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OT- NEW CLINTON BOOK: THE LIES, THE FIGHTS,
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| Chuck 2005-05-30, 10:50 pm |
| NEW CLINTON BOOK: THE LIES, THE FIGHTS, THE INSULTS
**Exclusive**
Summer starts with a bang as veteran WASHINGTON POST reporter John
Harris
traces the emotional highs and lows of the Clinton presidency.
THE SURVIVOR: BILL CLINTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE drops this week from
RANDOM
[the book ranked #9,527 on AMAZON's sales parade Monday afternoon], but
the
DRUDGE REPORT can now sneak:
--Bill Clinton was so upset that his weight-loss regimen in 2000 was
not
working that he made his aides release a bogus number after his annual
Navy
physical to make him five pounds lighter. (pg. 394)
--Hillary taunted her husband's aides as being wimps by not fighting
hard
enough on Whitewater - "JFK had real men in his White House!" (pg. 108)
--Tipper Gore was so disgusted in 2000 with Bill and Hillary that she
stayed
cloistered in a holding room instead of going to a New York reception
with
major Democratic fund-raisers where the Clintons would be. "No, I'm not
doing it," she snapped to an aide. "I'm not going out there with that
man."
--The first conversation between Clinton and Gore after the Lewinsky
story
broke. Clinton is shouting at Gore, "This is a XXXXing coup d'etat!"
Gore
just stared back blankly. pg 313.
--Former White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke on the
record
hitting Clinton for not having the guts to fire FBI director Louis
Freeh,
who Clarke called a major obstacle on anti-terrorism policy. "He should
have
just fired Freeh and taken the shit it would have caused." (pg. 408)
The POST plans two jumbos on Tuesday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.
One story from Harris will outline Hillary Clinton's presidential
preparations.
MORE
Swearing Steaming Screaming -- White House as Hot House
>From pages 356-7 of THE SURVIVOR: BILL CLINTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE by
John F.
Harris, national correspondent for the WASHINGTON POST:
Context is Sally Quinn's article from 11/98 explaining why the
Washington
Establishment was appalled by Clinton's behavior during Lewinksy, even
though a majority of the country at large was not: "One could hardly
imagine
a more well-timed morale booster at the White House than Quinn's
article.
[Paul] Begala went to the Oval Office waving the article in his hand.
"This
is perfect," he exclaimed. "This is the best and most accurate article
you
will ever read about Washington." Quinn, as Begala saw it, had
accurately
chronicled the smug insularity of establishment Washington, as well as
its
preciousness and hypocrisy. Clinton could not agree more. The article
stayed
on his desk for weeks, and on his mind even longer. Some time afterward
the
president was going over papers with his staff on the upcoming
Presidential
Medal of Freedom awards. Spontaneously, he launched into a little riff
for
his assembled aides. His nominee for the prestigious award this year
would
be none other than the famous [Watergate editor] Ben Bradlee, husband
of
Sally Quinn.
The aides looked on in puzzled amusement.
"Anyone who sleeps with that XXXXX deserves a medal!" he explained.
Developing...
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3jh.htm
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