'I guess there were people who felt that if it was real, it spoke ill of Clinton's character,' Klein says now. In Primary Colors, written two years later, the appetites of a thinly veiled candidate named Jack Stanton bore all the prescient hallmarks of the scandal that scarred the 42nd President. Yet Klein was among the first to criticise Clinton as early as 1994, he wrote a long article in Newsweek, 'The politics of promiscuity', about how Clinton's lack of sexual discipline had seeped into his policymaking. Klein had first met the President in 1989, when Clinton was governor of Arkansas and almost immediately they spoke about, in Klein's phrase, 'ridiculously intimate things': the cocaine bust of Clinton's brother Roger the Clintons' family therapy. Four years after Joe Klein anonymously published Primary Colors, the explosively bestselling roman a clef about the Clinton administration that was variously thought to be an attack on the President and a love letter to him, Klein found himself sitting in a hotel room in New York with the subject of his life.
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