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How is my favorite former president?

I'm doing great. It's a lousy weather, and I just got back from several days in Arkansas

celebrating the 20th anniversary of the presidential center, so I lost a lot of my voice down there.

But it's coming back, I think. You can hear me, all right.

Yeah, we can hear you fine. We can hear. That's I think. You can hear me all right. Yeah, we can

hear you fine. That's Rory. You can see there. Rory is my partner in crime on this podcast.

Hi, Rory. If you're okay, we're just going to go straight in. Is that okay? Yep.

Fantastic. Here we go. So, with us today, none other than Bill Clinton, one of a relatively small group of people, all men alas, as Hillary Clinton

and Camillowis know to their cost, who spent eight years being described as the most powerful

person in the world. Working class kid, Arkansas governor in his 30s, president of his 40s,

a role he stopped age 54. So he's had almost a quarter of a century to adapt to the

often very strange existence that is post-power politics and public life. And his account of those

years, Citizen, my life after the White House, shows that he's been busy and these times have been

dramatic and emotional,

not least because of the political ups and downs of Hillary, and also the ups and downs and

the big issues he addressed in power like the Middle East, relations with Russia and China,

Ireland, climate, and of course, the state of politics. So welcome and thank you. And can I start with this?

How on earth have we gone from the politics that made me at least feel pretty glad to be alive

and involved when you were in power to the politics we've got now with populism on the march

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