Isn't it amazing that some are too stupid to even realize how embarrassed they should be?
Posted on 06/04/2003 5:18:14 AM PDT by kattracks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says her husband's relationship with Monica Lewinsky caused so much pain that, at one point, Buddy the dog was the only member of the family willing to keep President Clinton company.
The Democratic senator from New York declares in her new memoirs that, "As a wife, I wanted to wring Bill's neck," but she finally resolved that she loved him, wanted to keep the marriage intact and supported what he was doing as president.
Mrs. Clinton vividly describes her pain over the betrayal in "Living History," covering her eight years in the White House. A copy of the book, which goes on sale next week, was obtained by The Associated Press.
She recounts two bedside conversations seven months apart. In the first, the morning of Jan. 21, 1998, the president sat on the edge of the bed and told her the Lewinsky story was coming out and it wasn't true.
In the second, Aug. 15, 1998, the weekend before he testified about his relationship with the intern to a grand jury, the president woke her, paced the floor and said there was truth to the allegations after all.
"Why he felt he had to deceive me and others is his own story, and he needs to tell it in his own way," she writes.
She says the most difficult decisions she has made in her life were to stay married to Clinton and to run for the Senate.
Her 562-page book has been highly anticipated. Simon & Schuster, expecting large sales, ordered an extraordinary first printing of 1 million copies. The first lady-turned-senator was paid a $2.85 million advance toward the $8 million book deal. Foreign rights already have been sold in 16 countries. The book's list price is $28.
In it, she acknowledges tears and turmoil, balancing her personal struggles to deal with a wayward husband with her political obligations as first lady and Senate candidate.
She says she accepted her husband's story at first — that he had befriended the White House intern when she asked for job-hunting help, had talked to her a few times — and that the relationship had been horribly misconstrued.
But on the Saturday morning before his testimony, he "told me for the first time that the situation was much more serious than he had previously acknowledged."
"He now realized he would have to testify that there had been an inappropriate intimacy," she said. "He told me that what happened between them had been brief and sporadic."
He was ashamed and knew she would be angry, she recounts.
"I could hardly breathe. Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, 'What do you mean? What are you saying? Why did you lie to me?' I was furious and getting more so by the second. He just stood there saying over and over again, 'I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I was trying to protect you and Chelsea,'" their teenage daughter.
Mrs. Clinton said that up until that August morning when her husband confessed, she believed he was being railroaded. She hadn't believed he would jeopardize their marriage and family.
She describes in bitter terms the months of chill between them afterward, never more painful than when they went to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts for a vacation following his testimony.
"Buddy, the dog, came along to keep Bill company," she writes. "He was the only member of our family who was still willing to."
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."
He slept downstairs, she slept upstairs, she said.
She said her decision to run for a Senate seat provided a healing bridge for them, allowing them to talk about something other than the future of their relationship.
Clinton was the first first lady to run for elected office, and was sworn into the Senate the same month her husband left office in January 2001. She recounted their last day at the White House, waltzing down a long hallway in her husband's arms.
She concludes that what her husband did was morally wrong but not a betrayal of the public.
Don't worry - your local public library is probably spending full price for 5 copies of Lying History.
Your tax dollars hard at work, in the latest version of liberal graft. ;-)
Isn't it amazing that some are too stupid to even realize how embarrassed they should be?
Why you, hrc, feel you need to deceive us and others is your story and you clearly aren't telling the truth here.
Note how she portrays the Lewinsky affair as a single impulsive episode. An aberration from his usual behavior, which is clearly not the case.
I'll never forget the day of the Paula Jones depo when the clintons cancelled dinner out to "clean out closets", as she lied that very weekend, pretending she hadn't a care in the world. Yet she commits to print the lie about an August revelation.
Does she address the subject of the other women? Jones, Willey, Broadrick, Gracen, etc, etc, etc.? And that's just about the depravity her "husband" engaged in on a constant basis and not the political scandals.
I suppose it's too much to hope that she mentions billing records and such, leaving more lies in print for all time.
I see the credulous media is reporting, with no skepticism, her lie about "not knowing" until August. Oh, and I can guess he didn't "sleep downstairs", but out the door he went to another paramour.
Big Bill: "It's, it's true, Hil - Monica had her tongue up my a**." ;-)
We've heard this all before. It's all in the Downside Legacy here on FR. Who will buy this crappy book?
Don't worry - the liberals in your local public library system are busy spending OUR tax dollars on at least 3-5 copies to satisfy the "immense demand". ;-)
Book Review of "All Too Human"
"All Too Human" is interesting as an insider's look at the process of formulating presidential policy and Clinton's agonizing over decision-making, but don't expect vicarious revelations any stronger than Stephanopoulos opinions like, "I don't think Hillary knew about Monica until Clinton came home from the Jones deposition." According to Stephanopoulos, the Clintons canceled dinner plans that night because, Hillary said, they had to "clean closets."
The memoirs of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are slated to hit the market Monday, but will her book be a financial boom or bust?
A recent poll shows Americans have little interest in the forthcoming work, with only one person in 20 eager to read it.
Publisher Simon & Schuster hopes to make history with Hillary's "Living History," the 576-page tome for which it agreed to pay $8 million, especially since the former first lady provides some insight into the sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky.
It ordered a whopping first U.S. printing of 1 million copies – a sales benchmark industry insiders deem more plausible for Harry Potter fantasy books than Hillary's dish on eight years in the White House, her marriage to Bill and the sexscapade that triggered his impeachment.
"The response to the book has been truly phenomenal," Carolyn Reidy of Simon & Schuster said in a press release. "The enthusiasm and the advance orders from booksellers all over the country have been among the strongest I've experienced in my publishing career."
Calls to the publisher for specifics on numbers were not returned.
Mrs. Clinton launches her publicity tour next week with interviews with ABC's Barbara Walters in the U.S. and ITV's Trevor McDonald in Britain.
A summer book tour will then whisk New York's junior senator across the U.S. for book signings and media appearances.
But will sales follow all the hype?
"We see this as the first major best seller of the year, carrying its momentum through the summer into the fall," Caroline Brown, a New York representative of the Barnes & Noble chain told the Sacramento Bee. "We have made a big commitment to this book, and we have confidence in it."
Brown and her colleagues at rivals Borders and Amazon.com won't divulge the numbers of copies ordered or the status of pre-release advance sales, but smaller bookstores across the country are sticking their necks out with orders of 1,000 copies.
As of Tuesday evening, the book was listed at No. 8 on the Amazon.com sales rank.
"There is practically nobody who won't want to read her book," New York agent Elaine Markson told the Bee. "Those who love her will read it and those who hate her will read it because they want to know what [she] is saying now. It looks like a win-win situation for her."
However, a Gallup poll taken for USA Today and CNN doesn't reflect that prediction. A telephone survey of 1,019 adults taken last weekend found only 5 percent were "eager to read" Clinton's book. Another 39 percent responded they "may read it someday." Meanwhile, 34 percent said they don't plan on reading the book and another 21 percent responded they wouldn't read it even if paid to.
The book, which has a list price of $28, took two years to write and has been billed as a "complete and candid" account of her years in the White House.
Citing political and industry insiders, USA Today reports the book is "surprisingly revealing," as the Democrat expounds on topics like her failed health proposal, the myriad of independent counsel investigations and the 21-year-old intern Lewinsky.
The Associated Press says it obtained a copy of Hillary's memoir, and reports it delves into the behind-the-scenes "tears and tirades" of the Lewinsky affair.
"The most difficult decisions I have made in my life were to stay married to Bill and to run for the Senate from New York," she writes, according to the AP.
Reflecting back on the saga, Clinton writes, "The Lewinsky imbroglio seemed like just another vicious scandal manufactured by political opponents." But more than six months later, she details how Bill Clinton told her for the first time that "the situation was much more serious than he had previously acknowledged" and that there had been "inappropriate intimacy."
"I could hardly breathe," Hillary writes, according to the AP. "Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, 'What do you mean? What are you saying? Why did you lie to me?' I was furious and getting more so by the second. He just stood there saying over and over again, 'I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I was trying to protect you and Chelsea.'"
While the spurned first lady-turned-senator denies any interest in running for president in 2004, a 2008 bid is widely anticipated to be on the Democrat's radar screen.
"I think this is a very important book for her," Democratic strategist Donna Brazile told USA Today. "It's an important launching pad."
For that, political analysts doubt the book will be as candid about other subjects, including the Whitewater scandal and the death of former law partner and White House counsel Vincent Foster. Anything revealing would become GOP grist.
"'Living History' should be called 'Killing History,'" the London Times quotes Larry Klayman, chairman and general counsel of the public-interest watchdog group Judicial Watch, as saying. "It will be a powder-puff book. It will go into children and all her other causes, but it will be a prelude to running for president, not an account of the past."
Since her famous slam on stay-at-home moms on CBS' "60 Minutes" during the 1992 presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton has cultivated fans and foes alike.
The Gallup poll demonstrates a sharp divide, with 43 percent holding a favorable opinion and 43 percent holding an unfavorable opinion of her. She's perceived to be intelligent by 72 percent, honest and trustworthy by 24 percent and power-hungry by 50 percent.
In a 1999 survey, readers of the New York Post voted Hillary the sixth "most evil person of the millennium," behind Adolf Hitler, her husband Bill, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot and Dr. Josef Mengele. She was one position ahead of Saddam Hussein, who was ranked seventh most evil. The Post reported the Clintons were surprise winners because both were "write-in" nominees.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Hillary was also named the most corrupt person in America by Judicial Watch in the group's 'Dirty Dozen' list for 2002.
"Like a modern-day Gollum, Mrs. Clinton's quest for political brass rings frequently descends into evil, from Whitewater to FBI Filegate to Travelgate to taking over 2 million dollars in illegal contributions for her Senate campaign from Judicial Watch client Peter Paul. Judicial Watch's quest is to throw her ring into the judicial 'Cracks of Doom,'" commented the group's selection committee.
But whether negative or positive, publicity is still publicity, notes a manager at Books-A-Million in West Palm Beach, Fla.
"With all the push that Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are doing, the book will be big," he told WorldNetDaily, adding, "That guy's a bigot."
Simon & Schuster published three previous books by Clinton. "It Takes a Village," "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy," and "An Invitation to the White House."
According to the AP, the publisher paid the senator a $2.85 million advance toward "Living History."
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In reality, her book won't do well. BUT, that info will be swept under the rug. She will buy all the books herself before info got out that it failed.
NYC will buy the fluff piece, but even New Yorkers know they would get more earth shattering details on the Clintons in the Star Magazine.
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