Posted on 05/30/2005 2:10:26 PM PDT by woofie
Edited on 05/31/2005 5:01:23 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
NEW CLINTON BOOK: THE LIES, THE FIGHTS, THE INSULTS
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON MAY 30, 2005 17:01:22 ET XXXXX
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 [expletive deleted] 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 [expletive deleted] 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.
Exactly right - I wondered if anyone would come up with that.
Funny how that is always the case, eh? Look at the Bernie Goldberg books, the Barbara Olson books, the Ann Coulter books, Mark Levin's, etc. Not a sniff from 60 Minutes or Today or GMA or whatever.
(from 2/9/2000 -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was mistaken for a maid during last year’s peace negotiations for Kosovo in Rambouillet, France. According to a report in the "New York Daily News," the Secretary of State at first wasn’t recognized by the Albanian delegation when she walked into their room.)
Guess what Hillary's 2008 platform will be?Gimmegration? :)
In The Survivor, Harris frames the historical debate about President William Jefferson Clinton, by revealing the inner workings of the Clinton White House and providing the first objective analysis of Clinton’s leadership and its consequences.
Harris shows Clinton entering the Oval Office in 1993 primed to make history. But with the Cold War recently concluded and the country coming off a nearly uninterrupted generation of Republican presidents, the new president’s entry into this maelstrom of events was tumultuous. His troubles were exacerbated by the habits, personal contacts, and the management style, he had developed in his years as governor of Arkansas. Clinton’s enthusiasm and temper were legendary, and he and Hillary Rodham Clinton–whose ambitions and ordeals also fill these pages–arrived filled with mistrust about many of the characters who greeted them in the “permanent Washington” that often holds the reins in the nation’s capital.
Showing surprising doggedness and a deep-set desire to govern from the middle, Clinton repeatedly rose to the challenges; eventually winning over (or running over) political adversaries on both sides of the aisle–sometimes facing as much skepticism from fellow Democrats as from his Republican foes. But as Harris shows in his accounts of political debacles such as the attempted overhaul of health care, Clinton’s frustrations in the war against terrorism, and the numerous personal controversies that time and again threatened to consume his presidency, Bill Clinton could never manage to outrun his tendency to favor conciliation over clarity, or his own destructive appetites.
The Survivor is the best kind of history, a book filled with major revelations–the tense dynamic of the Clinton inner circle and Clinton’s professional symbiosis with Al Gore to the imprint of Clinton’s immense personality on domestic and foreign affairs–as well as the minor details that leaven all great political narratives. This long-awaited synthesis of the dominant themes, events, and personalities of the Clinton years will stand as the authoritative and lasting work on the Clinton Presidency.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
John F. Harris is a veteran political reporter for The Washington Post who covered the Clinton presidency from 1995 through its conclusion in 2001. His work during these years earned several prestigious awards, including the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award and the Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency from the Gerald R. Ford Library. Additionally, Harris is a panelist on PBS-TV’s Washington Week and appears on numerous other television and radio programs.
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The Tragedy of His Success
The best and the worst of Bill Clinton were inextricably linked.
By Jeff Greenfield (Clinton butt-kisser)
http://tinyurl.com/9fydz
Harris, a native of Rochester, New York, and a graduate of Carleton College, with a major in American history, came to the Post as a summer intern in 1985, and has hung around ever since. He covered politics in Virginia, the U.S. military, and for the past decade has been a White House and politics reporter for the Post's national staff.
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In June of 2005, Harris will become the Post's National Politics Editor, in charge of the paper's White House and elections coverage.
He lives with his wife, Ann O'Hanlon, and their three children in Alexandria, Virginia.
http://www.booknoise.net/thesurvivor/author.html
Freeh accuses Clarke of being worthless on terrorism? Great!
Why is is it that this stuff never comes out like when Clarke is the star Bush-basher testifying before the Senate???
Oh wait, I think I know, the brilliant MSM (not) doing its job again.
Wouldn't that be chickens coming home to roost...if Bill had AIDS. How would Hill explain that? No matter, the gay lobby/Hollywood/MSM would pull out all the stops and we'd be told it's all Bush's fault because he didn't devote enough money to AIDS. Bill would be on his way to sainthood.
This new book might be a companion to the Gary Aldrich book Unlimited Access. http://www.townhall.com/bookclub/aldrich1.html
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You know it.
President Joshua Bartlet has a better legacy than x42i, and Bartlet's a fictional character. LOL
"Never assign responsibility to complicated plots when simple incompetence will account for it."
Sort of a corollary of Occam's Razor.
Well, seven, he "just doesn't look good" as my grandmother used to say. His recovery from this heart thing has been slow, and he looks gaunt and gray. I wouldn't be surprised if other issues were lurking around in his system, particularly since he has always refused to release his medical records . . .
"Plunk your majic twanger froggy"
Hiya, Kids, Hiya! LOL
If you had to summarize his presidency in three sentences, these three would be hard to beat.
OMG he looks terrible. What has he been doing with himself? Did the bypass take?
And that twin-bed HAIR. Sure looks like he's sleepin' alone these days. DANG.
humor coupled with truth = hits the funny-bone target
I agree he looks bad...
Very drained.
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