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International News
Electronic Telegraph
Thursday 29 January 1998
Issue 979

Disgraced aide stuns DJs with lesbian theory

By Hugh Davies in Washington

THE return of Dick Morris to the side of President Clinton as a crisis
adviser may be shortlived, after one of his notorious
stream-of-consciousness conversations with two disc jockeys in Los
Angeles.

The political "spin doctor" who resigned as a White House strategist in
1996 - after his own problems with a $200-an-hour Washington prostitute
- is noted for speaking his mind, no matter what the consequences.

He took this to an extreme on the radio show, suggesting that the
President might be committing adultery because his wife, Hillary, was a
lesbian. In a recent memoir he wrote of Mr Clinton constantly exploding
about the press and privately decrying Bob Dole, his Republican rival
for the presidency, as "an evil man". But he was brought back to help
the President through the present crisis.

His interviewer yesterday referred to a tape recording on which Monica
Lewinsky alleged that Mr Clinton liked phone sex. He asked: "Do you
think that is what it's going to be reduced to?"

Mr Morris replied: "It could be something well like that. None of what
I'm about to say is necessarily a fact; I don't know it. But let's
assume, OK, that his sexual relationship with Hillary is not all that
it's supposed to be. Let's assume that some of the allegations that
Hillary sometimes, not necessarily being into regular sex with men,
might be true. Let's assume that this is a guy who has been sexually
active for a long time and then got in as a President and he'd had to
shut himself down.

"You would then expect a variety of things which would be quasi-sexual
in nature but which would fall short of it. Phone sex would be one of
them, fantasies might be one of them, a close relationship with a young
person might be one of them. Those all could be real things without
actually committing adultery. There are a thousand things, not including
oral sex, which could have gone on which fall well short of adultery.
We're talking about a kind of Walter Mitty life, a sort of vicarious
enjoyment. We're talking about a sort of . . . really an emotional
connection that isn't a physical one that basically is a sexual
relationship that you never act on."

Ted Lekas, executive producer of the show, said: "Everybody was stunned.
I was stunned. The hosts were so stunned they had to make a joke. I said
to myself: 'Did he just say what I thought I heard?' We've been
replaying it all day."

According to Sherry Rowlands, the prostitute Mr Morris hired, he rarely
had conventional sex with her. He preferred her to suck his toes, tickle
his naked body and rub her feet over his face, his chest and genitals,
pressing as hard as she could. He would then "go on all fours like a dog
under my feet".

27 September 1997: The sinning spin-doctor repents . . .
11 January 1997: Disgraced adviser dishes dirt on Clinton

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