Talk:Vince Foster

message: Is there any way of getting a hold of Vince Foster's bar exam, now that he's dead?  Surely the results still exist, unless passing the bar is mostly a matter of getting a pat on the shoulder, and then any evidence to the contrary, or that he was unfit to practice law, is immediately destroyed?
Set up an "Early Life" section stating Foster acheived the highest bar exam results of his class.  Because the reference material is so vague, I cannot say for certain whether or not the bar exam results reflected the highest in AR history or just his class so I have elected to go with the latter.  The section will be expanded as I add more information on Foster's relationship with his mother, wife and children, as well as his initial meeting with Bill Clinton and later dealings with Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. --BadMojoDE 01:07, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Bar Exam Results

message: This is an excerpt from Carl Bernstein's new book on Hillary, printed in the Sunday Times. This piece deals specifically with Foster.
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- Crockspot 17:12, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Bernstein source 

message: This article is badly out of balance, with little on Foster's life and accomplishments and much on speculation about his death.  The latter material should be split into a separate article, Death of Vince Foster, similar to some of the other articles that are found in :Category:Deaths by person.  Then more can be done on Foster himself, without getting caught up in edit battles among theorists.   Wasted Time R 19:14, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeing no objections, I have done this.  Wasted Time R 11:52, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to split off much of article 

message: "He was the target of several hostile Wall Street Journal editorials."
A reference to such an accessible primary source should have a citation.
Wasted Time, your idea to split the articles was brilliant.  You are a Wiki-visionary, but will you do the grunt work of digging up an old citation?  The Wiki community depends on it.
User:Cuong:Cuong 12:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Citations added and section expanded somewhat.  Wasted Time R 14:31, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed 

message: I've removed 3 references to a rotten.com article.  Rotten.com is not a reliable source, and while it may belong in the external links section of articles, it can't be used to source our articles. --Xyzzyplugh (talk) 19:31, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rotten.com references

message: For instance that there was no blood on his hand and the gun, so it could not really have been a suicide. http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/FOSTER_COVERUP/foster.php  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.16.97.247 (talk) 16:16, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Take it to Death of Vince Foster.  Wasted Time R (talk) 11:45, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: If someone has much time can this information be added

message: I'm no expert on this case but the term "clinical depression" has a specific definition. Can anybody produce information proving that Foster was diagnosed with depression? If not then this statement needs to be removed.BoyintheMachine (talk) 01:08, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right that this needs clarification.  Foster was generally seen as being depressed, by himself and others, and was started on an anti-depressant.  See this NYT account and this WaPo story.  But the assessment of clinical depression came after his death; see this section of the Starr report, which says things like "an evident clinical depression" and "[t]here is little doubt that Foster was clinically depressed".  I've modified the article text to incorporate this clarification.  Wasted Time R (talk) 03:13, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  The gun was so depressed that it changed color. <bronx cheer>--Mike18xx (talk) 11:24, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  And went temporarily invisible, like the car keys.--66.41.95.121 (talk) 15:09, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Wrestled With Clinical Depression"??????? 

message: It seems to me that the following sentences in the lead strongly imply that there was a cover up about his suicide:
'At the White House he was unhappy with work in politics and spiraled into depression. According to official sources he committed suicide. However, his suicide remains disputed by several theories.'
This seems to be placing undue weight on dubious conspiracy theories when there are a large number of reliable sources stating he commited suicide. I suggest the above sentences are replaced with the following:
'At the White House he was unhappy with work in politics and spiralled into depression, which subsequently ended in his suicide.'
-- Wgsimon (talk) 15:57, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue weight in lead 

message: Since Bill Clinton was 1.5 years his junior, and moved away sometime in 1950 (per Bill Clinton's page), Foster could only have known Clinton for approx. 4 of his first five years. if you can ascertain exactly when Clinton moved, you can make a more accurate statement of how long they knew each other, but eight is certainly wrong. Login54321 (talk) 21:28, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The Bill Clinton article is wrong – he moved to a different part of Hope in 1950 but he didn't move to Hot Springs until late 1952 or 1953.  And he continued to visit his grandparents in Hope after that.  So it's not really possible to say exactly how long he and Foster knew each other back then.  I have expanded this part of this article to give a better idea of the circumstances back then.  Wasted Time R (talk) 10:33, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "neighbor and friend of Bill Clinton for the first eight years of his life"? 

message: I have removed discussion of a conspiracy theory about his death from this article; by consensus, discussion of those conspiracy theories belong over at Suicide of Vince Foster. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 02:21, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conspiracy theorizing 

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message: Why does it call his death a suicide in the article??? Someone should fix this! He was murdered by Bill Clinton! WTF people!? 79.106.203.59 (talk) 10:34, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suicide?