Ken Gormley, a Pittsburgh law professor, has been laboring for years on a book about Kenneth Starr's Javert-like pursuit of then-President Bill Clinton. It's due out in February and I talked to Gormley recently about picking up a piece of it for the Times. In the coolness [...]
Forget Mattie Ross. Former President Bill Clinton, in an e-mail titled "Charm and Grit," implores people on U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln's mailing list to send her money.
Clinton says Lincoln will win, of course, though, he comments, "The Republicans are doing what they always do -- using fear and misinformation to [...]
Former President Bill Clinton sent an e-mail today supporting Blanche Lincoln’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate. In the message he writes,
I am going to tell you what I told Senator Lincoln this week: She’s going to win this thing.
Here’s why. The Republicans are doing what they always do — using [...]
The Arkansas Times obtained some preliminary engineering plans for the Rock Island Bridge which, according to former president Bill Clinton, will be renovated in 2010. Here, you can see high resolution images of the plans including the overall elevation of the entire bridge and the plans for what [...]
NewsMax — "Going Rogue" is going big. Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. In 2004, Bill Clinton's "My Life" debuted with sales of 400,000 copies. The year before, Hillary Rodham [...] I forgot to open the line.
I went to a party for former Bill Clinton staffers tonight. Saw, among many blog readers, Charles Eddie Smith.
Drove past teabaggers (40 or so?) with candles outside Blanche Lincoln's office. As a Democratic employee of a.g. McDaniel noted about the day, you've got Republicans fighting like' [...]
Well this is surprising: former President Bill Clinton thinks that Keith Olbermann is politicizing the free health clinic in Little Rock tomorrow. Eve Gittelson, a reporter for FireDogLake.com, ran into Clinton in the gift shop of his presidential library yesterday and asked [...]
Bill Clinton told FDL’s Eve Gittelson that it would be problematic for him to attend a free medical clinic being held in Little Rock, Arkansas tomorrow because MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann had “politicized” the event.” He indicated that some were turning the event into a primary kickoff against Arkansas [...]
Columnist Joe Conason, in Little Rock this week to follow Bill Clinton for a coming book, dipped into senatorial politics and found an incumbent U.S. Senator, Blanche Lincoln, looking weak rather than thoughtful. He found pressure from Lt. Gov. Bill Halter and a free health clinic and a not-thinly-veiled [...]
You take it from here.
Social notes: CNN's John King is at Doe's. Columnist Joe Conason, who's working on a book on the post-presidential Bill Clinton, can be spotted there before too long, too. He'll be in the company of a gentleman rancher from Perry County, his "The Hunting of the [...]
Former President Bill Clinton promised renovation of the former Rock Island railroad bridge by his library would begin in 2010. He told a crowd of 1,000 gathered in a tent on the grounds of his library for the center's fifth anniversay -- as he'd told us in [...]
President Bill Clinton is in Little Rock, Arkansas today to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Center and Park. The event is from 11:30 - 1:00 under a large tent.
The Associated Press examines the five-year impact the library has had on Little Rock.
After Clinton announced his site [...]
