Susan McDougal Says Ex-Husband Is Bitter, Dispirited
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Susan McDougal accused her ex-husband Monday of turning into a bitter, broken man who cut a deal with federal prosecutors in exchange for testimony against President Clinton.
Speaking from jail in a telephone interview with Fox News Channel, she said she was in the same room when James B. McDougal agreed to help prosecutors build a case against the president and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“I think they made him the same offer they made me,” Mrs. McDougal said. “ ‘Give us something we can use against the Clintons [and] you can walk away.’ ”
She said McDougal tried to persuade her to cooperate as well--but she refused.
“I know how broken he is and how sick at heart he is over his convictions. And I know that he feels so much bitterness that that is why he turned to those people,” she said.
Mrs. McDougal was jailed for contempt for refusing to speak before a Whitewater grand jury, and has yet to begin a two-year federal prison sentence for her May 28 fraud conviction.
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