The Clinton tapes : wrestling history with the president
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The Clinton tapes : wrestling history with the president
AUTHOR:
Branch, Taylor
ISBN:
9781416543336
EDITION:
1st ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2009
PHYSICAL_DESC:
x, 707 p. ; 25 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS:
Contents: Twin recorders -- Reunion -- Truman balcony -- Culture clashes: from Bosnia to a haircut -- Passages: NAFTA, China, Whitewater -- Mother’s death and the special prosecutor -- Clinton and the press -- Missiles in Baghdad -- Supreme Court choices -- Foreign travels -- Hillary’s dream -- Haiti: the brink of war -- Yeltsin and the Gingrich revolution -- Tirades: "I really let them have it" -- Bailout, bombs, and recovery -- Oklahoma City -- Girding for showdown -- Pope John Paul II: "Tell me how you see the world" -- Murder of Rabin -- Triumph and fury: "You live to have only a few days like that" -- Family feuds: from Greenspan to Saddam Hussein -- Primary season -- Terrorism, welfare reform, and the Chicago convention -- Reelection 1996 -- Bittersweet renewal -- Whitewater tapes: on the high wire -- "I think they’re pretty good rumors" -- Jones case -- Chinese land mines-- Buddy and Socks -- Lewinsky -- Impeached -- Trial -- Kosovo, Columbine, and Kashimir -- To the Millennium: peacemakers and treason -- On to New Hampshire -- Camp David -- Jerusalem and the three Ps -- Deadlock 200: "This election is tight as a tick" -- Farewell.
ABSTRACT:
Summary: While still a sitting president, Bill Clinton initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. Clinton talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it’s like to be president, highlighting major events from Clinton’s two terms, including war in Bosnia, the anti-deficit crusade, health reform failure, anti-terrorist strikes, peace initiatives, the 1996 re-election campaign, and Whitewater investigations culminating in his 1999 impeachment trial.--Publisher description.
SUBJECT:
| Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Political and social views |
| Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Interviews |
| Presidents -- United States -- Biography |
| Presidents -- United States -- Interviews |
| Reporters and reporting -- United States |
| United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001 |
BIBSUMMARY:
Summary: While still a sitting president, Bill Clinton initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. Clinton talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it’s like to be president, highlighting major events from Clinton’s two terms, including war in Bosnia, the anti-deficit crusade, health reform failure, anti-terrorist strikes, peace initiatives, the 1996 re-election campaign, and Whitewater investigations culminating in his 1999 impeachment trial.--Publisher description.