Hillary says Bill could be 'first mate'

The Times of India ^ | July 4, 2003 | RASHMEE Z AHMED

[HAL9000]

LONDON: Any man lucky enough to get married to America's future first female president could be designated "first mate" Hillary Clinton has said, in what is being seen as a likely and memorable job description for Bill Clinton, come 2008.

But the aspirational words, casually tossed off here and set to reverberate around the world, may be only the second of Hillary's most newsworthy achievements as she plugs her newly-published, bestselling memoirs in the UK .

She has already outsigned former rival Monica Lewinsky in the space of just a few hours in London , by autographing more books for more adoring fans to buy and keep.

Four years ago, Lewinsky set something of a London book-signing record with 'Monica's Story', her juicy revelations on the Oval Office trysts. Signing an average of eight books per minute at Harrods, the venerable, posh London store, Bill Clinton's former playmate was forced to retire in tears.

But the former White House intern has been put in the shade by the admirably-composed, networked and plugged-in former first lady, who has been vowing the UK and promising to sign 700 books in 90 minutes.

Hillary's memoirs, Living History , have already set a record as the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever, with Britain accounting for its second-biggest sales after the US .  

Her UK triumphs come even as she made an exaggerated plea for Bill and herself to "reclaim the zone of privacy".

On Thursday, fans in central London queued for up to five hours outside a leading bookstore, simply for the pleasure of seeing "a future US president".

Hillary's British successes come as the Clinton team works its way all this week into ecstatic column inches across the British press. Just days ago, the former president, partnered British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela at a landmark London dinner marking the centenary of the Rhodes scholarships. As his wife recounts in her memoirs, Bill, a former Rhodes Scholar himself, left Oxford without a degree, only to return to the US looking like a Viking.

On Friday, Hillary took to the British airwaves to relive her "pain" and sorrow at Bill's semi-romance with Lewinsky, recalling how she underwent a period of not speaking to him.

All that ended, however, she recounted, when she helped Bill write an important speech, as always.

[null and void]

First mate. Fair enough. Mating is his hobby...

[catpuppy]

First Mutt would be more appropriate.

[grumple]

I admire their arrogance (which is quite appalling).

I didn't realize that the Presidency was reserved for anyone regardless of the year...

[Gorzaloon]

Whatever it takes to prevent this.

What an ugly story for the Fourth.

[longtermmemmory]

First mate? What happend to first gentlman.

first mate? like GILIGAN!!!!

"a three hour tour,
a three hour tour..."

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Hopefully that will be prefixed by the word cell.

[muir_redwoods]

Please don't use a noun like "Mate" with reference to the Clintons. It provokes nauseating visual images of "Mate" as a verb. Yeech!!

[MaxPlus305]

????

Am I missing something? What's the actual quote? Just "first mate"? What did she actually say?

[EggsAckley]

"a three hour tour, a three hour tour..."

from your fingertips to God's ears. Let's hope that's how long they're in our White House, three hours.

[Seeking the truth]

Speaking of ugly.........

Living My Lies

[upchuck]

Hey Hal, ya forgot the

HURLING CHUNKS ALERT!!

Can you spell p-a-r-t-i-s-a-n? Lord, this is disgusting!! They reported, and I've decided: this is a bunch of TRASH!

[tet68]

Shouldn't that be "First Cuckold"?

Oh heck, we could still call him "First Lady" but then he'd have to wear a little french maid outfit.

[mystery-ak]

World Tour, Hillary style.....we need to get rid of these two!

[Wondervixen]

>>Hillary says Bill could be 'first mate'

Frankly, I'd feel safer with the Skipper & Gilligan

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

What an ugly story for the Fourth.

My thoughts exactly.

[Servant of the Nine]

Knowing the way workers tend to speak of the husband of a female boss, he would be far more likely to be refered to as "The Old Fart"

SO9

[Jhoffa_]

...and Irony shall be thy name.

[AnAmericanMother]

. . . brings back memories of somebody or other remarking that the Duke of Windsor had been taken on as third mate on an American tramp . . . ;-)

[Argh]

Beauty!