1.   But he did say that he and Clinton had spoken in the past of working together on a presidential memoir, which Branch has ruled out.

2.   George senior, who hates reflection, self-aggrandizement and assessing blame, insists he will not write his presidential memoirs.

3.   Mehta said Monday that he was impressed that Clinton seemed to have studied previous presidential memoirs and spoke analytically of the problems of writing them.

4.   Past presidential memoirs may not offer much guidance to Clinton.

5.   Presidential memoirs, as a rule, are not big sellers because they tend to be self-serving and unenlightening.

6.   Presidential memoirs are typically self-serving attempts to recast history, settle scores and pose for posterity.

7.   Quayle, touring the country last year to promote his vice presidential memoirs, frequently mentioned Nixon as a role model for his own planned political comeback.

8.   The presidents we would most like to have heard from after the fact, including Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, have not written presidential memoirs.

9.   Forget a presidential memoir or presidential library.

10.   The modern presidential memoir amounts to a final after-action report, a symbolic last wave from Air Force One.