NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton called his fight against
impeachment a "badge of honor" and his affair with White House intern
Monica
Lewinsky "morally indefensible" in a CBS television interview.
In the hourlong interview on CBS "60 Minutes" this Sunday, two days before
publication of his memoir "My Life," Clinton said he was proud of his
successful fight against impeachment, the network said in excerpts
released
on Wednesday.
"I didn't quit, I never thought of resigning and I stood up to it and beat
it back," he said.
"The whole battle was a badge of honor. I don't see it as a stain,(<<<LOL
a
stain is what did him in) because it (the impeachment process) was
illegitimate," added Clinton, who called the process "an abuse of power."
Clinton's more than 900-page memoir, published by Alfred A. Knopf, hits
book
stores on June 22.
He told "60 Minutes" that high on his list of regrets was his affair with
Lewinsky, which he called "a terrible moral error."
Clinton said his wife, Hillary, and daughter, Chelsea, were able to
overcome
the effect of the revelation of the affair through counseling.
The former president said Hillary needed time with him to decide whether
she
would stay married to him.
"We'd take a day a week, and we did -- a whole day a week every week for a
year, maybe a little more -- and did counseling," said Clinton. "We did it
together. We did it individually. We did family work."
Clinton said there was no rational explanation for his adulterous
behavior.
"I did something for the worst possible reason. Just because I could," the
former president said. "I think that's just about the most morally
indefensible reason anybody could have for doing anything."
Clinton also discussed other issues during the interview, including the
war
on terror and Osama bin Laden and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and
regretted his failure to convince Yasser Arafat to accept a proposal he
thought could finally bring Middle East peace, CBS said.
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Let the name calling begin!!! (its all you libs have)
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