Saturday, October 11, 2014

Voyage of discovery

The release of documents running to 10,000 pages during Bill Clinton's presidency by the Clinton Presidential Library (a building of which George W. Bush, when visiting at its inauguration, was heard saying, "A submarine could destroy this.") has apparently sent reporters seeking scandal, even though the library staff know exactly what they are doing in protecting their benefactor's reputation.  Indeed, this could be used to spike controversy over the Monica Lewinsky affair before Hillary Clinton makes her presidential run (if successful, would she get her own presidential library or just expand her husband's?).
There are some titillating titbits including an email redacted in its entirety bar the title 'Monica Drinking Game'.  I think it's fair to assume that redaction would not be necessary were this referring to Monica from Friends.  What interested me though was a note discussing how Mr Clinton should respond if asked by reporters whether he was planning to watch an interview with Miss Lewinsky being done by Barbara Walters by suggesting he say that he “usually watches ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ at that hour”.  You can really hear Clinton's voice and easy-going charm in that statement, even though his advisors are 'war-planning' this (the idea was eventually dropped).  It is also interesting that Clinton would be watching Star Trek: Voyager, giving it the presidential seal of approval.  Does it reveal an inner nerd or was he simply getting his rocks off watching the character Seven of Nine (wearing a silver jumpsuit) who had recently joined the series at that time?

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