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almost certainly the most ever. The guy still fascinates people,” said
Stephen Hess, a presidential expert at the Brookings Institution. 71
In addition, Clinton signed a reported $10 million contract with
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., to write his memoirs, a deal believed to be the
biggest ever for a nonfiction book. The book came out in July 2004
and was also the biggest debut for a nonfiction book, with 2.575 million
copies printed.
Clinton has started the Global Initiative, which has brought
together political and business leaders for humanitarian projects.
The Initiative has already raised over $2 billion for more than 200
projects around the world. His post-presidential career is emulating
Jimmy Carter’s, focusing on human rights. Clinton’s work with AIDS
is “already saving hundreds of thousands of lives and promises to
save millions more.” 72 He has partnered with Presidents Barack
Obama and George H. W. Bush as one of the faces of the Haiti earthquake
relief campaign.
The social competencies are going to keep Clinton in the public
eye and continue to make him a fortune. Yet the personal competencies
derailed him. (Self Awareness, Accurate Self-Assessment, and
Self-Control) He was only the second president to be impeached,
when he was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in
regards to his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. The senate
acquitted Clinton, but the mistakes in his personal life have forever
tarnished his legacy as a president.
Clinton certainly had some blind spots in understanding and
managing himself. There were gaps between the awareness of his
feelings and understanding the implications of his feelings. He
failed to manage his impulses and was unable to publicly admit his
mistakes. One would think the charges of his having extramarital
affairs during the 1992 Democratic primaries would have forced him
into planning ways of exerting more self-control in the future. Why
would he risk all that he had worked so hard for to have momentary
pleasures? From a cognitive perspective it certainly doesn’t make