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.
My LifeMein Kampf
Clinton looks awful ;')Better ??? .....
haha ! I love that. Do you know what year it was made ??? Must be late 60s early 70s ?I saved it for my files. Thanks.
hehehehe ! Looks like bill and Monica are havin' fun, anyway .....Poor George ! (NOT!) :^D
How are you my friend? I've missed you and all my friends here...been through some stuff with the son, and other things...I'm living in Tn now...and I'm happy..Hope things are well with you darlin...I've missed our conversations...
FreeGards No Longer From The Socialist Republic of NY, but now GOREVILLE....
It is amazing that so many libs think he's so brainy and smart. It is plain to me that history will record him as he is: A petulant child. Future generations will marvel that one such as he came to attain the office of the presidency.
(The man has a photographic memory. He easily retains what he hears and reads and regurgitates at will. This vomit is what has those idiots in thrall. What fools.)
Clinton says "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..."
how about that...their mighty king is giving President Bush credit. they should all keep that in mind next time before they're so quick to criticize!
Greetings Redwing...How are ya? How's the beautiful son? Moved to Tn....Hope all is well with you my friend...
Good one, Bommer ! :^DNote carefully the faces reflected in Bill's sunglasses in post #68!
It's so light, I really can't make it out. help ???
Ron Brown & Vince Foster
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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.What an arrogant bas*ard !! One THOUSAND pages ?? Unless he's coming clean with all of his illicit relationships, that is a LOT of LYIN' there.
(I'd hate to be that lying busturd on Judgement Day!)
The Suicide Page
... Nevertheless, certain Clinton supporters have tried to insist that there is no ... First
Aid Book: Sudden Death. ... Foster in the event of a genuine suicide as claimed ...
LOL !! I love that one !
Ron Brown & Vince FosterZ - I - N - G !!!
Clinton Crying - Video @ Ron Brown Funeral Laffing & So Forth Til He Sees Camera.....
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