# The Clinton Tapes

## Metadata
- Author: [[Taylor Branch]]
- Full Title: The Clinton Tapes
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Byrd invoked Bible passages. The president said, well, those verses may be so, but in the same Bible “homosexuality did not make the top-ten list of sins.” By contrast, he told the senators, the Ten Commandments did ban false witness and adultery, and they all knew that plenty of liars and philanderers were good soldiers. ([Location 175](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002POEQTK&location=175))
- Oscar Wilde, that “hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.” ([Location 200](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002POEQTK&location=200))
- Clinton said Dole spoke of the opposition’s job not as making deals but rather making the president fail, so he could be replaced as quickly as possible. ([Location 210](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002POEQTK&location=210))
- I told him the preservation of White House records was a vital but obscure field, changing rapidly. Whole new windows were opening on the past but closing for the future. Ironically, it was getting harder in the information age to preserve accurate minutes of high-level government meetings. ([Location 408](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002POEQTK&location=408))
- Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within, starring Timothy Hutton (1998). ([Location 2109](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002POEQTK&location=2109))