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They teamed up, and he promoted her as he had his rock and rollersSusan had white-blond hair and often wore floor-length white dresses to preach on TVShe was pretty good at it, and he was great at marketing herThey built a small empire, including a large farming operation manned by devoted young followers as transfixed by them as the young acolytes of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon were by their leaderWhen Susan got cancer, she wanted to come home to ArkansasThey bought a big house in Dyer, her hometown, opened the place in Alma, where Dolly Parton sang, as well as a smaller version of their Nashville country outfit store just across the road, and had a big truckload of food from their California farm delivered each week to feed them and their Arkansas contingent of young laborersSusan got on TV at home, and enjoyed some success until she finally succumbed to her illnessWhen she died, Tony announced that God had told him he was going to raise her from the dead someday, and he put her body in a glass box in their home to await the blessed dayHe tried to keep their empire going with the promise of Susans return, but a promoter is mulberry style bags lost without his productWhen I was governor, he got into a big fight with the government over taxes and staged a brief, nonviolent standoff of sorts around his houseA couple of years later, he got involved with a younger womanLo and behold, God spoke to him again and told him Susan wasnt coming back after all, so he took her out of the glass box and buried her In the summer, I taught both semesters of summer school to earn some extra money and had a good time hanging around Fayetteville with Hillary and our friendsOne day, I drove her to the airport for a trip back eastAs we were driving down California Drive, we passed a beautiful little jagged brick house set back on a rise with a stone wall bracing up the front yardThere was a FOR SALE sign in the yardShe remarked on how pretty the place wasAfter I dropped her off, I checked the house outIt was a one-story structure of about eleven hundred square feet, with a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen with breakfast room attached, a small dining room, and a gorgeous living room that had a beamed ceiling half again as high as the others in the house, a good-looking offset fireplace, and a cartier pasha crono big bay windowThere was also a large screened-in porch that could double as a guest bedroom most of the yearThe house had no air conditioning, but the big attic fan did a good jobThe price was $20,500I bought the house with a $3,000 down payment, big enough to get the monthly mortgage payments down to $174 I moved what little furniture I had into my new house and bought enough other things so that the place wasnt totally bareWhen Hillary came back from her trip, I said, Remember that little house you liked so much? I bought itYou have to marry me now, because I cant live there aloneI took her to see the houseIt still needed a lot of work, but my rash move did the trickAlthough she had never even told me she was prepared to stay in Arkansas, she finally said yes On October 11, 1975, we were married in the big living room of the little house at 930 California Drive, which had been replastered under the watchful eye of Marynm Bassett, a fine decorator who knew our budget was limitedFor example, she helped us pick out bright yellow wallpaper for the breakfast room, but we put it on ourselves, an experience that reaffirmed my black balenciaga bag limitations as a manual laborerHillary wore an old-fashioned Victorian lace dress that I loved, and the Reverend Vic Nixon married us in the presence of Hillarys parents and brothers, Mother, Roger (who served as best man), and a few close friends: Hillarys closest friend from Park Ridge, Betsy Johnson Ebeling, and her husband, Tom; her Wellesley classmate Johanna Branson; my young cousin Marie Clinton; my campaign treasurer, FMartin, and his wife, Myrna; our best friends on the law faculty, Dick Atkinson and Elizabeth Osenbaugh; and my childhood friend and tireless campaign worker Patty HoweHugh Rodham never thought hed be giving his midwestern Methodist daughter to a Southern Baptist in the Arkansas Ozarks, but he did itBy then I had been working on him and the rest of the Rodhams for four yearsI hoped I had won them overThey certainly had captured me After the ceremony, a couple hundred of our friends gathered at Morriss and Ann Henrys house for a reception, and that evening we danced the night away at Billie Schneiders place in the Downtown Motor Inn after Hillary and I had gone to bed, I got a call from my younger chanel fashion brother-in-law, Tony, who was at the Washington County jailWhile he was driving one of the guests home after the party, he was pulled over by a state trooper, not because he was speeding or weaving on the road, but because his tipsy rider was dangling her feet out of the cars back windowAfter he stopped Tony, the deputy could see he had been drinking, so he hauled him inWhen I got down to the jail to bail him out, Tony was shiveringThe jailer told me that our sheriff, Herb Marshall, a Republican whom I liked, kept the jail real cold at night to keep the drunks from throwing upAs we were leaving, Tony asked me if I would get another man released who was in town making a movie with Peter FondaHe was shaking worse than Tony, so badly that when he got in his car to drive away, he rammed right into Hillarys little yellow FiatEven though I bailed him out, the guy never paid me for the costs of the car repairOn the other hand, at least he didnt leave his dinner on the floor of the county jailSo ended my first night as a married man For the longest time Id never thought Id get marriedNow that I was, it felt right, but I wasnt sure where it would fake rolex watches wholesale lea

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