The Truth About Hillary (33 page)

Chapter Twenty: “This Is War”

1. “The whole room seemed to hold its breath”:
   Sandra So- bieraj, “Clinton’s Denial a Stern 20 Seconds,” Associated Press, January 26, 1998.
   

2. “We’ve had a slow-motion assassination”:
   Harry Thomason quoted in Toobin,
   A Vast Conspiracy
   , p. 248.
   

Chapter Twenty-one: “Screw ’Em”

1. The next day:
   Deborah Orin, “It’s a Right-Wing Plot—She Goes on
   Today
   Show to Defend Prez,”
   New York Post
   , January 28, 1998.
   

2. “She was very relaxed”:
   Melanie Verveer quoted in David Maraniss, “First Lady Launches Counter Attack; Prosecutor Called ‘Politically Motivated’ Ally of ‘Right-Wing Conspiracy,’ ”
   Washington Post
   , January 28, 1998.
   

3. “I suggested that she say”:
   Blumenthal,
   The Clinton Wars
   , p. 373.
   

4. “There has been one question”:
   Toobin,
   A Vast Conspiracy
   , pp. 254–56.
   

5. Later, Hillary’s attorney:
   Clinton,
   Living History
   , p. 445.
   

6. “I heard your words of wisdom”:
   Ibid.
   

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Notes

Chapter Twenty-two: The Human Bridge

1. One of Starr’s lieutenants:
   Toobin,
   A Vast Conspiracy
   , p. 307.
   

2. “I had some conversations”:
   Interview with a source close to the Whitewater investigation who requested anonymity, May 8, 2004.
   

3. “I could hardly breathe”:
   Clinton,
   Living History
   , p. 466.
   

4. “come out and hammer Ken Starr”:
   Anderson,
   Bill and Hillary
   , p. 27.
   

5. footnote:
   Shrum has the draft:
   Ken Auletta, “Kerry’s Brain: Bob Shrum is one of the biggest names in the campaign business—but is he prepared to take on Bush?”
   New Yorker
   , Sep- tember 20, 2004.
   

6. “Hillary’s not naïve”:
   Jesse Jackson quoted in Melinda Hen- nenberger, “Testing of a President,”
   New York Times
   , August 18, 1998.
   

7. “She had no good options”:
   Interview with former White House official who requested anonymity, April 5, 2004.
   

8. “It was his digging in his heels”:
   Dick Morris quoted on “The Clinton Years,” a
   Frontline
   special anchored by Chris Bury, WNET, January 16, 2001.
   

9. “It was the President”:
   Blumenthal,
   The Clinton Wars
   , p. 465.
   

Chapter Twenty-three: The Wronged Woman

1. As Vernon Jordan watched:
   William Mills and Mark Mer- chant, “Clintons Can’t Wait to Get to Vineyard,”
   Cape Cod Times
   , August 18, 1998.
   

2. “There was no late evening singing”:
   Margaret Carlson, “The Shadow of Her Smile,”
   Time
   , September 21, 1998.
   

3. Hillary would later claim:
   Interview with an anonymous source close to Walter Cronkite, March 8, 2005.
   
4. “The Clintons were seated at separate tables”:
   Interview with an anonymous source who attended the Rattner dinner, April 2, 2004.
   
5. “In the first administration”:
   Interview with David Schippers, chief counsel to the House Managers for the Impeachment Trial of President Clinton, May 8, 2004.
   

6. “At both shindigs”:
   Tomasky,
   Hillary’s Turn
   , p. 34.
   

7. “This is the woman”:
   Neel Lattimore quoted in Ellen O’Brien
   

   Notes
   281
   

   and Alfred Lubrano, “A More Popular Clinton, On the Defense— Hillary/Americans Admire Her Courage and Resolute Dignity, Polls Show,”
   Philadelphia Inquirer
   , December 20, 1998.
   

8. “So, for the first time”:
   Today
   show, NBC, July 16, 1998.
   
9. “The ‘America’s Treasures’ tour”:
   Interview with Jay Brane- gan, March 30, 2004.
   

PART IV: THE CANDIDATE

Chapter Twenty-four: Run, Hillary, Run!

1. “the best thinker”:
   The Almanac of American Politics.
   
2. If it had been left entirely up to Moynihan:
   Interview with a source close to the Moynihans who requested anonymity, April 5, 2004.
   

3. That same night:
   Clinton,
   Living History,
   p. 483.
   

4. “I’d like to speak to Mrs. Clinton”:
   Rep. Charlie Rangel quoted in Clinton,
   Living History
   , p. 483.
   

5. As one of the first steps:
   Blumenthal,
   The Clinton Wars
   , p. 678.
   

6. After Charlie Rangel spoke to Hillary:
   Bob Herbert, “After Moynihan,”
   New York Times,
   November 12, 1998.
   

7. “Nobody’s going to run”:
   Tomasky,
   Hillary’s Turn
   , p. 40.
   

Chapter Twenty-five: The Education of Hillary Clinton

1. “Here’s a little mini-bombshell”:
   Meet the Press,
   January 3, 1999.
   

2. Harold Ickes was the go-to guy:
   Wendy Lin, “Ickes Nixes Job with Clinton,”
   Newsday
   (New York), January 7, 1993.
   

3. “because there was insufficient evidence”:
   “White House Staff: Sounds Like It’s Done but Not Official,”
   New York Post
   , January 15, 1993.
   

4. “Well,” . . . “did you
   see
   that?”:
   Hillary Rodham Clinton and Harold Ickes quoted in Tomasky,
   Hillary’s Turn
   , p. 19.
   

5. “So literally the day”:
   Peter Baker quoted on
   Fresh Air,
   Na- tional Public Radio, September 28, 2000.
   

6. “[Harold] offered a running commentary”:
   Clinton,
   Living History
   , p. 497.
   

7. “He set out a piece of paper”:
   Baker,
   The Breach
   , p. 413.
   

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   Notes
   

8. “Why in God’s name”:
   Ibid., p. 44.
   

9. “Why Hillary?”:
   Interview with Bob McCarthy of the
   Buffalo News
   , March 15, 2004.
   

Chapter Twenty-six: Blowing Them Away

1. “In the winter of 1999”:
   Interview with Democratic donor who requested anonymity, May 17, 2004.
   
2. Both
   Newsweek
   and
   Time
   :
   See cover stories of
   Time,
   March 1, 1999, and
   Newsweek,
   March 1, 1999.
   

3. whose favorability rating:
   Romesh Ratnesar, “A Race of Her Own,”
   Time
   , March 1, 1999.
   

4. “How are you going to handle Monica Lewinsky?”:
   Inter- view with anonymous source who was present at the meeting, May 10, 2004.
   
5. “Before she announced”:
   Interview with source active in New York Democratic politics who requested anonymity.
   

6. But in the wake:
   Elizabeth Bumiller, “A Top Adviser to a Much-Advised First Lady,”
   New York Times,
   July 20, 1999.
   

7. “People wanted to know”:
   A campaign aide quoted in Eliza- beth Kolbert, “The Student: How Hillary Clinton Set Out to Master the Senate,”
   New Yorker
   , October 13, 2003.
   

Chapter Twenty-seven: “Boob Bait for the Bubbas”

1. For years, Pat Moynihan had been suffering from back pain:
   Interview with anonymous source close to Senator Moynihan, April 5, 2004.
   
2. To break the ice with the Moynihans:
   Ibid.
   

3. “that Hillary Clinton ‘didn’t get it’ ”:
   Hodgson,
   The Gentle- man from New York,
   p. 5.
   

4. Moynihan believed that Hillary’s chief motivation:
   Interview with anonymous source close to Senator Moynihan, April 5, 2004.
   

5. Moynihan had publically:
   Adam Nagourney and William M. Welch, “Moynihan an ally, a tormentor as well,”
   USA Today,
   January 14, 1994.
   

6. “Not a single call”:
   Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan quoted
   

   Notes
   283
   

   in Michael Kramer, “The Political Interest: Still Waiting for Bill’s Call,”
   Time
   , February 1, 1993.
   

7. “Big deal”:
   Clinton aide quoted in Michael Kramer, “The Po- litical Interest: Still Waiting for Bill’s Call,”
   Time
   , February 1, 1993.
   

8. “I believe that she believes”:
   Interview with source close to Elizabeth Moynihan who requested anonymity, April 5, 2004.
   
9. The Moynihans were deeply disappointed:
   Ibid.
   
10. What’s more, the Moynihans thought:
    Ibid.
    

Chapter Twenty-eight: Distortion

1.
“So” . . . “you’re interested in the secret”:
This conversation is from an interview with an anonymous source close to Senator and Mrs. Moynihan, April 5, 2004.

Chapter Twenty-nine: “The Martians Have Landed”

1. “Hillary understood”:
   Interview with former employee of Senator Moynihan who requested anonymity, April 5, 2004.
   

2. “Liz Moynihan had her doubts”:
   Hodgson,
   The Gentleman from New York
   , p. 5.
   

3. “She’s not even from New York”:
   Thomas Mills quoted in Brian Blomquist, “Pol’s Wife Hasn’t Got Hill Story Down Pat,”
   New York Post
   , July 10, 1999.
   

4. “the largest press corps ever assembled”:
   Gail Collins, “Making Political Hay on Mr. Moynihan’s Farm,”
   New York Times
   , July 8, 1999.
   

5. “than the presidential race”:
   Howard Kurtz, “Grabber Strikes Again,”
   Washington Post
   , July 12, 1999.
   

6. “Maybe all of this”:
   Jeff Greenfield quoted in Howard Kurtz, “Grabber Strikes Again,”
   Washington Post
   , July 12, 1999.
   

7. “God, I almost forgot”:
   Senator Moynihan quoted in Joel Siegel, “Hil Begins Senate Campaign, Travels to Pat’s Farm to Start Upstate Tour,”
   Daily News
   (New York), July 8, 1999.
   

8. “I’m really excited”:
   Hillary Rodham Clinton quoted in Robert Hardt Jr., “The Silly Campaign Is Just Getting Started,”
   New York Post
   , July 11, 1999.
   

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   Notes
   

9. “Tony,” . . . “look at this!”:
   Elizabeth Moynihan quoted in in- terview with Tony Bullock, Senator Moynihan’s former chief of staff, March 11, 2004.
   

Chapter Thirty: The Juice

1. In late June:
   Interview with an anonymous source who worked on fund-raising for the Senate campaign, May 4, 2003.
   

2. She and her then boss:
   Susan Schmidt, “Teamsters Contribu- tions to Clinton Effort Probed,”
   Washington Post
   , October 9, 1997.
   

3. “sent under the name of Richard Sullivan”:
   Ibid.
   

4. “I made the call as a favor”:
   Richard Sullivan quoted in “Reno ‘Mad’ about Tape Release Delay,”
   USA Today
   , credited to
   Asso- ciated Press,
   October 9, 1997
   .
   

5. she did not dispute:
   Susan Schmidt, “Teamsters Contributions to Clinton Effort Probed,”
   Washington Post
   , October 9, 1997.
   

6. They had also drafted:
   Interview with an anonymous source who worked on fund-raising for the Senate campaign, May 4, 2003.
   
7. “It was clear from the way Harold ran the meeting”:
   Ibid.
   
8. As far as Ickes was concerned:
   Ibid.
   
9. Summary Fundraising Plan:
   Confidential documents provided to the author by a campaign employee who was involved with fund-raising.
   

10. Like Ickes:
    Lloyd Grove, “The Clintons’ Bad Cop,”
    Washington Post
    , March 2, 1993.
    

11. “I have a very strong reality principle:
    Susan Thomases quoted in Lloyd Grove, “The Clintons’ Bad Cop,”
    Washington Post
    , March 2, 1993.
    

12. “The leaders and theorists of the women’s movement”:
    

    Sommers,
    Who Stole Feminism?
    , p. 16.
    

13. “brutal patriarchal system”:
    Faderman,
    To Believe in Women
    , p. 334.
    

14. “They had begun on the same track”:
    Brock,
    The Seduction of Hillary Rodham
    , p. 222.
    

15. “the Clinton administration’s King Kong Kibitzer”:
    Lloyd Grove, “The Clintons’ Bad Cop,”
    Washington Post
    , March 2, 1993.
    

    Notes
    285
    

16. “It’s not that she has the juice”:
    James Carville quoted in Lloyd Grove, “The Clintons’ Bad Cop,”
    Washington Post
    , March 2, 1993.
    

Chapter Thirty-one: Hillary’s Problem

1. In a wildly popular move:
   David Firestone, “In Mayor’s Arafat Snub, a Hint of Strategy,”
   New York Times
   , October 26, 1995.
   

2. “Many women who hadn’t had it both ways”:
   Ellen Chesler quoted in Tomasky,
   Hillary’s Turn
   , p. 88.
   

3. Finally, after months of dithering:
   Tomasky,
   Hillary’s Turn
   , pp. 190–92.
   

4. Asked what they thought:
   Ibid.
   
5. “Probably the most important issue”:
   Confidential docu- ments provided to the author by a source involved in the Senate campaign.
   
6. “
   RUDY GIULIANI
   ’
   S CLAIM TO FAME
   ”:
   Ibid.
   
7. “Subj: Re: New York Women for Hillary”:
   Ibid.
   

8. “And this was a meeting of the so-called”:
   Eva Moskowitz quoted in Tomasky,
   Hillary’s Turn
   , p. 93.
   

9. “She’s the most unbelievable actress”:
   Interview with an anonymous source who worked on Hillary’s Senate campaign, November 8, 2004.