The Clintons' War on Women

by Roger Stone

  In Hillary’s estimation, she was just doing her job.

  “When you’re a lawyer you often don’t have the choice to choose who you will represent, and by the very nature of criminal law there will be those who you represent that you won’t approve of,” Hillary said. “But at least in our system you have an obligation, and once I was appointed, I fulfilled that obligation.”29

  Following physical assault at the hands of Bill, Broaddrick was psychologically assaulted by Hillary, again fulfilling her “obligation.”30

  Decades later, in 2013, with her eyes on the presidency, Hillary would declare that the fight for women’s rights was “unfinished business” and that “women’s rights are human rights, and human rights are women’s rights once and for all.” Hillary now stumps around the country fighting for the unheard voice of women, but years ago, she fought to silence those same voices. They were victims of her husband’s sexual deviance, and she fought to keep their stories suppressed.

  This was perfectly illustrated at a campaign event for Bill that Broaddrick attended. Hillary made a beeline toward Broaddrick, coldly but firmly grasped her hand, and said, “We want to thank you for everything that you do for Bill.” Hillary clung to and squeezed Broaddrick’s hand for emphasis.31 Broaddrick was unnerved.

  When Broaddrick finally did go public about the assault in 1999, her nursing home business, in operation for decades, was audited by the IRS for the first time, and her home was broken into.32

  In mid-January 1999, Lisa Myers of NBC’s Dateline interviewed Broaddrick. NBC taped the interview, but it sat intentionally unaired until after Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial and vote in the U.S. Senate on February 12, 1999. If the NBC interview had run before the Senate vote on impeachment, there is a chance that Clinton could have been convicted and removed from office. The interview ran a healthy two weeks after Clinton was acquitted of his impeachment charges.

  In the segment, Broaddrick painfully recounted the assault and admitted she only told very few friends and her husband, David. Like many victims of rape, she thought no one would believe her and felt embarrassed that she allowed Clinton into her room. She was afraid her first husband and many others would think that she invited Clinton to her room because they were having an affair. Ashamed and worried, she even attended a Clinton fundraiser just three weeks later. Broaddrick was later appointed by then governor Clinton to a state board, but said she had promised her nursing association that she would accept it before she knew it was an appointment from him.

  She also admitted lying under oath in 1997 by denying any sexual assault by Clinton, under subpoena in the Paula Jones case, for fear of drudging up the ordeal again. She told NBC that she thought about coming forward daily but was too frightened of the consequences, especially after perjuring herself to keep a lid on her story.

  But after more and more stories about Clinton’s serial rape of women came out, Broaddrick felt she needed to finally come forward. She was encouraged when Ken Starr, who was investigating obstruction of justice charges against Clinton, gave her immunity from prosecution for perjury. That enabled Broaddrick to speak the truth and defend the numerous other women who had been victimized and marginalized by the Clinton machine. Bill and Hillary destroyed people’s lives when they got in their way and Broaddrick was reluctant to cross them for many years.

  Even after coming forward, Broaddrick never filed a lawsuit against Bill Clinton, made a book deal, or financially benefitted from coming forward in any way.

  It took twenty-two years for Broaddrick to finally tell Hillary what she thought of her. On October 15, 2000, during the last year of the Clinton presidency, Broaddrick wrote the following “Open Letter to Hillary Clinton.” It was widely published online and began, “Do You Remember?”:

  As I watched Rick Lazio’s interview on Fox News this morning, I felt compelled to write this open letter to you, Mrs. Clinton. Brit Hume asked Mr. Lazio’s views regarding you as a person and how he perceived you as a candidate. Rick Lazio did not answer the question, but I know that I can. You know it, too.

  I have no doubt that you are the same conniving, self-serving person you were twenty-two years ago when I had the misfortune to meet you. When I see you on television, campaigning for the New York senate race, I can see the same hypocrisy in your face that you displayed to me one evening in 1978. You have not changed.

  I remember it as though it was yesterday. I only wish that it were yesterday and maybe there would still be time to do something about what your husband, Bill Clinton, did to me. There was a political rally for Mr. Clinton’s bid for governor of Arkansas. I had obligated myself to be at this rally prior to my being assaulted by your husband in April, 1978. I had made up my mind to make an appearance and then leave as soon as the two of you arrived. This was a big mistake, but I was still in a state of shock and denial. You had questioned the gentleman who drove you and Mr. Clinton from the airport. You asked him about me and if I would be at the gathering. Do you remember? You told the driver, “Bill has talked so much about Juanita”, and that you were so anxious to meet me. Well, you wasted no time. As soon as you entered the room, you came directly to me and grabbed my hand. Do you remember how you thanked me, saying “we want to thank you for everything that you do for Bill.” At that point, I was pretty shaken and started to walk off. Remember how you kept a tight grip on my hand and drew closer to me? You repeated your statement, but this time with a coldness and look that I have seen many times on television in the last eight years. You said, “Everything you do for Bill.” You then released your grip and I said nothing and left the gathering.

  What did you mean, Hillary? Were you referring to my keeping quiet about the assault I had suffered at the hands of your husband only two weeks before? Were you warning me to continue to keep quiet? We both know the answer to that question. Yes, I can answer Brit Hume’s question. You are the same Hillary that you were twenty years ago. You are cold, calculating and self-serving. You cannot tolerate the thought that you will soon be without the power you have wielded for the last eight years. Your effort to stay in power will be at the expense of the state of New York. I only hope the voters of New York will wake up in time and realize that Hillary Clinton is not an honorable or an honest person.

  I will end by asking if you believe the statements I made on NBC Dateline when Lisa Myers asked if I had been assaulted and raped by your husband? Or perhaps, you are like Vice-President Gore and did not see the interview. 33

  Although she told Lisa Myers that she had no intention to, Broaddrick did eventually file a lawsuit against Clinton. The purpose of the suit was to obtain documents the White House may have gathered on her.

  “We want to find out what information they have on her in violation of the Privacy Act and how she’s been damaged by that information,” Broaddrick’s lawyer Larry Klayman told CNN.i

  In the midst of the lawsuit, Broaddrick’s nursing home business was audited by the IRS.

  Broaddrick made it clear to the New York Post that she did not think the audit was a coincidence.

  “I do not think our number just came up,” Broaddrick told the Post. “We’ve had no changes in our business, no changes in ownership, no changes in income. There have been no changes whatsoever that would trigger an IRS audit.”ii

  i Barrett, Ted. “Juanita Broaddrick Sues Clinton Administration over Alleged ‘Smear Campaign.’” CNN. December 20, 1999.

  ii Blomquist, Brian. “Juanita Latest Bill Foe to be Audited.” New York Post. May 31, 2000.

  CHAPTER 3

  BY FORCE IF NECESSARY

  “I think [Bill] is a very dangerous, manipulative man and I’ve had to be very careful.”

  —Elizabeth Ward Gracen34

  Governor Bill Clinton used a short list of Arkansas state troopers to act as bodyguards, for transportation, and in other, more unpleasant capacities.

  “We were required to work overtime so we could sit outside some place and block the road or sit in some driv
eway or apartment complex while he went in to take care of his female friends,” remembered state trooper Larry Patterson. “State money was utilized.”35

  Patterson, along with Roger Perry, Danny Ferguson, Ronnie Anderson, and L. D. Brown, formed the inner ring of troopers who would run security to procure and protect the sexual indiscretions of their governor.

  “I saw on several occasions Bill Clinton engaging in sexual acts while I was either blocking a road or working security at the Governor’s Mansion,” said Patterson. “I saw this with my own eyes take place, so it is not a rumor, it is firsthand.”36

  Years later, Patterson and Perry would come forward with intimate details from the debauched lifestyle of then governor Clinton. “These two have had the courage to come forward,” said Jim Johnson, “and the evidence that they have presented has not only been credible, but has been overwhelming and the truth is I’m convinced that it is just the tip of the iceberg.”37

  Arkansas state employee Paula Jones was another who came forward with dirt on Governor Clinton and his state troopers.

  Governor Clinton had seen Jones working a conference table in the lobby of the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock, where he was scheduled to speak. Clinton asked Danny Ferguson, the state trooper on his private detail that day, to summon Jones to his upstairs suite. When Jones entered the room, Ferguson carefully kept watch outside the door.

  Jones said that Clinton tried to run his hands up her dress and attempted to kiss her on the lips. “I like your curves,” Clinton said. “I love the way your hair flows down your back … I was watching you.”

  “His face was red, beet red. I’ll never forget that look,” Jones recalled.38

  “What are you doing?” Jones asked incredulously. She escaped Clinton’s grasp and quickly moved to the end of a sofa near the door. The governor followed.

  “Are you married?” Clinton asked. Jones said that she had a regular boyfriend. Clinton then approached the sofa and as he sat down he lowered his trousers and underwear, exposing his erect penis. “Would you kiss it for me?” Clinton asked.

  Jones became horrified, jumped up from the couch, and exclaimed that she was “not that kind of girl.” She said, “Look, I’ve got to go,” and he attempted to explain that she would get in trouble for being away from the registration desk.

  “Well, I don’t want to make you do anything you don’t want to do,” Clinton said, fondling his erect penis.39

  Paula Blanchard, the wife of a close Clinton ally, said that Jones arrived back to the registration desk from her visit in a state of “embarrassment, horror, grief, shame, fright, worry, and humiliation.”40

  Jones’s recollection of the encounter is detailed. Jones’s sister Lydia Cathey said while deposed that Jones described Clinton’s turgid member as “crooked and hard and gross.” Debra Lynn Ballentine, a friend of Jones, said Paula ran back to her office after the incident and “she told me that [Bill] had an erection but that it was, like, bent, real bent and she asked me if I had even seen anything like that before and I said no.”41

  The incident left Jones shamed and appalled. Years later, she would file a sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton and Ferguson, which would bring her story and many others out of the shadows and into the light.

  Remember Elizabeth Ward Gracen? She said she had sex with Clinton in 1983 when she was the reigning Miss America and former Miss Arkansas. After Gracen told her good friend Judy Stokes that a forced sexual act had occurred, Stokes relayed this information to the Paula Jones investigators who were looking at Clinton’s deviant sexual history. Judy Stokes was 100 percent convinced that Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted Elizabeth, based on her comments.

  After years of denying an affair with Clinton, in early 1998, Gracen confirmed that she had a one-night consensual fling with the then governor. This is not what her friend said both under oath and privately. Stokes stated under oath that Gracen was in tears as she privately described Clinton pushing himself on her as she pleaded she did not want to have sex.

  Gracen had mournfully told Stokes that sex with Clinton was “something I did not want to happen.”42

  Revealingly, Gracen told Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff that Bill, in trademark fashion, had severely bitten her lip in bed.

  It is rumored that in the early 1990s, Gracen benefited from help from Bill’s Hollywood friends Mickey Kantor and Harry Thomason. They landed her a miniseries job on the television show Highlander with no audition.

  “I learned later that movie director Harry Thomason [a longtime Clinton friend] and White House bigwig Mickey Kantor sat down with my agent, Miles Levy, and worked out some kind of a deal that would have me deny anything to do with Bill Clinton, Gracen said.”43

  Later in the decade, the Paula Jones investigators were hitting pay dirt looking into Bill Clinton’s violent, deviant, and criminal sexual history. Bill Clinton exposed himself to Paula Jones in May of 1991, and after her name became publicly associated with him in December of 1993, Paula sued Clinton for sexual harassment.

  The Paula Jones legal team was a Dallas-based law firm that hired private investigators Rick and Beverly Lambert. In late 1997 and early 1998, Gracen was attempting to avoid contact with the Paula Jones investigators as well as dodge a subpoena in the Jones case.44 However, Rick Lambert did find Gracen confidant Judy Stokes. “I talked to Judy Stokes for an hour and a half,” said Lambert, who interviewed Stokes in December 1997. “At first, she was reluctant to burn her bridges with Liz. But I finally asked, ‘Do you believe Clinton raped her?’ She said, ‘Absolutely. He forced her to have sex. What do you call that?’ Stokes was totally convinced it was rape.”45

  Stokes said under oath in her Paula Jones deposition that Gracen was tearful when she talked about the sex that transpired with Clinton and said that it was not consensual.46

  Miles Levy, the Hollywood agent for Gracen, told Rick Lambert the reason why Gracen did not want to get involved in the Paula Jones case was that it “would be career suicide for Liz and you know it.”47

  The case of Gracen is a textbook example of how the Clintons abuse people. There was the initial, physical assault by Bill in 1983 when she was the reigning Miss America. Then years later, in 1997, after she was subpoenaed to be a sexual harassment witness in the Paula Jones case, the psychological assault of Gracen began as the Clintons attempted to silence her. Hillary for decades has been personally in charge of the intimidation and terror campaigns to silence Bill’s sex victims and former girlfriends.

  In December of 1997, Gracen began to receive threatening phone calls, including a reminder that she had been subpoenaed in the Paula Jones case with the advice that she should dodge the subpoena.48 Gracen left the country and traveled around Paris, Canada, and the Caribbean.

  Gracen’s belongings were ransacked by three men in suits while she was on vacation in St. Martin. Her manager, Vincent Vento, said intimidating phone had callers advised her to “keep your mouth shut about Bill Clinton and go on with your life. You could be discredited. You could have an IRS investigation.”49 Within weeks, the IRS was sending audit letters to the home of Gracen’s parents, which was not listed on her tax filings. It is worth mentioning that the head of the IRS from 1993 to 1997 was Margaret “Peggy” Richardson, who was a longtime and college friend of Hillary Clinton. During the 1990s, four Clinton victims received IRS audits: Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, and Gracen.50

  In 1998, Gracen was interviewed by Steve Dunleavy of the New York Post.

  She related that some frightening and suspicious things had been happening to her. She had started to receive “friendly” phone calls that warned her to get out of town in order to avoid a subpoena from independent counsel Kenneth Starr. There were nastier calls, too, warning of an impending character assassination. Her friends started to tell her they were being asked about a tape.

  Things got even weirder when, she said, her beach cabana was ransacked while she vacationed with her boyfriend in St. Martin. Wh
oever did the ransacking left a Rolex and $2,000 cash; they were, apparently, looking for something.

  “Yes, I was physically scared,” Gracen told Dunleavy. “We are talking about the [president] of the country here, and between the friendly calls on one hand telling me to get out of town for my own good and then talking about smear tactics on the other, I got scared. Yes, physically scared. There were always veiled threats. Always. I did nothing wrong except one stupid night a long time ago. But now this last year has become very frightening.”51 Steve Dunleavy’s article for the New York Post was titled “Elizabeth Gracen: I was a victim of Clinton’s reign of terror” with the subtitle “Investigating Clinton’s goons.”

  “I think [Bill] is a very dangerous, manipulative man and I’ve had to be very careful,” the former Miss America told the Toronto Star in September 1998. “There was a lot of pressure on my family and friends, people were being staked out. I was a little bit afraid for my safety at one point. It’s just not an area where you are safe.”52

  L. D. Brown described the time the Clintons, Chelsea, and his girlfriend, Becky, went to New York where Gracen was living. The Clintons went to a taping of Sesame Street, and young Chelsea had her picture taken with all the characters. Becky told Brown that by chance the whole Clinton entourage ran into Gracen on the streets of New York. “Becky said it was very uncomfortable and could tell Bill was a little embarrassed.”53

  Although Gracen has maintained a public denial that Clinton assaulted her, she has dropped hints that their short “affair” was not entirely consensual. “To use the word rendezvous would imply that it was romantic,” Gracen said during one interview. “But it was far from romantic.”

  CHAPTER 4

  TOSSING FLOWERS

  “Bill, as always, wanted to take it a step further, so the next time I tied him to the bed, he asked me to use a dildo-shaped vibrator on him. It was exciting to see him getting so aroused, and I couldn’t wait to untie him so he could use it on me.”