According to Clinton, neither he nor Porter has attempted to contact the other since the purported incident.
“I never heard from or saw Roger Porter again until he attended a reception for White House Fellows when I was President,” Clinton wrote. “I wonder if he ever thinks about that phone call and whether it influenced my decision.”
Clinton reiterated Tuesday morning that neither he nor Porter has contacted the other since the incident, prompting chuckles from his supposed antagonist.
“I talked to him the day before his book came out,” Porter said Tuesday morning. “I had a brief conversation with him at the White House portrait ceremony,” on June 14, 2004.
Neither Clinton nor Porter would speculate as to the other’s motives in falsifying his account.
—Staff writer Timothy J. McGinn can be reached at mcginn@fas.harvard.edu.