: No. I talked to a lot of people
about 'this around the country and talkeg to a lot of people
who know a lot about legal ethics'" It is not technicalJ,y a
conflict. Therer'was no doubt ,about who these parti~s 'were,
and' there was no, action 'taken· that was inappropriate. So I
don't ,think it was just",that it :was in that particular state.
NOW, in, retrospect,-a lot ,of the assumptions people
, made' about. appearances of conflict wer,e differe,nt in the
early part. of the 1980s' than they :are 'today.. ,So there have
"been some changes. But ' certainly, I would" neve'rdo it again.
,It's something that even'though I don't think it was 'improper
at the time and don't have anybody who I have spoken with who
has :toldIne it was, I wish that it. haa not ,occurred because I
don't like peoplehavihg any grounds to raise questions about
my behavior.
Q Do yoti :think you've lost a little altitude or
standing or ,credit with the public?
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' ' MRS. CLINTON: I think 'that in today's pub+ic
: environment, you go up and down like a roller coaster. Milan
and Lisa will tell 'you that as soon as I finished testifying
, in Congress, people were being so complimentary I said to my
entire staff well, ,hold on, because we are guaranteed for a
ride 'that goes down now. I come from the "shoe will always
drop" ,school of "politics. , I assume that if you're built up,
then, there is an incentive on the part of some to tear you
doWn.
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So I view this as the natural ups an~ downs of
politics today. It is not: pleasant to' live through. It is
not something that I think is good'for the country or the
people involved, but I accept that it is part of what occurs.
My personal objectiveJ:s to keep myself" centered, take care
'of my family, make sure that my husband, is taken dare of, and
my daughter is taken ,c,are of, and check in on my mother, and
do ,the thil)gs that, are personally important to me, and stay
focused on health care and any o:ther is~ues that the
president has asked *e to work on,'andcooperate fully with
the special counsel and just continue to work through this.
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Q' There~s just one problem that recurs.
Themoney
that was lost in the investment was not claimed as a loss in
'any income tax or anything. Is there' some special' reason for
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that?
MRS. CLINTON: Well, there's a series o'f r~asons
that go"back to when this first was raised back in the
campaign. ' I did not really have records t.hat were ones that
I could'vouch for because' I did' not keep the recordsof,the
company~
I did no~ have the,responsibility for doing so a~d
didn't know what they contained.
So we' did :the best we could, tp answer the press
questions that camequringthe campaign and hired an
accoJ,lntant, gave t:Qem' ~ll the.records we had, and they were
the best records that were available to us at the time. Ii
really didn't pay any .attention to this again until the
special counsel was appointed. Since" then" I have worked
very hard to find every sc+ap of paper. We have given
everything we have ,found .to the special counsel. I am only,
in the last couple 'of months, really sitting.down and
focusing on the):ll."
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. So· when~tcame time last year for us to file our
taxes, I did ,not want to be accused of claiming a loss which
,I cO\lld not doc\lment to my own satisfaction. I mean, it was
the best information we" had as of March 1992, but I hadn't
spent any time gathering. these. records. I really thought
this whole thing was over. We' lost money. How much we lost
we didn't have the ,records for. So' we were just willing.to
',eat the loss'and, go on.
I thougJ;lt it', was the responstble proper course of
action. I talked about it with my accountants. They ,agreed.
I could not have b~en more surprised that I would be
criticized for not taking a loss than I could be surprised by
anyttdng.
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Q I think that what has maybe. caused a little
,confusion is' -- I have not seen the text of the two
interviews' you 'gav~ tp the magazines, but they.were talking
about it in our group. If'itwas a loss, why do· you now
speak of 'possibly having to,paymo;re in taxes?
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MRS. CLIN,+ON: Well, because here'S what has
happened. We claijued dedqctionsbased on, our personal
records. 'We had difficulty' obtaining any other records from
the corporation', during those years. So ,we weriton the ,very
best records ,we·, had ~ We gave, them to our accountant. . They
satisfied out accountant, 'and' we did what wq.'s· appropriate.
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under,the tax laws based on the records we, had.
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Maybe 10 years, 8 years, 6 yea~s later somebody
comes forward and says well, we've just discovered a check
that was written on Whitewater that paid this cost to this
bank. Well,. you also paid it, Bill arid Hillary. So even
though you were right to believe you were the only one paying
it, we now know that they paid' ~talso. So you shouldn't
have claimed the deduction.
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'Well,.as"'we learn these ,things, we will pay the
money back. I mean, we did what we thought was absolutely
proper based on .the ·records that were our personal. records.
We' cannot' vouch for any other records. That's been one of
our p~oblems' in th~s whole thing .. '
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Members cif the pre~s get records' from somebody.
They then come·and,ask·us questions. We can't answer their
questions i . Mary, because we '.ve never seen the records. We
'·'can't vouch~for the records. I 'can't say whether they did or
did not.really make that payment. But as we have ·gathered
more information, ~e can satisfy ourselves and we will be as
honest as we were when we thought we had the only records now
that other records. are coming forward.·
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Q. NOW, do you thinkthat.this is some gigantic
misunderstanding?' It has presented, as you know, as the
Arkansas way'ot doing business~ Everybody is related.
Everybody knows everybody else. The ethics Ij,.nes are a bit
blurred, a little casual.
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misunderstanding. :It is fair to. say that in any community,
and I would argue in the community of Washington, or in the
community of Arkansas, or in the commuility of any small
state, or any community, 'however it's,.defined, a lot 'of
. people know the people they do busines~ with. So maybe they
are not as precise in documenting everything they do as they
would be if they. did busines's with a stranger.' I think that
is fair to say,.
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I, don'tt.hink, though, that it is unique in the
State of Arkansas.. ~,would imagine if you opened the books "
and re'cords 'of many of the people who you' know in Washington;
you would find the same ~ind of informality because if you do
business with peop.;Le you think you.know, you don't spend a
lot'of time somet.imes doing all'the niceties.
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Q 'TheIfE;L" interview plus. the interview around
Christmastime suggested that you may'have·thought that
certain forces were getting together arid planning to
undermine you ,and the president for the purpose of sabotaging
these programs •. Do you feel that'still?
MRS. CLINTON: Wel,l" I don't want to go too far on
this, but I" do believe there is a pattern of activity that
orig:lnallystarted in Arkansas among my husband's political
enemies who were connected, with the' Republican party that'
then spread out and, included other!:?, kind of in. the right
wing, whether it's 'the right wingop~ratives or the, you
know, people associated with them in the Republican party,
who I do believe have had a concert~d effort to discredit my
husband :;;ince he· entered the New Hampshire primary.
, I mean,' if you go back 'and look, this group that is
behind a lot of the :=;ourcesanq info~ation and rumor and the,
innue~do,ran ads. against· Bill in New Hampshire in october
and November"of 1991.' So'there has' been a focus to their
efforts that has been consistent. I.think that anyone who
iooks at it sees a" lot of the sa'me fingerprints on ali these
stories.
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There's, almost a joke in' Arkansas about, you know,
anytime anybody'lands from the national press, we know
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exactly who'S going ·to see them and who's going to pump th'em
and who's going to try to, you know, provide information 'to
them. They're all the same people who have been politically
after my husband for years, only now they have more resources
and support from national interests ..
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po ',' you think the press has been excessive
(inaudible)?
MRS. CLINTON:
I really don't want to characterize
that.
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I just thought I'd try.
MRS. CLINTON:
No.
Q Well, like, Roger Ales' comments, did you feel
they were a little;bit outsiae'the'(ina~dible)?
MRS. CLINTON: I ,doh't know what, his, job is.
mean, is he still 'a Republican political' consultant?'
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anything tbhide ~' :'1' don'1:; have anything to hide.' There are
questions I can't, answer because I don't know what ha~pened.
BU,t 'I want peopie to know that neither of us has
anything to hide nor' do we hav~ any reason to be in any way
concerned about the special counsel's investigation. But
what I think I missed and one of the. mistakes I made was not
paying close enough attention until recently how people were
really feeling about this, princip,ally in the press. I don't
blame the ,press. ' :f blaine me for that. ' I was just not on
that wavelength~
Q Do you think you
are·~ow?
MRS. CLINTON: I 'think I am ,now, ·yes. I think you
all have gotten my att.ention. I'm a ,little slow" Mary. If I
can'stopthinking' about;, yo~ knowi'mandatory .alliances, I'll
get this other' thiljg'w,orked ,o~t.
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along? You don't t.hinkt:.hat the health care can be stopped
. by this?
MRS., GLINTON:. Well, ~ hope not. I think it cap. be
stopped arid stalled by a lot of competing interests, and any
'use that they can make of this, they obviOUSly will., I
understand that. ,But I really believe that the issue is now
so much bigger than anyone interest group. What the real
challenge, is is to figure out how we're going t9 do it.
We're starting to get some ,real gbodconversations going in
the, Congress about what needs to be done to make it happen.
So I can o~ly tell you what I personally have seen.
Q As you know, some of·the cr..,.ticism has centered
"on the fact that people think you are co-president, and if .
you're going to be, them you have to equal responsibility and
you have to have press conferences and you have to answer
every' ques::ition and all, that.
I mean,', Anna Quinlan, . for instance, was quite harsh
with you, although she"f? a sympathizer and a type of a
friend, whatever. So they 'are very ambivatent about you;
They h?ve been sinc::e the fIrst day they.ever'saw you. In New
Hampshir'e two years ago, I' remember, When your husband sa id
you get two for the price of one, and they got a'littlebit
nervous.' ,Then they got more nervous in Illinois. Then, last,
September when the~ saw you doing health care, they liked it.
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'But they're basicaJ,ly a l.ittle jittery.
.little skiddish?
MRS. CLINTON: 'I think that's fair. I do think
that's a fair desc:t::iption. But lam, by no means, the co
president. Anybody, whoknows.my husband knows that. I mean,
I am available·to him to·do what he wants me to do, as is
everYbody.else who·:works.in the White· House. We are all
there bec~use he selected us.' I mean, I'm not anymore or
less involved,than anyon~ else whom he has sought out for
advice or counsel qn any' subject.
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For the'vast majority of the governmen't's
activities, I have no involvement whatsoever. I have really
been focus'ed •. Some of my friends say I took ,this health care
thing so seriously~ 'You know, we've had some pretty tough
times this past year. My father died, our friend Vince died,
'my sister-in:-law's:,brother died, my mother'-in-law died.
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to do, I have shut, out a lot of stuff. I shut out 'a lot of
this sort of Whitewater grumbling'stuff because 'I couldn't'
ever see what anybody was really concerned about. So I've
tried to do the job that 13il1. asked me t.o do to the best of
my ability,but that's it. 'You know, I am not making
decisions behind the scenes... I'm not sitting up in some room
picking up the phone, telling people what they're supposed to
do. I ~ust don't do, that. ' ,
Q ,I wish you would.
MRS., CLINTON: Well, in public,· in rooms., I express
my opinion. I'm not afraid to do ~hat, 'but they're not my
decisions.
Q . I think one of tJ:le complicated things'really is
Vincent'Foster's,suicide"the app~lling story that came out
over the weekend. It was on two networks. I couldn't
believe it" a story that· was'said 'to have come from the
offices of..,Senator Moynihan'to th~ effect-'that Vincent Foster
had been shot and killed ,in a'safe house'and then his body
transported. ',I mean, I never heard -
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don't understand how responsible journalists can permit those
kinds· of 'crazy, ter;-ible, rumors to see th'e light of day.,
Everyone that I know'of who knows anything about the
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'circumstances
suicide.
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death has no' doubt that it was a
NOw, I wish I kneY!' the reason why it happened.
Everyone of us who knew him wishes we knew. We wish we
, could turn t;.he clock back and maybe we could h~ve 'said
something or done something. I mean, "Milan and Lisa and I
have talked endlessly among ourselves because he was somebody
that everybody caredabout'who'knew him. One day he did
this; But .we don't sit around presuming to make up stories
that try to'give ariswe~s'to what really is a mystery.
It',s one <of the mysteries in life that if you live
long enough and you've known people who have, killed
themselves, you regretfully have to accept. In. some
instances,. there might'b'e . a reason of' terminal illness or
something like that, but in ,many cases,.,You never know. It's
usually relat.ed to depression that'was mapped; and what I
think is, the .case here, .by high achievers and people who
don't want to ,let cloWn in front of their family or their
friends and get overwhe'lmed by' the ,disease of depression.
" If.. I could do anything, and Tipper Gore ,and, I have
talked about this and I've ,talked' to others arising out of
Vince's death, it would'betoimpress upon people how serious
depression is and'how you don't always see the signs of it.
That'~ certainly what,happe!led to:all of us who knew him.
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.But I also wish that, you know,' responsible
journalists would not fall for' a lot of this ,sensationalist
rumor mongering and let this poor ,man rest in peace and ,l.et
his family get on with their lives instead of having to
,relive i~ because of some perverse agenda that somepne has
trying t.o tw~st what happened. .to him for their.own purposes.
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matter when' asked?; ,
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MRS. CLINTON: Oh"sure, to the b~st of my ab~lity.
Again, I try to tell' journalists, ~ndI've done this, they
ask me question I 90n't.have a, clue what they're talking
'about. When, I say I dqn' t know .or we don't have anything to
answer that·, they must thin)cthat. I'm not being forthcoming.
I wish they would .recogni'ze::that, this. ,is something that w,e
have worked,ver;y'hard in the last. couple months, ever since
the special counsel, to piece together everything that we
. could find out occurred. Not .that we could' 'speak for it,
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becau'se ;we didn't' know '1 t at 'the time, but so that at least
we will have ~ome big9~lf picture.
The emf" is going to be we lost 'money, we made a bad
land investment and we're sorry that we lost money. But as I
said at the press conference, you know, my .goodness, suppose
. we had made money i'n: this deal. .I' dprobably never hear the
end of i.t.
Q .';l'he
MRS.
Republica~s,
CLINTON:
I'mean, EI Dupato (phonetic)?
We better go 'off the record.
Q .I mean, here is,a man who is investigated for
two, years by:'the Ethics Committee....
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CLINTON: 'Off 'th'erecord, 'I think it's a
strange choice for them to 'have made.
MRS.
Q
Bl.,lt
th~y
sent out (inaudible) ,?
MRS." CLINTON:
That's right. Now they've got'this
attack dog, good guy/bad guy routine'~ I'mean, I ,have nothing
to say about him.
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reall~.
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Do
yo~~ish
Democrats were a little more
supportive?
MRS. CLINTON:
Well, I've actually read some of the
things that Democrats have said and I've had reports of other
t~ings which~heY've said, hardly any of which gets in the
press. 'I mean, if you go back to some of ~he hearings that
were held, some of his colleagues went after D'Amatopretty
tough and it ~ev~r got reported.
I got transcripts of it sent to ,me 'by senators who
wanted me to know they_were defending me. Look what I said,
Hillary. So I think'there'sbeen more of that than has
really kind of brok~n through. George Mitchell gave a great
speech, for example.: Barbara Boxer has gone after him just
with every inch of ~er considerable energy. A lot of folks
.have gone after him,. but it's'not news. - I mean, 'his
'attacking the president is news. Democ;rats taking up for us
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for the Department of ' Justice. I don't know if you got to
know him, during his, . : here.,
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the hard-bitten, old line Justice Department people, the
other iawyers around Washington, the Hill staff, they loved
him. He has such a way'of kind of moving along an agenda.
Well, I think we're going to have to beef up ,the 'civil rights,
division. Okay, ' Webb ,: that' sounds good.
i ~ean, he reall~ has a deft hand, but he 'could
not, apparently;, deal with w,hat iS',the problems that he's got
that really are 'routed in his .leaving the firm and feel, I
guess, that he could do his job. ,So I'm very sad about it.
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<p>Lissa Muscatine first served in the Clinton Administration as a speechwriter. Within the First Lady’s Office, she served as Communications Director to the First Lady.</p>
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