| Edition |
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
x, 707 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
While still a sitting president, Bill Clinton initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. Clinton talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be president, highlighting major events from Clinton's two terms, including the war in Bosnia, the antideficit crusade, health care reform failure, anti-terrorist strikes, peace initiatives, the 1996 re-election campaign, and the Whitewater investigations culminating in his 1999 impeachment trial. |
| Contents |
Twin recorders -- Reunion -- The Truman balcony -- Culture clashes : from Bosnia to a haircut -- Passages : NAFTA, China, Whitewater -- A mother's death and the special prosecutor -- Clinton and the press -- Missiles in Baghdad -- Supreme Court choices -- Foreign travels -- Hillary's dream -- Haiti : the brink of war -- Yeltsin and the Gingrich revolution -- Tirades : "I really let them have it" -- Bailout, bombs, and recovery -- Oklahoma City -- Girding for showdown -- Pope John Paul II : "tell me how you see the world" -- The murder of Rabin -- Triumph and fury : "you live to have only a few days like that" -- Family feuds : from Greenspan to Saddam Hussein -- Primary season -- Terrorism, welfare reform, and the Chicago convention -- Reelection 1996 -- Bittersweet renewal -- Whitewater tapes : on the high wire -- "I think they're pretty good rumors" -- The Jones case -- Chinese land mines -- Buddy and Socks -- Lewinsky -- Impeached -- The trial -- Kosovo, Columbine, and Kashimir -- To the Millennium : peacemakers and treason -- On to New Hampshire -- Camp David -- Jerusalem and the three Ps -- Deadlock 2000 : "This election is tight as a tick" -- Farewell. |
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Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Interviews.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.
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United States -- History -- 1969- -- Biography.
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Reporters and reporting -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9781416543336 |
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1416543333 |
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