While popularized by Mrs. Clinton in her 1998 TODAY Show interview , the phrase did not originate with her . In 1991 the '' Detroit News '' wrote : An '' Associated Press '' story in 1995 also used the phrase , relating an official 's guess that the Oklahoma City bombing was the work of " maybe five malcontents " and not " some kind of vast right-wing conspiracy . " A 332-page memo titled " Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce " was commissioned by Mark Fabiani and written by Chris Lehane in 1995 . It was the first document to describe the conspiracies surrounding the Clintons , which Hillary Clinton later popularized with the term " vast right-wing conspiracy . " It described how online conservative media outlets such as '' The American Spectator '' spread conspiracy theories about the suicide of Vince Foster , the Whitewater controversy , and other events . According to the memo , these conspiracies spread from conservative think tanks to British tabloids , and then to the mainstream press
Oklahoma City bombing
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