-Caveat Lector- http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37a9bb2c3eb9.htm Presidential Child Abuse Shocker News/Current Events News Source: NewsMax.com Published: August 4, 1999 Author: NewsMax staff Inside Cover Wednesday August 4, 11:03 PM Denials of Physical Abuse Disputed by Clinton Medical Sources On Monday White House spokesman Joe Lockhart emphatically denied that the "abuse" Mrs. Clinton said "scarred" her husband when he was growing up was physical. Since then both the President and his wife have stood by Lockhart's statement. But an account reviewed by Inside Cover unambiguously asserts that President Clinton and his younger brother Roger were indeed victims of repeated physical beatings when they were children in Hot Springs, Arkansas. "Both friends and medical sources close to the boys' pediatrician in Hot Springs recalled that Billy and little Roger were themselves beaten and brutalized far worse than anyone later admitted. Their injuries were treated more than once at their doctor's office and even at the hospital, friends recounted. 'A member of my family doctored them for some pretty bad stuff -- stitches and all that,' said a Hot Springs attorney. (Clinton's mother) Virginia staunchly saw to it that no records remained to embarrass them later.... Each time, Virginia Clinton prevailed on the doctor and nurses to hold back the shameful secret of the battered children, saying 'she would handle it herself,' as one witness remembered." The account comes from the exhaustively researched Clinton biography, Partners in Power, by renowned author Roger Morris, a onetime aide to Lyndon Johnson and Walter Mondale. Though Morris's book spent seven weeks on the New York Times best seller list in 1996, the mainstream press has yet to report this version of Clinton's childhood trauma, which directly challenges White House claims that the abuse Mrs. Clinton cited was not physical. Morris's comprehensive tome reveals that police were called to the President's childhood Hot Springs home on at least two occasions during the 1950s, when his stepfather was arrested and jailed for the family's protection. Roger Clinton Sr., a heavy drinker, was not particularly discreet in his outbursts. According to Morris, "He was given to kicking or slapping Virginia in public or throwing her to the floor of their bedroom, where he hit her with her own shoe." Press attention since the First Lady revealed some of the Clinton family secrets has focused on the emotional conflict between the President's mother and grandmother. But the account in Morris's book may bring a dramatic shift in the debate about the nature of the abuse suffered by President Clinton and its impact on his marriage -- and on his presidency. ------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm no psychologist, but I've heard them say it dozens of times: Those who are physically abused in childhood tend to repeat the pattern in adulthood unless they get help. Juanita, Kathleen and the "young woman lawyer in Little Rock", call your respective offices. 1 Posted on 08/05/1999 09:26:20 PDT by Carl of Oyster Bay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Carl of Oyster Bay What else do we have to look forward to? Another phoney war, and more "wag the dog" as each of the peccadillos unfolds ? 3 Posted on 08/05/1999 09:58:16 PDT by Invictus --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ . DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
