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CNN LARRY KING LIVE

Interview with Bill Clinton

Aired September 21, 2009 - 21:00 ET
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...21/lkl.01.html
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KING: Most -- a lot of Tweeter questions are asking about your health. There were tabloid stories saying you had Parkinson's Disease.

CLINTON: You know why that is?

KING: Why?

CLINTON: Have you ever noticed my left hand shakes sometimes. It's shaking a little bit today, see? Not much, just a little. And when I'm tired or -- more tired, excuse me -- it sometimes shakes more. I noticed this a couple of years ago. So I actually went to my doctor and he got me with a specialist and they tested me for Parkinson's. I said look, if I've got this, I want to know, I want to manage it. Then he said you absolutely do not. And the first thing that -- the guy tested me. And then he said, it's worse when you're tired, isn't it? I said, yes. He said, when people get older, they quite often have a tremor in their hands, a little tremor. And that...