New York: Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, it appears, was more focused on her presidential dreams than with her husband’s sexual dalliances in and outside the White House between 1992 and 2000.

According to the book 'For Love of Politics' authored by Sally Bedell Smith, when Hillary got wind of Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office, her first reaction was that “he couldn’t be that insane”.

The statement itself, according to Smith, is a pointer to Hillary’s thought process, a process that was less motivated by emotion and more by ambition and of having a place in history by becoming America’s first female president.

According to the New York Post, Bedell told WOR Radio’s Steve Malzberg that “If [Hillary] heard that he had sort of gone out and had a fling on the road, she could have believed that in a heartbeat. Look, she was not about to divorce him for doing something that he had been doing for their whole married life, the only difference being the magnitude.”

“But it was the fact that it was in the Oval Office, that it lasted for . . . 18 months, which is an astonishing length of time,” she added.

Smith said that people “have amnesia about the Clinton years because of 9/11 and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Source : Agencies