Sally Perdue

Summary

Sally Perdue (also known as Sally Miller and Myra Belle Miller)[1] is a former 1958 Miss Arkansas and Little Rock radio talk show host.[2][3][4] She was a top-10 finalist in the 1958 Miss America pageant.[5]

Miller is a 1960 graduate of Lindenwood College.

Fulfilling a childhood dream, Perdue traveled the length of the Great Wall of China on foot in 1990.[6]

She was awarded Lindenwood's 1991 Alumni Merit Award for professional accomplishment.[7]

In 1994, Perdue stated that she had had an affair with then-Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas in 1983.[4] She is one of three former holders of the Miss Arkansas title to have been extramaritally linked to Clinton.[4] She also stated to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of The Sunday Telegraph that she had been asked not to reveal the affair by a former Democratic 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."[8]

In 2005, Perdue settled a lawsuit over her dismissal from employment at the Friends School in West Chester, Pennsylvania.[3]

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

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Whitewater runs deep". National Review. 1994-03-21.
  2. ^ "The Press and Whitewater: Shhhh". The Economist. February 26, 1994.
  3. ^ a b Lowe, Benjamin Y. (November 8, 2005). "Woman in Clinton affair gets $90,000; The former official at West Chester Friends filed suit, charging bias over her firing in 2003". Philadelphia Inquirer. p. B3.
  4. ^ a b c Plotz, David (January 29, 1998). "All The President's Women". Slate. Retrieved August 23, 2008.
  5. ^ Ten Enter Atlantic City Semi-Finals. (1958-09-07). The Washington Post and Times-Herald (1954-1959), p. A3. Retrieved 2008-09-11, from ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Washington Post (1877 - 1992) database. (Document ID: 121132944).
  6. ^ "Former Ark. Beauty Queen Beats Snags to Run Great Wall of China". The Commercial Appeal. Associated Press. November 9, 1990. p. A15.
  7. ^ "Area Universities, Colleges Graduate 22,000 This Spring; Celebrities Speak". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 12, 1991.
  8. ^ Hentoff, Nat (January 19, 1999). "The Trashing of Clinton's Women". The Village Voice. New York City: Voice Media. Retrieved August 23, 2008.

External links edit

  • Our President/Their Scandal: The Role of the British Press in Keeping the Clinton Scandals Alive By Michael Goldfarb, Shorenstein Fellow, Spring 1999 (England)
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Suzanne Scudder
Miss Arkansas
1958
Succeeded by
Suzanne Jackson