"One of Us": Privately, White House aides worried that Willey's middle-class look could lend her charges credibility. CBS 60 MINUTES/AP

How Willey Was Spun
Kathleen Willey's '60 Minutes' Star Turn sent the White House into full spin. Once again, they ended the week on top.

We woke Monday morning with the pictures from "60 Minutes", so much more powerful than even the words, still fresh in our minds. An attractive, well put-together woman, old Virginia money, painfully struggling to tell her story. And the story itself: How, in a desperate financial situation, she sought help from her friend Bill Clinton. How he responded, more Packwood than President. How she was shocked, and hurt, and went home to find her husband of 22 years had just hours earlier walked out into a Virginia cornfield and put a revolver to his head.

It was great television. For the first time in his presidency Clinton had an accuser who could credibly play on his own field. Which meant, according to White House insiders, that the president was far more angry and concerned about Kathleen Willey than he ever had been about Monica Lewinsky.

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