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Published on Friday, June 25, 2004
Clinton's 'Life' Tinted Crimson
Former presidents autobiography attacks gov prof, praises Summers
By TIMOTHY J. MCGINN
Crimson Staff Writer
CRIMSON/ SARAH M.J. WELCH
Brian Ray, studying at Harvard over the summer, browses through former president Bill Clintons autobiography at the Harvard Coop. The book lauds University President Lawrence H. Summers and criticizes Dunster House Master Roger B. Porter.
There are places Bill Clinton remembers in My Lifejust not too well, according to Kennedy School of Government professor and Dunster House Master Roger B. Porter, who alleges that the former president fabricated a damning conversation between the two of them in his newly published memoir....
According to Clintons book, Porterthen Bushs Economic and Domestic Policy Advisersaid that while other potential Democratic opponents could be undermined through weaknesses grounded in their politics, the Arkansas governor was different.
Heres how Washington works, Clinton quotes Porter as saying. The press has to have somebody and were going to give them you...Well spend whatever we have to spend to get whoever we have to get to say whatever they have to say to take you out. And well do it early"....
We never had any conversation as he has described in his book, Porter said last night. You dont remember every conversation in life, but I would certainly remember a conversation like that.........
Clintons allegations initially surfaced during his first term in office, when Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward learned of the account.
According to the White House Bulletin on June 23, 2004, provided by Porter to The Crimson, Woodward stated that he did not think Clintons assertion that it was Porter who made the threat was credible enough to be included in his 1994 book The Agenda, which he was then working on.
[It] sounds like someone from the Sopranos, Woodward told the Bulletin. Its an apocryphal story..........
Published on Friday, June 25, 2004
Clinton's 'Life' Tinted Crimson
Former presidents autobiography attacks gov prof, praises Summers
By TIMOTHY J. MCGINN
Crimson Staff Writer
CRIMSON/ SARAH M.J. WELCH
Brian Ray, studying at Harvard over the summer, browses through former president Bill Clintons autobiography at the Harvard Coop. The book lauds University President Lawrence H. Summers and criticizes Dunster House Master Roger B. Porter.
There are places Bill Clinton remembers in My Lifejust not too well, according to Kennedy School of Government professor and Dunster House Master Roger B. Porter, who alleges that the former president fabricated a damning conversation between the two of them in his newly published memoir....
According to Clintons book, Porterthen Bushs Economic and Domestic Policy Advisersaid that while other potential Democratic opponents could be undermined through weaknesses grounded in their politics, the Arkansas governor was different.
Heres how Washington works, Clinton quotes Porter as saying. The press has to have somebody and were going to give them you...Well spend whatever we have to spend to get whoever we have to get to say whatever they have to say to take you out. And well do it early"....
We never had any conversation as he has described in his book, Porter said last night. You dont remember every conversation in life, but I would certainly remember a conversation like that.........
Clintons allegations initially surfaced during his first term in office, when Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward learned of the account.
According to the White House Bulletin on June 23, 2004, provided by Porter to The Crimson, Woodward stated that he did not think Clintons assertion that it was Porter who made the threat was credible enough to be included in his 1994 book The Agenda, which he was then working on.
[It] sounds like someone from the Sopranos, Woodward told the Bulletin. Its an apocryphal story..........