© Clinton House Museum in Fayetteville, ArkansasHillary and Bill Clinton arrive to vote on Nov. 4, 1980. They lost their bid for reelection that day...
In a remarkable but little-noticed article buried inside the Sunday
Washington Post four months before the 1992 presidential election, top Clinton campaign aide Betsey Wright said she had been spending the better part of her time since the Democratic National Convention trying to quell potential "bimbo eruptions."
Through the Little Rock gossip mills,
the campaign was tracking nineteen potential allegations that had surfaced in the first week following the convention, in addition to seven others that had appeared earlier in the year, Wright said. The extensive effort to short-circuit such stories, Wright said, included the campaign's hiring of a private investigator to obtain information damaging to the credibility of the women involved, which was then used, presumably, to persuade them to stay quiet.
Perhaps unintentionally, the phrase "bimbo eruptions" cut two ways. Wright's choice of the epithet "bimbo" — and a later reference to "gold-digger growth" — was obviously meant to discredit in advance any reports of sexual liaisons between Arkansas governor Bill Clinton and women other than his wife, Hillary. Yet at the same time, Wright also seemed to be conceding, if not promising, that there was more to come — i.e. the imminent appearance of an unspecified number of such women, and a subsequent round of stories raising questions about Clinton's private life.
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