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Clinton call infidelity 'a moral error'
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-06-17 10:58
Former President Bill Clinton called his marital infidelity a "terrible moral
error" whose disclosure to his wife put him "in the doghouse," during an
interview scheduled for this Sunday's "60 Minutes."
Former US President
Bill Clinton (L) and his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) pose
together after their official portraits were unveiled during a ceremony in
the East Room at the White House in Washington, June 14, 2004. Former
first lady Clinton, whose picture will hang in the White House's lower
level near that of her predecessor, Barbara Bush, is the first sitting
senator to have her portrait hung in the White House.
[Reuters] | Why did he commit adultery with White
House intern Monica Lewinsky?
"For the worst possible reason," Clinton said. "Just because I could. I think
that's just about the most morally indefensible reason anybody could have for
doing anything."
Questioned by CBS News anchor Dan Rather, Clinton said he, his wife, Hillary
Rodham Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea, dealt with their family crisis
through counseling.
"We did it together. We did it individually. We did family work," he said.
Clinton said he never considered resigning as president, and described his
battle against the "abuse of power" of the impeachment process "a badge of
honor."
"I stood up to it and beat it back," he said. "I don't see it as a stain,
because it was illegitimate."
Excerpts from the interview, taped Tuesday at Clinton's home in Chappaqua,
N.Y., and last weekend in Arkansas, were released by CBS Wednesday. The
interview will occupy the full hour of the newsmagazine.
It is timed to next week’s publication of Clinton's memoir, "My Life," which
covers his Arkansas childhood, his tenure as that state’s governor as well as
his presidency. The book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, has a first printing of
1.5 million copies.
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