UNITED STATES: GENNIFER FLOWERS HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH SALE OF COPIES OF ALLEGED TAPED CONVERSATIONS WITH PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

Record ID: 242064

  • Title: UNITED STATES: GENNIFER FLOWERS HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH SALE OF COPIES OF ALLEGED TAPED CONVERSATIONS WITH PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
  • Date: 24th May 1994
  • Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MAY 24, 1994) 1. GV GENNIFER FLOWERS ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE 0.06 2. GV NEWS CONFERENCE 0.10 3. SCU FLOWERS TALKING ABOUT HER AFFAIR WITH UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON (ENGLISH) 0.47 4. CU FLOWERS SAYING CLINTON WOULD EAGERLY PARTICIPATE IN A "SITUATION WITH A WOMAN" BUT WOULD NOT SEXUALLY HARASS A WOMAN (ENGLISH) 1.03 5. GV TAPE CASSETTES AND PROMOTIONAL POSTER, CU CASSETTE (2 SHOTS) 1.09 6. GV TAPE CASSETTES AND PROMOTIONAL POSTER WITH AUDIO OF TAPE RECORDING OF ALLEGED CONVERSATION BETWEEN CLINTON AND FLOWERS, DISCUSSING MEDIA INTEREST IN FLOWERS OVER (ENGLISH) 1.53 TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 3, FLOWERS: "OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE THOSE OF YOU OUT THERE WHO ARE SAYING THAT WHAT BILL CLINTON DID IN HIS PRIVATE LIFE WHEN HE WAS GOVERNOR ISN'T IMPORTANT. THESE ARE ALSO THE PEOPLE WHO WANT EVERYONE ELSE TO BELIEVE THAT WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH HERE IS NOTHING BUT A DALLIANCE OR TWO AND THAT THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS TO CONSIDER SO YOU KNOW LET'S JUST GET ON WITH OTHER THINGS. BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF OTHER AMERICANS OUT THERE IN FACT TENS OF MILLIONS OF THEM WHO WANT TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT DID HAPPEN AND WHETHER THEIR PRESIDENT IS A LIAR, A CHEAT AND SOMEONE WITH A CHARACTER DISORDER." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 4, FLOWERS: "THE BILL CLINTON I KNOW IS NOT SOMEONE WHO WOULD SEXUALLY HARASS A WOMAN. HE I THINK VERY EAGERLY PARTICIPATE IN A SITUATION WITH A FEMALE BUT I DON'T THINK HE WOULD HARASS A WOMAN SEXUALLY." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 6: CLINTON VOICE: "THOSE OTHER PEOPLE TRIED TO TALK TO YOU HUH?" FLOWERS: "WHAT OTHER PEOPLE?" CLINTON VOICE: (INDISTINCT) FLOWERS: "THEY TRIED TO WHEN I WENT .... CLINTON VOICE: ".... THEY NEVER CALLED YOU BEFORE" FLOWERS: "NO THEY DIDNT" CLINTON VOICE: "THE 'INSIDE EDITION' PEOPLE, THEY CALLED YOU BUT YOU DIDN'T TALK TO THEM, OR YOU TALKED TO THEM BUT DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING." FLOWERS: "THAT'S RIGHT. I TOLD THEM THAT LEAVE ME ALONE, YOU KNOW, WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE ONES THAT I SAY, YOU KNOW, LEAVE ME ALONE, NO IT'S NOT TRUE, THEY LEAVE ME ALONE. 'CURRENT AFFAIR' DIDN'T CALL BEFOREHAND." CLINTON VOICE: "I BETTER CALL (INDISTINCT) AND SEE IF SHE'S TALKED TO THEM ..... SHE'S THE PERSON, IF YOU CAN GET THESE PEOPLE TO HER, SHE SHUTS THEM DOWN." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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  • Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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  • Story Text: Gennifer Flowers, who claimed during the U.S. 1992 presidential primaries that she had a long affair with Bill Clinton, resurfaced on Tuesday (May 24) at a rowdy news conference to announce that she is now selling tapes of almost an hour's worth of her secretly recorded conversations with the president.

    Included in the charge of 19.95 U.S. dollars is a written transcript of the tapes and a preface in which she details her alleged affair and repeats a claim that she had an abortion of a child conceived with Clinton. He has steadfastly denied ever having had an affair with her.

    Before being hit by a barrage of questions, Flowers read a three-page statement denying that she was a "bimbo" or a "plotting, money-hungry, gold-digger" or that she was acting in concert with Paula Jones, who last month sued Clinton for sexual harassment claiming he tried to have sex with her in a hotel room while he was governor.

    She said she doubted Jones's story because: "Bill won't sexually assault women." Flowers denied that she was selling the tapes to make money, saying that while she would not mind a profit, she was really trying to clear her name and was only doing the marketing herself because she could not find a publisher for a book she wanted to do.

    Portions of the tapes were released during the 1992 campaign and almost torpedoed Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

    The portions released during the campaign turn out to be the best of four secretly recorded meandering conversations that include such things as a Clinton denial of having an affair with her.

    "I wish I was guilty of all this stuff with you," he says at one point. The only unseemly comments on the tapes are made by Flowers and Clinton's reaction is to say 'What" as if he did not understand what she was talking about.


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