Sally Perdue is a former 1958 Miss Arkansas

Miss Arkansas

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 and Little Rock

Little Rock, Arkansas

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 radio talk show host. She was a top-10 finalist in the 1959 Miss America

Miss America

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 pageant.

In 1994, Perdue stated that she had had an affair with then-governor Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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 of Arkansas in 1983. She also stated that she had been asked not to reveal the affair by a former Democratic party staffer in 1992 who 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 West Chester (PA) Friends School.

Education

Perdue is a 1960 graduate of Lindenwood College

Lindenwood University

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, and was awarded the college's 1991 Alumni Merit Award for professional accomplishment.

See also

• Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine
  Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine
  Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine is a book by Candice E. Jackson. Published by conservative publisher World Ahead Publishing on May 31, 2005, it recounts the stories of seven women who crossed paths with Bill Clinton: Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen...
  
  
• Paula Jones
  Paula Jones
  Paula Corbin Jones is a former Arkansas state employee who sued U.S. President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment. The lawsuit was dismissed before trial on the grounds that Jones failed to demonstrate any damages...
  
  
• Gennifer Flowers
  Gennifer Flowers
  Gennifer Flowers is a model and actress who allegedly had a sexual relationship with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Prior to Bill Clinton's presidency, she also posed nude for Penthouse magazine and was an actress in two films and one TV show...
  
  
• Elizabeth Gracen
  Elizabeth Gracen
  Elizabeth Ward Gracen is an American actress who won the title of Miss America in 1982. She was born Elizabeth Grace Ward but should not be confused with another Elizabeth Ward who worked as a television actress during the first half of the 1980s....
  
  
• Juanita Broaddrick
  Juanita Broaddrick
  Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator from Arkansas. She alleged in 1998 that United States President Bill Clinton had raped her two decades earlier...
  
  
• Kathleen Willey
  Kathleen Willey
  Kathleen Willey was a 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 President...
  
  

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)