A Woman in Charge
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George and Barbara…chandeliers: Author’s interview with Robert Reich.
“would share so…burdens”: Rev. Billy Graham, Invocation, Presidential Inauguration, Washington, D.C., January 20, 1993.
Hillary returned to her seat: Patt Morrison, “Purely Human Moments and Capital’s Pomp,” Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1993, p. 1.
“For he that…everlasting”: Ibid.
“This beautiful capital…people”: Bill Clinton, Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., January 20, 1993.
“seemed very much…done”: Washington Post, January 20, 1993.
“a blue unidentified…head”: Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich, “The Boomers’ Ball: Picking Up the Perks of Presidential Power,” New York Times, January 21, 1993, p. 11.
“the tan tourniquet…neck”: Ibid.
“Does she represent…important?”: John J. Goldman, “Visit Multiplies Hopes at N.Y. School,” Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1993, p. 5.
Do you think the…. 8%: Ibid.
“most Americans object to…herself”: Diane Duston, “Hillary Clinton’s Traditional Seat at Swearing-In Belies Her Future Role,” Associated Press, January 20, 1993.
“Does Hillary…what”: Jacqueline Trescott, “Marathon Man: Clinton’s Long Night,” Washington Post, January 21, 1993, p. 4.
“the painting with…seen”: Clinton, Living History, p. 128.
Chapter 8: Settling In
“I wouldn’t have…he did”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“Her ground zero…you”: Author’s interview with Joe Klein.
“They really…here”: Author’s interview with Harold Ickes.
“Because the president…advisers”: King, Hillary: Her True Story, p. 192.
“breaking decades of tradition”: Robert Pear, “Settling In: First Lady, Hillary Clinton, Gets Policy Job and New Office,” New York Times, January 22, 1993, p. 1.
“So where are…Zoë?”: Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 109.
“No, he can’t do that”: Ibid.
“the hidden hand…law”: Maureen Dowd, “White House Memo: Hillary Clinton’s Debut Dashes Doubts on Clout,” New York Times, February 8, 1993, p. 14.
Was there anything…didn’t: Author’s interview with Bernard Nussbaum.
“focus like a laser…economy”: Elizabeth Drew, On the Edge (New York: Simon &Schuster, 1994), p. 138. 254 “I compare it…control”: Joe Klein, “Eight Years: Bill Clinton and the Politics of Persistence,” The New Yorker, October 16, 2254.
“We didn’t come here…Republicans”: David Gergen, Eyewitness to Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 277.
“Rubin was terrified…thing”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“He’s a hell…them”: Michael Kelly and Maureen Dowd, “The Company He Keeps,” New York Times, January 17, 1993, p. 20.
“She is much…this?” Author’s interview with Harold Ickes.
“a little bit…dear”: Author’s interview with Robert Reich.
“my politics are…mind-sets”: Sherrill, “Hillary Clinton’s Inner Politics,” p. 1.
“It’s not true…responsibility”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“a very practical…1993”: Author’s interview with Dick Morris.
“Well, I want to…Ever”: Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 112.
“He’s not one…to”: Michael Kramer, “The Political Interest: Still Waiting for Bill’s Call,” Time, February 1, 1993, p. 37.
“one gray hair to another”: John F. Harris, The Survivor (New York: Random House, 2005), p. 82.
“If I find…not”: Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 121.
“hard and fast…attack”: Christopher Connell, “In Health Reform Aftermath, Delay Seen as Reason for Clinton’s Loss,” Associated Press, September 7, 1994.
“Bentsen, Rubin…programs”: Author’s interview with Donna Shalala.
“that sealed it forever”: Author’s interview with Melanne Verveer.
“She was a normal…fishbowl”: Ibid.
“I don’t go out…too”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 261.
“With Chelsea, she is…too”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
Chapter 9: Portrait of a First Lady
“The sheets are damp”: Robert Reich, Locked in the Cabinet (New York: Vintage, 1998), p. 49.
“George Stephanopoulos was reminded: Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 130.
The weekend retreat…one another: Author’s interview with Stan Greenberg.
“We were the…insulin”: Author’s interview with Dick Morris.
“someone to help…something”: Ibid.
“Bill said ‘Stay…dinner”: Ibid.
bare-shoulder, black…dress: Clinton, Living History, p. 139. 272 “every woman who…transition”: Marian Burros, “Hillary Clinton’s New Home: Broccoli’s In, Smoking’s Out,” New York Times, February 2, 1993, p. 1.
“We’re trying to…ideas”: Ibid.
“I can’t say I’m very pleased”: Marian Burros, “High Calories (and Chef!), Out at White House,” New York Times, March 5, 1994, p. 6.
“I think she’s…sense”: Burros, “Hillary Clinton’s New Home,” p. 1.
“certain box, traditionalist or feminist”: Clinton, Living History, p. 140.
“that people could…other”: Ibid.
“because of the…smoking”: Burros, “Hillary Clinton’s New Home,” p. 1.
“aggression”: Author’s interview with Dick Morris.
“taking the fight…the enemy”: Ibid.
“When she does…it”: Ibid.
“Unlike him she’s…albino”: Ibid.
“Her spiritual mysticism…sense”: Ibid.'
“He works in…over it”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“She’s not a creative…advocate”: Author’s interview with Dick Morris.
“He’s always taking…work”: Ibid.
“substantive…doesn’t”: Ibid.
“playing the part…pursued”: Ibid.
“she definitely has…attack”: Ibid.
“to savage women…I believe…Interns…I think…her much”: Ibid.
Chapter 10: A Downhill Path
“penitentiary”: Author’s interview with presidential aide.
“Eagle”: Harris, The Survivor, p. 32.
“Why can’t I do what I want?”: Ibid., p. 33.
“Re-elect Bush”: Ibid., p. 34.
“Seems First Lady…hubby’s”: Bill Zwecker, “‘Hot’ Rumors Dog Clintons,” Chicago Sun-Times, February 19, 1993.
“Just in case…bedrooms”: Ibid.
“We’ve got to…you”: Paul Richter, “White House Denies Secret Service Spat,” Los Angeles Times, March 30, 1993, p. 11.
(Later, Zwecker…security.”): Stewart, Blood Sport, p. 248.
“too naive and…Arkansas”: Ibid.
“the client”: Ibid. And author’s interviews with Webb Hubbell and confidential sources.
“I’m afraid if…sorry”: Stewart, Blood Sport, p. 236.
“I was angry…glory”: Peter J. Boyer, “Life After Vince,” The New Yorker, September 11, 1995.
“This is gold”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 255.
“I could never go back”: Ibid., p. 202.
“Were the team…be”: Ibid., p. 193.
Chapter 11: Health Care
“If I don’t get…President”: Harris, The Survivor, p. 20.
“People work best…discipline”: Dana Priest, “Putting Health Care Under a Microscope,” Washington Post, April 16, 1993, p. 1.
“They would take…operation”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 346.
“Compromise didn’t come…”: Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 301.
“Any bill that…usual”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“We know how…campaign”: Ibid.
“Among Clintonites, it was…nostrums”: Gergen, Eyewitness to Power, p. 307.
“Hillary believed…it”: Author’s interview with Lawrence O’Donnell.
“We may have been…involved”: Haynes Johnson and David S. Broder, The System (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), p. 132.
“There’s just nothing…need”: Author’s interview with Lawrence O’Donnell.
“The President has already…right”: Drew, On the Edge, pp. 193–94.
Hillary’s stature with…deteriorating: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“Let’s revisit this”: Drew, On the Edge, p. 307.
“the rules in…opposition”: Johnson and Broder, The System, p. 120.
“George Mitchell and Dick…[idea]”: Woodward, The Agenda, p. 121.
“because the budget…enough”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“All of our efforts…America”: Johnson and Broder, The System, p. 121.
“That would be like…have”: Eleanor Clift and Mary Hager, “Health Care: Covert Operation,” Newsweek, March 15, 1993, p. 37.
“obscure law”: Clinton, Living History, p. 153.
“was no longer…fixed”: Author’s interview with Webb Hubbell.
“I think the…sued”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 193.
“Instead of a…indeed”: Ibid.
“Webb, I told Hillary…. litigation”: Author’s interview with Webb Hubbell.
“Fix it, Vince!…all”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 212.
“She was the…relationship”: Author’s interview with Webb Hubbell.
“She was furious…to do”: Author’s interview with Sara Ehrman.
Chapter 12: The Politics of Meaning…and Family
“When he turned…him?”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 233.
“He was mean, mean, mean”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“leaning”: Dana Priest, “White House Considers Requiring Individuals to Buy Health Insurance,” Washington Post, March 29, 1993, p. A6.
“emphasis on personal…church”: United Methodist News Service, September 16, 1992. 298 “When does life…end?”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks, Liz Carpenter Lecture Series, University of Texas, Austin, April 7, 1993.
“crisis of meaning…soul”: Ibid.
“struck down with…time”: Ibid.
“Much of the energy…God”: Sherrill, “Hillary Clinton’s Inner Politics.”
“He said the following…‘The eighties…‘I don’t…That…win”: Clinton, Remarks, University of Texas. 300 “[T]he debate over…Instead…this tumor…We need…ourselves”: Ibid.
“remolding society”: Ibid.
“Who will lead us…to do”: Ibid.
“We are, I…are?”: Ibid.
“provide decent, affordable…How do…system”: Ibid.
“What do our…questions”: Ibid.
“To fill that spiritual vacuum…treated”: Ibid.
“He never told…all right”: Clinton, Living History, p. 163.
“Lord, they loved…politics”: Richard L. Berke, “Clinton Eulogizes Father-in-Law with Humor at Little Rock Service,” New York Times, April 10, 1993.
“That was it for…hypocrisy”: Author’s interview with Bill Bradley.
“didn’t hold grudges…life”: Author’s interview with Lawrence O’Donnell.
“In this first…government”: Drew, On the Edge, p. 136.
“I want to thank…Hillary”: Ibid., p. 137.
Chapter 13: The Cruel Season
“You keep telling…plan”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“You could see…in”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“Her attitude was…too”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“we did give…no one”: Author’s interview with Donna Shalala.
“It was hard…once”: Ibid.
“if the numbers…to do”: Woodward, The Agenda, p. 199.
“Are these people…economics”: Ibid., p. 200.
“I love this stuff”: Harris, The Survivor, p. 20.
“The difference between…forever”: Author’s interview with Bob Boorstin. '
“Some mornings she…awakenings”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“The person on…over it”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 139.
“Does he need…enemies”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“Bill’s women problems…was”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.
“Once the impeachment…turn”: Ibid.
“looks thinner than…House”: Phyllis C. Richman, “Eschewing the Fat with Hillary: A New Point of ‘Lite’ at the White House,” Washington Post, December 1, 1993.
“Do I know her?”: Marian Burros, “Social Scene: A Highly Sensitive Post Is Filled by the Clintons,” New York Times, January 12, 1993, p. 18.
“Who would ever…changed”: Author’s interview with Ann Stock.
“treated the White…house”: Ibid.
“They don’t care about people”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“I think where…Arkansas”: Author’s interview with Ann Stock.
“He understands why…action”: Drew, On the Edge, p. 92.
“I’m more interested…about”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 251.
“You have to…today”: Author’s interview with Terry McAuliffe.
“It was a…push”: Author’s interview with Ann Stock.
“they ran it from a war room”: Ibid.
“The mentality of…In social…last-minute”: Ibid.
“We’ve got to…supper”: Ibid.
“I mean, Bill…them”: Ibid.
“I don’t have…do”: Ibid.
“When the President…anything”: Ibid.
“I’m not doing…do”: Ibid.
“That’s part…charities”: Ibid.
“They want to…it”: Ibid.
“It was somewhat a…Quinn”: Ibid.
“Beware of Washington”: Sally Quinn, “Beware of Washington,” Newsweek, December 28, 1992, p. 26.
“For Hillary Clinton…so high”: Ibid.
“Making Capital Gains…Rules”: Sally Quinn, “Making Capital Gains: Welcome to Washington, but Play by Our Rules,” Washington Post, November 15, 1992.
“Think of it…them”: Ibid.
“She must know…She should not…She should not…reality”: Quinn, “Beware of Washington,” p. 26.
“[Bill], was a little…honest”: Author’s interview with Rahm Emanuel.
“We were in a…storm”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 185.
“The real test…friends”: Ibid., p. 201.
“The Travel Office is…like”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“Jesuitical lying”: Author’s interview with confidential sources.
“White House Project”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 368.
“best and brightest”: Ibid.
“get the most appealing visuals”: Ibid.
“image of the…Mickey Mouse”: Ibid.
Now that Clinton…‘Thomason’ name recognition”: Ibid., p. 369.
“These guys are…Lader”: Harris, The Survivor, p. 38.
“Harry was more…hill”: Drew, On the Edge, p. 17.
“Stay ahead”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 374.
“good [press] story”: Ibid.
“very interested”: Report of the Independent Counsel.
“lavish lifestyles”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 374.
“highest levels”: Ibid., p. 375.
“Are you aware…Office?”: Report of the Independent Counsel.
“Oh, well, good…it”: Ibid.
“HRC generally appeared…cloture”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 375. 326 “Harry says his…slots”: Ibid., p. 376.
“mismanagement and possible misconduct”: Report of the Independent Counsel.
“Well
, this is a…it”: Ibid.
“Well, I had…antennae”: Stewart, Blood Sport, p. 263.
Though the White…an hour: Drew, On the Edge, p. 174.
“Ooh, I’m going…stand”: Ibid., p. 183.
“a distant cousin”: Stewart, Blood Sport, p. 265.
“We need to…interest”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 382.
“At the time…Harry…control”: Report of the Independent Counsel.
“Hillary Clinton…Wonk”: Nita Lelyveld, “In America’s Magazines, Hillary Clinton Gets (A Teeny Bit), More Personal,” Associated Press, May 8, 1993.
“Hillary Rodham Clinton…that?”: Margaret Carlson Washington, “At the Center of Power: The First Lady Wants More Than Clout,” Time, May 10, 1993.
“The Incredible Shrinking President”: Michael Duffy, “That Sinking Feeling; Is Clinton Up to the Job?,” Time, June 7, 1993.
“Her words were…target”: Gergen, Eyewitness to Power, p. 298.
“You don’t need it…it”: Author’s interview with Wendy Smith.
“You know, your staff…well”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“Everybody [was] just…is”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“She was very nervous about the press”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“I said [in response]…at”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“the outside”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“a national staff…staff”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“probably the first…judgments”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“mind doing all…do”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“Bill Clinton can be…it?”: Gergen, Eyewitness to Power, p. 265.
“I didn’t want…will”: Author’s interview with David Gergen.
“She was very…Washington’”: Ibid.
“If he’s asking…comfortable”: Ibid.
“In the new…rarity”: Gergen, Eyewitness to Power, p. 264.
“One felt that…loyalty”: Author’s interview with David Gergen.
“She’d say, ‘That…time’”: Author’s interview with Dick Morris.
“She was very…her”: Author’s interview with Roy Neel.
“own little subculture”: Clinton, Living History, p. 133.
“camaraderie”: Ibid., p. 133.
“Kool-Aid drinkers”: Author’s interview with confidential source.