New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has no intention of making a presidential bid in 2008.
The first-term senator, whose White House memoir is published this week, told Time magazine and ABC News she had no plans to run for the country's top job in 2008.
She said she was flattered by speculation that she might do so and hoped it would encourage women to aim for the Oval Office, to which her husband was elected in 1992.
A flurry of publicity has heralded the Monday release of her book Living History, which has revived memories of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and focused attention on the senator's political future.
She told Time she was "having a good time" being a senator and was looking forward to a re-election campaign in 2006. Asked by the magazine if she wanted to be president in 2008, she replied: "I have no intention of running for president."
Her book reveals the former president lied to her about his affair with Ms Lewinsky, a White House intern, for seven months, finally coming clean days before he was to testify to a grand jury.
"As a wife, I wanted to wring Bill's neck," she wrote, also detailing how she and her husband subsequently slept in separate beds.