AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | CLINTON | Interviews & Preview | PBS

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Coming to PBS beginning Monday, Feb. 20. From draft dodging to the Dayton Accords, from Monica Lewinsky to a balanced budget, the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton veered between sordid scandal and grand achievement. In CLINTON, the latest installment in the critically acclaimed and successful series of presidential biographies, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE explores the fascinating story of an American president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage. It recounts a career full of accomplishment and rife with scandal, a marriage that would make history and create controversy and a presidency that would define the crucial and transformative period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11. It follows Clinton across his two terms as he confronted some of the key forces that would shape the future, including partisan political warfare and domestic and international terrorism, and struggled, with uneven success, to define the role of American power in a post-Cold War world. Most memorably, it explores how Clinton's conflicted character made history, even as it enraged his enemies and confounded his friends. The program features unprecedented access to scores of Clinton insiders including White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum, White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta and Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes, as well as interviews with foreign leaders, members of the Republican opposition, childhood friends, staffers from Clinton's years as governor of Arkansas, biographers and journalists.

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[bluegrassbobify]

I watched both installments and I am disappointed that no mention was made of the Waco assault on David Koresh and the Branch Davidians. They never even mentioned Janet Reno at all. It's as though there was no attorney general or justice department which is odd since I believe Ms. Reno was the first woman named to the post. Yet they brought up the Oklahoma City bombing and Tim McVeigh, who set off the bomb to mark the Waco anniversary. Is PBS paranoid since its funding's been threatened?

[mheyize]

Seriously? I fucking HATE monica lewinsky and bill clinton!

[CountessKarma]

@potter74021 He was never convicted on ANY rape charges.

[Winjoe69]

Clinton's not a rapist, but he is a man who manipulates the truth to best fit his desired reality, just like virtually every President. (see Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Bush numero dos....) It kind of goes with the territory.

[SarahFunes]

Can't wait!

[potter74021]

Some of us KNEW he was a pathalogical Liar and this documentary will prove it. It will also show the hypocricy of the left that is after Newt but gave Clinton a pass. Newt has had three wives but Clinton was guilty of adultry, rape and lying under oath.

[kakaji65]

he is president of the world. prosperity, peace, s/s reform, enormous legislations for the

poor and needy were the highlights of his presidency. bubba is the best.

[dmaradona10]

I had a copy of My Life for a few years now. I just picked it up and started reading it recently under this cloud of the 2012 election. It's weird how history repeats itself.