Words of wisdom: Bill Clinton reportedly sought Steve Jobs' advice over the Lewinsky scandal

UK Daily Mail

By Rachel Quigley and Louise Boyle

The no-holds barred 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.

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'.

Controversy: An affair took place in 1998 between the then U.S. president Bill Clinton and a 22-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky (right)

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.'

Mona did not tell her father who this 'great tipper' really was but told Jobs who his father was and where he had encountered him.

Exclusive: Walter Isaacson talking on 60 Minutes about interviewing Steve Jobs

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.

Jobs on delaying surgery

For months after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2004, the Apple founder tried alternative therapies that may have cost him his long-term health.

His biographer Walter Isaacson says that was a decision Jobs came to realize was wrong.

According to Mr Isaacson, Jobs had a 'very slow growing' type of pancreatic cancer 'that can actually be cured,' but still opted not to get the surgery until nine months had gone by and it may have been too late.

He tells Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes: 'I've asked him why he didn't get the operation ... and he said, "I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way."

'I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking. It'd work for him in the past. We talked about this a lot.

'He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it ... I think he felt he should have been operated on sooner.'

Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He also was influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, the book says, before finally having surgery in July 2004.

The rapid advance of the cancer caused Mr Jobs to undergo an operation known as a 'Whipple procedure' in which he had his pancreas and duodenum removed.

According to Mr Isaacson, Jobs was one of 20 people in the world to have all the genes of his cancer tumour and his normal DNA sequenced. The price tag at the time: $100,000.

On meeting President Obama

The biography also reveals that the computer visionary offered to design political ads for President Obama's 2012 campaign despite being highly critical of the administration's policies.

Jobs, notorious for his fiery temper and stubborn nature, also refused to meet the president in the fall of 2010 saying he would not meet him unless Obama personally asked him.

According to the Huffington Post, his wife told him that the president was 'really psyched to meet with you'.....

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