An Inclusive Litany

5/4/98

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), interviewed by Brit Hume on "Fox News Sunday," March 22, 1998:

Jackson Lee: You can be assured that Kathleen Willey and others are being heard. And in fact it is tragic that her husband committed suicide. He committed suicide on the very day she left to go see the president. Many of us wonder whether or not it would have been better for her to stay at home and call the president.

Hume: Wait, wait, wait. Are you suggesting that Kathleen Willey, because she went to Washington to talk to the president about a job, is somehow responsible for her son's suicide?

Jackson Lee: No one knows the facts, Brit, not at all. No one absolutely knows the facts. What we're suggesting is that many things could have happened differently.