Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LOS ANGELES, March 17 (UPI) _ Susan McDougal, serving a Whitewater- related prison term, says her ex-husband Jim McDougal's last words to her were to cooperate with independent counsel Kenneth Starr. McDougal, speaking to NBC's ``Today'' from a Los Angeles prison, said Jim McDougal falsely accused President Clinton of wrongdoing and died ``with a lie on his lips.'' McDougal just finished serving 18 months for refusing to testify before Starr's grand jury, and she has just begun a two-year sentence for a Whitewater conviction. She is confined at the Federal Detention Center in Los Angeles. Jim McDougal was serving a Whitewater-related prison term when he died of a heart attack. Susan McDougal told NBC Jim McDougal had changed his story in exchange for a shorter sentence and had attempted to get her to cooperate with Starr. She said, ``It's hard to think of a man that you cared about once dying with a lie on his lips.'' She said the last time she spoke with her ex-husband, ``he said that he never wanted to speak to me again unless I would join him in cooperating with the independent counsel. It's been hard knowing that that'll be the last thing we ever said to each other.'' She also said her husband told her Starr deputy Hickman Ewing wanted her to say she had had an affair with President Clinton. She told NBC, ``Jim came to me when he began to cooperate and he said, ''They want you to say you had an affair with the president. That would make them happy.`` He said, ''This Hickman Ewing is foaming at the mouth to get any sort of evidence he can against Clinton.`` Susan McDougal denied a relationship with Clinton. -- May the leprechauns be near you to spread luck along your way. And may all the Irish angels smile upon you this St. Patrick's Day. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
