Hill banished Bill to isle doghouse
Former first lady Hillary Clinton confesses that, during her sex-scandal-sullied summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard in 1998, she and the Philanderer-in-Chief slept in separate quarters.
<!ENDSUMM!>But Track fans knew way back then that Bill was out of the big bed. In fact, the First Couple didn't just sleep in separate beds at their borrowed compound in Edgartown.
Oh, nooooo. Most of the time they were in separate houses! Bubba was banished to the guest cottage all the way across the lawn. Right by the pig pen!
Of course, Hillary's recollection of things is a tad different.
``He slept downstairs, I slept upstairs,'' she writes in ``Living History,'' the former first lady's memoir of eight years in the White House - including, of course, the fallout from Bill's carryings-on with Monica Lewinsky.
Well, that's technically correct. Because Bill did have a room on the first floor. But Bubba spent most of his time that summer holed up with his fellow hound, Buddy, in a small guesthouse that he used as a gym, office and presidential doghouse!
The guest digs are not far from the pigpen where Cambridge real estate czar Dick Friedman - the Clintons' Vineyard host - kept his prize porkers, Lucy, Di and the late Henrietta.
According to Hil's memoirs, which were slipped to the Associated Press, Clinton lied to her about Lewinsky but was forced to confess on Aug. 15, 1998, a week before he had to spill his guts to the grand jury.
Four days later, the Clintons arrived on The Rock.
``Buddy, the dog, came along to keep Bill company,'' Hillary writes. ``He was the only member of our family who was still willing to.''
Hillary describes a real fun family holiday. While on the island, she felt ``nothing but profound sadness, disappointment and unresolved anger. I could barely speak to Bill, and when I did, it was a tirade.''
Of course, it was well chronicled Clinton appeared to be grounded for most of that stay. His daily - and sometimes twice-daily - rounds of golf were radically downsized to just a couple of outings.
And when the First Family first arrived, the couple didn't even get off the plane together!
In fact, things got so ugly during the Vineyard vacation, at one point, the prez - in a real-life ``Wag the Dog'' scenerio - rocketed off The Rock to rocket (unsuccessfully) Osama bin Laden.
A spokeswoman for Lewinsky said the former presidential paramour has no comment on the Hillary book.
``She hasn't seen it yet,'' said Barbara Hutson.
The book hits shelves Monday.
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OK, think about this.
In this book Hillary says he woke her up the day before his grand jury testimony in August to tell her he'd lied to her. Well, think back. When she went on the Today Show in January, 1998 and claimed there was a "vast right wing conspiracy", Matt Lauer asked her how she learned about Lewinsky.
Hillary said Bill woke her up and said "You won't believe what's in the papers this morning".
No way he woke her up BOTH times.
Here's how it went:
Bill: I'm going to agree to go before the grand jury...I'll have to plead for forgiveness.
Hill: Yes, that's the best strategy. Now, you know you'll have to come in my bedroom, close the door and pretend you just "confessed" to me...right? I'll do some screaming and you'll walk out looking contrite.
Bill: Yeah, that'll work. But why don't you try choking and gulping for air....that turns me on.
That was the Martha Vineyards vacation where they just happened to be caught slow daning in the lagoon wearing swim wear?
Would that be some sort of Bohemian vacation?
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