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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.

280
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.

    282
    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.

    284
    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.

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