wonder how much life he's got left in him?

Little more than Vince Foster..

Little more than Vince Foster..

From the small Arkansas town of Conway, Larry Nichols has made it his life's goal to bring down Clinton. He claims he was wrongfully terminated from his state job in 1988 for making personal calls to Nicaraguan contra leaders -- a charge he denies. He said he has spoken with Starr's team as well as to an investigator for Jones -- and anyone else who has called.

Two years after he was fired -- weeks before the heated Clinton-Nelson gubernatorial race -- Nichols held a news conference announcing that he was suing Clinton, alleging Clinton had used a secret state slush fund to finance his philandering. The suit listed five women with whom Clinton had allegedly been involved. Gennifer Flowers was on the list.

No one paid attention. The women all denied the charges and threatened to sue him for defamation. And while Sheffield Nelson's campaign privately flaunted the lawsuit to reporters, Nelson distanced himself from Nichols. "I was out there on a limb alone," Nichols said.

That's not quite the case today.

At some point or another, anyone who hates Clinton, or who is investigating Clinton, finds Nichols.

"I'm smut central," he said. "It all comes through here.

"When I started this it was with a little governor from a Podunk state," he said. "Who thought I'd be fighting the most powerful man in the world?"

Today Nichols sits in a small restaurant in Conway, chain-smoking cigarettes, not far from where he has set up his anti-Clinton crusade to "get my name back." He speaks of his decade-long obsession with Clinton as calmly as a man speaking about what he ate for breakfast.

Nichols no longer has a job ("Who's gonna hire me now?") and said he does nothing but spread his take on Clinton 10 to 16 hours a day, on talk shows and to reporters. Since the Monica S. Lewinsky story broke, Nichols is in demand again. But he claimed he makes no money in his crusade and, in fact, maintained that he has lost virtually everything and lives off his wife's modest salary.

There is no question that many of Nichols's accusations are considered far-fetched by those who've investigated them -- but there is also no question he's been a recurring bad dream for Clinton.

In 1994, Nichols helped a right-wing filmmaker produce a bizarre and unsubstantiated documentary about Clinton, accusing him of a range of things, from treason to drug-running. Conservative television evangelist Jerry Falwell got wind of the film and started peddling it on his "Old Time Gospel Hour." Falwell sold more than 60,000 copies of the "Clinton Chronicles" for $39.95 -- and there are many more in circulation.

A former Arkansas state employee whose lawsuit alleging marital infidelity by Bill Clinton helped trigger a crisis for the Arkansas governor's Democratic presidential campaign announced Saturday night that he will drop the suit, saying the media "have made a circus out of this thing, and it's gone way too far."

The statement by Larry Nichols, released by Clinton aides after a speech by the candidate in New Hampshire, came as the governor and his wife, Hillary, readied for a potentially pivotal appearance tonight on the CBS-TV program "60 Minutes" to discuss allegations concerning their private life.

In his statement, Nichols said: "It is time to call the fight I have with Bill Clinton over. . . . I set out to destroy him for what I believed happened to me."

Nichols, fired from his state job in 1988 for misconduct, sued Clinton over his dismissal and used his lawsuit to air rumors of adultery by Clinton. The lawsuit--in which Nichols named five women with whom Clinton allegedly had affairs--became the basis of a story last week in a supermarket tabloid, the Star, that set off the current scrutiny of Clinton's private life.

Deborah Mathis, 38, is editorial page editor of The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. She was a TV and newspaper journalist in Little Rock for about 20 years. Mathis was one of the women named as "Bill Clinton's lovers" by Arkansas ex-government employee Larry Nichols and the Star tabloid; she denied the allegations. Last week she discussed the episode with NEWSWEEK's Ginny Carroll. ..MR0-

As far back as the late '70s, when Bill Clinton was attorney general, people would tease me, "You and Bill Clinton sure are good friends." We had had a succession of older, establishment governors, and then Clinton was elected. This also was a time when women were just breaking into reporting in any significant number. Every woman reporter who interviewed him was teased the same way.

The next time I heard anything about me and Bill Clinton was during the governor's race of 1990. I got a call from Mike Gauldin, Clinton's press secretary. He said Larry Nichols had read out a list of women he was claiming had slept with Bill Clinton and that mine was one of the names. I said, "You're kidding me." And I started laughing. He said, "I'm glad you think it's funny because we don't over here. We want you to know that we're very sorry your name has been dragged into crap like this." When we hung up, I ran through the department saying, "This guy can't even spell my name (it was spelled Debra), but he claims to know about my sex life?" I called my husband, and we laughed some more. But after a while, it started making me angry. And that's the cycle I've gone through every time it's come up: alternating anger and laughter at the absurdity of it.

I never slept with Bill Clinton. I never had an affair with him. No love - affair. No lust affair. No affair. Period.

IMHO, Larry Nichols is pathetic.

From a 1998 Washington Post story:


*** from a 1992 LA Times story:


From a 1992 Newsweek story:

So, since there is no statute of limitations on murder, was he arrested at the end of the show?

Hell no. That would destroy what little of a chance Hillary has at coming close to even winning a Presidential election. They don't want the spectacle or bad press of a high profile trial based on her and her husband's dirty ways.

We observed how the Clinton's and Obama's have used Law Enforcement like their own personal slaves for years.

So then, what you're telling me, is that this is all BS, kind of like your previous statement?

why isn't my photobucket working right ?!#*

No, I am telling you I believe what this man has to say to an extent.