Editorials: Clinton on Cocaine?/Not Even Nixon . . .
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Clinton on Cocaine? The only recent precedent avail able to Bill Clin ton for not releasing the details (raw data and all) of...
...It is well reported that in the aftermath of his defeat Clinton suffered serious emotional problems...
...His refusal to open h is medical records has provoked vigorous and occasionally intemperate speculation...
...I have no knowledge of Clinton suffering either condition, but investigations conducted by me and two colleagues over the past few weeks suggest that Clinton has used drugs heavily, and may have, in the early ig8o's, been treated for an overdose...
...Leave the door open with the key...
...Others have admitted to using drugs with Clinton...
...We found barbiturates, sleeping pills...
...In the kitchen she and her assistant found drug paraphernalia...
...The American Spectator . November 19 9 6...
...Now the president has joined her in this ignoble spectacle...
...Another stated that she feared for her life if she were to discuss the matter...
...We didn't get all of it...
...E D I T O R I A L S by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...The governor pardoned Lasater...
...There were lines of cocaine nn the table in front of Mina...
...When can all these rumors be put to rest by Clinton simply opening his medical records...
...McDougal is not as nice as she looks, and one has to wonder what the ignorant Bryant Gumbel meant when, at the end of his televised patty-cake with her on the "Today" show, he crooned, "We wish you well...
...Instead of answering the straightforward questions posed to her before the grand jury, she has chosen to demean and slander the independent counsel...
...During his Lehrer interview, Clinton (Continued on page 9o) 25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator Women's Liberation was bound to prove irresistible to the media, and though no one else takes televised history seriously, America's educated elite certainly does...
...Given the suffering that he braved, his reticence was gallant...
...A for mer Arkansas prosecutor, Jean Duffey, who used Wilson while Duffey headed an Arkansas drug task force, has vouched for Wilson's veracity...
...And when Jim Lehrer interviewed the president in September, why did he dangle a pardon before Susan McDougal, the convicted felon now chained to the walls of an Arkansas dungeon for refusing to tell a grand jury whether her former business partner, Bill Clinton, knew of her fraudulent loan, and whether he testified truthfully during her trial...
...She oiroiics the governor sitting with arms stiff, looking straight ahead glassy-eyed...
...Vantage Point was owned by Sidney Weniger, a New York developer who, with much money from his Friend Governor Bill Clinton's brain child, the Arkansas Development Finance Authority•, did a lucrative devel Adopted from RVT's weekly WVashingtoll 'I inres column syndicated by Creators Sv-rldicute...
...Her son, Gary, testifies to having been ordered by management to "buy groceries...
...On the other side was a temporary apartment referred to rather splendidly as Vintage Point's "corporate suite...
...She had seen Clinton at the apartment and, along with her assistant, had heard him enthuse over the high-quality cocaine that lie was apparently using on the other side of the partition...
...After her testimony exonerating this great man she could get on with her life, finish her two-year term for fraud, and answer charges in California that she bilked conductor Zubin Mehta, her former employer, out of $150,000...
...What suf fering might Bill Clinton be quietly braving...
...As for the stories that Clinton suffered from overdose no firsthand account is available...
...Two Arkansas state troopers under oath have testified to hustling then-Governor Clinton out of Lasater's famous drug parties...
...The result is that every time something like Bella Abzug flaps her jaw before a college audience, the intellectuals smell the sweat of human chattel, hear whips crack over the backs of Georgia field hands, and see a forlorn negress shivering before the mob at a Charleston slave market...
...Now another woman has admitted to my associate that she took cocaine with Bill Clinton "no less than 20 times" during a period when she dated Roger...
...This will make the third threat against her in recent weeks...
...Actually he did lie, and there are at least two witnesses that saw him put the arm on David Hale for the aforementioned fraudulent loan...
...When we went to clean out the apartment, we found marijuana," Mrs...
...Parks, a dark-haired...
...Parks observed cocaine being brought into the apartment...
...at Little Rock's Regas Bar and Grill, she stated, "Once when I opened the door, Bill Clinton was sitting on the couch...
...Rather than denying knowledge, one nurse told us, "I can't talk about that...
...All she has to do is answer the questions...
...Since Mrs...
...Sonic insist that the president is hiding cosuictie surgery...
...She says she is being pressured by Starr to incriminate Clinton with lies, presumably of Starr's own ingenious creation...
...The only recent precedent avail able to Bill Clin ton for not releas ing the details (raw data and all) of his medical record is that set by Presi dent John h. Kennedy...
...Parks's husband was an independent investigator...
...Another witness to the Vantage Point revels who wishes anonymity has told 16 November 1996 - The American Spectator reporters that she saw Bill Clinton at the apartment at least three times...
...In Roger Morris's recent book Partners in Power, Morris quotes Roger Clinton on a 1983-84 surveillance film stating, "Got to get some [cocaine] for my brother...
...Not Even Nixon...
...We had a video camera...
...Lasater was there at least once...
...Her husband was shot dead in his car on an Arkansas road in September 1993...
...On the side of the table top, where a ridge went around, white powder was wedged in the crack...
...Alarmed by the drugs and licentious raillery she noted at Vantage Point, Mrs...
...Fine-featured vvonian who appears surprisingly fit though she has for years been afflicted by multiple sclerosis, is now overcoming years of apprchension...
...Yet their responses have C been more interesting than a C flat-out no...
...This time a man telephoned her to say, "You will be dead before the election...
...opment business in Arkansas in the 1g8o's (see James Ring Adanis, page 42...
...Obviously from the above evidence (and more witnesses are now being asked to speak out) we can conclude that Bill Clinton's medical records might well include information about drug use...
...Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., "A Whiff from the Highfalutin Women" NOVEMBER 1971...
...The most frequently heard story is that in 1980 the defeated governor was admitted to the University of Arkansas Medical Center emergency room for a cocaine overdose...
...Mrs...
...I )an Lasater was a major financial supporter of ti ic governor...
...Lasater eventually employed Roger, and both were in time convicted on drug offenses...
...1ildav we know- that Kennedy was hiding Addi son's disease and other ailments that left him ill frequent pain and subject to bouts of fatigue...
...He's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner...
...Possible witnesses to the alleged W by is the president, by all counts a double-digit leader in this season's presidential race, smearing independent counsel Starr...
...He "vas staring straight ahead, looking stoned...
...She also had to relay complaints to Roger about noise from his parties...
...In 199o Wilson also testified to a federal grand jury that she sold Roger Clinton drugs in 1979 and saw both Clintons snort cocaine...
...In a recent interview...
...Recently the United States Supreme Court overturned half of her sentence on a drug charge, though she remains sentenced to thirty-one years for her conviction on three counts of possession...
...How about Maestro Mehta, now scene in the emergency room whom we have approached are not very forthcoming...
...Kennedy biographer Richard Reeves chronicles "persistent venereal disease" among JFK's secret health problems...
...150,000 poorer thanks to his encounter with her...
...Parks granted this interview, she has been threatened...
...Neither ever saw Clinton iIsing drugs, but one recognized that Clinton was under the influence of drugs at a Lasater party...
...Parks worked with leer assistant...
...Parks'.s office was in [lie middle building...
...It was apartment Bro7• The apartment had been subdivided by a fl hiisv interim wall, on one side of which Mrs...
...Yet all she has to do to avoid further time in this hideous jail is to say that Clinton did tell the truth and that he had no knowledge of her loan...
...Bob Dole is his duly nominated Republican opponent...
...The files he kept on these affairs were either hidden or stolen...
...No analytical journalist could remain unmoved by the perverse spectatcle of mobs of unruly harridans railing away at the cruel injustices of childhood and family...
...She is Asharlene Wilson, an Arkansas drug informant...
...One artist who has sketched his face frequently believes that lie has spotted the traces of a facelift, Others insist thatClinton's records would reveal treatment for sexually transmitted diseases...
...He (Roger) had a lot of visitors...
...Jane Parks is a middle-aged Arkansan hired in the middle 1g8o's as resident manager at ail upscale Little Rock apartment complex, Vantage Point...
...In the summer of 1984 Bill Clinton's half-brother, Roger, stayed in this room as a non-paying guest...
...Parks asserts...
...An alleged lover from the mid-s98o's, Sally Perdue, is one...
...The murder is described as a "professional hit...
...his particular apartment complex consisted of three buildings...
...Mrs...
...Roger Clinton finally left Vantage Point...
...Parks had her husband Jerry monitor the place...
...The sight of them burning piles of underwear drew the cameramen like flies to garbage, and when the media discovered that these feminine idealists subscribed to almost every aspect of incivism in the land, they could do no less than devote oceans of print and billows of chitchat to their struggle...
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Vol. 29 • November 1996 • No. 11
