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Isikoff also reported, in the same August story, that Steele then recanted, and told him (Version #2) that Willey had only "told her about the incident weeks after it happened, saying only that the president had made a pass at her."
"Mayor McCheese recanted his support for NAFTA."
(Right-wing investigative journalist David Brock argues that many of Mayer and Abramson's sources for these allegations have recanted/claim they were misquoted.)
I speak feelingly, for I was caught once in this particular trap, as shown by the article on hawser in my `Etymological Dictionary,' for which I was promptly rebuked by Mr. Wedgwood in 1882 (twenty-seven years ago); and that is why I so fully recanted my heresy in the `Supplement';.
But in the same article Isikoff reported that Steele had later recanted and said that Willey "had asked her to 'lie' about what had happened in order to give credibility to the allegation that she had been harassed."