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He believed in the project from the beginning and did his part to keep it going, including giving me an amazed look wherever and whenever I ran in to him over the last two years; a look that said something like, Are you really going to finish on time?, and Why are you here instead of at home writing? Sonnys look always had the desired effect
I also owe thanks to the many people at Knopf who helpedI am grateful that the editorial/production team at Knopf is as obsessed with accuracy and detail as I am (even with a book on a slightly accelerated pace as mine was) and especially appreciate the tireless efforts and meticulous work of managing editor Katherine Hourigan; noble director of manufacturing Andy Hughes; indefatigable production editor Maria Massey; copy chief Lydia Buechler, copy editor Charlotte Gross, and proofreaders Steve Messina, Jenna Dolan, Ellen Feldman, Rita Madrigal, and Liz Polizzi; design director Peter Andersen; jacket art director Carol Carson; the ever-helpful Diana Tejerina and Eric Bliss; and Lee Pentea
In addition, I want to thank the many other people at Knopf who have helped me: Tony Chirico, for his valued guidance; Jim Johnston, Justine LeCates, and Anne Diaz; Carol Janeway and Suzanne Smith; Jon Fine; and the promotion/marketing talents of Pat Johnson, Paul Bogaards, Nina Bourne, Nicholas Latimer, Joy Dallanegra-Sanger, Amanda Kauff, Anne-Lise Spitzer, and Sarah RobinsonAnd thanks to the staff at North Market Street Graphics, Coral Graphics, and R
Robert Barnett, a fine lawyer and longtime friend, negotiated the contract with Knopf; he and his partner Michael OConnor worked throughout the project as foreign publishers joined inI am very grateful to themI appreciate the careful technical and legal review that David Kendall and Beth Nolan gave the manuscript
When I was in the White House, beginning in late 1993, I met with my old friend Taylor Branch about once a month to do an oral historyThose contemporaneous conversations helped in recalling black balenciaga bag particular moments of the presidencyAfter I left the White House, Ted Widmer, a fine historian who worked in the White House as a speechwriter, did an oral history of my life before the presidency that helped me bring back and organize old memoriesJanis Kearney, the White House diarist, left me with voluminous notes that enabled me to reconstruct day-to-day events
The photographs were selected with the help of Vincent Virga, who found many that captured special moments discussed in the book, and Carolyn Huber, who was with our family throughout our years in the Governors Mansion and the White HouseWhile I was President, Carolyn also organized all my private papers and letters from the time I was a little boy to 1974, an arduous task without which much of the first part of the book could not have been written
I am deeply indebted to those who read all or part of the book and made helpful suggestions for additions, subtractions, reorganization, context, and interpretation, including Hillary, Chelsea, Dorothy Rodham, Doug Band, Sandy Berger, Tommy Caplan, Mary DeRosa, Nancy Hernreich, -bleep- Holbrooke, David Kendall, Jim Kennedy, Ian Klauss, Bruce Lindsey, Ira Magaziner, Cheryl Mills, Beth Nolan, John Podesta, Bruce Reed, Steve Ricchetti, Bob Rubin, Ruby Shamir, Brooke Shearer, Gene Sperling, Strobe Talbott, Mark Weiner, Maggie Williams, and my friends Brian and Myra Greenspun, who were with me when the first page was written
Many of my friends and colleagues took time to do impromptu oral histories with me including Huma Abedin, Madeleine Albright, Dave Barram, Woody Bassett, Paul Begala, Paul Berry, Jim Blair, Sidney Blumenthal, Erskine Bowles, Ron Burkle, Tom Campbell, James Carville, Roger Clinton, Patty Criner, Denise Dangremond, Lynda Dixon, Rahm Emanuel, Al From, Mark Gearen, Ann Henry, Denise Hyland, Harold Ickes, Roger Johnson, Vernon Jordan, Mickey Kantor, -bleep- Kelley, Tony Lake, David Leopoulos, Capricia Marshall, Mack McLarty, Rudy Moore, Bob Nash, Kevin OKeefe, Leon Panetta, chanel tote bags Betsey Reader, -bleep- Riley, Bobby Roberts, Hugh Rodham, Tony Rodham, Dennis Ross, Martha Saxton, Eli Segal, Terry Schumaker, Marsha Scott, Michael Sheehan, Nancy Soderberg, Doug Sosnik, Rodney Slater, Craig Smith, Gayle Smith, Steve Smith, Carolyn Staley, Stephanie Street, Larry Summers, Martha Whetstone, Delta Willis, Carol Willis, and several of my readersIm sure there are others Ive forgotten; if so, Im sorry and I appreciate their help as well
My research was also helped greatly by many books written by members of the administration and others, and of course by the memoirs of Hillary and my mother
David Alsobrook and the staff of the Clinton Presidential Materials Project were patient and persistent in recovering materialsI want to thank them all: Deborah Bush, Susan Collins, Gary Foulk, John Keller, Jimmie Purvis, Emily Robison, Rob Seibert, Dana Simmons, Richard Stalcup, Rhonda WilsonAnd Arkansas historian David WareThe archivists and historians at Georgetown and Oxford were also helpful
While I was absorbed in writing for much of the last two and a half years, especially the last six months, the work of my foundation continued as we built the library and pursued our missions: fighting AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean and providing low cost drugs and testing around the world; increasing economic opportunity in poor communities in the United States, India, and Africa; promoting education and citizen service among young people at home and abroad; and advocating religious, racial, and ethnic reconciliation across the worldI want to thank those whose donations have made possible my foundation work, and the construction of the Presidential Library and the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of ArkansasI am deeply indebted to Maggie Williams, my chief of staff, for all she did to keep things moving and for her help on the bookI want to thank members of my foundation and office staff for all they did to continue the work of the foundation and its programs while I was chanel j12 watch writing the bookA special word of thanks goes to Doug Band, my counselor, who helped me from the day I left the White House to build my new life and who struggled to protect my book-writing time on our travels across America and the world
I also owe a debt to Oscar Flores, who keeps things going at my home in ChappaquaOn the many nights when Justin Cooper and I worked into the wee hours, Oscar went out of his way to make sure we remembered to have dinner and that we were well supplied with coffee
Finally, I cannot list all the people who made the life chronicled in these pages possibleall the teachers and mentors of my youth; the people who worked on and contributed to all my campaigns; those who worked with me in the Democratic Leadership Council, National Governors Association, and all the other organizations that contributed to my education in public policy; those who worked with me for peace, security, and reconciliation around the world; those who made the White House run and my trips work; the thousands of gifted people who worked in my adminstrations as attorney general, governor, and President without whose dedicated service I would have little to say about my years in public life; those who provided security to me and my family; and my friends of a lifetimeNone of them are responsible for the failures of my life, but for whatever good has come out of it they deserve much of the credity father, William Jefferson Blythe, 1944
My father and my mother, Virginia Cassidy Blythe, at the Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, 1946
Mother and I
Here I am in 1949Above, far left: at my father's gravesite on the afternoon Mother left for nurse's training in New Orleans; above, center: in our backyard; above, right: posing for a photo for Mother's Day
My grandmother Edith Grisham Cassidy, 1949She was a private duty nurse
My grandfather James Eldridge Cassidy (right) in his grocery store in Hope, Arkansas, 1946
Miss Marie Purkins' School for Little Folks in HopeI'm at the far left, cartier santos white with Vince Foster next to me and Mack McLarty in the back row
My great-grandfather Lem Grisham came to visit me in the hospital when I broke my leg, March 1952
With my great-uncle Buddy Grisham, one of the lights of my life, during my first presidential campaign
Daddy (my stepfather, Roger Clinton)
Mother and Daddy, 1965
Daddy and I at home in Hope, 1951
My brother, Roger, and I with Cora Walters, the wonderful woman who took care of us
From my high school yearbook: the Three Blind Mice, better known as the 3 Kings?Randy Goodrum on piano, Joe Newman on drums
I'm in the front, right behind the photographer, as President John FKennedy addresses the Boys Nation delegates in the Rose Garden on July 24, 1963
David Leopoulos and I as emcees of the Hot Springs High School Band Variety Show, 1964
Mother, Roger, our dog Susie, and I in the snow at our Park Avenue house, 1961
At a picnic with friends, including Carolyn Yeldell, David Leopoulos, Ronnie Cecil, and Mary Jo Nelson
Frank Holt meeting and greeting in his shirtsleeves during his 1966 campaign for governor(I'm in the light-colored suit
With my brother and my roommates at our graduation from Georgetown, 1968: (from left) Kit Ashby, Tommy Caplan, Jim Moore, and Tom Campbell
My Oxford roommates: Strobe Talbott (left) and Frank AllerI'm in my bearded phase
I surprised Mother by flying home for her wedding to Jeff Dwire, January 3, 1969Reverend John Miles officiated, and I was best manRoger's in the frontWilliam Fulbright and his administrative assistant, Lee Williams, September 1989During my Georgetown years, I was assistant clerk on Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee
Hillary and I with our Yale Law School Barristers Union classmates
Campaigning for George McGovern in San Antonio, Texas, 1972
Teaching at the University of Arkansas Law School, Fayetteville
With George Shelton, my campaign chairman, and FWhile they passed away before my presidency, their sons both served in my dior handbag sale administrati
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