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A CASE OF THE MUMPS?

by The Scrapbook

| March 22, 1999

For those still keeping track, the score remains Juanita Broaddrick: 5 (as in, witnesses she contemporaneously told about the Masher in Chief); Bill Clinton: 1 (as in, number of feeble denials issued, and that denial not by Clinton but by his lawyer). And as time passes, her story is only gaining credibility.

For instance, the most curious detail of Broaddrick's rape allegation is this: Following her 1978 encounter with Clinton, she says he told her not to worry about getting pregnant, because a bout with the mumps had left him sterile. If Broaddrick is a calculating liar looking to embroider her account, inventing such a detail would seem foolish, since two years later Chelsea Clinton was born.

But, as with most allegations against the president, the claim that he would say such a thing becomes, upon closer inspection, all too believable. For one thing, in his book Blood Sport, James Stewart reported that the Clintons in the late 1970s were concerned over not being able to conceive, and at one point "contemplated a visit to a doctor at the University of California." It's quite possible that in the spring of 1978, Clinton did believe that he was sterile, and he might well have ascribed this to a case of the mumps.

But whatever Clinton actually believed in 1978, there is evidence that he was in the habit of making this sort of claim to the women he encountered.

Two authorities on Clinton – Gennifer Flowers and Dolly Kyle Browning – provided THE SCRAPBOOK with further detail. Neither remembers Clinton saying that he'd had the mumps. But Flowers, who claims a 12-year sexual relationship with Clinton, says that Clinton "indicated he had a fertility problem. He never used the word 'sterile,' but he was pretty positive he couldn't have children." Browning, who claims a 30-year sexual relationship with Clinton, and who has known him since they were both children, says that she confronted Clinton about his habitual refusal to use a condom after she'd heard rumors that he'd been seeing other women. "I thought somebody might actually try to get pregnant by him and cause him a problem," says Browning. "But he said, 'Nobody should worry about my getting them pregnant.'"

White House spokesman Jim Kennedy said, "I'm not going to take or ask that question," when we inquired whether Clinton had ever considered himself sterile before Chelsea's conception. Asked if Clinton had ever contracted the mumps, Kennedy took our phone number: "I'm probably not going to get anything on that," he said. "But if I do, I'll call you back." Kennedy's assurance reminds THE SCRAPBOOK of the Clinton campaign's 1992 promise to produce Clinton's medical records: "We'll have them by Thursday," they said at the time. Seven years later, we're still waiting.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/a-case-of-the-mumps