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Byline: Wayne Slater
``My Life'' by Bill Clinton; Alfred A. Knopf ($35)
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There was a moment early in his presidency when Bill Clinton hosted the nation's governors at the White House for a gala evening of dinner and warm conversation.
The entertainment was a singer, a svelte and beautiful woman with dark hair who had been appearing most recently at the Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel in New York. She sang George Gershwin and Cole Porter and electrified the East Room.
Later, while an orchestra played for dancing, a reporter attending the event wandered away from the crowd and down a hallway where he found the president and the singer _ she backed against a pillar and he leaning in, one arm bracing himself, their faces close, locked in conversation.
In that moment, however ...
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