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Clinton grants clemency
to 140 on last day in office
LITTLE
ROCK, Ark. (AP)
— Susan McDou-
gal is looking for
ward to a new life
now that she has a
pardon from Pres
ident Clinton ex
cusing her for her
Whitewater-relat
ed crimes.
“I get a fresh start, and it’s a great
feeling,” Clinton’s former White-
water business partner said after he
freed her from the burden of four
fraud convictions.
McDougal was among 140 peo
ple Clinton pardoned in a mix of
personal and historic acts of
clemency Saturday just before leav
ing office.
Asked if they all deserved par
dons, Clinton responded from his
new home at Chappaqua, N.Y.:
“Absolutely. I wouldn’t have done
any if I hadn’t thought that.”
“You’re not saying these people
didn’t commit the offense,” Clin
ton said Sunday. “You’re saying
they paid.”
Others receiving pardons in
cluded Patty Hearst Shaw, former
Arizona Gov. Fife Symington and
Clinton’s own brother, Roger,
who was convicted on drug
charges in 1984.
Left out of the pardons and sen
tence commutations were financier
Michael Milken, who had been the
subject of speculation that he might
win a pardon, and former Justice
Department official Webster
Hubbell, who worked at the Rose
Law Firm in Little Rock with
Hillary Rodham Clinton and plead
ed guilty to defrauding it.
Also not on the list were Mc-
Dougal’s former husband, James
McDougal, who was convicted in
the same 1996 trial but died while
serving his prison sentence, and for
mer Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who was
convicted with the McDougals.
Symington’s pardon wiped out
his criminal liability in the bank
and wire fraud conviction that
forced him from office in 1997. An
appeals court overturned his con
victions and prosecutors were still
pursuing the case against him. He
still faces a civil case stemming
from a $ 10 million loan to six union
pension funds.
Symington said he felt the par
don was based on a shared belief
against politically oriented legal
tt
You're not saying
these people didn't
commit the offense.
You're saying they
paid.”
— Bill Clinton
Former president
prosecutions and not necessarily
because he once rescued Clinton
from a riptide.
Symington and Clinton have
known each other for more than 30
years, sharing a mutual friend,
Symington’s high school roommate
who was Clinton’s roommate at
Georgetown University.
During a trip to the Massachu
setts coast in the late 1960s, Clinton
got caught by a riptide and Syming
ton said he jumped into a rowboat
and pulled him out of the water.
“He probably would have sur
vived, but I lent him a helping
hand,” he said.
Hearst, a newspaper family
heiress, was kidnapped by the
Symbionese Liberation Army at
age 19, later said she joined the
group, and was sent to prison for a
San Francisco bank robbery. Pres
ident Carter had previously cut
short her prison term, and Clin
ton’s pardon wiped the conviction
tTom her record.
“This action by President Clin
ton has enormous significance for
Ms. Hearst and her family,” said her
lawyer, George Martinez of
Tiburon, Calif. “The pardon repre
sents an act of ultimate understand
ing for which she is thankful.”
McDougal was one of four fig
ures from the Whitewater case that
dogged the last seven years of Clin
ton’s presidency who won pardons.
The other three were former
Whitewater real estate agent Chris
Wade, university professor
Stephen A. Smith, and former
Madison Guaranty appraiser
Robert W. Palmer.
The McDougals and the Clintons
were partners in the Arkansas land
development that gave the White-
water investigation its name.
Smith, a communications pro
fessor at the University of Arkansas
who pleaded guilty in 1995 to using
funds from a $65,000 business loan
to pay off another loan, said he was
a victim of a hunt that grew out of
the original Whitewater case.
He had said earlier that he did
not need a pardon. He was sen
tenced to a year of probation and
100 hours of community service,
and fined $1,000.
“I was very surprised,” Smith
said Sunday. “I’m sure he has con
cerns for people who were inno
cently dragged into (Watergate
prosecutor) Kenneth Starr’s web.”
“I kept telling myself, go shop
ping, be normal, don’t sit and watch
television, don’t get caught up in
it,” McDougal said. “When (word
of the pardon) came down, I could
feel how much I've been waiting.”
—News in Brief—
Jackson speaks
publicly after
admitting affair
CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev,
Jesse Jackson thanked his fam
ily and supporters for standing by
him as he spoke publicly Sunday
for the first time since acknowl
edging he fathered a daughter
during an extramarital affair.
But Jackson, speaking briefly
to worshippers who packed
Salem Baptist Church, saved his
most personal comments for his
wife, Jackie.
“After 38 years and five chil
dren later, Jackie, we’re still
here,” Jackson said. “I love you
so much."
The civil rights leader said he
was grateful to supporters who
made it clear that they want him
to return to the helm of the Rain-
bow/PUSH Coalition as soon as
possible, and indicated he is
ready to resume his work.
Jackson, who had been in
seclusion since acknowledging
the affair four days ago. told The
Associated Press Saturday that
he would return to the civil rights
stage next week.
Greyhound bus
overturns in N.J.
LAKEWOOD, NJ. (AP) -
Forty-six people aboard a Grey
hound bus en route to New York
from Atlantic City were injured
early Sunday when the bus
overturned.
The injuries were mostly mi
nor, with some broken bones,
state police said. Five people
were treated at the scene and 41
were sent to area hospitals.
The bus slid in snow on the
Garden State Parkway near Lake-
wood, spun out and hit a guardrail
before overturning, police said.
On Saturday, 40 people were
injured when a bus en route to
Scranton, Pa., from New York
overturned and caught fire in Ak
lamuchy in northwest New Jersey.
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