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...specific anecdotes may be new, but the former Arkansas Governor portrayed in the meticulously detailed First in His Class, a forthcoming Clinton biography by Washington Post staff writer David Maraniss, is a familiar one. The book depicts Clinton as a lover and a fighter and also a smart, eager-to-please, indecisive political animal who was White House bound from early on. But the book, which is due out in March, resuscitates some more troubling issues as well: that as an elected official Clinton used state troopers to help him get sex, and as a presidential hopeful he tried...
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...
...biography of President Clinton claims that he decided against running for the office in 1988 for fear of stories about extramarital affairs. "First In His Class," by Washington Post staff writer David Maraniss, says Clinton dropped the idea of running that year after his then-top aide, Betsey Wright, listed the names of women with whom he had been rumored to be involved, and then advised him to forgo the race out of deference to his wife and daughter. Maraniss writes that Wright "was convinced that some state troopers were soliciting women for him and he for them." Wright said...
...Bill had some elitist ideas about societywhich I think were associated with his socialbackground from the ruling class," Maraniss said...