Former President Bill Clinton may have been dishing out the compliments to PM Kevin Rudd, but Rudd fails to mention that the Australian government is a donor to the Clinton foundation.
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More Clinton secrets revealed
More revelations have been leaked from the new book of secret interviews with former US President Bill Clinton, including spats with Al Gore, a smear campaign against Hillary, and terse words with Henry Kissinger on health care.
The secret Clinton interviews
USA Today has the scoop on details of a new book that will publish eight years of secret interviews between Bill Clinton and author Taylor Branch. Including tales of Monica Lewinsky, and a drunk, naked Boris Yeltsin’s search for pizza.
Rudd and Clinton chew the fat
Kevin Rudd and former US President Bill Clinton shared a fruit salad and a chat yesterday, with the Aussie PM packing his social and diplomatic schedule while in the US for the UN General Assembly.
Video of the Day: Jon Stewart interviews Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton talks Obama, healthcare reform and going 007 in North Korea in this full, unedited version of his interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Clinton’s freed journos explain North Korean ordeal
The US journalists recently imprisoned in North Korea, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, explain their terrifying capture on Chinese soil, insisting that they were dragged back across the border to North Korea.
The US presidency: it’s a popularity contest
After eight months in office, US president Barack Obama’s popularity rates have fallen to 51%. Check out past US president’s popularity ratings to see how long it took them to drop below majority approval.
Why Hillary snapped
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s recent outburst at a stunned Congolese uni student that “My husband is not the secretary of State. I am.” came at the end of being in some pretty stressful situations. Cut her some slack, says Tina Brown: everybody needs to let off a little marital steam.
Kissinger: Sending the right message to North Korea
Bill Clinton’s mission to North Korea to save two imprisoned US journalists was a powerful moment driven by powerful emotions. But we need to consider the fallout, says former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
When Bill met Kim
Does Bill Clinton’s meeting with Kim Jong Il herald a breakthrough in the diplomatic relations between North Korea and the US? Only Kim knows. But with Pyongyang’s nuclear tests making a lot of powerful enemies of late, he might have realised it’s smart to start talking again.
What did Clinton say to Kim Jong-il?
Want to know exactly what ex-president Bill Clinton said to Chairman Kim Jong-il to help release the US journalists? Lewis Grossberger has a guess.
How Bill Clinton got the gig
Politico reveal the fascinating backstory of Bill Clinton’s crusade into North Korea: Pyongyang specifically asked for the former president to come.
Clinton just another pawn in North Korea’s nuclear game?
Bill Clinton’s sudden swoop in to North Korea to rescue a pair of US journalists may seem like a victory for diplomacy, freedom and the American Way, but for North Korea, it was simply a successful propaganda project — and the US played right into its hands, says John R. Bolton.
Bill Clinton to save journos jailed in N. Korea?
South Korean newspaper Yonhap News is reporting that former US President Bill Clinton is swooping into North Korea to negotiate the release of jailed American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, but Washington are playing dumb. Poor intelligence or poor privacy?
Bargain hunting with Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton loves to shop. In a crafts store in Lima, Peru, he hunts for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He moves across shelves of wooden carvings, jewelry and sculptures as he searches for something distinctive to bring home to the Secretary of State.
Reconstructing Jerusalem
The pattern of Israeli construction in East Jerusalem is meant to erase the Clinton parameters for peace.
Bill Clinton: How to export democracy
Bill Clinton on the trouble with selling other countries on constitutional democracy: you have to look after the “losers and the loners”.
True believers in the American dream wake up to a nightmare
The belief that the US is God’s own country is often a literal one.
VIDEO: Bill Clinton’s speech to the DNC
Following up on Hillary’s big speech stumping for Barack Obama yesterday, Bill Clinton’s followed up with a powerful speech to the DNC today. Watch the video here.
