XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2000 19:45:29 ET XXXXX

CLINTON KEEPS $1 MILLION IN BASIC CHECKING ACCOUNT

Former President Bill Clinton keeps over $1,000,000 in a regular checking account, a report out of Washington revealed this weekend!

Adjusting to life out of the White House, Clinton is apparently no whiz when it comes to investing his cash.

Accompanying the two-term president to an automated teller machine recently, one aide saw that he was keeping a balance of a million dollars in an ordinary checking account, the WASHINGTON POST reported.

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BOOK DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT SET; RANDOM HOUSE GETS A CLINTON?

Clinton's bank account is about to get heavier yet this week with the expected announcement of a near-record book deal struck between a yet-to-be-identified publishing house and Bill Clinton.

Clinton is said to have considered a multi-book deal in which he would try his hand at writing fiction as well as a memoir. But in the end, Clinton decided to pen a single memoir for an advance in the neighborhood of the $8 million that Hillary Clinton received.

TALK/MIRAMAX, runner-up in the Hillarystakes, is said not to be making a play.

Will Hillary's SIMON AND SCHUSTER double-down?

"Keep your eye on RANDOM HOUSE," said an insider.

Developing...

-- Anonymous, July 29, 2001