Contributors

to A Complicated Man (Partial List)

National Journalists

  • Jonathan Alter - Newsweek
  • Fred Barnes – Fox News and the Weekly Standard
  • Tom Brokaw – NBC News
  • Sam Donaldson – ABC News
  • Ron Fournier – Associated Press
  • Jim Hoagland - Washington Post
  • Michael Kinsley - The Atlantic
  • Lawrence Korb – Military analyst
  • Steve Kroft – “60 Minutes”
  • Lawrence O'Donnell – MSNBC
  • Nina Totenberg – National Public Radio

Members of the Clinton Administration

  • William Cohen – Secretary of defense
  • Warren Christopher – Secretary of state
  • Richard Holbrooke – State Department official
  • DeeDee Myers – Press secretary
  • Leon Panetta – Director, Office of Management and Budget; White House chief of staff
  • Robert Reich – Secretary of labor
  • Robert Rubin – Secretary of the treasury
  • Joseph Stiglitz – Nobel-prize-winning economist; chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
  • Lawrence Summers – Secretary of the treasury
  • Strobe Talbott – Deputy secretary of state

Four-Star Generals

  • Merrill A. “Tony” McPeak – Air Force chief of staff
  • Hugh Shelton – Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff

Democrats: Current and Former Elected Officials

  • David Bonior – Member, House of Representatives (D-MI)
  • John Breaux – Senator (D-LA)
  • Dale Bumpers – Senator (D-AR); governor of Arkansas
  • John Conyers – Member, House of Representatives (D-MI)
  • Michael Dukakis – Governor of Massachusetts (D); 1988 presidential nominee
  • Barney Frank – Member, House of Representatives (D-MA)
  • Bob Kerrey – Senator (D-NE); governor of Nebraska
  • John Lewis – Member, House of Representatives (D-GA); hero of the civil rights movement
  • Walter “Fritz” Mondale – Vice president and senator (D-MN)
  • Charles Robb – Senator (D-VA); governor of Virginia

Democrats: Political Advisers

  • Paul Begala – Managed 1992 campaign with partner James Carville
  • James Carville – Managed 1992 campaign with partner Paul Begala
  • Al From – Founder of the Democratic Leadership Council
  • Stan Greenberg – Pollster
  • Terry McAuliffe – Fundraiser extraordinaire; chairman, Democratic National Committee, chairman, 2008 Hillary campaign
  • Michael Sheehan – Debate/speech consultant
  • Craig Smith – White House political director
  • Doug Sosnik – White House political director

Republicans: Current and Former Government Officials

  • Dick Armey – Member, House of Representatives (R-TX); House majority leader
  • James Baker – Secretary of state and treasury; campaign manager for George H. W. Bush, 1992
  • Bob Dole – Senator (R-KS); minority leader; majority leader; presidential nominee, 1996
  • Henry Hyde – Member, House of Representatives (R-IL); chairman of House Judiciary Committee
  • Jack Kemp – Vice presidential candidate, 1996
  • C. Everett Koop – Surgeon general
  • Alan Simpson – Senator (R-WY)

Republicans: Political Advisers

  • Arne Christenson – Chief of staff to Speaker Newt Gingrich
  • Joe Gaylord – Political adviser to Newt Gingrich
  • Scott Reed – Manager of Dole campaign, 1996

Whitewater/Lewinsky Attorneys: Investigating and Prosecuting

  • Michael Emmick – Ken Starr’s Office of Independent Counsel
  • James Fisher – Lawyer Paula Jones
  • Robert Fiske – First Whitewater independent counsel
  • Mark Stein – Robert Fiske’s Office of Indepedent Counsel
  • Solomon Wisenberg – Ken Starr’s Office of Independent Counsel

Whitewater/Lewinsky Attorneys: Defending

  • Gregory Craig – Coordinated White House legal defense
  • Abbe Lowell – Counsel to Democratic minority on House Judiciary Committee during impeachment proceedings

Arkansas: Journalists

  • Max Brantley - Arkansas Gazette, Arkansas Times
  • Joan Duffy – Memphis Commercial Appeal, Arkansas Democrat, United Press International
  • Ernie Dumas - Arkansas Gazette, Arkansas Times
  • Paul Greenberg - Pine Bluff Commercial, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
  • Gene Lyons – Co-Author of The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton
  • Jack Moseley – Fort Smith Southwest Times-Record
  • David Terrell - Arkansas Democrat, Arkansas Gazette, Memphis Commercial Appeal

Arkansas: Leaders and Governmental Officials

  • Julie Baldridge – Press secretary, Arkansas governor’s office
  • Dale Charles – Head of Arkansas chapter, NAACP
  • Jimmie Lou Fisher – Arkansas state treasurer
  • Rudy Moore, Jr. – Campaign manager, Bill’s first run for governor; chief of staff, governor’s office
  • Bob Nash – Senior aide on economic development, governor’s office
  • Kent Rubens – Member (D), Arkansas House of Representatives
  • Steve Smith – Managed Bill’s campaign for attorney general; chief of staff, attorney general’s office; senior aide, Arkansas governor’s office

Arkansas: Friends and Relatives

  • Marie Clinton – Bruno Cousin
  • Dan Clinton – Cousin
  • Roy Clinton, Jr. – Cousin
  • Liz Clinton-Little – Cousin
  • Ernest Green – Member of the Little Rock 9
  • Paul David Leopoulos – Classmate (Hot Springs)
  • Richard Mays – Lawyer; supporter and fundraiser
  • Myra (Grisham) Reese – Cousin
  • Lottie Shackelford – Mayor (D), Little Rock
  • Carolyn Staley – Classmate (Hot Springs)
  • Martha Whetstone – Friend

Arkansas: Teachers

  • Paul Root – Hot Springs High School
  • Lonnie Luebben – Hot Springs High School

Schoolmates After Arkansas

  • Christopher Hyland – Georgetown
  • Bruce Morrison – Yale Law School
  • Robert Reich – Oxford
  • Strobe Talbott – Oxford
  • Melanne Verveer – Georgetown
  • Phil Verveer – Georgetown
  • Tom Williamson – Oxford

Historians

  • Peter Bourne – Biographer of Jimmy Carter
  • Douglas Brinkley – Rice University

Labor Union Presidents

  • Owen Bieber – United Auto Workers
  • John Sweeney – AFL-CIO

Former Foreign Heads of State

  • Brian Mulroney – Canada
  • Albert Reynolds – Ireland

Miscellaneous

  • Chevy Chase – Actor
  • Larry Flynt – Publisher, Hustler magazine
  • Lucianne Goldberg – New York literary agent specializing in conservative themes; aided Linda Tripp in exposing Lewinsky affair
  • Jim Yong Kim – Physician and public-health expert
  • Phil Wogaman – Methodist minister, Washington, DC

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