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DATE: THURSDAY, March 24, 1994                   TAG: 9403240048
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LITTLE ROCK, ARK.                                LENGTH: Short

WHITEWATER FIGURE TO RUN FOR CONGRESS

James McDougal, the former savings and loan operator whose name has been at the center of the Whitewater affair, said Tuesday that he will run for Congress.

McDougal said he would file Monday as a Democratic candidate for the 4th District seat now held by Republican Rep. Jay Dickey.

"I'm tired of these Republicans beating up on the people of the state of Arkansas, and I can't do anything about people like Sen. Dole. I can beat this Republican we have down here in southern Arkansas," McDougal said in a telephone interview Tuesday night.

Asked how he planned to pay for the campaign, he said: "The Lord will provide. If your cause is just, things always work out."

McDougal said in January that he was living on a monthly Social Security check of less than $800.

He announced Tuesday that he was selling rights to dig dirt from a lot in the Whitewater development in Marion County. But McDougal said proceeds from that tongue-in-cheek enterprise would go for "the presidential defense fund."

McDougal helped Bill Clinton in his first run for statewide office in 1976, when Clinton was elected attorney general. He served about a year in Clinton's first term as governor, 1979-80, as an economic adviser on Clinton's staff.

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