Clinton on Clinton

<p>Fifty years ago when I was born in a summer storm to a widowed mother in a little town in Arkansas it was unthinkable that I might ever become President.</p><p>Like other people I have had crises in my life personal crises personal failures the sense that I had let myself and others down the sense that maybe I'd never be the person God wanted me to be.</p><p>He was the first president to represent the baby-boom generation and the last president of the twentieth century. An activist chief executive whose ambition was to build a bridge to a rapidly changing American future he was the product of a small Arkansas upbringing steeped in tradition. Now here is a portrait of William Jefferson Clinton a brilliant and complex man and leader in the words of the one person who knows him best: himself. Here are the most fascinating and revealing glimpses into one of the most quotable presidents of our time.</p><p>We must never let a blizzard of statistics blind us to the real people and the real lives behind them.</p><p>There's a poll saying that forty percent of the American people think Hillary's smarter than I am. What I don't understand is how the other sixty percent missed it.</p>