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...tell you what I did. I knew that if all of you guys were more interested in Whitewater than anything else, you might not print or air a shot across Starr's bow unless it came from me. However, one of the things I've learned is, the difference between being Governor of a small state and being President is, if I had had this kind of thing as Governor, I could have been on it every day like a wet blanket, and been on television every night talking about education, economic development, the environment, whatever I was doing...
...belongs behind the wall. It gets bizarre. How bizarre was it when I was a kid that I didn't want my daddy to know that I was giving part of my allowance to Billy Graham? How weird is that? I did a good job dealing with all this Starr stuff, I think, and going through all my work. By the way, the flip side of having lived parallel lives is that I was good at it. People have a hard time believing that I could go to work and concentrate on my job, but I'd been doing...
...revelation in the book that during much of his time in office he was "seething inside" at Ken Starr...
...contention that Starr was an "instrument in a grand design...
...Starr knew what he was supposed to do. And I think he did it. You look at who all of his major clients were, all of his major political alliances, you look at the effort he made to get into the Paula Jones case from the beginning. He was part of the New Right that runs the Washington Republican Party. As opposed to the Republicans out in America, mainline Republicans. This was not about evidence. This was about a struggle for power. I think that they really saw us as usurpers. They thought the only reason they lost the election...