Word: maraniss
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Last year, when Bob Woodward published The Agenda, about the first year of the Clinton White House, he acknowledged his debt to fellow Washington Post reporter David Maraniss, who, Woodward said, knows Bill Clinton better than any writer working today...
...David Maraniss...
...Reading Maraniss' new Clinton biography, First in His Class, it is easy to understand Woodward's praise. Maraniss is not as flashy as his Post counterpart (we never get Wood-wardesque glimpses at what people were "really thinking"), but his reporting is first-class...
According to Maraniss, who won a 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his articles on Clinton's formative experiences, Clinton decided against running for President in 1988 in part out of fears that rumors of extramarital affairs would scuttle his chances and destroy his Family. Maraniss quotes extensively from on-the-record interviews with longtime Clinton friend and aide Betsey Wright, who described sitting down with Clinton and ``listing the names of women he had allegedly had affairs with and the places where they were said to have occurred.'' They went over the list twice, Maraniss writes, trying to figure out which...
...portions of First in His Class about the President's attempts to avoid the draft also offer up damning new insight. According to Maraniss, when Clinton ran for Congress in 1974, he was worried about a letter he had written to his ROTC colonel thanking him ``for saving me from the draft.'' ``How Clinton . . . persuaded him to return the letter is unclear,'' Maraniss writes, but the colonel did, and Clinton believed he had put the matter to rest. He had not; an aide to the colonel kept a copy, which did near fatal damage during the '92 campaign...