Hillary still loves Bill

AFP, Washington
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Despite having wanted to wring his neck after learning of his affair with Monica Lewinsky, former US first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton admits she still loves Bill Clinton and believes he is "the most interesting" man she has ever met, according to excerpts from her memoir.

Time magazine released portions of the upcoming book "Living History," due out Monday, in which the US senator from New York recalls the ups and down of an eight-year White House reign marked by a period of economic prosperity but also a series of ethics scandals.

The most threatening was Clinton's affair with then-White House intern Lewinsky, which resulted in his impeachment by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, and his narrow acquittal by the Senate.

Only one other president in US history -- Andrew Johnson, in 1868 -- was impeached, tried and acquitted. No US president has ever been removed from office by the procedure.

Hillary Clinton said she was "dumbfounded, heartbroken and outraged" and "wanted to wring Bill's neck" when he admitted the affair to her, immediately before testifying before a grand jury on the matter in August 1998.