“The no-holds barred biography of Steve Jobs has revealed that former president Bill Clinton consulted the Apple boss on what to do about his affair with Monica Lewinsky during a late night tete-a-tete,” Rachel Quigley and Louise Boyle report for The Daily Mail. “Jobs reportedly replied: ‘I don’t know if you did it, but if so, you’ve got to tell the country.’ According to his biographer Walter Isaacson, after Jobs delivered his advice: ‘There was silence on the other end of the line.'”
“Shortly after Jobs’ death, Clinton spoke about his friendship with the Apple co-founder during an interview with Time‘s Managing Editor Richard Stengel,” Quigley and Boyle report. “Clinton said: ‘When my daughter was at Stanford he got in touch with me, and said, ”It’s hard to travel to see your child when you’re President. I’ve got a place out in the country. ‘You and Hillary can stay there and bring Chelsea and her friends there anytime you want to.’ He gave me a priceless gift: the opportunity to see my child while I was still a very public figure, so I’m highly biased in his favor. Plus, even I can work an iPad.'”
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Steve Jobs; an incredible human.
Love ya Steve X
Agreed Steve was too incredible to be called on this subject.
Maybe Clinton called Steve by accident in the middle of the night? It was dark, he searched “Jobs” in his address book and dialed the wrong number, said: “Oh, sorry man….not STEVE Jobs I was looking for B. Jobs.”
Slick Willy should’ve taken Jobs’ advice. If he did, Clinton wouldn’t have the dubious distinction of being the only U.S. President to ever be impeached. Instead, he’d be known for being a Democrat prez who got shellacked in midterms and signed off on conservative ideas that put the country onto the right path. All lost, by now, due to the first two years of Obama siging unconstitutional and unaffordable stupidity ushered through Dem-controlled house and senate by twin morons Pelosi and Reid.
Good news: We’ll start once again fixing the Dem’s mess soon enough.
2 presidents were impeached numnuts. Neither got the votes to oust them. Nixon would have been the first to get booted if he hadn’t resigned.
Okay. Andrew Johnson. Nixon, of course, was never impeached.
You, sir, are an ass. You are precisely what Washington warned us about in his Farewell Address. You are also what Swift saw: “Party is the madness of many, for the gain of the few” (1727).
By the way, since you are so caviler with facts:
July 27, 1974: House Judiciary Committee passes the first of three articles of impeachment, charging obstruction of justice.
August 8, 1974: Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to resign. Vice President Gerald R. Ford assumes the country’s highest office. He will later pardon Nixon of all charges related to the Watergate case.
The word is “cavalier”. You, sir, are a caviler. (Look it up.)
Wouldn’t you be the caviler since you are giving him grief about an obvious typo rather than focusing on what he actually said?
If that is the case, it’s beginning to spread.
@First 2010, Then 2012
Don’t worry. You’re not alone. We’re 70% of the populace in this country, when push comes to shove.
P.S. You’re not an ass. Your heart is in the right place. Just get all of your facts straight.
Now, getting g back to Steve Jobs: we’re going to miss him a lot more than we think.
Rest in peace, Steve. You’re much loved.
70% of what?
The US seems to be 48% Republican, 48% Democrat, with us Independents being the difference that tips any election one way or the other.
I’m thinking it’s more 35% Republican and 40% Democrat, with the rest of us 20% fed up with the other 80% 😉
lol… can’t even add tonight. Night all…
Not hardly. It’s actually closer to 35% Republican, 35% Democrats. Most of the rest are Independents with a smattering of Libertarians and even fewer Greens and other fringe groups. Overall, the US remains a center-right country. The progressive left punches above their weight (maybe 15%) because of their prominence in the media and and the university campuses.
Is being stupid a requirement of partisanship or is it just a strong suggestion?
+1
Mandatory it seems..
Why don’t you ask the “African-Americans” who, for generations now, vote in lockstep for Dems so they can remain slaves to government subsistence living?
You have proven yourself over and over to be a capable parrot. Perhaps it’s time to aspire to something greater: maybe articulating an original thought?
+∞
And this completely moronic, and utterly stupid statement has what to do with the article?
Mention a president or anything related to politics and these ass hats think its open field day on the forum to do some dems/reps bashing. The Internet is a great invention that allows anyone to speak their minds. But sometimes the Internet sucks because it allows anyone to speak their minds.
“Ass Hat” lol. I must laugh every time I hear this expression.
Barf!
right on First…
AMEN – 2012 CANNOT come soon enough – time to put adults back in charge….
Lol. You are insane.
Romney is an adult? Any of of those totally insane, and stupid morons on the right are adults?
In what sick and twisted universe?
Since you started the comparison, i’ll finish it.
Public executive experience: Romney
Private executive experience: Romney
Consorting with hate mongerers (the bomber and the reverend): Obama
Viewable school records: Romney
Bashes millionaires but still takes their money for his campaign: Obama.
Bows to communists: Obama
Apologizes for America: Obama
Record spending and debt levels: Obama
Hires tax evaders for cabinet positions: Obama
Grants tax holidays for G.E. (not paying their fair share): Obama
Sides with occupy protestors but voted for bank bail-outs: Obama
Said never to raise taxes during a recession and then does: Obama
Clearly one is more of an adult than the other.
Don’t get me wrong, politicians cause more problems than they fix. They are all part of the problem.
“public executive experience”… most of which he eschews now
“private executive experience”… any of it relevant?
“consorting with hate mongerers” wtf are you talking about?
“Viewable school records”… wtf are you talking about?
“bashes millionaires…” all politicians take money from millionaires, including Romney… I’d rather have in office a politician who takes money, but isn’t controlled than a politician who takes money and then is at their beck and call
“Bows to communists”… wtf are you talking about?
“Apologizes for America”… wtf are you talking about?
“record spending and debt levels” because obama controls the budget, right?
“Hires tax evaders for cabinet positions” who?
“Grants tax holidays for G.E” because obama controls the budget, right?
“Sides with occupy protestors…” as oppose to those upstanding citizens called tea partiers…
“Said never to raise taxes during a recession and then does” when did he raise taxes?
Mistrust of government is one thing. But right wingers are downright paranoid. There is no country on the planet that has a good economy and that does not also have an effective government. Think about that next time you’re on an anti-govt. rant.
Yes, as we all know, for republicans it’s much worse to have a love affair than to break the very law and piss on the constitution. Watergate was just a nuisance for you I guess and sex should be punished with the death sentence. Which is the republican way of celebrating life, or as the Texan Gov. said it “All life is precious” (while dozens of people are executed per year even if not guilty, more than ever before)
Republicans : please get a brain. Even Zombies are smarter than you.
Clinton wasn’t in trouble for cheating on his wife, he was in trouble for lying under oath. The former is not a crime, the latter is a crime.
-jcr
Ah, like Nixon was lying under oat after actually committing a REAL crime.
What was the “REAL” crime Nixon committed?
You mean besides knowing that burglars are hired and ordered to break into the Democrats HQ, covering up the crime, illegally wiretapping them, obstructing justice and lying many times under oath?
Seriously?
He didn’t know about the break-in (or that anyone was hired to do it) until the next day and then he tried to cover it up.
Nixon committed quite a few crimes. Could you be more specific?
-jcr
But he didn’t lie under oath, which is why he was acquitted.
And if you’re going to make the perjury argument, then why didn’t the GOP-led congress file perjury charges against the tobacco executives who lied under oath about what they knew of the dangers of tobacco?
But he didn’t lie under oath,
Yes, he did.
why he was acquitted.
The Senate gave him a walk because his supporters outnumbered this opponents. This is one of the best arguments I’ve seen for abolishing political parties.
He’s never stood trial for his perjury and faced penalties in a real court of law, but he did get disbarred by the Supreme courts of Arkansas and the United States for his perjury.
-jcr
Your evidence that he lied? And what do political parties have to do with it? The GOP had a majority in the Senate in those days, but they still couldn’t muster even a majority, let alone the two-thirds necessary to convict.
He was never brought to trial “in a real court of law”, as you put it, because would-be prosecutors knew that they would never get a conviction (those pesky rules of evidence, due process, etc getting in the way and all). So they moved onto a forum where the rules of evidence are more relaxed, and due process is not required.
I could have cared less who Clinton was having sex with. I was ticked he was doing it IN HIS OFFICE. It’s disrespectful. I don’t screw anyone in my office and I don’t expect him to do it either. I pay his salary and expect him to be working in there not getting Oral sex, etc.
You should try it some time. It can be pretty exciting.
Then there was Iran-Contra.
Republicans – stupidly criminal
Democrats – criminally stupid
(If a President fooling around with an intern isn’t stupid, I don’t know what is.)
you are such a brainwashed dolt incapable of independent thought. A real peon’s peon.
if only you could intellectualize how low on the human totem pole you have to be to be that way. ah well. enjoy your narrow little existence until it twinkles out leaving nothing of worthwhile at all- save a digital record of your mental slavery to far more powerful people that laugh about the likes of you over lavish dinners you’ll never get to experience 😀
Actually, President Andrew Johnson was the first to be impeached. However, both he and President Clinton were acquitted by the Senate.
Who is Andrew Johnson? You mean Andrew Jackson.
never mind.
Are you f***ing kidding me? Are you even an American? Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth president of the United States.
LMAO. Let me guess… You are a conservative and a patriot! (But know nothing about the history of the country)
Bill Clinton did not want Jobs telling about this. That is why he’s been doing ‘damage control’ the past few weeks – trying to find out what was in the book, attending the memorial, ingratiating himself with the survivng family, etc.
It is notable that Steve Jobs has never been listed as a donor to the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton campaigns, etc.
The main reason is probably John Sculley, who was accidentally destroyed by the Clintons. Sculley famously sat next to Hillary during Bill’s first State of the Union address. How do you think Jobs felt about that? But it turned out that while the Clintons were distracting Sculley for weeks at a time, Apple’s business was going down in flames, and Sculley was soon fired. This did not go unnoticed by Jobs.
By Monday there will be no reason to buy the book.
Pretty much this.
“By Monday there will be no reason to buy the book.”
Over 600 pages and I know all the best parts already. I agree, no point in buying the book or wasting my time reading it.
MDN works for me.
I have to say that you are spot on about that. There is so much being leaked about the book that one has to wonder if there is anything left to tell. I wish the biographer and the media would just shut up and stop releasing excerpts from the book. Some of us would like to buy the thing and find out about some of these things for ourselves.
Or go to see the movie version.
I just wonder how many partial chapters have been “leaked” so far?
If I were the author, I’d be sorely tempted to throw in a couple of ringers just to get our collective knickers in a twist.
(rant)
2010, I’m as far right as you, but please lay off the politicking. MDN’s threads, like this one, are only tangentially related to current politics. To take them there is usually called trolling or thread-jacking. Neither is appreciated.
Further, when you get your facts wrong, you make us all look bad to boot. (sigh)
If I’d commented on this I’d have been tempted to pen something like: “Slick Willy should’ve taken Jobs’ advice – would’ve saved him a lot of trouble.”
(/rant)
Plus, even I can work an iPad.
So can George Bush Jr.
I guess this is bipartisan validation that the iPad is easy to use.
“Isn’t it funny, a ship that leaks from the top”
– Steve Jobs
I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it again, Bill Clinton was one of the best Presidents we’ve had in a long time.
And, yes, I’m not kidding. For once.
Wholeheartedly agree.
Visionaries like Steve Jobs reveal the true secret to the Universe in that nothing is impossible with time, perseverance, and positive visualization. Such a passion for furthering human communication inspires. His legacy will survive generations with names like Edison, Tesla as the greatest inventors and visionaries of all time. As an artist, I draw from these inspirations and advancements in my work and you may enjoy my recent portrait of Mr. Jobs, now In Memoriam at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/08/end-of-era-steve-jobs.html
Ok.
Wasn’t Clinton a moderate Conservative anyway?
It doesn’t matter what political label you apply to Clinton. He was capable, and that’s all that matters.