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Clinton blows up at BBC journalist
HE is known as one of the era's smoothest statesmen.
But in a rare lapse, former US president Bill Clinton (left) lost his temper, when asked repeatedly in a BBC interview if he was genuine in voicing regret over his affair with ex-intern Monica Lewinsky.
He ranted for several minutes at Mr David Dimbleby during the taping for the programme, Panorama.
Mr Clinton then branched out into an attack on media intrusion into the private lives of public figures.
'As outbursts go, it is not just some flash that is over in an instant. It is something substantial and sustained,' said a BBC executive to the Sunday Telegraph.
The interview was recorded ahead of yesterday's publication of Mr Clinton's autobiography, My Life.
His outburst contrasted with the bland media questions from the US, where former presidents are treated with reverence.
He told the BBC that his 'old demons' surfaced and led him into the affair.
'It happened at a time when I was angry, I was under stress, I was afraid I was going to lose my fight with the Republican Congress,' said Mr Clinton.
'...I was in this titanic fight for the future of the country, and an inevitable fight with my old demons.
'So I won the public fight and lost the private one.
Source: NP
