Posted on 06/04/2003 5:43:30 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
In her new book "Living History," New York Senator Hillary Clinton says she was so angry after her husband admitted having sex with Monica Lewinsky that she barely spoke to him.
But her account differs sharply from that of her chief defender, Sidney Blumenthal, who says in his own recently released book, "The Clinton Wars," that Bill and Hillary were "bantering" back and forth just two days after the silent treatment supposedly started.
In excerpts of her book covered by the Associated Press, Mrs. Clinton claims that on Aug. 15, 1998, after her husband confessed that his relationship with Lewinsky was "more serious than he had previously acknowledged," she felt "nothing but profound sadness, disappointment and unresolved anger."
"I could barely speak to Bill, and when I did, it was a tirade," the former first lady insists.
But Blumenthal says that on Aug. 17, 1998 - immediately after Mr. Clinton told the nation that he had lied to protect his wife and daughter, the president called him to ask about his reaction to the speech.
After telling Clinton he thought it went "all right," Hillary got on the line. "I told her the same," wrote the former White House aide.
After they spoke, Mrs. Clinton handed the phone to James Carville, who was also on hand to gauge the damage. But Blumenthal says he could still hear the voices of others in the room.
"I could hear the President and Hillary bantering in the background," the top Clinton spinmeister recalled on page 465 of his scandal tome.
Blumenthal says he was relieved to discover that the first couple "were still working as a team."
"Without that, nothing was possible," he said.
Hillary, however, says that she was still giving Bill the cold shoulder even after they left the White House for a vacation on Martha's Vineyard.
"While on the island, she felt 'nothing but profound sadness, disappointment and unresolved anger,'" Mrs. Clinton wrote, according to the AP. "Buddy, the dog, came along to keep Bill company," Hillary claims. "He was the only member of our family who was still willing to."
Of course you're correct, and that of course means that Blumenthal's book and his Grand Jury testimony were all lies -- of course they were.
Remember that Hillary had her own "staff" attached to the Oval Office whose entire job was to spy on Clinton and keep him and his hands off the interns. And when the Lewinsky rumor started to circulate within the WH (before Drudge broke the story) that's the time when Hillary arranged (i) that Lewinsky was transferred/banished to the Pentagon, and (ii) Hillary "representative" in the Oval Office staff was fired -- presumably by Hillary, for failing to do her job.
So the visits by Monica back to the Oval Office after her 'banishment' to the Pentagon were covert meetings under the radar of the Hillary representatives. That's the full extent of the "surprise" that Hillary experienced.
Or maybe she offed him because he mistook one of those ankles for a tree trunk or fire hydrant.
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."
I agree. She was in the thick of strategizing his rear out of yet another scandal all along and the beach dancing was part of it. Also they acquired Buddy in December of '97, I believe, a few scant weeks before this whole Monica story became known. Having a dog was part of the false picture of normalcy, too. Remember how they invited the nation to submit name suggestions for the new dog, then in the end chose the name anyway? So fake at the time I could choke on it.
I just posted from a review of George Stephanopoulos' book from back in '99 where he says he thought hrc found out about Monica on the night of the Jones depo. I disagree with that, but at the very least it shows that nobody with a brain buys the "I believed him until he told me otherwise in August" garbage.
The only question is which one is telling the biggest whopper!
Ah yes...thank you for reminding me of this.
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