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Scrapbook The Auditing ofJuanita Broaddrick When Juanita Broaddrick came forward with her allegations last year that Bill Clinton had raped her in a hotel room in the late 1970s, she was prepared...
...Before the prince arrived, Ike Hoover, the old White House usher, took John aside and said: 'Don't be nervous about meeting the Prince of Wales...
...Prince of Plymouth John Derbyshire, an occasional contributor to these pages, writes to alert The Scrapbook to the death of John Coolidge, son of the twentieth century's most conservative president...
...Yet there was Clinton in Queluz, Portugal, on May 31, telling reporters, essentially, that he sided with Bush— and not his own vice president—on this question...
...In late May, during a commencement address at West Point, and on Air Force Two immediately thereafter, the vice president did one of his patented "mean Al" routines on the subject of Bush and missile defense...
...Which pocket did your father keep his handkerchief in...
...Just remember: You are the Prince of Plymouth.'" John Coolidge died May 31, aged 93 years...
...Bush's plan, Gore thundered, would "hinder, rather than help, arms control...
...An inquisitor from La Paz invited Craig to go mountain climbing in the Bolivian Andes ("I'll visit soon," promised Craig), while another D.C...
...I've tried to eliminate politics from this case as much as possible," said the man who castigated the Miami relatives for allowing swingset viewings of the boy, but who himself toted Elian to a play-date at a Georgetown house populated with Democratic donors...
...Why would this be any different...
...At least it would have been sporting, had there been any...
...Playing Softball with Greg Craig Over the course of the Elian saga, Gregory Craig, the attorney for Juan Miguel Gonzalez, has stayed extremely busy not returning phone calls from skeptical reporters...
...The Bush-Clinton Missile Defense Congratulations to presumptive GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush, whose proposal for a global missile defense system to protect American allies—coupled with dramatic reductions in offensive ballistic weapons—won a partial endorsement last week from . . . Bill Clinton...
...Yes, it should, the president responded...
...Our business has not changed in any way—no change in ownership, no change in anything," she says...
...Vice President Al Gore, who generally likes to broadcast his intimate involvement in the administration's national security deliberations, appears to have been left out of the loop on this one...
...Exactly why is a mystery to her...
...If there has indeed been no targeting by the administration, that must mean—statistically, anyway—that there are somewhere in the neighborhood of another 330 Clinton women at large...
...We were fully prepared for Craig to defend the indefensible (he has after all represented Bill Clinton and John Hinck-ley...
...But just six months after she allowed Larry Klay-man's Judicial Watch to sue the Clinton administration on her behalf to obtain access to the FBI file she suspects was kept on her, her lucky number came up...
...native invited Craig and Elian to take a trip to the National Zoo...
...I feel like it's politically motivated," Broaddrick says...
...His own favorite concerned the visit of the Prince of Wales—the one who later abdicated the British throne...
...Memo to the vice president: Clinton just called your position on missile defenses "unethical...
...Craig declined comment...
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...If national missile defense proves feasible, Clinton was asked, shouldn't the technology be shared with the European democracies and America's other allies around the world...
...Unless, as she suspects, it's because of her charges of assault against the president of the United States...
...A Craig fan from Kansas City declared the Cuban embargo "cruel," before asking, "Is there anything besides letter writing that will accelerate some fair play...
...it would be unethical not to do so...
...I can't imagine what would draw someone's attention to my business...
...That, by the way, is a position first staked out by Ronald Reagan, who told the disbelieving Soviets in the 1980s that he meant to share the missile defenses America developed, not monopolize them...
...We fired off several questions during the discussion, all along the lines of asking Craig how he feels about fighting for the return of a child to a country where they conscript schoolchildren to do farmwork, instruct them to inform on their parents, and force them to wear those fruity Pioneers outfits while singing hymns to Che Guevara...
...Scrapbook The Auditing ofJuanita Broaddrick When Juanita Broaddrick came forward with her allegations last year that Bill Clinton had raped her in a hotel room in the late 1970s, she was prepared for the worst: public incredulity, Clintonista attacks, even, she used to joke with her family, "an IRS audit...
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...Though quite accustomed to biographers, I suppose he had little experience of novelists...
...According to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, the chance of being audited is 1 in 110...
...When asked why anyone in Clinton's position would risk bringing attention to charges that have been largely ignored, she says nonchalantly, "They've gotten away with everything else they've ever done...
...How did your father cut his cigars...
...Instead, our questions never saw the light of day...
...Oh no, they wouldn't possibly do that," Broaddrick now says she believed at the time...
...Combining "serious unilateral reductions with an attempt to build a massive defensive system would create instability and thus undermine our security...
...I think I could win the lottery right now," Broaddrick says of the IRS letter she received last week announcing that the Brownwood Manor nursing home that she has owned since 1974 is, for the first time in its history, being audited...
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...John had a rich fund of anecdotes about his White House years...
...It may not have been Craig's fault...
...Or fax, 202-293-4901...
...So it seemed rather sporting of him to subject himself last week to pointed inquiries during an on-line chat hosted by the Washington Post...
...Instead, we got the following: An interlocutor from Washington, D.C., wished to know, "wouldn't the implication of a victory by the Miami relatives be that anytime we don't agree with the parent . . . we could take the kid...
...Having suffered the two former, she dismissed the likelihood of the latter...
...Derbyshire reports that while writing his acclaimed novel, Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, he sought out the younger Coolidge for assistance: "John was unfailingly patient and helpful, though he plainly found some of my questions perplexing...
...Among the Clinton women alone, Broaddrick, Paula Jones, and Elizabeth Ward Gracen have drawn IRS audits...
...John Coolidge was a New England gentleman of the old school (he used to summer in Vermont and winter in Connecticut...
...His Vermont home was by the tiny hamlet of Plymouth Notch where his father was born—the most beautiful and evocative of all presidential birthplaces...
...While the administration has denied any connection to the audit, many Clinton nemeses have also become IRS lotto winners: the American Spectator, the Western Journalism Center, and Travelgate scapegoat Billy Dale, to name a few...
...After all, he had to knock off ten minutes early—he's a very busy man, and the Bolivian Andes beckon...
...Gore's aides later restated the vice president's support for research and development of a limited national missile defense system, but argued that any broad-scale program extending beyond our borders would prove destabilizing...
Vol. 5 • June 2000 • No. 37
