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发帖数: 897 | 1 For nearly two decades, Lillian McEwen has been silent -- a part of history,
yet absent from it.
When Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his
explosive 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Thomas vehemently denied
the allegations and his handlers cited his steady relationship with another
woman in an effort to deflect Hill's allegations.
Lillian McEwen was that woman.
At the time, she was on good terms with Thomas. The former assistant U.S.
attorney and Senate Judiciary Committee counsel had dated him for years,
even attending a March 1985 White House state dinner as his guest. She had
worked on the Hill and was wary of entering the political cauldron of the
hearings. She was never asked to testify, as then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.),
who headed the committee, limited witnesses to women who had a "professional
relationship" with Thomas.
Now, she says that Thomas often said inappropriate things about women he met
at work -- and that she could have added her voice to the others, but didn'
t.
Over the years, reporters and biographers approached her eager to know more
about Thomas from women who knew him well. But McEwen remained mum. She said
she saw "nothing good" coming out of talking to reporters about Thomas,
whom she said she still occasionally met. She did not want to do anything to
harm her career, she added. Plus, she realized, "I don't look good in this."
Today, McEwen is 65 and retired from a successful career as a prosecutor,
law professor and administrative law judge for federal agencies. She has
been twice married and twice divorced, and has a 32-year-old daughter. She
lives in a comfortable townhouse in Southwest Washington.
And she is silent no more.
She has written a memoir, which she is now shopping to publishers. News
broke that the justice's wife, Virginia Thomas, left a voice mail on Hill's
office phone at Brandeis University, seeking an apology -- a request that
Hill declined in a statement. After that, McEwen changed her mind and
decided to talk about her relationship with Thomas.
"I have nothing to be afraid of," she said, adding that she hopes the
attention stokes interest in her manuscript.
To McEwen, Hill's allegations that Thomas had pressed her for dates and made
lurid sexual references rang familiar.
"He was always actively watching the women he worked with to see if they
could be potential partners," McEwen said matter-of-factly. "It was a hobby
of his."
McEwen's connection to Thomas was strictly personal. She had even disclosed
that relationship to Biden, who had been her boss years earlier.
In her Senate testimony, Hill, who worked with Thomas at two federal
agencies, said that Thomas would make sexual comments to her at work,
including references to scenes in hard-core pornographic films.
"If I used that kind of grotesque language with one person, it would seem to
me that there would be traces of it throughout the employees who worked
closely with me, or the other individuals who heard bits and pieces of it or
various levels of it," Thomas responded to the committee.
McEwen scoffs softly when asked about Thomas's indignation, which has barely
cooled in the 19 years since the hearings. In his vivid 2007 memoir, the
justice calls Hill a tool of liberal activists outraged because he did not
fit their idea of what an African American should believe.
McEwen's memoir describes her own "dysfunctional" family in the District and
, ultimately, a long legal career. She charts how she developed an "inner
self" to escape the chaos of her childhood. Her story also includes explicit
details of her relationship with Thomas, which she said included a
freewheeling sex life.
Given that history, she said Hill's long-ago description of Thomas's
behavior resonated with her.
"He was obsessed with porn," she said of Thomas, who is now 63. "He would
talk about what he had seen in magazines and films, if there was something
worth noting."
McEwen added that she had no problem with Thomas's interests, although she
found pornography to be "boring."
According to McEwen, Thomas would also tell her about women he encountered
at work. He was partial to women with large breasts, she said. In an
instance at work, Thomas was so impressed that he asked one woman her bra
size, McEwen recalled him telling her.
Presented with some of McEwen's assertions, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy
Arberg said Thomas was unavailable for comment.
However bizarre they may seem, McEwen's recollections resemble accounts
shared by other women that swirled around the Thomas confirmation.
Angela Wright, who in 1984 worked as public affairs director at the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission -- which polices sexual harassment claims | q******s
发帖数: 7469 | 2 黑鬼的性能力就是强，搞了个志同道合的白肥婆还不满意，当年连手下的更年期老太也
不放过。
白肥婆最近撤出了challenge the consititionality of the health care bill，黑鬼
不知道会不会床上frustrated，又要找人谢火。反正黑鬼在supreme court的bench上有
15年没有发过一次言了，精力多的是。
我推荐lcz给clarence，不但志同道和。外加lcz外发的是个小jj的犹太猪，整天一根针
掉茶杯里，弄得lcz更年期失调。黑鬼的jb大，肯定能满足lcz。而且黑鬼一般都喜欢走
后门，lcz更年期容易撞红不便，py开花更好。py搞爽了，lcz可能以后也不会那么妒忌
基老床玩的快活。 | O*****g
发帖数: 1257 | 3 Serve Thomas right. He is the least qualified on the bench.
【在 q******s 的大作中提到】
: 黑鬼的性能力就是强，搞了个志同道合的白肥婆还不满意，当年连手下的更年期老太也
: 不放过。
: 白肥婆最近撤出了challenge the consititionality of the health care bill，黑鬼
: 不知道会不会床上frustrated，又要找人谢火。反正黑鬼在supreme court的bench上有
: 15年没有发过一次言了，精力多的是。
: 我推荐lcz给clarence，不但志同道和。外加lcz外发的是个小jj的犹太猪，整天一根针
: 掉茶杯里，弄得lcz更年期失调。黑鬼的jb大，肯定能满足lcz。而且黑鬼一般都喜欢走
: 后门，lcz更年期容易撞红不便，py开花更好。py搞爽了，lcz可能以后也不会那么妒忌
: 基老床玩的快活。
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