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Posted on 10/10/2002 10:26:13 AM PDT by NYC GOP Chick
By Paul Majendie
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton (news - web sites)'s memoirs are set for worldwide publication next June -- but she has still not penned her final thoughts on the Monica Lewinsky affair.
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The publishers, said to have paid the senator $8 million, are confident they will recoup their outlay and that the autobiography will be out before her husband's.
She was at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Thursday -- but it was only on video to say "thank you" and give an update to the publishers from Beijing to Copenhagen, from Rio to Helsinki who have brought language rights to the memoirs.
Giving a progress report on the memoirs Clinton is penning with a team of three writers and researchers, Simon & Schuster's Carolyn Reidy told Reuters: "We are shooting for publication in June of next year.
But the president of the New York publisher's adult publishing group stressed that the date was tentative. "If we go to war or what have you, she will have responsibilities that obviously take precedence over finishing a book."
What Reidy has seen so far has pleased her. "It gives a real flavor of the events she lived through. She told us this was the first time since her husband began the run for the presidency that she has had the time to go back and reflect."
And she is ahead of her husband in the memoir stakes. "He has been writing but from what we hear, she is further along than he is," Reidy said.
"It is not bitter or angry at all," she said. "She recreates what it felt like at the time. You see these events through her eyes. It is warm yet energetic.
"There is a kind of understanding of how she became a lightning rod for a lot of other people's attitudes, feelings and thoughts and the concepts of what she should be. This is her saying 'this is what I am."'
But what about the chapters on the Lewinsky affair? "We have not yet seen her drafts of the later years of the presidency," Reidy said.
"But she wants to give her version of those events. As she says, she is a very private person and this is the first time I think that she herself will have spoken out very directly on what those events were like for her."
Reidy stressed that Clinton will certainly not duck the issue. "I don't have any concerns that she is going to leave out the things that we believe everybody wants to know."
"She has clearly thought about it and knows what she wants to say," she added.
But does Clinton love her husband? "You can tell when you read it that there is a very deep personal connection between them that is essential and has been throughout their whole married life," Reidy said.
"If anyone can find a broad with a bigger @ss than mine, it's Bill."
I've read that sentence 15-20 times and can't get over this persons assumption that 'there is a very deep personal connection between them that is essential...' Oh Sure,essential in it's obvious treachery ( Socialist and Third Way Tendencies) and Mis-Leadings in every facet of their (false) Marriage.
Pass the Dramamine, when Hillary starts rolling her eyes, you might get seasick...
"If we go to war or what have you, she will have responsibilities that obviously take precedence over finishing a book."
That's what I thought. Huh? She's not on any Senate Military Committees.What a vacuous statement by her spokes- person to say the very least,w/ no follow up.
So she got to have sex with Bubba, I got to run this country and didn't even have to be elected to be considered "co-president"! Bwa-ha-ha-ha!
How observant you are. The book is written by a homo who is married to a pervert.
"So here I was, playing with Donna, and Janet, when all of a sudden the door opens, and Maddie wants to join us. But she was jealous, and, you know, she just probably wanted to hurt me because we were having such a good time, that she just blurted out, you know, Bill was playing with that damned smelly cigar again, but this time it was with this fat intern named Monica.
Well, you know, I was so pissed, that I picked up this lamp that George Washington had used as a candle holder, and, you know, stormed out of the room.............
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