Bill Clintons, Little Red Book
Posted 07-31-2013 at 10:20 AM by Fortoggie
My friend had a used car lot two blocks from my business and every once in awhile I would stop in and have a cup of his bitter coffee. He always kept a couch and two chairs in the salesroom and you could, count on a bunch of good ol boys being there, chewing the fat.
The year was 1991 and Bill Clinton had just come on the national scene and for some reason he had captured their attention. Over on the end table I saw a stack of red books, each book was about a half inch thick. That caught my attention because usually there were only a few crumbled up old Hot Rod magazines. One of the guys saw me looking so he picked up a book and said; have you seen Bill Clinton's ideas for running the country?
I took the bright red book and opened it and there was,150 or so blank pages. The guys just roared and whooped and had a good laugh at my reaction.
It just happened that I had been keeping up with Clinton in Newsweek and in Time magazines and knew that he was the only young man, from Arkansas to receive the Fulbright scholarship to George Washington University. It was already known that he had gone on to win a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. By the time the boys had their laugh at my reaction to the book, Clinton had been Attorney General in Arkansas, and had become the youngest governor in the country. To top that off he had been elected to chair the governor's committee on education. Later I was to learn that Bill had aced Yale Law school while also helping, George McGovern in his bid for the presidency. He had also made many trips to NC to visit his step dad who was in the hospital.
While my brain was processing what I thought, I knew about Clinton and what they thought Clinton knew and while the laughter, was dying down; I decided to leave, why ruin a good laugh.
But I must admit, that from that day forward, I promoted the good ol boys up to the redneck status.
The year was 1991 and Bill Clinton had just come on the national scene and for some reason he had captured their attention. Over on the end table I saw a stack of red books, each book was about a half inch thick. That caught my attention because usually there were only a few crumbled up old Hot Rod magazines. One of the guys saw me looking so he picked up a book and said; have you seen Bill Clinton's ideas for running the country?
I took the bright red book and opened it and there was,150 or so blank pages. The guys just roared and whooped and had a good laugh at my reaction.
It just happened that I had been keeping up with Clinton in Newsweek and in Time magazines and knew that he was the only young man, from Arkansas to receive the Fulbright scholarship to George Washington University. It was already known that he had gone on to win a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. By the time the boys had their laugh at my reaction to the book, Clinton had been Attorney General in Arkansas, and had become the youngest governor in the country. To top that off he had been elected to chair the governor's committee on education. Later I was to learn that Bill had aced Yale Law school while also helping, George McGovern in his bid for the presidency. He had also made many trips to NC to visit his step dad who was in the hospital.
While my brain was processing what I thought, I knew about Clinton and what they thought Clinton knew and while the laughter, was dying down; I decided to leave, why ruin a good laugh.
But I must admit, that from that day forward, I promoted the good ol boys up to the redneck status.
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