- Dick Morris
Dick Morris (born November 28, 1948 in New York City) is an American political author, newspaper columnist, and commentator who previously worked as a pollster, political campaign consultant, and general political consultant. Morris is best known for managing Bill Clinton's successful 1996 bid for re-election to the office of President of the United States. His tenure on that campaign was cut short two months before the election, … - Vince Foster
Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. was a deputy White House counsel during the first term of President Bill Clinton, and also a law partner and personal acquaintance of Hillary Clinton. He was found dead in Fort Marcy Park off the George Washington Parkway in Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. His death was ruled a suicide by investigations conducted by the United States Park Police, the United States Congress, and Independent Counsels Robert B. Fiske and Kenneth Starr.. - Sandy Berger
Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger (born October 28, 1945) served as the 19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. In his position, he helped to formulate the foreign policy of the Clinton Administration. During this time he advised the President regarding the Khobar Towers bombing, Operation Desert Fox and other actions against Iraq, the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, … - John M. Deutch
John Mark Deutch (born July 27, 1938) was United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1995 and Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from May 10, 1995 until December 14, 1996. He is presently an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and serves on the Board of Directors of Citigroup, Cummins, Raytheon, and Schlumberger Ltd. Deutch was born in Brussels, Belgium, to a Russian Jewish father. - Mel Reynolds
Melvin Jay "Mel" Reynolds (born January 8, 1952) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois. Reynolds was born in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and he graduated from University of Illinois, Harvard University, and Oxford University. An academic achiever, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Lincoln College in the University of Oxford. - Susan McDougal
Susan McDougal (born 1955 in Heidelberg, Germany) is one of the few people who served prison time as a result of the Whitewater controversy in the United States, though fifteen individuals were convicted of federal charges. She was born Susan Carol Henley, the daughter of James B. Henley and Laurette (Mathieu) Henley. Susan McDougal was married in 1976 to James B. McDougal, also of Little Rock, Arkansas. - Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having a sexual relationship while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. Its repercussions in the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the surrounding scandals of 1997-99 became known as the Lewinsky scandal, or "Monicagate". The scandal severely affected Clinton's second term and gave Lewinsky significant notoriety. - Marc Rich
Marc Rich (born Marc David Reich on December 18, 1934) is an international commodities trader. He fled the United States in 1983 to live in Switzerland while being prosecuted on charges of tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the hostage crisis. He received a presidential pardon from United States President Bill Clinton in 2001. - Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27, 1938), a Democrat, served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as Governor of Arizona. - Joycelyn Elders
Minnie Joycelyn Elders, M.D., M.S., (born August 13, 1933) was the United States Surgeon General from September 8, 1993 to December 31, 1994, most famous for her outspokenness on sensitive issues of public health. - Wen Ho Lee
Wen Ho Lee (born December 21, 1939) is a Taiwanese-born American scientist who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and was accused of stealing secrets about the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal for the People's Republic of China (PRC) in December 1999. After investigators dropped these original accusations, the government conducted a new investigation and charged Lee with improper handling of restricted data, … - Jim McDougal
James B. (Jim) McDougal, a native of White County, Arkansas, and his wife, Susan McDougal (the former Susan Carol Hendley), were financial partners with Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the real estate venture that led to the Whitewater political scandal of the 1990s. Starting in 1982, McDougal operated Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. On April 14, 1997, McDougal was convicted of eighteen felony counts of fraud and conspiracy charges. - Janet Reno
Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the first female Attorney General of the United States (1993-2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. She was the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt. - Tony Rodham
Anthony Dean Rodham (born 1954) is the youngest brother of Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rodham is the son of Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, a Chicago textile wholesaler, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. He has one other sibling, older brother Hugh Edwin Rodham. He attended Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Arkansas, although he never received a degree from either school. He then worked at various jobs in Texas, Chicago and South Florida, … - Elián González Affair
The custody and immigration status of a young Cuban boy, Elián González (born December 6, 1993), were at the center of a heated controversy in 2000 involving the Cuban and United States governments, his father, his Miami and Cuban relatives, and the Cuban American community of Miami. However, after the Miami relatives' appeals met several rejections by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, and a refusal to hear the case by the U.S. Supreme Court, … - Webster Hubbell
Webster Lee Hubbell (born 1949), known as Webster L. Hubbell and Webb Hubbell, was an Arkansas lawyer and politician. He was a lawyer in Pulaski County before serving as Mayor of Little Rock from 1979 until he resigned in 1981. He was appointed by Bill Clinton as chief justice of Arkansas State Supreme Court in 1983. - Roger Clinton Jr.
Roger Cassidy Clinton, Jr. (born July 25, 1956) is President Bill Clinton's half-brother, the son of Bill's mother Virginia Cassidy Blythe (1923-1994), and first stepfather Roger Clinton, Sr. As a child Bill often had to protect Roger from his periodically alcoholic and abusive father. Roger became a musician and formed a rock band, which Bill Clinton described as talented in his autobiography. - Dan Rostenkowski
Daniel David "Dan" Rostenkowski (born January 2, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois) was a United States Representative from Illinois from 1959 to 1995. He was a member of the United States Democratic Party. He attended Loyola University Chicago. A product of the Cook County machine and the son of a "ward boss," Joseph P. Rostenkowski of the 32nd ward, Daniel Rostenkowski was for many years Democratic Committeeman of Chicago's 32nd Ward, … - Paula Jones
Paula Corbin Jones (born Paula Rosalee Corbin on September 17, 1966, in Lonoke, Arkansas) is a former Arkansas state employee who sued President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment and eschewal. Eventually, the court dismissed the lawsuit, before trial, on the grounds that Jones failed to demonstrate any damages. However, while the dismissal was on appeal, Clinton entered into an out-of-court settlement by agreeing to pay Jones $850,000. - Gennifer Flowers
Gennifer Flowers (born January 24, 1950) is one of three women who have claimed to have had affairs with U.S. President Bill Clinton. She came forward during Clinton's 1992 Presidential election campaign claiming that she had had a twelve-year affair with him. When Clinton denied having an affair with Flowers, she held a press conference in which she played tape recordings she claimed were of secretly recorded intimate phone calls with Clinton. - Roger Altman
Roger C. Altman Chairman Evercore Partners, Inc. - Juanita Broaddrick
Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator from Arkansas. She alleged in 1998 that United States President Bill Clinton had raped her two decades earlier. In November 1998, Broaddrick gave an interview (transcript) to "Dateline NBC". The interview, broadcast in February 1999, centered around Broaddrick's accusation that Bill Clinton had raped her on April 25, 1978 during his first campaign for the governorship of the U.S. state of Arkansas. - Pincus Green
Pincus Green (1936 -) is an oil and gas commodities trader whose net worth is estimated by Forbes magazine at $1.2 billion USD. Green fled the United States in 1983, along with partner Marc Rich, after being indicted by U.S. Attorney and future mayor of New York City Rudolph Giuliani, on charges of tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran. Green received a controversial presidential pardon, along with Marc Rich, from United States President Bill Clinton in 2001. - Ron Brown
Ronald Harmon Brown (August 1, 1941 - April 3, 1996), was the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving during the first term of President Bill Clinton. He was the first African American to hold this position. - Kathleen Willey
Kathleen Willey was a White House volunteer aide who, on March 15, 1998, alleged on the TV news program "60 Minutes" that Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted her over four years earlier, on November 29, 1993, during his first term as U.S. President. According to Willey, during a meeting in the private study off the Oval Office, Clinton had embraced her tightly, kissed her on the mouth, fondled her breast and then placed her hand on his penis. - Ernest Green
Ernest G. Green (born September 22, 1941) was one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Green, the eldest of the nine, was the first black to graduate from the school. In 1999, he and the other members of the Little Rock Nine were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President Bill Clinton. - Ira Magaziner
Ira Magaziner (born November 8, 1947?) was an aide to President Clinton and later became his chief Internet policy advisor. He is perhaps best known for starting what later became ICANN. Magaziner was first known for leading, along with Hillary Clinton, the failed Task Force to Reform Health Care in the early Clinton administration. Despite calls from some that he step down after the Health Care Program died in Congress, … - Henry Cisneros
Henry Gabriel Cisneros (born June 11, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and community leader. He was the first person of Hispanic background elected as mayor of a large American city, and later served as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997. He left public office after pleading guilty to making false statements to federal officials. - Mike Espy
Alphonso Michael Espy, usually called Mike Espy, (born November 30, 1953) was a U.S. political figure. From 1987 to 1993, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi. He served as the Secretary of Agriculture from 1993 to 1994. He was the first African American Secretary of Agriculture. - Johnny Chung
Johnny Chien Chuen Chung was a major figure in the 1996 United States campaign finance controversy. Born in Taiwan, Chung was the owner of a "blastfaxing" business (an automated system that quickly sends out faxes to thousands of businesses) in California, United States in the early 1990s. Chung eventually found himself in the middle of the Washington, D.C. elite within a couple weeks of his first donations to the Democratic Party. - Betty Currie
Betty Currie (born Betty Grace Williams November 10, 1939) was the personal secretary for Bill Clinton during his tenure as President of the United States. She became well-known as a figure in the Lewinsky scandal for her alleged handling of gifts given to Monica Lewinsky by President Clinton. - Hazel R. O'Leary
Hazel Rollins O'Leary (born May 17, 1937) was the seventh United States Secretary of Energy from 1993 to 1997.She was the first and to date only woman to hold the position. Born in Newport News, Virginia, she is an alumna of Huntington High School of Newport News. O'Leary worked as a prosecutor in New Jersey after graduation from Rutgers University Law School and was later a partner in the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. - William S. Sessions
William Steele Sessions (b. May 27, 1930 in Fort Smith, Arkansas) is a civil servant who served as a judge and director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sessions served as FBI director from 1987 to 1993, when he was fired by President Clinton. - Charlie Trie
Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie (b. August 15, 1949), a major figure in the 1996 United States campaign finance controversy, was convicted and sentenced to three years probation and four months home detention for violating federal campaign finance laws by making political contributions in someone else's name and by causing a false statement to be made to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). - Philip Weiss
Philip Weiss is an investigative journalist who writes for "The New York Observer", "The Nation" and "The American Conservative" and in the past has written for the "National Review", "Washington Monthly", "New York Times Magazine", "Esquire", "Harper's Magazine", and "Jewish World Review". He has also written the 2004 book "American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps". - Ted Sioeng
Ted Sioeng is an Indonesian businessman with interests both in the United States and China, as well as throughout Asia. He was a major figure in the 1996 United States campaign finance controversy. In 1997 the U.S. Congress was informed by the U.S. attorney general, and the directors of the CIA, FBI, and NSA that they had credible intelligence information indicating Sioeng was an agent of China. - James Riady
James Riady is the deputy chairman of the Lippo Group, a major Indonesian conglomerate. He is the son of Mochtar Riady, founder of the group. The group has recently signed an agreement with Khazanah of Malaysia to relinquish its majority stake in Lippo Bank. Due to his recent conversion to evangelical Christianity, James is now focusing on the study of theology. - Carlos Vignali
Carlos Anibal Vignali had his federal prison sentence commuted by President of the United States Bill Clinton just prior to leaving office, as a part of a group of commutations and pardons. At the time, he was serving the 6th of 15 years in prison for organized cocaine trafficking. The sentence commutation, often mistakenly referred to as a "pardon," was controversial because there are claims that it was a consequence of Carlos's father, Horacio Carlos Vignali's, … - Jack Palladino
Jack Palladino is a private investigator who is best known for being hired by the Bill Clinton presidential election committee to find and discredit women Clinton had been intimate with, according to "Newsweek" magazine. The Clinton election committee reportedly paid Palladino over $100,000 over several years. - Maria Hsia
Maria Hsia was a major figure in the 1996 United States campaign finance controversy. Born in Taiwan, Hsia came to the United States as a student in 1973 and received a permanent resident visa in 1975. Originally, she worked for immigration law firms in Los Angeles. In 1982, Hsia began fund-raising for political candidates in state and local races. In 1988 her work for then California Lt. Gov.
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