Speaking to two Newsweek reporters on the presidential campaign trail, Bill Clinton revealed that if he's "always smiling and trying to make it look easy," it's not because he's a slick politician, it's because he was "raised in that sort of culture where you put on a happy face and you don't reveal your pain." If he seems eager to please various special interest groups, it's because he was raised by a sometimes violent alcoholic, and so he "hated overt conflict."

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