I didn't think much of this evening's 60 Minutes interview with Bill Clinton. Some of that was because Dan Rather so overhyped a rather unremarkable chat, both in his teases and an appearance the other night on Larry King Live. It mostly consisted of Rather seeing how many ways he could tell us we had to tune in and hear what Clinton says about this or that, while King kept reminding everyone over and over that Clinton will be on his show on Thursday.
But Clinton, as he so often has, left me disappointed. When he's "on," he's an incredible speaker and a very, very smart man. Tonight, perhaps because Rather confined the on-air exchanges to "headline" issues and asked the obvious questions, we got short, surface replies. It was almost like Clinton rehearsed speaking in quick sound-bites. I hope his book, which I intend to read, isn't like that.