Excerpts from my Journals
[digg-reddit-me][Early June 1998.]
…the president made a crack about a five-hundred-year-old Inca mummy that had just been discovered at the summit of a Peruvian volcano. “You know, if I were a single man, I might just ask that mummy out,” Clinton said. “That’s a good-looking mummy.”
Afterward, McCurry [Clinton’s press secretary] told the president this had not been a wise comment for a man with his reputation for philandering. Clinton snapped at him…
On the ensuing flight to Milwalkee that night…McCurry had a drink, and he was shooting the breeze with a dozen reporters clogging the aisle. One scribe asked about Clinton’s appraisal of the mummy.
“Probably does look good compared to the mummy he’s been fucking,” McCurry said.
Had one of the reporters published the remark, even with the expletive deleted, McCurry’s tenure at the White House probably would have been over.
From Spin Cycle by Howard Kurtz, pages 48-49.
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