Posted on 09/21/2009 1:21:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Drunken Yeltsin, Monica Lewinsky, fighting with Al Gore all in new tome
Between a drunk Boris Yeltsin trying to hail a cab in his underwear on Pennsylvania Avenue, angry finger-pointing with Al Gore and the real story behind Monica Lewinsky, it seems we haven't heard all of the juicy details from the Clinton presidency after all.
A new book based on eight years of taped interviews with Bill Clinton sheds new light on old scandals and blows open ones that have been kept quiet up until now. "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling with the President," by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch, is due out next week. Among the gems:
Yeltsin, who was staying at the Blair House during a 1995 visit, was found in the middle of the night on Pennsylvania Avenue trying to hail a cab. He slurred to the Secret Service agents who found him that he wanted a pizza. The next night, the Russian president again got plastered and sneaked down the stairs of his quarters. A guard mistook him for an intruder and Russian and U.S. agents had to bail him out.
After Al Gore lost the 2000 presidential race to George W. Bush, Clinton told Gore he could have helped his former veep -- if he'd only been asked. When Gore replied that Clinton's sex scandal with intern Monica Lewinsky had doomed his bid, the conversation degenerated into an angry, two-hour shouting match.
As for the Lewinsky affair, Clinton rarely spoke about it. But one day, he opened up to Branch, telling him "I just cracked" amid the pressure of the Whitewater investigation, his mother's death and the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994.
George W. Bush was unqualified to be president, but had a crack team around him, in Clinton's view. John McCain might have made a good commander-in-chief, but had no idea how to run, according to Clinton.
Clinton was such a brilliant multi-tasker that he once gave Branch an interview while doing a crossword puzzle, consulting with Secretary of State Warren Christopher about air strikes in Bosnia and playing solitaire. Another time, on the night of the Oklahoma City bombing, Clinton interspersed thoughts about Pakistan and Newt Gingrich with the Branch interview and even helped daughter Chelsea with her school paper, a book report on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."
Branch got unequaled access to Clinton because the two had worked -- and bunked -- together decades earlier when they ran George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign in Texas. Clinton would regularly summon him to the White House during his presidency, unburdening himself as Branch took notes and let his tape player roll.
Branch has been sending page proofs of his 707-page book to Clinton, who seems to have had second thoughts about some of the material included in the book. But Branch insists he did not change anything at the former president's demand.
Clinton, the narcissist, can’t bear to be ignored.
This will be a real yawner. Bubba apparently has apparently approved the content.
This part is hard to believe. that two men could have a "two hour shouting match" without it coming to blows (No pun intended).
John McCain might have made a good commander-in-chief, but had no idea how to run, according to Clinton.
Hell, according to everyone!
Regarding: Clinton was such a brilliant multi-tasker that he once gave Branch an interview while doing a crossword puzzle, consulting with Secretary of State Warren Christopher about air strikes in Bosnia and playing solitaire. Another time, on the night of the Oklahoma City bombing, Clinton interspersed thoughts about Pakistan and Newt Gingrich with the Branch interview and even helped daughter Chelsea with her school paper, a book report on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” ... A better interpretation than “brilliant multi-tasker” would be that his foreign policy and reactions to all forms of terrorism were such failures because of his dis-interest in such matters. Clinton: another man whose intellectual capacities have been greatly exaggerated by U.S. Pravda media.
Monica waterboarded him?!!?
Apparently
I'm on it!
“George W. Bush was unqualified to be President”.
Compared to what? A cheater and a liar: “I did NOT have sex with that woman!” Hey, maybe he was talking about his wife.
Anyway, I don’t categorize a man who kept our country safe for eight years as being unqualified. and he definitely wasn’t a cheating, lying, narcissist.
When the book comes out about Obama, it will make Clinton storys look like they were published in the Weekly Reader.
Well, lets just say that “l’il willie” found it hard to breathe on occasion.
As for the Lewinsky affair, Clinton rarely spoke about it. But one day, he opened up to Branch, telling him "I just cracked" amid the pressure of the Whitewater investigation, his mother's death and the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994.
“Brilliant multitasker” sounds suspiciously like what we used to refer to as “the attention span (not to mention the libido and self control...) of a 12 year old”, .
I’ll wait to see what the reviews are like once this is released, and in any case I’ll bet Amazon is flooded with $1 used copies by Christmas...
Hey, don’t insult Pravda like that! /joke (Although in all seriousness, the English language Pravda is now a better source for actual news than our SRM = State Run Media.)
That is sooooo last century..................
Cavuto talkng on this right now on FOX
Well, I know that Bill is a physical coward and would bet money Albert is too.
So does that mean he was cracked for the decades before as well when he had that continuous string of perverted behavior?
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