Hillary Clinton Book Details Betrayal

Wednesday, June 4, 2003
(2:03 AM)
The Associated Press

“I could hardly breathe. Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, 'What do you mean? What are you saying? Why did you lie to me?' I was furious and getting more so by the second. He just stood there saying over and over again, 'I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I was trying to protect you and Chelsea,’”

"Living History," Hillary Rodham Clinton's new memoir covering her eight years in the White House is shown in this undated handout photo. Clinton, acknowledging tirades and tears in the book, over her husband's affair with Monica Lewinsky, says President Clinton lied to her about the relationship until the weekend before he admitted as much to a grand jury.
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WASHINGTON -- AP
Hillary Rodham Clinton says her husband's relationship with Monica Lewinsky caused so much pain that, at one point, Buddy the dog was the only member of the family willing to keep President Clinton company.

The Democratic senator from New York declares in her new memoirs that, “As a wife, I wanted to wring Bill's neck,” but she finally resolved that she loved him, wanted to keep the marriage intact and supported what he was doing as president.

Mrs. Clinton vividly describes her pain over the betrayal in “Living History,” covering her eight years in the White House. A copy of the book, which goes on sale next week, was obtained by The Associated Press.

She recounts two bedside conversations seven months apart. In the first, the morning of Jan. 21, 1998, the president sat on the edge of the bed and told her the Lewinsky story was coming out and it wasn't true.

In the second, Aug. 15, 1998, the weekend before he testified about his relationship with the intern to a grand jury, the president woke her, paced the floor and said there was truth to the allegations after all.

“Why he felt he had to deceive me and others is his own story, and he needs to tell it in his own way,” she writes.

She says the most difficult decisions she has made in her life were to stay married to Clinton and to run for the Senate.
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