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December 8, 1995
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In written testimony submitted Friday, Hillary Rodham Clinton said she was unable to remember whether it was she who phoned the White House after aides left Vince Foster's office the night of his suicide.
Mrs. Clinton submitted written responses Friday to a series of questions from the Senate Whitewater Committee about phone calls she have may have placed the night of the former deputy White House counsel's death.
According to White House Counsel Jane Sherburn, one of the calls made from the Rodham residence was a trunk line designed to go directly to the office of then White House Chief of Staff Mack McClarty.
Mrs. Clinton, under oath, wrote that she did not specifically remember any of the calls that she placed that night, including the call to McClarty's office. An employee of McClarty's office, Bill Burton, who reportedly took that call, will be called to testify about the conversation next week.
Foster was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in a park near Washington on July 20, 1993.
In her response, Mrs. Clinton said, "It would not surprise me to learn that I had placed a call to the White House that evening."
The Republican counsel on the Whitewater Committee has called the sequence of calls "very compelling evidence about Mrs. Clinton's direct involvement in decision-making about the handling of documents in Foster's office."
Mrs. Clinton said phone message her mother voluntarily provided to the committee show that the first lady called her chief of staff, Margaret Williams, at her home; Harry Thomason in California; Susan Thomases in New York; Carolyn Huber in Washington; and her brother.
Whitewater Committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato, R-New York, said earlier Friday that a failure to produce records and recall phone calls at critical times compounded his suspicion of Mrs. Clinton. "Do I believe that these records were turned over when someone from the office (Mrs. Clinton's) found them? Yes. Do I believe that she (Mrs. Clinton) was aware that other calls were made and she withheld that information from the committee? The answer is yes," D'Amato said. (247K AIFF sound or 247K WAV sound)
D'Amato said he was not yet willing to call Mrs. Clinton as a witness before the committee. He did say that "many roads" in the investigation point to her direct involvement in matters relating to White House staffers removing documents from Foster's office when his death was discovered.
Also Friday, the committee voted to issue a subpoena for the notes of former Associate White House Counsel William Kennedy from a November 5, 1993, meeting of lawyers involved in defending the Clintons in the Whitewater investigation.
Kennedy told the committee this week that he was under instructions from the Clintons' personal attorney to assert attorney-client privilege and withhold the information. The Republicans believe the privilege doesn't apply in this case because four presidential aides were at the meeting and because a White House spokesman talked about it to the media about it. Friday's vote could push the two sides into court to settle the issue.
Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Maryland, ranking Democrat on the committee, said the subpoenas are unnecessary since the Clintons' personal lawyer, David Kendall, offered a way for the committee to get pertinent information without violating confidentiality.
The committee said Kendall suggested that questions be limited to what Kennedy knew before or after the meeting, but the committee refused, saying it must know what happened during the meeting.
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