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Registered: 04-16-2004
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Thu, 06-17-2004 - 9:56am
SHAME-FACED BILL: I FOOLED AROUND 'BECAUSE I COULD'

June 17, 2004 -- In a bombshell confession, Bill Clinton has told why he had a torrid affair with Monica Lewinsky: “Just because I could.”

“I did something for the worst possible reason — just because I could,” he said of his romps with Lewinsky (left, yesterday in New York). “I think that’s just about the most morally indefensible reason anybody could have for doing something — when you do it because you could," a contrite Clinton told CBS newsman Dan Rather in an interview about his hotly anticipated memoir that airs Sunday on "60 Minutes."

"And I thought about it a lot, and there are a lot of more sophisticated explanations, more complicated psychological explanations, but none of them are an excuse.

"Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes."

Clinton also called his Oval Office trysts with the Sexgate siren "a terrible moral error" that put him in the "doghouse" with wife Hillary and threatened to alienate daughter Chelsea.

The philandering 42nd president has publicly apologized numerous times for the scandal, which rocked the country and led to his impeachment in 1998 — but this is the first time he's revealed what fueled his presidential peccadilloes.

Rather told The Post yesterday that the 57-year-old Clinton seemed genuinely remorseful about the salacious affair.

"He said it was a terrible mistake — indefensible morally," Rather said.

In the wide-ranging interview, Clinton also said Hillary needed time to decide whether she would stay with him — and that only through counseling were they able to heal their fractured marriage.

"We'd take a day a week, and we did — a whole day a week every week for a year, maybe a little more, and did counseling," said Clinton.

"We did it together. We did it individually. We did family work."

Clinton called his impeachment fight a "badge of honor."

"I don't see it as a stain," he said. "Because it was illegitimate."

The "60 Minutes" interview is part of Clinton's massive publicity blitz for "My Life," the 957-page tome for which he was paid a $12 million advance.

The much-buzzed-about $35 book hits stores Tuesday — but come Monday, bookstores in New York and Washington are considering staying open until after midnight for the first official sales.

The book's publisher, Knopf, will release 1.5 million copies of the memoir — the all-time record for a work of nonfiction.

"My Life" is broken into two parts — one chronicling his hardscrabble childhood in rural Arkansas to his election as president in 1992, and the second covering his White House years and the Sexgate scandal.

"I don't try to settle a lot of scores in the book," Clinton said recently.

"I don't spare myself in the book."

Meanwhile, Lewinsky declined comment about Clinton's bombshell revelations when The Post caught up with her yesterday outside her posh West Village apartment building.

Clinton will appear in bookstores in New York Tuesday to autograph copies. Once it is released, Clinton will make the rounds on the news and talk shows.

For those who can't wait until Tuesday to find out what's in "My Life," AOL — beginning tomorrow — will offer audio excerpts of the tome as read aloud by Clinton, and Infinity Broadcasting Corp. will air excerpts on the radio.

Additional reporting by Don Kaplan and Primrose Skelton

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/23238.htm

If you want, just look at the headline in the paper, as it made me laugh.

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 10:23am

Just like tens of thousands of other people around the country...your point?


He & his family went through counseling to repair the damage done...looks like successfully at this point.


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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 10:50am
NEWS FLASH!!!!

Clinton is NOT President anymore. Get over it already.

Shannon

 

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Registered: 05-18-2004
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 11:01am
Relax, we know he isn't President. 60 Minutes thought it was news so the post is legitamate. Why so defensive...oh nevermind, its Clinton savior/matyr of the DNC.

Jim

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Registered: 03-18-2000
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 11:18am

He's promoting his book.


“Just because I could.”


What other reason does a man

 


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Registered: 03-23-2003
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 11:20am
The book is about more than just that one item...and so was the interview.

Fireworkscl-nwtreehugger


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Registered: 04-16-2004
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 2:45pm
Firts, my point was that the headline in the NY Post was an eyecatcher meant to sell Newspapers (did you happen to see the Headline?) which goes to my feelings about the media exploiting news stories to sell papers.

Second, with regards the apology, it was not exactly contrite, and it was only offered by him to try to save face as he was caught (literally) with his pants down.

With regards to why it is in his book, the man is a very intelligent man, and he knew that if he told the honest truth about Lewinsky, the sales of his book would increase dramatically.

I am guessing he will sell 1.5 million or more books.

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Registered: 04-16-2004
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 2:46pm
You need to get over yourself, and your defending of him.

Please tell me where I even said anything about Clinton in my post.

Just to make it easy for you, I did not. I only commented on how this is front page news yet again, just to sell newspapers, which is why it is included in his book...to increase the sales.

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Registered: 01-12-2004
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 3:08pm
"Torrid Affair"???? I'm sorry, you'd only think that a few blow jobs in the office is "torrid" if you're life is really lame. Not making excuses for the man, just lambasting the author of the article.
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 3:09pm

Firts, my point was that the headline in the NY Post was an eyecatcher meant to sell Newspapers (did you happen to see the Headline?) which goes to my feelings about the media exploiting news stories to sell papers.


Headlines have always been written to catch the eye.


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Registered: 03-18-2000
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 4:02pm

>"Torrid Affair"<


Tawdry not Torrid. ;)

cl-Libraone~

 


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