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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON MAY 30, 2005 17:01:22 ET XXXXX NEW CLINTON BOOK: THE LIES, THE FIGHTS, THE INSULTS **Exclusive** Summer starts with a bang as veteran WASHINGTON POST reporter John Harris traces the emotional highs and lows of the Clinton presidency. THE SURVIVOR: BILL CLINTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE drops this week from RANDOM [the book ranked #9,527 on AMAZON's sales parade Monday afternoon], but the DRUDGE REPORT can now sneak: --Bill Clinton was so upset that his weight-loss regimen in 2000 was not working that he made his aides release a bogus number after his annual Navy...

"Do you know who I am?" Bill Clinton asked his adversary Newt Gingrich during the government shutdown of 1995-96. He answered the question himself: "I'm the big rubber clown doll you had as a kid, and every time you hit it, it bounces back." The harder you hit me, he added, "the faster I come back up." In a new book, the Washington Post reporter John F. Harris, who covered the Clinton White House from 1995 through 2001, focuses on the Comeback Kid's "survivalist ethic" - his ability to continually bounce back from adversity, his ability to make it to...

<p>Summer starts with a bang as veteran WASHINGTON POST reporter John Harris traces the emotional highs and lows of the Clinton presidency.</p> <p>The POST plans two jumbos on Tuesday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.</p> <p>One story from Harris will outline Hillary Clinton's presidential preparations.</p>