Juanita Broaddrick then recanted that statement to investigators of potential misconduct by Clinton led by Kenneth Starr, while insisting at the time that Clinton had not pressured or bribed her in any way.
44 Facts About Juanita Broaddrick
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Juanita Broaddrick's claims returned to public attention in relation to the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the 2017 Me Too movement.
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Juanita Broaddrick wrote a memoir repeating the allegation in 2018.
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Juanita Broaddrick is from Van Buren, Arkansas, a town in the northwest part of the state.
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Juanita Broaddrick was born Juanita Smith to parents Buster Smith and Mary Elizabeth Smith.
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Juanita Broaddrick Smith graduated from Van Buren High School in 1960.
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Juanita Broaddrick attended nursing school at Sparks School of Nursing from 1960 to 1963.
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Juanita Broaddrick then worked as a registered nurse at several nursing homes.
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Juanita Broaddrick was first married to Gary Hickey, with the marriage happening before she left nursing school.
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Juanita Broaddrick wanted to volunteer for the campaign, and says Clinton invited her to stop by the campaign office in Little Rock.
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Juanita Broaddrick said she contacted the office a few weeks later while in the area for a nursing home conference and that Clinton said he would not be in the campaign office that day and suggested they meet at her hotel's coffee shop instead.
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Juanita Broaddrick said the two spoke briefly in her room, with Clinton describing plans he had to renovate a prison visible from her window if he became governor.
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Juanita Broaddrick says she pushed Clinton away and told him she was married and not interested, but he persisted.
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Juanita Broaddrick starts to, um, bite on my top lip and I tried to pull away from him.
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Juanita Broaddrick shared the hotel room with her friend and employee Norma Rogers.
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Rogers says Juanita Broaddrick told her Clinton had "forced himself on her".
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Rogers said that Juanita Broaddrick was very upset on the way home and blamed herself for letting Clinton in the room.
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Juanita Broaddrick says she did not tell her husband, Gary Hickey, about the incident, and told him she accidentally injured her lip.
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Juanita Broaddrick told NBC he did not remember the injury or her explanation.
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Three other friends confirmed that Juanita Broaddrick had told them about the incident at the time: Susan Lewis; Louis Ma; and Jean Darden, Norma Rogers' sister.
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Juanita Broaddrick did not recall the date of the alleged incident, but said it was spring of 1978 and that she had stayed in the Camelot Hotel.
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Records show Juanita Broaddrick attended a nursing home meeting at the Camelot Hotel in Little Rock on April 25,1978.
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Three weeks after the alleged assault, Juanita Broaddrick participated in a small Clinton fundraiser at the home of a local dentist.
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Juanita Broaddrick said she was "in denial" and felt guilty, thinking that she had given Clinton the wrong idea by letting him into her room.
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Juanita Broaddrick says she interpreted the incident as Hillary Clinton thanking her for keeping quiet.
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Juanita Broaddrick opened a second facility, to provide services for mentally disabled children in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
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Juanita Broaddrick had confided in Phillip Yoakum, whom she knew from business circles and at the time considered a friend.
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Yoakum arranged a meeting between Nelson and Juanita Broaddrick, who resisted Yoakum's and Nelson's push that she go public.
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The story reached The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times in October 1992, but the papers dropped the story after Juanita Broaddrick refused to talk to reporters and Yoakum refused to release the recording.
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The letter suggested that the Clintons had bought Juanita Broaddrick's silence, describing a phone call where Juanita Broaddrick's husband asked Yoakum to say the incident never happened and said that he intended to ask Clinton "for a couple of big favors".
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This, along with the discrepancy between the letter and Juanita Broaddrick's affidavit, attracted the attention of independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who was investigating Clinton for obstruction of justice.
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Juanita Broaddrick was upset by a tabloid report that she had been paid to keep quiet, and decided to agree to an interview with NBC's Lisa Myers.
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Skeptics noted that even if these people were telling the truth, Juanita Broaddrick could have been lying to them at the time the original events took place.
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Some details in Juanita Broaddrick's account corresponded with other women's allegations.
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Juanita Broaddrick said that after the assault, Clinton told her not to worry about pregnancy because childhood mumps had rendered him sterile.
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Judgement on the Juanita Broaddrick matter has varied among book-length treatments of the Bill Clinton years.
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Juanita Broaddrick filed a lawsuit against Clinton in December 1999 to obtain documents that the White House may have gathered about her, claiming its refusal to accede to her demand for such documents violated the Privacy Act of 1974.
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Juanita Broaddrick's lawyer was conservative judicial activist Larry Klayman, head of conservative activist group Judicial Watch.
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The judge ruled that the Privacy Act did not apply in this case and that Juanita Broaddrick had failed to show evidence that the US Department of Justice had improperly released documents about her.
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Juanita Broaddrick said she developed a fear of enclosed spaces as a result of what happened.
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In 2008 Juanita Broaddrick sold her nursing home business and retired, having done well as a businesswoman.
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Juanita Broaddrick continues to live in Van Buren, on a 23-acre ranch.
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On October 9 Juanita Broaddrick appeared on a panel with Trump, Paula Jones, and Kathleen Willey an hour before the second debate between Trump and Clinton in the general election portion of the United States presidential election debates, 2016.
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Since the 2016 election, Juanita Broaddrick has been increasingly politically active in support of Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and conservative groups.