Wordplay (2006): Bill Clinton's Story with Crossword Puzzles

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Of course, the whole election of'96 was a puzzle to me.
I got the early edition of the Times that day, and I won.
So, of course, I liked the earlier edition.
But then he got the regular edition...
and he also got four more years in the White House.
The Sunday Times crossword puzzle had a reputation ofbeing formidable.
And at some point in my life, we began to get the Sunday Times.
And when I was president, I think I worked more than ever before.
I worked no telling how many hundreds and hundreds of crossword puzzles.
Well, yeah, I find it very relaxing, you know.
And l I really found it relaxing in the White House.
Because, you know, just for a moment you just take your mind of whatever you're doing.
I sometimes did them at lunch if I was eating alone.
Sometimes you have to go at a problem the way I go at a complicated crossword puzzle.
Sometimes I picked up the Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle...
and I'll go through way over half the clues before I'll know the answer to one.
And then you start with what you know the answer to and you just build on it.
And eventually, you can unravel the whole puzzle.
And so, I rarely work a puzzle of any difficulty...
from one across and one down all the way to the end...
in a totally logical fashion.
And I think a lot of difficult, complex problems are like that.
You have to find some aspect of it you understand and build on it...
until you can unravel the mystery that you're trying to understand.
Nearly anybody can learn nearly anything they need to know.
Nature has something to do with it, but I think nurture has something to do with it.
I mean, I think nature made Einstein's massive brain...
and made him what he was.
But nurture can make nearly everyone seem to be above average intelligence...

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