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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.

http://www.nypost.com

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Sat, 06-19-2004 - 1:08pm
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Said he, jumping up and down in sheer joy.

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Sat, 06-19-2004 - 7:33pm
>>>The American people are privy to anything (not classified) that goes on in the Oval Office, and White House as it is their house, to which they elect someone to represent them.<<

Not with this administration it seems, but with clinton it was a demanded right apparently.

>>> am not happy with the waste of money there either<<<<

As you should be because all we got for millions of our dollars was that he *had* to admit to having sexual encounters with an intern. None of those encounters put national security at risk or involved policy decisions that affected our lives nationally or internationally.

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Sun, 06-20-2004 - 12:00am
It is funny how some people react when presented with cold, hard, irrefutable facts.
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Sun, 06-20-2004 - 12:02am
-- Not with this administration it seems, but with clinton it was a demanded right apparently.

Please explain your position.

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Sun, 06-20-2004 - 9:41am
>>>Please explain your position<<

My position is quite clear, I feel millions of dollars of our tax payer money was wasted in order to force a man to *admit* the most intimate sexual details of his relationship with an intern that did not make one difference to our national or international policies or lives. it served no purpose other than to publicly humiliate a president in an effort to have him removed. whether the president was democrat or republican would have made no difference to my position, the investigation was demeaning, degrading and a shameful waste of time and tax money.

alfreda

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Sun, 06-20-2004 - 6:17pm
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Yes,I am amazed at how people cling to their beliefs.

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Tue, 06-22-2004 - 11:29am
I agree with the waste of time and money part.

Then if you look at it from Starr's perspective, Clinton could have taken care of all of this by admitting it from the get go, especially since Clinton knew that Lewinsky had basically ratted him out, with the "help" of Linda Tripp.

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Tue, 06-22-2004 - 11:31am
I guess when the facts don't back up your position, you refer to them as beliefs.

Please tell me where I erred in stating that lying under oath, before the Grand Jury and obstruction of justice were not considered felonies?

Also, did the judge presiding over the Grand Jury not find President Clinton guilty of these two things, which is why he was found in contempt of court, and had his license to practice law suspended?

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Tue, 06-22-2004 - 1:43pm
>>>Then if you look at it from Starr's perspective, Clinton could have taken care of all of this by admitting it from the get go<<

Why should anybody, let alone a president have to discuss his sex life, especially when it had no bearing on his ability to do his job and did not affect national or international policy?

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Tue, 06-22-2004 - 2:07pm
When he was directly questioned about the allegations by Lewinsky and Tripp, Clinton perjured himself, which, being an attorney, he should have known better about.