Whitewater Trials and Impeachment of a President: 1994-99

An article in the January 1994 issue of The American Spectator—a conservative magazine backed by a strongly anti-Clinton billionaire, Richard Mellon Scaife—reported that on May 8, 1991, an Arkansas state trooper on duty at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock had arranged, at Governor Clinton's request, for him to meet a woman named Paula. The state policeman had escorted her to Clinton's suite. As she was leaving, the trooper said, she told him "she was available to be Clinton's regular girlfriend if he so desired."

The article was brought to the attention of Paula Corbin Jones. She was furious. She had worked at the Governor's Quality Management Conference going on that day at the hotel and (she later said) had naively gone to the governor's suite when state troopers said Clinton wanted to meet her. There the governor, putting his hand on her leg, had tried to kiss her, then exposed himself and asked for oral sex. Rejecting the proposition, she had departed as Clinton said, "You are smart. Let's keep this between ourselves."