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CLINTON'S MEMOIRS (first sentence a problem)
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Posted on 04/09/2003 10:39:37 AM PDT by Liz

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To: weegee
Dear Playboy,

When are you gonna do a centerfold on Playmates of Presidents Who Fooled Around?"

41 posted on 04/09/2003 11:28:22 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
DRAFT 22: The most important lesson I learned as the President of the United States is to retain a sense of humor. When leaving the funeral of Ron Brown, I...(crumple, crumple)
42 posted on 04/09/2003 11:33:50 AM PDT by kitkat
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To: chimera
"I...I...and then I...but I..."

"Now let's talk about me for a minute..."

Check out this description (and my heckling) of Bubba's thrill at writing his autobiography:

[Q: Let me ask you about your book. Maybe you can do anything, but with respect it's hard to imagine you sitting in a room for hours at a stretch, pulling out your hair and writing. Can you actually write this book?]

Yes. [The "yes" was very quick a sharp. Then a pause and a shift to a more jovial and reflective tone.] But let me tell you how I'm doing it.

You know, I was scared to death I wouldn't be able to do it. So we had this old barn at the house, a hundred-year-old barn. And I converted it into an office. There was a little apartment in the back, so I made it a little bigger and converted it into an office. And in this office I have all my Native American pottery and stuff I've been collecting for thirty years. And my photo albums from the White House, the kind of non-right-wing-kook books about the Administration[Ah, those must be the boot licking toadies and lapdog books.], a whole collection of other people's memoirs, my tapes of the White House years, increasingly tapes I've done with Ted Widmer for oral history. [Widmer was a White House speechwriter and now teaches at Washington College in Maryland.] And then I have out in the garage all these boxes of stuff. I've got my grade school band programs. I've got every letter I wrote to my mother in college and every letter she wrote to me. I organize this stuff, I bring the boxes in, I sit down and make an outline. I read what I've got in the oral history. And I sit and I write in a notebook.

I have a notebook, and I write it all. I got the most done in August when I didn't have anything else to do.[I guess that the foundation he spends 'half' his time with must have been on vacation] But when I get free days, book days, I go out there and I sit at a glass table, and I sit there and I write. I do get some work done on the road. I make outlines of how I want to write the next section. I started out with an outline I made well over a year ago that I've pretty much stuck to. But it has been difficult. It's been frustrating. I haven't gotten the time. When I get a little bit behind... I'm more or less on schedule for where I'm supposed to be to be finished next June. So it can come out around Thanksgiving. I want to have it come out at the holiday season.

Some of this has been painful for me, but it's all been wildly instructive. And it convinced me that nearly every person over fifty should try to find a time to sit down and engage in the same exercise, even if you never intend to publish anything. You need to think about what really meant something to you. Who did you really love. Who really made you what you are. What the seminal events did. And also it's an incredible discipline. Because I found it shocking to me what I remember and what I don't. [Don’t' worry, Bubba, some of us will never be able to forget what you did to this nation.] It's shocking to me what I can remember factually and how hard it is for me to be absolutely sure about how I felt at the time. You know[An accomplished author and a Rhode scholar should really try to avoid phrases like "you know"], how did I feel when I was 16?[Bubba this really shouldn't be so hard, you are a perpetual adolescent. Grow up.] I don't really know. Because I have some letters and other things it's a little easier to kind of return to those days. I've got an amazing amount of stuff in my pre-public life, and I'm working through it.

But so far I've had the time of my life. [Of course this is the time of your life. You're spending it obsessing over the person you love the most in your life, yourself]You know, this is scary. And you know it's frightening to write a book. Even if you've been totally honest, and think the book is you, what if people don't like it? [Yeah, tell me about it.] You can't make 'em buy a book. You know, what was that line from The Producers - Sometimes they won't come and you can't make 'em; [Clinton laughs heartily]

An Interview With Bill Clinton (long)

43 posted on 04/09/2003 11:43:06 AM PDT by weegee (McCarthy was right, Fight the Red Menace)
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To: Liz
"Hillary was assigned to me as my Communist operative and from that moment on ...."
44 posted on 04/09/2003 12:06:32 PM PDT by Joy Angela
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To: Liz
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!! GREAT GRAPHIC!
45 posted on 04/09/2003 12:09:59 PM PDT by geedee
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To: Taffini
Click the link at the top of Post #21 for the whole thing.

The link also explains its origins.

46 posted on 04/09/2003 12:15:43 PM PDT by dead
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To: 4mycountry
Yeah, that gif's a classic.
47 posted on 04/09/2003 12:16:20 PM PDT by dead
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To: Liz
Dear Penthouse,
I never thought I would write to the Forum....
48 posted on 04/09/2003 12:17:41 PM PDT by Spruce
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To: Liz
The reason a book authored by William Jefferson Clinton will sell is because in order to write his book he must collaborate with Mrs. Clinton, and she with him. The two books must validate each other. How much is revealed depends on how gutsy the author. The writers are facing vast potential for error.

We shall see.

49 posted on 04/09/2003 12:34:54 PM PDT by MosesKnows
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To: Liz
In the begining...(crumple, crumple)

It was the worst of days, it was the uh worst of days...(crumple, crumple)

50 posted on 04/09/2003 12:37:53 PM PDT by Free_at_last_-2001 (is clinton in jail yet?)
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I can't decide who is the biggest liar:

52 posted on 04/09/2003 2:26:38 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: PetroniDE
Somehow the words "Clinton" and "Memoirs" (version of memory) in the same sentence doesn't make sense, since he has "No Memory".ROFLOL

BUMP!

53 posted on 04/09/2003 4:44:22 PM PDT by Pagey (Hillary Rotten is a Smug , Holier-Than-Thou Socialist)
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To: Pagey
I'd really like to hear his (false) hypothesis as to his creating the economic boom of the last 10 years, when he should be thanking Bill Gates for getting it going in the first place,after Ronald Reagan of course.
54 posted on 04/09/2003 4:47:10 PM PDT by Pagey (Hillary Rotten is a Smug , Holier-Than-Thou Socialist)
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To: Liz
How about another line? "My anti-American protesting in England fits with my good buddies protesting anti-American messages today. Nothing's changed."
57 posted on 04/09/2003 9:17:20 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: Joy Angela
Another revelation from the book:

"I became the Devil's Son-In-Law, why else do you think I stayed married to Hillary? Sure did get me a lot of tail and success though."

58 posted on 04/10/2003 12:08:29 AM PDT by weegee (Uday is DU in pig latin, pass it on...)
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To: MosesKnows
Yep. Hillary hasn't produced anything to show her editor yet.

"Hey Bill, let me see what you got for the Rose Law Firm billing records... oh yeah? < scratch scratch scratch > me too!"

'Good' thing for the Clintons, they have a lot of dead bodies that they can pin blame off on.

59 posted on 04/10/2003 12:11:10 AM PDT by weegee (Uday is DU in pig latin, pass it on...)
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To: Free_at_last_-2001
It was the best of days, it was the worst of lays...(crumple, crumple)
60 posted on 04/10/2003 12:11:54 AM PDT by weegee (Uday is DU in pig latin, pass it on...)
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