The Truth About Hillary (31 page)

Chapter Three: Tacky Kaki

1. Kaki had a weakness for the Victorian period:
   Jura Kon- cius, “Present at the Transition: The Clinton Decorator Looks Back on Eight Years of Change,”
   Washington Post
   , January 18, 2001.
   

2. When she was through:
   Joyce Saenz Harris, “Kaki Hocker- smith: First Designer to the First Family,”
   Dallas Morning News
   , July 17, 1994. See also Michael Kilian, “First Patron: As Usual, Hillary Clinton’s Taste Is on the Cutting Edge of Art,”
   Chicago Tribune
   , June 12, 1997.
   

3. She had replaced the eighteenth century–style hand- painted wallpaper:
   Clair Whitcomb, “Two Centuries of Chang- ing Taste,”
   House Beautiful
   , March 1994.
   

4. “When Barbara Bush”:
   Richard L. Berke, “The Transition: The Other Clinton Helps Shape the Administration,”
   New York Times
   , December 14, 1992.
   

5. Christopher Emery, a White House usher:
   Interview with former White House usher Christopher Emery, April 5, 2004.
   

6. Several Arkansas state troopers:
   David Brock, “Living with the Clintons: Bill’s Arkansas Bodyguards Tell the Story the Press Missed,”
   American Spectator
   , January 1994.
   

7. “Within the small circle”:
   Interview with Michael Galstar, March 12, 2005.
   
8. When Michael Galster:
   Ibid.
   
9. She sent two of her most trusted:
   Olson,
   Hell to Pay,
   

   pp. 267–69.
   

10. In addition, a White House staffer:
    Ibid.
    

11. “The Usher’s Office plotted”:
    Patria Leigh Brown, “A Re- decorated White House, the Way the Clintons Like It,”
    New York Times
    , November 24, 1993. See also Ian Brodie, “Clintons Pay Own Way in White House Decoration,”
    Times
    (London), August 20, 1993.
    

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    Notes
    

12. Thanks to her pals:
    Cathy Horn, “The Look of Hillary Clinton: Fashion Designers Await Selection of First Clothes,”
    Washington Post
    , December 22, 1992.
    

13. According to her friends:
    Interviews with anonymous sources close to the Clintons.
    
14. She had not always been that way:
    Interview with Wellesley College classmate who requested anonymity.
    
15. However, after giving birth to Chelsea:
    Interview with anonymous medical authority.
    

16. might have explained her onetime neglect:
    Morris,
    Partners in Power
    , p. 139.
    

Chapter Four: First Lovebirds

1. “
   CLINTON ACCUSED
   ”:
   Susan Schmidt, Peter Baker, and Toni Locy, “Clinton Accused of Urging Aide to Lie,”
   Washington Post
   , Janu- ary 21, 1998.
   

2. Four days earlier:
   Peter Baker and Ruth Marcus, “Clinton In- tends to Say He Didn’t Harass Jones; President Deposition Set Today,”
   Washington Post
   , January 17, 1998.
   

3. The federal judge presiding:
   Ibid.
   

4. footnote:
   Among the unions:
   “Ickes: Dirty Harry,”
   Hotline
   , October 26, 2000.
   

5. “From the unions to Whitewater”:
   Micah Morrison, “Who Is Harold Ickes? A Look at the Mastermind of Hillary’s Senate Campaign,”
   Wall Street Journal
   , October 26, 2000.
   

6. her main concern:
   Toobin,
   A Vast Conspiracy
   , p. 48.
   

7. footnote:
   “Shortly after Jones”:
   Toobin,
   A Vast Conspiracy
   ,
   

   p. 50. In the interest of full disclosure Ruth Shalit is the author’s daughter-in-law.
   

8. “This is an election year”:
   This and the account of Bennett’s hiring that follows are from an interview with Robert S. Bennett, March 3, 2004.
   

9. His advice to the Clintons was simple:
   Toobin,
   A Vast Con- spiracy
   , p. 118.
   

10. “We know things at many different levels”:
    Interview with a psychotherapist who requested anonymity.
    

11. “Hillary had put the hammer on”:
    Paul Fray quoted in Maraniss,
    First in His Class
    , p. 320.
    

    Notes
    269
    

12. “went through Bill Clinton’s desk”:
    Olson,
    Hell to Pay
    , p. 68.
    

13. Later, in the early 1980s:
    Interview with Ivan Duda, March 5, 2005.
    

14. “Hillary learned about private investigators”:
    Olson,
    Hell to Pay
    , p. 87.
    

15. Betsey Wright “said that he was having a serious affair”:
    

    Maraniss,
    First in His Class
    , p. 450.
    

16. “The hired hands still felt queasy”:
    Hillary Clinton quoted in Goldman,
    Quest for the Presidency 1992
    , p. 127.
    

17. “The wife who deludes herself”:
    Michael Kelly, “Blame Hillary,”
    Jewish World Review
    , July 15, 1999.
    

18. “Buddy”:
    Hillary Rodham Clinton quoted in Karen Tumulty and Nancy Gibbs, “The Better Half: During Her Husband’s Greatest Crisis, Hillary Has Come into Her Own,”
    Time
    , Janu- ary 4, 1999.
    

19. “When Bill Clinton”:
    Interview with David Schippers, March 8, 2004.
    

20. “After the deposition was over”:
    Isikoff,
    Uncovering Clinton
    , pp. 332–36.
    

21. At 2:32
    A
    .
    M
    . Sunday morning:
    Matt Drudge,
    Drudge Report
    , January 17, 1998.
    
22. “I talked to the White House this morning”:
    Transcript of
    

Good Morning America
,
ABC News,
January 21, 1998.

Chapter Five: Celestial Ambitions

1. As a teenager in the early 1960s:
   Interview with Don Jones, May 17, 2004.
   
2. “From an early age”:
   Ibid.
   
3. “If she comes to Arkansas”:
   Bill Clinton quoted in Maraniss,
   

   First in His Class
   , p. 326.
   

4. Nonetheless, Hillary hitched her star:
   Louise Branson, “The Truth about HRC,”
   Scotsman
   , August 12, 1998.
   

5. According to the Reverend Don Jones:
   Interview with Don Jones, May 17, 2004.
   

6. “What Mrs. Clinton seems”:
   Michael Kelly, “Saint Hillary: Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Politics of Virtue,”
   New York Times Magazine
   , May 23, 1993.
   

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   Notes
   

7. The cadre of feminists:
   Interview with White House source who requested anonymity, March 18, 2004.
   
8. “Hillary never wanted to be a wife”:
   Ibid.
   

PART II: THE BOOK OF LIFE

Chapter Six: Toughening Up

1. “Hillary and I were both standouts in our class”:
   Interview with classmate Jim Yrigoyen, May 27, 2004.
   

2. “If Suzy hits you”:
   Clinton,
   Living History,
   p. 12.
   

3. “Hillary immediately”:
   Interview with Jim Yrigoyen, May 27, 2004.
   

4. footnote:
   The quick and easy:
   Sheehy,
   Hillary’s Choice
   , p. 310.
   

5. He idolized Gene Tunney:
   Martha Sherrill, “Education of Hillary Clinton; Growing Up in a Chicago Suburb: A Good Girl Getting Better All the Time,”
   Washington Post
   , January 11, 1993.
   

6. “rougher than a corn cob, as gruff as could be”:
   Paul Fray quoted in Maraniss,
   First in His Class
   , p. 320.
   

7. “That must be an easy school”:
   Clinton,
   It Takes a Village
   , p. 22.
   

8. Some biographers believed:
   Paul Lowinger, “Bill Clinton Meets the Shrinks,” http://www
   .zpub.com/un/un-bc9.html, July 1998.
   

9. “Among both relatives and friends”:
   Morris,
   Partners in Power,
   p. 115.
   

10. “For all his grouchiness”:
    Milton,
    The First Partner,
    p. 15.
    

11. One of her closest friends:
    Interview with Jim Yrigoyen, May 27, 2004.
    
12. “We were in a snowball fight”:
    Ibid.
    

Chapter Seven: The Great Debate

1. When she was sixteen years old:
   Interview with Don Jones, May 17, 2004.
   

2. “I was really stupid”:
   Clinton,
   Living History
   , p. 24.
   

3. “It’s incredible”:
   Interview with Timothy Sheldon, May 20, 2004.
   

   Notes
   271
   

4. “The reason Hillary still makes excuses”:
   Interview with a classmate who requested anonymity.
   

5. “in an act of counter-intuitive brilliance”:
   Clinton,
   Living History
   , p. 24.
   

6. “more than dramatic fervor”:
   Ibid.
   
7. “Hillary’s version of the debate”:
   Interview with Jerry Baker, January 11, 2005.
   

Chapter Eight: The Radical

1. “When Hillary left Park Ridge”:
   Interview with Penny Pullen, May 2004.
   
2. “highly politicized, left-wing ideology”:
   Collections of the North Alabama Conference, United Methodist Church. August 18, 2004.
   

3. “our sexist, racist”:
   Charlotte Bunch and Rita Mae Brown, “What Every Lesbian Should Know,”
   motive
   , vol. 32, no. 1, 1972.
   

4. “At this time”:
   Editorial, “Motive Comes Out,”
   motive
   , vol. 32, no. 1, 1972.
   

5. “Male society”:
   Charlotte Bunch and Rita Mae Brown, “What Every Lesbian Should Know,”
   motive
   , vol. 32, no. 1, 1972.
   

6. “I still have every issue”:
   Hillary Rodham Clinton quoted in Kenneth L. Woodward, “Soulful Matters,”
   Newsweek
   , October 31, 1994.
   

7. In one of the college’s most degrading traditions:
   Horn,
   

   Rebels in White Gloves
   , p. 9.
   

8. “The buttocks”:
   Ibid., p.10.
   
9. The freshmen were warned:
   Ibid., p. 9.
   
10. Much of the Wellesley curriculum:
    Ibid.
    

11. “the Bolshevik women’s auxiliary”:
    Boston Herald
    quoted in Horn,
    Rebels in White Gloves
    , p. 18.
    

12. “Theirs was a generation”:
    Horn,
    Rebels in White Gloves
    , p. xvi.
    

13. When she and Alison:
    Ibid., p. 20.
    
14. “I wasn’t surprised”:
    Interview with Penny McPhee, April 5, 2004.
    

15. There was a long tradition:
    Faderman,
    To Believe in Women
    , pp. 189–92.
    

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    Notes
    

16. In those early days:
    Ibid., pp. 184, 189–92.
    
17. “The notion of a woman being a lesbian”:
    Interview with Penny McPhee, April 5, 2004.
    

18. “That all depends on what”:
    “The President’s Grand Jury Tes- timony,”
    Washington Post
    , September 22, 1998.
    

19. “This question has the potential”:
    Rothblum and Brehony,
    

    Boston Marriages
    , p. 10.
    

20. “Female bisexuality and lesbianism”:
    McCormick,
    Sexual Sal- vation
    , p. 2.
    

21. During her last three years:
    Sheehy,
    Hillary’s Choice
    , pp. 62–69.
    

22. “I never stated a burning desire to be president”:
    Ibid., p. 74.
    
23. “People who claim that they were born asexual”:
    Interview with Dr. Claudia Six, a clinical sexologist, September 2004.
    
24. Most of the members of her Wellesley class:
    From Horn,
    

    Rebels in White Gloves
    , pp. 260–77, 308.
    

25. “Maybe”:
    Ibid., p. 308.
    

Chapter Nine: The Intern

1. Some of her best friends at Wellesley College:
   Wellesley News
   , May 16, 1968.
   
2. “By this time”:
   Interview with Sarah Calvedt, May 2, 2004.
   
3. “We all stayed at the Fountainebleau Hotel”:
   Interview with one of Hillary’s classmates who requested anonymity. June 10, 2004.
   

Chapter Ten: Grooving at Cozy Beach

1. In her remarks:
   “Edelman Calls for Redirection,”
   Yale Daily News
   , September 20, 1971.
   

2. “The country was tired”:
   Marian Wright Edelman quoted in Brock,
   The Seduction of Hillary Rodham
   , p. 115.
   

3. “requires that”:
   Mickey Kaus, “The Godmother: What’s Wrong with Marian Wright Edelman, Children’s Defense Fund Founder,”
   New Republic
   , February 15, 1993.
   

4. “Bill’s pattern”:
   Interview with Yale Law School classmate who requested anonymity, May 18, 2004.
   
5. In fact, Bill:
   Ibid.
   

   Notes
   273
   

6. In its debut issue:
   Evan Gahr, “Will the Real Hillary Please Stand Up?”
   American Enterprise
   , July 1, 2000.
   

7. “the purpose of gaining political control”:
   Yale Review of Law and Social Action
   quoted in Daniel Wattenberg, “The Lady Mac- Beth of Little Rock,”
   American Spectator
   , August 1992.
   

8. In a later special double issue:
   Evan Gahr, “Will the Real Hillary Please Stand Up?”
   American Enterprise,
   July 1, 2000.
   

9. “Jeff Rogers and Kris Olson”:
   Interview with Yale Law School classmate who requested anonymity, May 18, 2004.
   

10. During their remaining time at Yale:
    Horn,
    Rebels in White Gloves
    , p. 92.
    

11. Bill frequently found:
    Interview with Yale Law School class- mate who requested anonymity, May 18, 2004.