Chapter One
"It's just a cheap political
fundraising trick."
It didn't take Craig Shirley long to figure out that things weren't
going well. The slight giggles, the hostile questions, the looks on
the faces of the reporters listening to the odd woman at the podium,
told him all he needed to know. The press conference Shirley had
helped arrange--a press conference he hoped would embarrass and
even humiliate the president of the United States--was starting to
look like a train wreck.
Only a few hours earlier, Shirley--a charter member of what
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton years later described as a "vast
right-wing conspiracy"--thought things would be quite different. It
was February 11, 1994, and a miserable winter storm had snarled
traffic in the nation's capital. Shirley was helping to coordinate publicity
for the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual
meeting of hard-line activists that had started the day before at
Washington's Omni Shoreham Hotel. If there was any unifying
theme to the event, it was the presumed defects--ideological, political,
ethical--of William Jefferson Clinton. Few disdained Clinto ... read full excerpt from: Uncovering Clinton ebook
