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Clinton loses his cool with interviewer

NEW YORK, June 21 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton lost his temper with a BBC interviewer who persistently asked him about his affair with Monica Lewinski.

The 50-minute interview was taped in New York last week with interviewer David Dimbleby, and will be shown Tuesday night in Britain.

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Clinton initially responded to the Lewinski questions by speaking of media intrusion into public figures' personal lives, but became visibly angry when Dimbleby asked whether his publicly declared contrition over the affair was genuine, The Telegraph said.

"He is visibly angry with Dimbleby's line of questioning and some of that anger gets directed at Dimbleby himself," said one BBC executive who watched the videotape. "As outbursts go, it is not just some flash that is over in an instant. It is something substantial and sustained."

Clinton agreed to the interview as part of the publicity campaign for his autobiography, "My Life."

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