Sally Perdue (also known as Sally Miller and Myra Belle Miller) is a former 1958
Miss Arkansas
The Miss Arkansas competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss America pageant. Arkansas has won the Miss America title three times (1964, 1982, 2017).
Ebony Mitchell of Harrison was crowned Mi ...
and
Little Rock
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radio talk show host.
She was a top-10 finalist in the 1958
Miss America pageant.
Miller is a 1960 graduate of
Lindenwood College.
Fulfilling a childhood dream, Perdue traveled the length of the
Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China (, literally "ten thousand ''li'' wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic gro ...
on foot in 1990.
She was awarded Lindenwood's 1991 Alumni Merit Award for professional accomplishment.
In 1994, Perdue stated that she had had an affair with then-Governor
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
of Arkansas in 1983.
[ She is one of three former holders of the Miss Arkansas title to have been extramaritally linked to Clinton.][ She also stated to ]Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (born 7 December 1957) is the international business editor of the '' Daily Telegraph''.
Early life
Evans-Pritchard was born in Oxford. He was educated at Malvern College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read ...
of ''The Sunday Telegraph
''The Sunday Telegraph'' is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings.
It is the sister paper of ''The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', kn ...
'' that she had been asked not to reveal the affair by a former Democratic staffer in 1992, who supposedly told her that "they knew that I went jogging by myself and he couldn't guarantee what would happen to my pretty little legs."
In 2005, Perdue settled a lawsuit over her dismissal from employment at the Friends School in West Chester, Pennsylvania.[
She earned a master's degree in Education from ]Regent University
Regent University is a private Christian university in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The university was founded by Pat Robertson in 1977 as Christian Broadcasting Network University, and changed its name to Regent University in 1990. Regent offe ...
, Washington (D. C.) Campus, in 2006.
See also
*'' Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine''
*Paula Jones
Paula Corbin Jones (born Paula Rosalee Corbin; September 17, 1966) is an American civil servant. A former Arkansas state employee, Jones sued United States President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment in 1994. In the initial lawsuit, Jones cite ...
*Gennifer Flowers
Gennifer Flowers (born January 24, 1950) is an American author, singer, model, actress, former State of Arkansas employee, and former TV journalist. In January 1998, President Bill Clinton testified under oath that he had a sexual encounter wit ...
*Elizabeth Gracen
Elizabeth Ward Gracen (born Elizabeth Grace Ward, April 3, 1961) is an Americans, American actress and beauty pageant contestant who won the title of Miss America in 1982.
Early life and education
Elizabeth Grace Ward was born on April 3, 19 ...
*Juanita Broaddrick
Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator. She alleged that she was raped by U.S. President Bill Clinton on April 25, 1978, when he (aged 32) was the Attorney General of Arkansas. Clinton's attorney, David E. Kendall, ...
*Kathleen Willey
Kathleen Willey (born June 2, 1946) is a former White House volunteer aide who, on March 15, 1998, alleged on the TV news program '' 60 Minutes'' that Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted her on November 29, 1993, during his first term as Preside ...
References
External links
''Our President/Their Scandal: The Role of the British Press in Keeping the Clinton Scandals Alive''
By Michael Goldfarb, Shorenstein Fellow, Spring 1999 (England)
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Living people
Lindenwood University alumni
Miss America 1950s delegates
Arkansas Republicans