Bill Clinton - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Bill Clinton Index / People Transcripts Gregory Craig ...There was a lot of concern about President Clinton 's role in what he was saying, and tha... ...and said, “I've just gotten a call from Bill Clinton , who wants to talk to me about thi... ...and said, “I had this conversation with President Clinton , and he accused me of reading jus... ...someone to go on the record who knows Bill Clinton well and can say something that woul... ...go on the record and be negative about Bill Clinton . And I thought about it. It wa... ...White House counsel. I had talked to President Clinton on December 26, 2004 [read: 1996]... ...House counsel had recommended that President Clinton consider me to be White House counsel... ...the quarterback for the impeachment [of President Bill Clinton ] defense. Rahm was one of th... Show more... Austan Goolsbee ...asking Bruce Reed who had been with Bill Clinton in 1991. He was going in through th... ...to be an economic crisis, were Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan. And both of them ha... ...strategy. The outside strategy was that Bill Clinton got up before the American people. So... ...They were at an impasse. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton went out to the public and said... ...budgets, and were like, “We agree with President Clinton . His budget is better.” And once th... ...I said, “And then back up for a second. Bill Clinton was impeached in his last two years... Show more... Kathryn Ruemmler ...in my late twenties—to go and work for President Clinton during that period. Okay. All right... ...other president can you do that with? President Clinton , I guess you probably could. But eve... Janet Murguía ...Slattery of Kansas—when he had helped Bill Clinton become president, worked on hi... ...working, then, in the White House for President Clinton in the Office of Legislativ... ...that to advance an agenda on behalf of President Clinton , it did require a lot of knowledg... ...And I was fortunate to work with President Clinton , and they're both brilliant an... ...that I thought was interesting is that President Clinton is the archetypal extrovert an... ...exceptionally well, it was clear that President Clinton enjoyed meetings and the give-and-tak... ...other people and it was a key part of President Clinton 's decision-making process. Fo... Show more... Jay Carney ...at Time magazine, where he covered Bill Clinton and George W. Bush's presidencies. I a... ...at Time magazine, where he covered Bill Clinton 's and George W. Bush's presidencies. ... ...obviously, President Bush but also President Clinton . He had to inform our allies, our ke... Neera Tanden ...I went to law school right after Bill Clinton was elected, and I really thought o... ...because she still lived here, and Bill Clinton was here, her husband [laughs]. ... ...which is—I wasn't at a senior level for President Clinton , but I sort of witnessed it, which i... ...are different. My experience was that President Clinton , early on, made too many decisions... ...crazy town to me, but whatever. I think President Clinton was a governor in Arkansas, so he mad... ...is relatively comfortable. I worked for President Clinton only in the second term, and he was no... ...bill. I was worried. It's interesting. President Bill Clinton helped pass the bill. He was lobbyin... Show more... Loretta Lynch ...and then, ultimately, US attorney under President Bill Clinton . And during that time period I spent ... ...case, with the encounter with former President Clinton ? Well, at the time that it happened... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Education Education go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Public Health Public Health