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In 'The Clinton Tapes,' Bill Clinton Disses Bush, Dowd, Gore and More
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThe UPS man said he wished everyone were as excited to see him at their door as I was when he put that Teddy Kennedy memoir, "True Compass,'' in my hands last week. But it's just as well that I wasn't home when he dropped off Taylor Branch's forthcoming "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President.'' Because having been assigned to write about such historical figures as Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp for The New York Times, my initial reaction to Clinton's gazillion hours of yakking to Branch was I've seen that movie, thanks -- and some of it was tedious the first ...
Bill Clinton 'Nervous' About Book Detailing Secret Interviews
By David Sessions - Politics DailyWhile he was in office, former president Bill Clinton gave 79 secret oral history interviews to Taylor Branch, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and civil rights historian. Branch would visit the White House whenever Clinton said he had a few hours free, and the two would have a candid conversation on the political events of the moment. Branch would fill his legal pad with notes, and then repeat everything he remembered from the conversation into a tape recorder as he drove back to his home in Baltimore. Clinton, who recorded the conversations, would stow the tapes in a sock drawer. ...
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