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Bill Clinton: Well, the thing that I want the country to know is that I'm doing my best, my dead-level-best, to heal my family--as…

On the recordNovember 1, 1998
Well, the thing that I want the country to know is that I'm doing my best, my dead-level-best, to heal my family--as well as my relationship with the American people--my wife and my daughter. And I love them very much, and I'm working on it. And I think that what the American people, I hope, will agree is that, beyond that, it ought to be private; the good times and the tough times, they ought to be private. I think most Americans want to know that I'm trying to do the right thing, and I can tell you, I am. But I think to talk about it would further degrade the privacy that I think has already been plundered too much in too many ways for too many people in America. Ms. Ryan. Well, I just want to say this on that point, and that's the end of that, but a lot of--you're public; you are the leader of the free world, and Mrs. Clinton is the First Lady. And you recognize when you walk to the plane, when you have Buddy running around you or, you know, just together, people are looking at body language. You know, you are the President, and you've had something happen that many marriages have had happen. And people want to know, and they watch your body language. How does it make you feel, that you're literally under a microscope just for that right there?
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Bill Clinton
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