Sally Perdue (also known as Sally Miller and Myra Belle Miller) is a former 1958 Miss Arkansas and

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radio talk show host. She was a top-10 finalist in the 1958

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pageant. Miller is a 1960 graduate of

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. Fulfilling a childhood dream, Perdue traveled the length of the

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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

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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

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of ''

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'' that she had been asked not to reveal the affair by a former

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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

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. She earned a master's degree in Education from Regent University, Washington (D. C.) Campus, in 2006.

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''Our President/Their Scandal: The Role of the British Press in Keeping the Clinton Scandals Alive''
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