"I found it shocking how rude people were, " she said.

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If he had, he would have presumably studded his conversations with rude jokes about Kenneth Starr and how simple it had been to hoodwink the independent counsel's office on a plea-bargain agreement.

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"It is very difficult to see how you could ever do a deal with someone who was consistently rude about you, " he told the BBC's Daily Politics.

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