Didion on Clinton

No-one who has ever passed through an American public high school can have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognise the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent - a candidate who arrived at the national scene with a quite identifiable set of mannerisms and attitudes, the residue of a culture that still placed considerable value of playing sports and taking charge and catting around with one kind of woman and idealising the other kind. In other words, no revelations were to be found in this latest soap opera - the Lewinsky affair.