A Woman in Charge

by Carl Bernstein

  “her outspokenness before…start sending…1970s”: Ibid., p. 99.

  “miracle deck”: Marianne Williamson Web site.

  “humanistic psychology”: www.jeanhouston.org.

  “the Mystery School…potential”: Ibid.

  “scholar…Capacities”: Ibid.

  “For the Healing of America…equally”: Colleen O’Connor, “Prayers for the World: Marianne Williamson Writes About Making Amends,” Dallas Morning News, January 7, 1995, p. 1.

  “positive…negative”: Author’s interview with Jean Houston.

  “low point”: Ibid.

  “did the major guiding…visions”: Ibid.

  “psychologist…types”: Ibid.

  “experts in two…me”: Clinton, Living History, p. 264.

  He responded that…for the country: Author’s interview with Jean Houston.

  “He respected him…Republicans”: Ibid.

  “battered…tormented”: Ibid.

  “I thought about…life”: Martha Sherrill, “Eleanor Roosevelt, in Bronze: Hillary Clinton Joins in Benefit for N.Y. Statue”: Washington Post, February 22, 1993, p. 1.

  “conversations”: Ibid.

  “How did you put…way?”: Author’s interview with Jean Houston.

  “I was essentially…books”: Ibid.

  “My whole life…capacity”: Joseph Berger, “Performing Séances? No, Just ‘Pushing the Membrane of the Possible,’” New York Times, June 25, 1996, p. 13.

  “design for the…Christ life”: www.jeanhouston.org.

  “act as if”: Author’s interview with Jean Houston.

  “hostile messages”: Ibid.

  “convention of New Age guru authors”: Ann Devroy, “New Age ‘Guru to the Glitterati’ Advised Clintons,” Washington Post, January 11, 1995, p. 4.

  “personal growth guru…thinking”: Ibid.

  “lacks a sense…go”: Ibid.

  “could be evaluated…mischaracterized”: Clinton, Living History, p. 263.

  “My first responsibility…to do”: Kenneth T. Walsh, “Being There for Bill,” U.S. News & World Report, February 27, 1995, p. 36.

  “I wished I was…Department”: “First Lady to Spend 2 Weeks in S. Asia,” USA Today, March 20, 1995.

  “some of the last…childhood”: Clinton, Living History, p. 268.

  “my conviction that…globe”: Ibid., p. 269.

  “being rocketed forward…abandoned: Ibid., p. 271.

  “The first lady…nuts”: Ibid., p. 287.

  “Washington just can’t…power”: Ann Devroy and Charles R. Babcock, “Gingrich Foresees Corruption Probe by a GOP House; Party Could Wield Subpoenas Against ‘Enemy’ Administration,” Washington Post, October 14, 1994.

  “corruption”: Ibid.

  Not long before…anything better: Woodward, Shadow, p. 367.

  “You’re supposed to…Presumably…But then…And I…silence”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.

  “He and his mother…things”: Ibid.

  “I never talked…point”: Ibid.

  “In his handwriting…up’”: Ibid.

  “Why did you…anymore?”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 260.

  “That was in…But…What…He controls…police”: Ibid.

  “David Maraniss is…up”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.

  “Well, there was…that’”: Ibid.

  “I felt I was…him?’”: Ibid.

  “Are they coming…Yep…are”: Ibid.

  “Bill Bennett, Bill…it”: Ibid.

  “I ended up…since”: Ibid.

  “She was mad…race”: Author’s interview with Dick Morris.

  “I would talk…empty”: Ibid.

  Chapter 16: Truth or Consequences (2)

  “not for anyone else…it”: Author’s interview with Mark Fabiani.

  “centralize”: Clinton, Living History, p. 222.

  “Hillary was clearly…disadvantage”: Author’s interview with Mark Fabiani.

  “was another iteration…changed”: Ibid.

  “we talked about…it”: Ibid.

  “like him very…meeting”: Ibid.

  “instincts are horrible…mind”: Ibid.

  “The president wasn’t…her”: Ibid.

  “She is so tortured…today”: Ibid.

  “never seemed to…about”: Ibid.

  “keep your eye…forward”: Ibid.

  “very later in…McDougal”: Ibid.

  “personal”: Woodward, Shadow, p. 282.

  Fabiani and Sherburne…shouldn’t open.”: Author’s interview with Mark Fabiani; Woodward, Shadow, p. 285; Senate Committee Report; and Michael Isikoff, “The Night Foster Died,” Newsweek, July 17, 1996.

  “bobbing and weaving…bored”: David Maraniss, “The Hearings End Much as They Began,” Washington Post, June 19, 1996.

  “irrational hope that…there”: Susan Schmidt and Sharon LaFraniere, “Senators Hear 2 Stories on Foster Office Search: Officer, First Lady’s Aide Differ on File Removal,” Washington Post, July 27, 1995.

  “personal files”: Woodward, Shadow, p. 282.

  “very little sense”: Schmidt and LaFraniere, “Senators Hear 2 Stories on Foster Office Search.”

  “Everything that happened…plot”: Ibid.

  “burn bag”: Ibid.

  “after a few…staff”: Ibid.

  “I had assurance…covered”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.

  “I had approached…embarrassing”: Ibid.

  “the Tom and Daisy…be’”: Joe Klein, “The Body Count,” Newsweek, August 7, 1995, p. 34.

  “China’s hospitality”: Clinton, Living History, p. 303.

  “push the envelope”: Ibid., p. 302.

  “shaping up as…sentiment”: Ibid., p. 299.

  “It is a violation…. will”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1995.

  “may have been…life”: “Mrs. Clinton’s Unwavering Words,” editorial, New York Times, September 6, 1995, p. 24.

  “It kind of…issues”: Author’s interview with Lissa Muscatine.

  “insisten[t]”: Woodward, Shadow, p. 294.

  “Foster regularly informed…staff”: David Watkins draft memo, “Response to Internal White House Travel Office Management Review,” House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.

  “soul-cleansing…possible”: Ibid.

  “hell to pay…wishes”: Ibid.

  “There was a cover-up here”: David Johnston, “Memo Places Hillary Clinton at Core of Travel Office Case,” New York Times, January 5, 1996.

  “distress”: Ibid.

  “The White House…discovered”: Susan Schmidt and Toni Locy, “Travel Office Memo Draws Probers’ Ire; Ex-aide Contradicts Hillary Clinton on Firings,” Washington Post, January 5, 1996.

  “troubling pattern that…Clinton”: Ibid.

  “and she says…over”: Ibid., p. 298.

  “Well, let’s go…got”: Ibid.

  “Madison Guaranty…History”: Ibid.

  “Why would we…along?”: Ibid., p. 304.

  The records turned…separate days”: Woodward, Shadow, p. 301.

  “confirm what we…rest”: Ibid.

  “[It] could have…records”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “everybody sort of thought…her?”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “People are nervous…argument”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “one of her…here”: Martha Brant, “Life in Hillary Clinton’s ‘Village’: In a Shadow of Scandals, First Lady Pursues Her Activism with Zeal of a Missionary,” Austin American-Statesman, January 9, 1996.

  “It was a…children”: Author’s interview with Neel Lattimore.

  “Saint or Sinner?”: Martha Brant and Evan Thomas, “First Fighter,” Newsweek, January 15, 1996.

  “First Fighter”: Ibid.

  “congenital liar”: Wil
liam Safire, “Blizzard of Lies,” New York Times, January 8, 1996, p. 27.

  “a more forceful…nose”: “Columnist Strikes Back at President: Snowballs at 40 Paces,” Associated Press, January 10, 1996.

  “Mrs. Clinton, instead…questioned?”: Clinton, Living History, p. 330.

  “Oh, I ask myself…them”: Ibid.

  “You know, a month…certainly”: Ibid., p. 331.

  “every document we had”: The Diane Rehm Show, January 15, 1996.

  “Oh my God, we didn’t”: Ibid.

  “mistaken”: Ibid.

  “All the work…. goods”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “something deeper…work”: Richard Bernstein, “A Few Hints on Nurture from the First Lady,” New York Times, February 5, 1996.

  “There is no…children”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, “The War on America’s Children,” Newsday, March 12, 1995.

  The chapter headings: Clinton, It Takes a Village, pp. 128, 121, 69, 302, 20.

  “strong feelings about…quits”: Ibid., p. 43.

  “We’re lucky we…afterwards”: Ibid., pp. 105–6.

  “constructive citizenship”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “civil society”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “generational challenges”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “Raising children, like…perspectives”: Clinton, It Takes a Village, p. 203.

  “Safety-minded parents…reach”: Ibid., p. 131.

  “You know, turning…community”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “Give me a…friend?”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “many people…might leave someone out”: Clinton, It Takes a Village.

  “I don’t think she [Hillary],…extent”: Author’s interview with Betsy Johnson Ebeling.

  “straight out of…Best”: Clinton, It Takes a Village, p. 20.

  “a visible, daily…village”: Ibid., p. 26.

  “if illness or…family”: Ibid.

  “pitching in”: Ibid.

  “The adults around…consequences”: Ibid., p. 132.

  “Parents should be…accidents”: Ibid., p. 133.

  “The actual writing…ghostwritten’”: Barbara Feinman Todd, “Ghost Writing,” The Writer’s Chronicle, September 2002.

  “As I was…to me”: A Book of Nonsense Verse (New York: Little, Brown), 1973.

  “I can’t take…I?”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 310.

  David Kendall reached…grand jury: Woodward, Shadow.

  Hillary was traveling…against her: Author’s interview with Melanne Verveer.

  “discouraged and embarrassed…retained”: Clinton, Living History, p. 334.

  The presidential election…before then: Author’s interview with Mark Fabiani and confidential source.

  As she prepared with…an indictment: Author’s interview with confidential source and Mark Fabiani. Kendall never directly told the other lawyers he believed Hillary would be indicted. Rather, Hillary confided his assessment at various points to others.

  “When I say…that”: Author’s interview with Mark Fabiani.

  “Hillary had run…this”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “It was no…matter”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “Carolyn Huber…important”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “This really goes…on”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “The billing records…crude”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “that she was…work”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “The biggest mistake…cared”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  Her intent—and effect…over and over”: Author’s interview with Mark Fabiani, confidential sources; Clinton, Living History.

  “mystified”: Woodward, Shadow, p. 316.'

  “after all these years”: Clinton, Living History, p. 336.

  “Some people made…forthright”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “I, like everyone else…efforts”: Francis X. Clines, “Hillary Clinton Tells Grand Jury She Cannot Account for Records,” New York Times, January 27, 1996.

  “angry, agitated, worried”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “It was her…basically”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “She became very…media”: Author’s interview with Mark Fabiani.

  “Starr wasn’t the…stuff?”: Ibid.

  “Every morning at…enough”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “The rest of…investigation”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “She just got…that’”: Author’s interview with Mark Fabiani.

  “And Kendall was…say”: Ibid.

  “What she’s very good…awful”: Ibid.

  “went fairly far down…hand”: Ibid.

  “‘You can take…Go ahead’”: Ibid.

  “Mostly she was…happened”: Ibid.

  “Well, okay, go…shake”: Ibid.

  Kendall had told her…stop at nothing: Author’s interview with confidential sources.

  “We had all…nothing”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “damaged goods”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “I would meet…there”: Author’s interview with Dick Morris.

  “There was a…election”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “it was understood…it”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “Why didn’t Bill…well”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “college night”: Clinton, Living History, p. 340.

  “push millions of…accountability”: Marian Wright Edelman, “Say No to This Welfare ‘Reform,’” Washington Post, November 3, 1995.

  Hillary had never…of the welfare system: Clinton, Living History.

  “with minimal changes”: Clinton, Living History, p. 368.

  “Why should a huge…to”: Author’s interview with Lynn Cutler.

  “I was in favor…street”: Author’s interview with Carl Anthony.

  “final decision meeting”: Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 419.

  “after the failure…pushy”: Ibid.

  “critical first step”: Clinton, Living History, p. 369.

  “principles and values”: Ibid.

  “a bridge to the future”: Clinton, My Life, p. 723.

  “brilliant engineering of Clinton’s comeback”: Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 422.

  “Dick’s gone bad…down”: Ibid.

  “like a robot”: Clinton, Living History, p. 375.

  “raising our daughter…And it…It takes…It takes Bill Clinton”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Speech, Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August 26–29, 1996.

  Hubbell had been…Asian firms: Hubbell had known James Riady and his father Moctor Riady since another Rose Law Firm’s partner had made an investment with the Lippo Group in the early 1980s. Upon resigning from the Justice Department and before publicly acknowledging any wrongdoing, Hubbell became a consultant to a number of clients who gave him retainers for advice on how to deal with Washington business.

  “You take, you take”: Harris, The Survivor, p. 270.

  “like a subway…gates”: Ibid.

  “no one around here”: Ibid., p. 269.'

  “You never felt…horrors”: Author’s interview with Melanne Verveer.'

  “was out to get the Clintons…There’s a lot…But do you…obvious?”: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, September 23, 1996.

  “They were the…over”: Bob Woodward, Shadow, p. 336. 469 “social meetings”: Ibid., p. 341.

  “Here we had made…relief”: Ibid.

  “unburdening”: Author’s interview with Melanne Verveer.


  “a real sense of liberation”: Ibid.

  “I would not…better”: Lois Romano, “The Win Blows in Little Rock: Dancing in the Streets for City’s Favorite Son,” Washington Post, November 6, 1996.

  “Now that I’m…worst”: Author’s interview with William Styron.

  “this was the…they did”: Ibid.

  “despised”: Clinton, Living History, p. 396.

  “extreme conservatives”: Ibid.

  Clinton later said…the words: Clinton, My Life.

  “You’re nearly as pretty…mama”: Ibid., p. 395.

  Gingrich seemed…she suggested: Clinton, Living History, p. 395.

  “help shape”: Ibid., p. 380.

  “about how she…years”: Author’s interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin.

  “felt a certain…embattled”: Ibid.

  “This was not…covered”: Ibid.

  “She thought the…second term”: Ibid.

  “I thought, Oh, my…that”: Ibid.

  “During the ’92…goes up”: Ibid.

  “She was talking…efforts”: Ibid.

  “Why not get…image”: Ibid.

  “If they…personally”: Ibid.

  “Because Eleanor was…deserved”: Ibid.

  “Your departure will…investigation”: Woodward, Shadow, p. 351.

  “Deep down inside…now”: Ibid.

  “As Fiorello…mistakes”: Ibid.

  Bill said later he didn’t know: Clinton, My Life, p. 746.

  Hillary was traumatized…a sitting president: Author’s interviews with confidential sources on the Independent Counsel’s staff. And Woodward, Shadow.

  All the time…he said: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright, Webb Hubbell, and confidential sources among Clinton’s lawyers.

  In mid-September…second term: Clinton, Living History, p. 393; confidential sources on the White House staff.

  “our share of problems”: Ibid.

  Chapter 17: The Longest Season

  “Clinton Accused…Lie”: Susan Schmidt, Peter Baker, and Toni Locy, “Clinton

  Accused of Urging Aide to Lie: Starr Probes Whether President Told Woman to

  Deny Alleged Affair to Jones’ Lawyers,” Washington Post, January 21, 1998, p. 1.

  “news reports”: Clinton, Living History, p. 440.

  She also knew…motivated attacks: Author’s interview with Diane Blair, Jim Blair, Deborah Sale, confidential White House sources. Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars, p. 339; Clinton, Living History p, 441.

  “Lewinsky imbroglio”: Clinton, Living History, p. 441.