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For those who don’t know what Trump is talking about, Clinton asked Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch, a biographer of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and a roommate of Clinton’s during George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, to come to the White House 79 times for interviews during his presidency. The interviews, many of which took place late at night, would act as a personal diary for Clinton’s eight years in office as they were happening.
But Clinton was so worried that his staff would leak the audio of the personal records between him and Branch that the president kept the cassette tapes of the interviews hidden in his sock drawer. The tapes, which were taken by Clinton when he left office and never publicly released, were the basis for Branch’s 2009 book, “The Clinton Tapes,” about the Democrat’s tumultuous presidency. Branch mentioned that Clinton kept the tapes in his sock drawer while promoting the book.
