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If this case puts some of the clinton's associates from his Arkansas years in any kind of jeopardy this ex-secret service agent needs to be very,very careful.
What a lot of people do not understand or believe about the clinton's and their body count is that the Clintons did not personally murder anyone nor did they even request anyone to be murdered.
How it worked was that the Dixie Mafia would go to any lengths to protect the Clintons because by protecting the Clintons they were protecting themselves.
If the clintons had a problem they would let it be known and it would be taken care of...the clintons did not want to know anything other than that the problem was taken care of.
The Mob President
ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS: A Time Line of the Clinton YearsArkansas Connections: A Time-line of the Clinton Years by Sam Smith
Hillary Clinton & Bill Clinton’s Crime Family: Where Politics and the Mafia Meet | National Review
The Clinton Stories The Media Won’t Cover
The Mob at the Spa: Organized Crime and Its Fascination with Hot Springs, Arkansas - :
De Soto, Gambling, Resorts and the Mob: A History of Hot Springs
Bill Clinton.....at the age of 4, is transplanted to Hot Springs from Hope..... and I think that's the formative influence, the force really and the shaping of his character and really of his adolescence and the rest of his life. He is very much a creature of Hot Springs. And this is not just any hometown of an American president. This an extraordinary place by any measure. Hot Springs was the Geneva of organized crime in the 1920s and '30s. It's where the barons, the gangster bosses came to meet. It was an open city, you weren't allowed to, to gun anybody down in the streets, or to take any advantage, you vacationed there and met other bosses and divided the spoils, and sometimes gambled in a polite way...It was very much a summit site and yet was under the control itself of one of the families, the Marcellos in New Orleans. [W]onderful names associated with the old Hot Springs. Frank Costello, the New York crime boss, sent his emissary, Dandy Phil Castel to the American south in 1936 to divide up Louisiana and Arkansas and Kentucky and other states in the mid-south. And they assigned Hot Springs to a wonderful character named Ownie Madden who was an English gangster who had owned the Cotton Club in Harlem. Very colorful character, he settled down right away and married the daughter of the postmaster in Hot Springs and became not just the organized crime boss of the city but very much the economic and, and political force for everything that went on. He dictated the content of the city government, he gave his bribes to the state government in Little Rock where the governor was always accommodating, the legislature, of course, looked the other way. Gambling in Hot Springs is entirely illegal now, in the 1920s and '30s, and yet, for many, many years, into the '40s and '50s, even the mid-1960s-- Ownie Madden dies in 1965--Hot Springs, Arkansas is the principle of illegal gambling in North America. It's take, we now know, from the committee investigations, exceeds that of Las Vegas, Nevada, where the gambling is legendary and quite legal.
And it's a place where the politics are utterly and relentlessly corrupt, as a result. The local government is, is owned by these people. There's an effort to clean it up later in the mid 1960s after Owney Madden dies, but in many respects it only goes underground. So for most of the time that Bill Clinton is a little boy, growing up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, this is an organized crime capital, in America. Really unlike any other in, in quality, in content. And, the striking thing about all of this is that he is not divorced from it. That his own family is quite intimately involved in it. His mother as we know from her own memoirs, frequented the track at Oaklawn, which was one of the centers of activity for the mob and was an almost nightly visitor to the clubs of Hot Springs. The Vapors being her favorite. And all of these clubs were fronts, you passed through a wonderful curtain discreetly put up, between the restaurant or whatever was out front, and into a gambling parlor that was befitting Hot Springs at its height and looked like Las Vegas or Reno or, the casinos of Europe, with roulette, with blackjack, with slot machines and all the rest. She frequented all of those with her husband, then Bill Clinton's stepfather, and Roger Clinton. He's very much a product of all of that.
FL: What are the lessons, for let's say, a young kid like Bill Clinton, aspiring politician. What is it that he sees growing up and how does that shape him specifically.
MORRIS:
Well, we don't know what he really sees because it's the want of American politicians never to talk candidly about themselves, not even in their memoirs, for which they always get a great deal of money. But I think we have a lot of parallel testimony. Shirley Abbott, the writer, grew up in Hot Springs, just a little older than Bill Clinton, and she wrote a wonderful memoir, called The Bookmaker's Daughter. Which tells us a lot about being a child in Hot Springs. Her father, of course, was employed by the powers that be and was a bookie in the town for years and years. And her era is the same. The '40s, '50s and '60s. And she has a rather poignant sentence at the end of her memoirs, saying that Hot Springs, Arkansas deconstructs and demolishes the American dream. That it mocks all of the pretense of American democracy, of how the world seems to work, how Americans think their society works and how it really works. All the secret and covert arrangements by which, not just a political system but an economy and a society as well. Hot Springs of course was a very, very strong center of Baptist faith and practice. It was supposed to be a very religious city, full of churches and little Billy Clinton went down Park Avenue to the Baptist church every Sunday morning, with a Bible, with his initials engraved in the cover. And, lived that life on Sunday morning while his parents were attending the clubs and the race tracks and gambling, almost every night, of the week, and coming home with raging fights and a lot of abuse of the mother and of Bill and his brother by the stepfather. So there is, at once, an enormous gap, a kind of disparity between two realities, in the life of any child. Between the reality as one pretends it to be, as you pretend to the outside world, and the real working reality. The most influential male figure, very early in his life, and indeed later in his political start, is his stepfather's brother. A man named Raymond Clinton, who was the dominant figure in the Clinton family. Roger Clinton, Bill's stepfather, was sort of the weak, younger brother who was never, never quite going to make it. He'd been set up in a Buick dealership in Hope, which is where he met Virginia, Bill's mother, and married her, and that failed because he flitted away the company profits in gambling and dissipation and drinking and so on.
The stronger, older brother was Raymond Clinton who had a Buick franchise in Hot Springs and was quite a political force. A member of the Ku Klux Klan and had extensive organized crime ties. He ran his own slot machines, out of the back, not only of the Buick dealership but other businesses and properties around town. Bookmaking and bootlegging operations and all the rest. And it's important to understand that one didn't do that on a freelance basis. You didn't just come into a town owned by organized crime and set up your own vice. You did that only at the sufferance and with the cooperation, indeed collaboration of organized crime, and you gave kickbacks accordingly. So Raymond Clinton, who was a very important figure in the family often rescues Bill from abuse by his stepfather, and is a very dominant financial figure in their, fortunes, was closely linked to those elements.
FL: Somebody said he felt that was the real father figure at that point. The most commanding male presence in his life. So talk a little about what drew Bill to this man...
frontline: the choice '96: Stories of Bill | PBS
What a lot of people do not understand or believe about the clinton's and their body count is that the Clintons did not personally murder anyone nor did they even request anyone to be murdered.
How it worked was that the Dixie Mafia would go to any lengths to protect the Clintons because by protecting the Clintons they were protecting themselves.
If the clintons had a problem they would let it be known and it would be taken care of...the clintons did not want to know anything other than that the problem was taken care of.
The Mob President
ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS: A Time Line of the Clinton YearsArkansas Connections: A Time-line of the Clinton Years by Sam Smith
Hillary Clinton & Bill Clinton’s Crime Family: Where Politics and the Mafia Meet | National Review
The Clinton Stories The Media Won’t Cover
The Mob at the Spa: Organized Crime and Its Fascination with Hot Springs, Arkansas - :
De Soto, Gambling, Resorts and the Mob: A History of Hot Springs
Bill Clinton.....at the age of 4, is transplanted to Hot Springs from Hope..... and I think that's the formative influence, the force really and the shaping of his character and really of his adolescence and the rest of his life. He is very much a creature of Hot Springs. And this is not just any hometown of an American president. This an extraordinary place by any measure. Hot Springs was the Geneva of organized crime in the 1920s and '30s. It's where the barons, the gangster bosses came to meet. It was an open city, you weren't allowed to, to gun anybody down in the streets, or to take any advantage, you vacationed there and met other bosses and divided the spoils, and sometimes gambled in a polite way...It was very much a summit site and yet was under the control itself of one of the families, the Marcellos in New Orleans. [W]onderful names associated with the old Hot Springs. Frank Costello, the New York crime boss, sent his emissary, Dandy Phil Castel to the American south in 1936 to divide up Louisiana and Arkansas and Kentucky and other states in the mid-south. And they assigned Hot Springs to a wonderful character named Ownie Madden who was an English gangster who had owned the Cotton Club in Harlem. Very colorful character, he settled down right away and married the daughter of the postmaster in Hot Springs and became not just the organized crime boss of the city but very much the economic and, and political force for everything that went on. He dictated the content of the city government, he gave his bribes to the state government in Little Rock where the governor was always accommodating, the legislature, of course, looked the other way. Gambling in Hot Springs is entirely illegal now, in the 1920s and '30s, and yet, for many, many years, into the '40s and '50s, even the mid-1960s-- Ownie Madden dies in 1965--Hot Springs, Arkansas is the principle of illegal gambling in North America. It's take, we now know, from the committee investigations, exceeds that of Las Vegas, Nevada, where the gambling is legendary and quite legal.
And it's a place where the politics are utterly and relentlessly corrupt, as a result. The local government is, is owned by these people. There's an effort to clean it up later in the mid 1960s after Owney Madden dies, but in many respects it only goes underground. So for most of the time that Bill Clinton is a little boy, growing up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, this is an organized crime capital, in America. Really unlike any other in, in quality, in content. And, the striking thing about all of this is that he is not divorced from it. That his own family is quite intimately involved in it. His mother as we know from her own memoirs, frequented the track at Oaklawn, which was one of the centers of activity for the mob and was an almost nightly visitor to the clubs of Hot Springs. The Vapors being her favorite. And all of these clubs were fronts, you passed through a wonderful curtain discreetly put up, between the restaurant or whatever was out front, and into a gambling parlor that was befitting Hot Springs at its height and looked like Las Vegas or Reno or, the casinos of Europe, with roulette, with blackjack, with slot machines and all the rest. She frequented all of those with her husband, then Bill Clinton's stepfather, and Roger Clinton. He's very much a product of all of that.
FL: What are the lessons, for let's say, a young kid like Bill Clinton, aspiring politician. What is it that he sees growing up and how does that shape him specifically.
MORRIS:
Well, we don't know what he really sees because it's the want of American politicians never to talk candidly about themselves, not even in their memoirs, for which they always get a great deal of money. But I think we have a lot of parallel testimony. Shirley Abbott, the writer, grew up in Hot Springs, just a little older than Bill Clinton, and she wrote a wonderful memoir, called The Bookmaker's Daughter. Which tells us a lot about being a child in Hot Springs. Her father, of course, was employed by the powers that be and was a bookie in the town for years and years. And her era is the same. The '40s, '50s and '60s. And she has a rather poignant sentence at the end of her memoirs, saying that Hot Springs, Arkansas deconstructs and demolishes the American dream. That it mocks all of the pretense of American democracy, of how the world seems to work, how Americans think their society works and how it really works. All the secret and covert arrangements by which, not just a political system but an economy and a society as well. Hot Springs of course was a very, very strong center of Baptist faith and practice. It was supposed to be a very religious city, full of churches and little Billy Clinton went down Park Avenue to the Baptist church every Sunday morning, with a Bible, with his initials engraved in the cover. And, lived that life on Sunday morning while his parents were attending the clubs and the race tracks and gambling, almost every night, of the week, and coming home with raging fights and a lot of abuse of the mother and of Bill and his brother by the stepfather. So there is, at once, an enormous gap, a kind of disparity between two realities, in the life of any child. Between the reality as one pretends it to be, as you pretend to the outside world, and the real working reality. The most influential male figure, very early in his life, and indeed later in his political start, is his stepfather's brother. A man named Raymond Clinton, who was the dominant figure in the Clinton family. Roger Clinton, Bill's stepfather, was sort of the weak, younger brother who was never, never quite going to make it. He'd been set up in a Buick dealership in Hope, which is where he met Virginia, Bill's mother, and married her, and that failed because he flitted away the company profits in gambling and dissipation and drinking and so on.
The stronger, older brother was Raymond Clinton who had a Buick franchise in Hot Springs and was quite a political force. A member of the Ku Klux Klan and had extensive organized crime ties. He ran his own slot machines, out of the back, not only of the Buick dealership but other businesses and properties around town. Bookmaking and bootlegging operations and all the rest. And it's important to understand that one didn't do that on a freelance basis. You didn't just come into a town owned by organized crime and set up your own vice. You did that only at the sufferance and with the cooperation, indeed collaboration of organized crime, and you gave kickbacks accordingly. So Raymond Clinton, who was a very important figure in the family often rescues Bill from abuse by his stepfather, and is a very dominant financial figure in their, fortunes, was closely linked to those elements.
FL: Somebody said he felt that was the real father figure at that point. The most commanding male presence in his life. So talk a little about what drew Bill to this man...
frontline: the choice '96: Stories of Bill | PBS
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