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• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: "Charlie Rose, Inc."
• DVD Release Date: August 10, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000GAKVJY
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Charlie has an hour long discussion with President Bill Clinton. President Clinton talks about his new memoir My Life, about growing up in Arkansas, politics, personal failure and personal achievement. He also takes a look toward the future and what it holds for him.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The non- Presidential President, November 12, 2007

By	Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This interview surprised me, and not necessarily in the best way. Former President Clinton seemed to me to slouch a bit in his chair. His manner of speaking and his general tone and attitude seemed to me somehow less than 'Presidential'. Moreover the content of the interview while at times touching upon his thought on global matters was quite scanty in this regard. In fact there was no real 'meat' in the discussion of world affairs.
A lot of the focus was on the personal, including the scandalous. It is possible for someone to take interest in the way Rose handled the embarassing questions, and he did in a sense really ask them. And perhaps this was necessary. After all President Clinton appeared to talk about the Autobiography he had just written and was promoting.
The autobiography contained much about the former President's childhood. He told the story of his 'therapy' in the wake of the White House scandals. He related his problems to the violent alcoholic stepfather in childhood, the need to defend his mother, the sense of the child who is abused that nonetheless something is wrong with him- the explanation therefore that seemed to suggest that there was some kind of deep need to make himself wrong or blamed- all this makes on one hand good sense. But I don't think the former President provided anything like a fully truthful account here. What about the fun he had in his long series of liasons and escapes? What about the hedonist at the heart of the moralist?
Still, this is not what sort of troubled me. What troubled me was the thought of how frail we mortals be, and how mankind is in a situation where time and again its 'fate' is in the hands of one such mortal. And those mortals may well be incompetent, or inadequate.
Here I touch upon one small point which bothers me from the beginning of the interview. Clinton blamed Arafat for rejecting Barak's proposals in Sept. 2000 , proposals which would have led most likely to a truly disastrous peace- agreement. But here he backtracks a bit and says a few months after the rejection Arafat decided to accept them. This is such a mistaken and false interpretation of what the congenital liar and maneuverer Arafat actually did, that one wonders how President Clinton's not simply judgment, but understanding worked in relation to other political and historical events and processes.
On the whole I must say that the interview did not leave me with a good feeling.