The recently released biography of Steve Jobs has revealed that former president Bill Clinton consulted the Apple boss on what to do about his affair with Monica Lewinsky during a late night tete-a-tete. Continue reading after the jump to see what Jobs told the former president to do!
Jobs reportedly replied: ‘I don’t know if you did it, but if so, you’ve got to tell the country.’
According to his biographer Walter Isaacson, after Jobs delivered his advice: ‘There was silence on the other end of the line.’
Shortly after Jobs’ death, Clinton spoke about his friendship with the Apple co-founder during an interview with Time’s Managing Editor Richard Stengel.
Clinton said: ‘When my daughter was at Stanford he got in touch with me, and said, ”It’s hard to travel to see your child when you’re President. I’ve got a place out in the country.
”You and Hillary can stay there and bring Chelsea and her friends there anytime you want to.”’
‘He gave me a priceless gift: the opportunity to see my child while I was still a very public figure, so I’m highly biased in his favor. Plus, even I can work an iPad.’
The biography of Steve Jobs is based on more than forty interviews with him, as well as comments from scores of close family, friends, workmates and rivals.
When it came to building Apple into a multi-billion dollar business, Jobs’ had many influences, cutting across technology, literature, music and art.
In high school, he tried marijuana at 15 and before graduating began experimenting with LSD, later calling it ‘a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life’.
Jobs also delved into extreme dietary regimes, including being vegetarian and vegan, which also shaped his vision.
During one near obsessive period as a fruitarian, he allegedly came up with the name Apple (and because it came before Atari in the dictionary).
Jobs’ love of music was said to be seminal to developing the Apple brand with Bob Dylan being one of his heroes.
However he was less impressed when it came to meeting Mick Jagger, saying: ‘I think he was on drugs. Either that or he’s brain damaged.’
When Jobs died on October 5 after a long battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, the Rolling Stones frontman was one of the first to offer his condolences, simply tweeting: ‘RIP Steve Jobs.’
The revelations came as it was also revealed that Jobs’ biological father tried to reach out to him while he was still alive.
His biographer Walter Isaacson said that the Apple CEO actually met his father several times without realising it.
When he was told of the accidental meeting, Jobs said he did not want his father to hear about it as he had done some research on him and ‘did not like what he learned’.
In one of many revelations from the fascinating and complex life of the computer genius, the biographer says that several times in the late Eighties, Jobs met his father at a popular Mediterranean restaurant he then owned in Silicon Valley which he sometimes liked to eat in.
Given up for adoption as a baby, Jobs found out he had a sister after he tracked down his real mother.
When he met and bonded with sister Mona Simpson, they set out to find their father.
According to Mr Isaacson, when Mona went to meet John Jandali, who was then running a coffee shop, he said to her: ‘I wish you could have seen me when I was running a bigger restaurant. Everybody used to come there.
‘Even Steve Jobs used to eat there. Yeah, he was a great tipper.’
In the taped interview – which will be broadcast on CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday at 7pm – Jobs says of his father: ‘When I was looking for my biological mother, obviously, you know, I was looking for my biological father at the same time, and I learned a little bit about him and I didn’t like what I learned.
‘I asked her to not tell him that we ever met…not tell him anything about me.’
He later said of the revelation: ‘It was amazing. I had been to that restaurant a few times, and I remember meeting the owner. He was Syrian. Balding. We shook hands.
‘But I was a wealthy man by then, and I didn’t trust him not to try to blackmail me or go to the press about it.’
Jobs gave Mr Isaacson full access to his friends and family to write the biography and even opened up to him in more than 40 interviews, most of which were taped.
The fiercely private Apple founder rarely gave anyone any glimpse into his personal or even business life when he was alive, but much has emerged since his health started to rapidly deteriorate earlier this year.
He also admitted that he regretted his decision to delay cancer surgery in favour of eastern-style remedies.
