July 20, 2000
NYTimes
First Lady's Aide Asked Help on Slur Claim
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
For the last several days, Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate
campaign staff and her surrogates have worked behind the scenes
and in public to snuff out the controversy over an allegation
that she made an anti-Semitic remark long ago, a charge she has
denied.
And according to a campaign aide's memo leaked to the news media
by a recipient of it yesterday, the efforts to rebut the
allegation included enlisting Jewish supporters to call reporters
at Jewish publications this week to defend Mrs. Clinton. A new
book accuses her of unleashing a slur 26 years ago at the manager
of Bill Clinton's losing congressional race in Arkansas. Mrs.
Clinton has vehemently denied making the remark, though the
target, Paul Fray, stood by the allegation in an interview
broadcast yesterday on "Good Morning America" on ABC.
"I'd be glad to take a lie-detector exam," said Mr. Fray, who is
a Baptist but says his paternal great-grandmother was Jewish.
"That's the bottom line right there in a nutshell. And if that
doesn't satisfy the question, then let me take a truth serum."
Mrs. Clinton's supporters have gone to great lengths this week
to challenge Mr. Fray's credibility, and the Clinton campaign
memo lists several talking points that do the same. Mr. Fray
and his wife have acknowledged in a series of television and
newspaper interviews that he lost his license to practice law
years ago for altering court records and had suffered a brain
hemorrhage that led to some memory loss, but insist that he
remembers the remark clearly. He acknowledged in yesterday's
television interview that he had leveled false accusations at the
Clintons in the past.
Mrs. Clinton, at a news conference in Albany, where she received
the endorsement of the state A.F.L.-C.I.O., said: "I've said all
I'm going to say about this.
It wasn't true, it didn't happen and I'm not going to allow it to
distract from the real issues of the campaign."
But just as Mrs. Clinton sought to move past the episode, her
staff had to answer questions about the memo to Jewish supporters
that disclosed how orchestrated their efforts were. In the memo,
an adviser on Jewish affairs urges supporters to call reporters
at two Jewish publications to defend Mrs. Clinton, and implores
them not to reveal that the campaign had requested them to do so.
"I would appreciate it if you could call these people as
concerned citizens, (It is important that you do not say that you
calling because the campaign asked you to, but because you are
outraged with what was said about her.)," the memo, from Karen
Adler, said. "The most important thing is to let them know that
you know Hillary and you know that she would never make these
kinds of Anti-Semitic or racist comments."
One of the reporters, Rachel Donadio, of The Forward, said she
received two calls Monday evening from people she does not
normally talk to offering their unsolicited, positive views of
Mrs. Clinton.
The other reporter, Adam Dickter of The Jewish Week, said he
received seven calls in a 24-hour period beginning Monday night
-- some from usual sources, some not -- but he did not know if
they were prompted by the memo.
Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, said the memo was
written to assist people who had called the campaign office angry
over the charge and wanting to offer their support.
"They wanted to know how they could be most helpful," said Mr.
Wolfson, who declined to address why they were told not to reveal
the Clinton campaign's involvement in their calls.
The campaign staff of Mrs. Clinton's Republican opponent,
Representative Rick A. Lazio, which had already questioned Mrs.
Clinton's denial of the remark, seized on the memo.
"I think it is very sad that Mrs. Clinton would ask her
supporters to lie for her," said Dan McLagan, a spokesman for Mr.
Lazio, referring to the claim that recipients of the memo had
been asked not to say that they were asked to call reporters.
"The credibility of Mrs. Clinton and her camp suffered
irreparable damage today, and increasingly New Yorkers have to
wonder if they can trust her."
Some Jewish supporters, however, continued to rally behind Mrs.
Clinton, including Senator Charles E.Schumer, who called a news
conference in Washington yesterday with other Jewish lawmakers to
express their continued support for Mrs. Clinton.
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