About 3:00 p.m. on a sweltering Tuesday in July 1993, a witness saw a gray Honda Accord swerve abruptly from the George Washington Parkway into the parking lot of Fort Marcy Park in Virginia.
A tall, slender man stepped out of the car. He wore dark trousers, and his white dress shirt was open at the collar. In his right hand there was a .38 Special Colt revolver.
He walked into the park, where for no less than thirty minutes and no more than an hour and fifteen minutes, he sat on an embankment near a Civil War era cannon, before placing the gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger.
The man’s name was Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. He was a husband, father of three, and loyal friend, born in Hope, Arkansas in 1945. His friends and coworkers spoke about him in terms that most people would consider the highest possible regard. At the time of his death he was White House Assistant Counsel. He, along with Thomas “Mack” McLarty, was a childhood friend of President Bill Clinton. He had been the most-respected partner in the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, AR.
Some believe he was murdered.
Whether he pulled the trigger of that gun or not, the dishonorable, toxic Washington, DC culture and the Clinton White House killed this honorable man as surely as, more than 20 years later, decades of lies, subterfuge and…
