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Posted on 06/03/2004 9:38:23 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
By Andrew Stern
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) launched his book tour on Thursday, describing his soon-to-be published memoir as being tough on himself rather than on his enemies.
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"My Life" is scheduled to arrive in bookstores on June 22 with an expected price tag of $35 for its nearly 1,000 pages.
"A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving," the two-term president told a booksellers convention.
"I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. But I don't try to settle a lot of scores here. I don't spare myself in this book.
"I take on a lot of water for not just the personal ... but the political errors I made and how they came to be," he said.
Clinton, whose presidency was bracketed by George H.W. Bush the father and George W. Bush the son, said he liked Bush senior although they had their disagreements.
He offered muted criticism of his successor.
"If you go back and read what (Bush) said in the campaign, he's just doing what he'd said he'd do. You've got to give him credit for that... No one has the whole truth," Clinton said.
Clinton said writing the book had been "therapeutic," stirring up memories and feelings.
He never suffered writer's block but said he stopped for a few hours due to a rush of renewed anger at special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's treatment of his Arkansas friends.
"Things I thought I wasn't mad at, I got mad about all over again," he said.
Clinton was paid a reported $10 million to $12 million by publisher Alfred A. Knopf, the flagship imprint of the Knopf Publishing Group, which is a division of Random House Inc., whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG (news - web sites) .
Clinton made no mention in his speech of Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern at the center of the sex scandal that dominated much of his second term.
Musta been a babe nearby.
Put some ice on it.
Considering that's the content of His Life, how could it be any other way?
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Former President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) launched his book tour on June 3, 2004, describing his soon-to-be published memoir as being tough on himself rather than on his enemies. 'My Life' is scheduled to arrive in bookstores on June 22 with an expected price tag of $35 for its nearly 1,000 pages. Clinton is shown at a speech in New York on May 11. |
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I thought he had settled that whole penis-envy issue he has.
Pick it up at Wal Mart right next to Hillary's rag.
Rush thought an "f" slipped into the title by mistake...
Yuck! What a mental image.
My LIfE - by BILL CLINTON
It'll be in the 4.99 bin in about six weeks.
Busting over - severe pain . .
Book him, Dan'l!
Oh how wrong you are .. He does have the truth on you Billy Boy
After the DNC has bought up a ton, first. They have to keep it on the bestseller list, and give copies out to donors.
Good. He suffered while writing this book.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
My girlfriend was actually in that room. Said she literally fell asleep after the first 5 minutes or so. He was a half-hour late of course, but publishing is an adoring audience doncha know.
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