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Authors: Edward Klein
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Chapter Twenty: “This Is War”
“We’ve had a slow-motion assassination”:
Harry Thomason quoted in Toobin,
A Vast Conspiracy
, p. 248.
Chapter Twenty-one: “Screw ’Em”
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.
“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.
“I suggested that she say”:
Blumenthal,
The Clinton Wars
, p. 373.
“There has been one question”:
Toobin,
A Vast Conspiracy
, pp. 254–56.
Later, Hillary’s attorney:
Clinton,
Living History
, p. 445.
280
Notes
Chapter Twenty-two: The Human Bridge
One of Starr’s lieutenants:
Toobin,
A Vast Conspiracy
, p. 307.
“I could hardly breathe”:
Clinton,
Living History
, p. 466.
“come out and hammer Ken Starr”:
Anderson,
Bill and Hillary
, p. 27.
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.
“Hillary’s not naïve”:
Jesse Jackson quoted in Melinda Hen- nenberger, “Testing of a President,”
New York Times
, August 18, 1998.
“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.
“It was the President”:
Blumenthal,
The Clinton Wars
, p. 465.
Chapter Twenty-three: The Wronged Woman
As Vernon Jordan watched:
William Mills and Mark Mer- chant, “Clintons Can’t Wait to Get to Vineyard,”
Cape Cod Times
, August 18, 1998.
“There was no late evening singing”:
Margaret Carlson, “The Shadow of Her Smile,”
Time
, September 21, 1998.
“At both shindigs”:
Tomasky,
Hillary’s Turn
, p. 34.
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.
PART IV: THE CANDIDATE
Chapter Twenty-four: Run, Hillary, Run!
That same night:
Clinton,
Living History,
p. 483.
“I’d like to speak to Mrs. Clinton”:
Rep. Charlie Rangel quoted in Clinton,
Living History
, p. 483.
As one of the first steps:
Blumenthal,
The Clinton Wars
, p. 678.
After Charlie Rangel spoke to Hillary:
Bob Herbert, “After Moynihan,”
New York Times,
November 12, 1998.
“Nobody’s going to run”:
Tomasky,
Hillary’s Turn
, p. 40.
Chapter Twenty-five: The Education of Hillary Clinton
Harold Ickes was the go-to guy:
Wendy Lin, “Ickes Nixes Job with Clinton,”
Newsday
(New York), January 7, 1993.
“because there was insufficient evidence”:
“White House Staff: Sounds Like It’s Done but Not Official,”
New York Post
, January 15, 1993.
“So literally the day”:
Peter Baker quoted on
Fresh Air,
Na- tional Public Radio, September 28, 2000.
“[Harold] offered a running commentary”:
Clinton,
Living History
, p. 497.
“He set out a piece of paper”:
Baker,
The Breach
, p. 413.
282
Notes
“Why Hillary?”:
Interview with Bob McCarthy of the
Buffalo News
, March 15, 2004.
Chapter Twenty-six: Blowing Them Away
whose favorability rating:
Romesh Ratnesar, “A Race of Her Own,”
Time
, March 1, 1999.
But in the wake:
Elizabeth Bumiller, “A Top Adviser to a Much-Advised First Lady,”
New York Times,
July 20, 1999.
“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”
“that Hillary Clinton ‘didn’t get it’ ”:
Hodgson,
The Gentle- man from New York,
p. 5.
Moynihan had publically:
Adam Nagourney and William M. Welch, “Moynihan an ally, a tormentor as well,”
USA Today,
January 14, 1994.
Notes
283
in Michael Kramer, “The Political Interest: Still Waiting for Bill’s Call,”
Time
, February 1, 1993.
“Big deal”:
Clinton aide quoted in Michael Kramer, “The Po- litical Interest: Still Waiting for Bill’s Call,”
Time
, February 1, 1993.
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”
“Liz Moynihan had her doubts”:
Hodgson,
The Gentleman from New York
, p. 5.
“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.
“the largest press corps ever assembled”:
Gail Collins, “Making Political Hay on Mr. Moynihan’s Farm,”
New York Times
, July 8, 1999.
“than the presidential race”:
Howard Kurtz, “Grabber Strikes Again,”
Washington Post
, July 12, 1999.
“Maybe all of this”:
Jeff Greenfield quoted in Howard Kurtz, “Grabber Strikes Again,”
Washington Post
, July 12, 1999.
“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.
“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.
284
Notes
Chapter Thirty: The Juice
She and her then boss:
Susan Schmidt, “Teamsters Contribu- tions to Clinton Effort Probed,”
Washington Post
, October 9, 1997.
“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
.
she did not dispute:
Susan Schmidt, “Teamsters Contributions to Clinton Effort Probed,”
Washington Post
, October 9, 1997.
Like Ickes:
Lloyd Grove, “The Clintons’ Bad Cop,”
Washington Post
, March 2, 1993.
“I have a very strong reality principle:
Susan Thomases quoted in Lloyd Grove, “The Clintons’ Bad Cop,”
Washington Post
, March 2, 1993.
Sommers,
Who Stole Feminism?
, p. 16.
“brutal patriarchal system”:
Faderman,
To Believe in Women
, p. 334.
“They had begun on the same track”:
Brock,
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham
, p. 222.
“the Clinton administration’s King Kong Kibitzer”:
Lloyd Grove, “The Clintons’ Bad Cop,”
Washington Post
, March 2, 1993.
Notes
285
“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
In a wildly popular move:
David Firestone, “In Mayor’s Arafat Snub, a Hint of Strategy,”
New York Times
, October 26, 1995.
“Many women who hadn’t had it both ways”:
Ellen Chesler quoted in Tomasky,
Hillary’s Turn
, p. 88.
Finally, after months of dithering:
Tomasky,
Hillary’s Turn
, pp. 190–92.
“And this was a meeting of the so-called”:
Eva Moskowitz quoted in Tomasky,
Hillary’s Turn
, p. 93.