Bill Clinton revives an old conspiracy tale as he prepares to hit the trail

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Washington Post:

Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have long believed in a unified-field theory about their opponents — one that she memorably dubbed a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” And they have their own theory of the moment it all began.

 

The former president, who is about to take a more visible role in his wife’s presidential campaign, told the tale again in a broadcast over the weekend in which he described getting a menacing phone call from inside the George H.W. Bush White House.

 

It was 1991, as the then-Arkansas governor was mulling whether to challenge a popular incumbent president, he said.

 

The caller said, “‘We’ve looked at the field. You’re the only one who can win,’” Clinton recalled in an interview with Fareed Zakaria on CNN. “‘The press has to have someone every election. We’re going to give them you. You better not run.’”

 

Except that the man whom Clinton claims was on the other end of the line insists nothing of the kind ever happened.

 

“There is no shred of truth to it whatsoever. I never made any such call,” said Roger B. Porter, a mild-mannered policy wonk who at the time was assistant to the president for economic and domestic policy and is a professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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Never let an old conspiracy theory go to waste.