Bill Clinton: “She knew there was something wrong. My daughter, actually, watching at home, told me she also sensed that there was…”

“She knew there was something wrong. My daughter, actually, watching at home, told me she also sensed that there was something wrong. And I just decided to go on and give the talk. I mean, I had, you know, I'd internalized it. I'd worked hard on writing it with our folks. The only problem is when you have to go through a lot of points, and you can't just read it. So I would just look at the first line and try to recall from memory. I didn't want to miss anything. And the other problem is if the teleprompter goes off, that's one thing; you just look at the audience just like I'm looking at you. But imagine if I've got these teleprompters here, and I'm trying to speak to you, and the wrong words are going up on the screen, which is what we started out to do. So I had to ignore all these words and try to look through the words to the people. But about 8, 9 minutes into the speech, the fellow figured out what was wrong, pulled up the right speech and then whizzed through it to figure out where I was. And from then on in it was reasonably normal. Mr. Koppel. Well, I've got to tell you, Mr. President, as a communications specialist--and it may be the last nice thing I say to you or for you this evening--you have my admiration. I can't tell you how tough that is when you've got the wrong speech going by. You did an extraordinary job. Let us take at look at how the speech played. We've got some phone numbers there. Before the speech you can see, we took a poll and 43- percent approval of your health care plan, 41-percent disapproval. Let's take a look at after the speech: up to 56-percent approval; 24-percent disapproval. You're too good a political pro to put too much faith in that sort of kick that you get right after a speech. How tough is it going to be to hold onto that?”