A Little More Clinton At Clinton Library
"There were lots of times when Republicans thought I was right about an issue but they were determined not to let anything happen," Clinton says in a new audio tour of his presidential library. "I know that when I got elected president, a lot of those folks just went into denial."
The library, along the Arkansas River in downtown Little Rock, will begin offering the audio tour Saturday. The tour was Clinton's idea and is the first narrated by a former president for a presidential library, said Jordan Johnson, spokesman for the William J. Clinton Foundation.
Visitors pay an extra $3 for a device shaped like an oversize cordless phone. For each exhibit, Clinton recounts his thoughts on and memories of the topic.
He describes the impeachment hearings, for example, as an ideological battle that went overboard.
"So when I won, it was a profound sort of psychological shock to a lot of them," he says of his opponents, with a chuckle. "Then they went into overdrive fighting me. They weren't accomplishing anything, just banging away. Then they did what people who care too much about power do: They overdid it."