President Obama and John Boehner have very different recollections of a tense phone call during the 2011 dispute over the debt ceiling, according to Bob Woodward's new book.

They do agree that Obama called Boehner to say he would never sign an agreement that would force a reprise of the debt-ceiling debate before the 2012 election, according to the book The Price of Politics, to be released Tuesday.

Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House, recalled that Obama "was moaning and groaning and whining and demanding ... threatening. ... He was pretty desperate," says a book excerpt published in Woodward's newspaper, The Washington Post.

Obama told Woodward:

"Listen, anybody who knows me knows I don't moan, I don't groan, I don't whine. ... I'm not desperate. I was very angry about how he had behaved, and more concerning was the fact that we were now only a few days from there literally being $5 billion left in the Treasury for the United States government."

In any event: Obama and Congress agreed to raise the debt ceiling to the point where it won't have to be dealt with until next year.

Writes Woodward: