Here’s how I imagine Slick Willy reacting to salacious details in this book:
- I want y’all to listen to me because I’m gonna say this just one more time: I did not have anyone or say anything as reported in that book. Now, I’ve got work to do helping tsunami victims, curing AIDS, and ending poverty…
First Edward Klein exposed the truly secret life of Hillary Clinton; now a veteran Washington reporter has exposed what little remains of the truly secret life of Bill Clinton. But, to be sure, these new accounts of Clinton blowing off steam and behaving badly will leave even more stains on his presidential legacy.
Read below for the scoop on a few teasers from that delightful muckraker Matt Drudge on this forthcoming book:
- 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 for 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 fucking coup d’état!” Gore just stared back blankly. (pg. 313)
- Former White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke is on the record hitting Clinton for not having the guts to fire FBI director Louis Freeh, whom Clarke called a major obstacle to anti-terrorism policy. “He should have just fired Freeh and taken the shit it would have caused.” (pg. 408)
[Context: Sally Quinn’s article from 11/98 explaining why the Washington Establishment was appalled by Clinton’s behavior during Lewinsky.]
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 that 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 bitch deserves a medal!” Clinton explained.
Of course, if given half a chance, iPINIONS thinks Bill would no doubt be happy to earn that medal himself.
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