Still4Hill

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1. on July 28, 2010 at 4:57 pm | Reply marco

   …a wonderfull smile !!

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2. on July 28, 2010 at 5:17 pm | Reply Lilly

   Wow! Thank you, Still! It´s nice to see Hillary as she´s enjoying this time with her little girl 😉 Okay, Chelsea isn´t little anymore, but I think that she´ll always be the little princess for Hillary and Bill.

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   • on July 28, 2010 at 6:23 pm | Reply still4hill

     It’s true. Actually, Hillary is still Dorothy’s little girl!

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3. on July 28, 2010 at 5:43 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

   2nd, 3rd, & 4th from the bottom – LOL! That’s why we don’t wear shinny underclothes with light fabrics. On the positive end, maybe people will stop saying she’s flat-chested now.

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   • on July 28, 2010 at 5:47 pm | Reply rachel

     I didnt know people said that about her. It’s obvious she’s not.

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   • on July 28, 2010 at 7:20 pm | Reply still4hill

     I thought the sheen was coming off the fabric of the jacket. I don’t know why people say that about her. Oh, well, I’m always saying it. She has a pretty figure, and isn’t flat-chested at all.

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     • on July 28, 2010 at 10:05 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

       If that’s the case, shiny fabric is one spot is usually a sign of wear. The question then becomes how did she wear down the fabric there. I sense the involvement of a misbehaving squire!

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       • on July 28, 2010 at 10:25 pm | Reply still4hill

         Bad Bill!

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         • on July 28, 2010 at 10:59 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

           Too much “resting”.

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           • on July 28, 2010 at 11:05 pm | Reply still4hill

             LOL!

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4. on July 28, 2010 at 5:54 pm | Reply pcfs

   Well the gowns are carried out by Huma. Looks like two gowns. Mayb Huma is in the wedding. Gee they are all going to have a great time.

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5. on July 28, 2010 at 6:04 pm | Reply jillforhill

   Sally Quinn got owned when the interviewer asked if the Clintons invited her. Sally Quinn is such a sad person. As Hillary said “I will never allow that woman near my family”.

   She also was going for her above-it-all, decreeeing-from-Above position in Society, being OH-so-understanding at why “some A-Listers” didn’t get invitiations: “500 guests is a *very* large number. Most weddings are THREE HUNDRED —-or less! You only invite those CLOSE to you, not campaign DONORS.”.

   She was about to stay on in her UpThere role, but the interviewer made it personal and asked whether SHE was invited.

   She appeared taken aback and said, after collecting herself, “Oh, NO. (pause) We’re not close to the Clintons.”

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   • on July 28, 2010 at 7:06 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

     “Oh, NO. (pause) We’re not close to the Clintons.”

     Is that the ‘royal we’ coming from Queen S*!t-For-Brains? She seems like such a miserable person.

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6. on July 28, 2010 at 7:23 pm | Reply jillforhill

   She was so mad when she was asked if she was going to the wedding. It was funny. She is just mad that no one wanted to hear about her son’s wedding.

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   • on July 28, 2010 at 7:28 pm | Reply still4hill

     LOLOL!!! Thanks for sharing that, jillforhill. Guessing the interviewer had a hidden agenda in choosing her. 😀

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   • on July 28, 2010 at 9:30 pm | Reply rachel

     who is sally quinn and who is her son and why would she think she would be invited I am lost on these things.

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     • on July 28, 2010 at 9:33 pm | Reply still4hill

       Married to Ben Bradlee (see Washington Post/All the President’s Men) Washington hostess – former/sometimes guest columnist who went to war with Hillary the day she set foot in DC. Don’t know much about the son except that I think he has a disorder of some kind.

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       • on July 28, 2010 at 9:47 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

         Mymomsanut-itis?

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         • on July 28, 2010 at 9:58 pm | Reply still4hill

           LOL!!! That too!

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7. on July 28, 2010 at 9:44 pm | Reply jillforhill

   Sally Quinn is a women who slept her way to where she is now. Called the Clintons trash and other not nice things about them. She lost her column because all she did was talk about her son’s wedding and the readers were complaining. She never liked hillary or bill because they would rather spend time with chelsea than washington insiders.

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   • on July 28, 2010 at 9:46 pm | Reply still4hill

     And we don’t like her.

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     • on July 28, 2010 at 9:48 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

       Because she is a very arrogant, unpleasant individual based on what she feels comfortable saying about others.

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8. on July 28, 2010 at 9:52 pm | Reply Linnette

   great pictures, Hillary in a different role. And she said once she love going shopping, which she can’t do anymore.

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   • on July 28, 2010 at 10:13 pm | Reply still4hill

     Yes, she did say that. She was having fun, and it’s fun to watch!

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9. on July 28, 2010 at 10:01 pm | Reply jillforhill

   Here is what Hillary and Bill think of dowd,quinn and others in the great taylor branch book:

   “On Monday, USA Today ran a front-page article on the soon-to-be-released book chronicling a series of secret interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch held with President Bill Clinton throughout the Clinton presidency. The piece focused on a bizarre episode in which Russian President Boris Yeltsin during a visit to Washington in 1995 ended up in his underwear and drunk on Pennsylvania Avenue, trying to hail a cab. As for the Lewinsky affair, Clinton told Branch, he “just cracked” under political and personal pressures. USA Today also noted that Clinton and Al Gore had an explosive conversation following the 2000 election. But the newspaper provided only a few details on this meeting.

   I’ve obtained a copy of the book, and that encounter, as Clinton recalled it to Branch, was more than dramatic; it was also weird.

   During the discussion, Clinton told his vice president that he was disappointed that Gore had not used him in the last ten days of the 2000 campaign in strategically significant state—Arkansas, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Missouri. But Clinton said he could understand that. What was more upsetting for him, Clinton remarked to Gore, was that Gore had not crafted a more winning message during the campaign, that he had not campaigned on any grand themes. Clinton insisted to Gore that he hadn’t cared about how Gore had referred to Clinton—and his personal scandal—during the campaign. Paraphasing this portion of the conversation, Branch writes that Clinton told Gore, “To gain votes, he would let Gore cut off his ear and mail it to reporter Michael Isikoff of Newsweek, the Monica Lewinsky expert.”

   At one point in the conversation, Gore told Clinton that he was still traumatized by having been caught up in the fundraising scandals of the 1996 Clinton reelection campaign, and he indicated that he blamed Clinton. Clinton could hardly believe this, and he told Branch that Gore was probably in shock from the election or unhinged, remarking, “I thought he was in Neverland.”

   In this same conversation, Gore pressed Clinton for an explanation of his affair with Lewinsky, noting that Gore had stood by him throughout the ordeal without Clinton ever confiding in him. There was little to say, Clinton replied. But Clinton did say that he was sorry. Gore responded that that this was the first time Clinton had apologized to him personally. This angered Clinton, who countered that he was only repeating what he had already said publicly. Moreover, Clinton noted, Hillary had more to resent that Gore did, and she had just campaigned successfully for Senate by unabashedly citing the Clinton-Gore record—not running away from it. Gore responded with his own anger, insisting that Clinton’s character had been at the root of his failure to win the White House. Clinton acknowledged that he had not confessed to those closest to him, but that he was glad he had not talked more about the affair, for that would have made the controversy even worse.

   The 707-page book, titled The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, is a fascinating read, full of the most inside information on the policy fights, political tussles, and personal controversies of the Clinton years. I haven’t finished the book, but here are other intriguing portions that caught my attention:

   * In an interview with Branch shortly after he left office, Clinton passionately defended his last-minute pardon of Marc Rich, the fugitive financier. Summing up Clinton’s outrage over the dust-up caused by the pardon, Branch describes the now ex-president’s rant: “They said Clinton had a conflict because Rich’s ex-wife was a donor to his library. Lord have mercy, he cried, Papa Bush pardoned Caspar Weinberger and others before the Iran-contra prosecutions may have targeted Bush himself. Nobody fussed.” Clinton showed no remorse to Branch about this pardon.

   * In 1996, when Washington author Sally Quinn was telling people that Hillary had not written her book, It Takes a Village, Branch suggested to the First Lady that she invite Quinn and her husband Ben Bradlee to the White House. “You know,” Hillary shot back, “she has been hostile since the moment we got here. Why would we invite somebody like that into our home. How could she expect us to.” Branch writes, Hillary “said Quinn and her friends simply invented gossip for their dinner circuit. They had launched one juicy affair between Hillary and a female veterinarian attending Socks, the Clinton family cat, with tales about how somebody discovered them in flagrante on a bedroom floor in the White House.”

   * After the 1998 congressional elections, Clinton bemoaned the fact that GOP Rep. Jim Bunning had narrowly won a Senate seat in Kentucky. Branch writes, “He said Bunning, a former baseball player, was so mean-spirited that he repulsed even his fellow know-nothings. ‘I tried to work with him a couple times,’ said Clinton, ‘and he just sent shivers up my spine….I know you’re a baseball fan and everything, and you don’t like to hear it, but this guy is beyond the pale.'”

   * When Clinton prepared for military strikes against Iraq in 1998, he griped about former President Jimmy Carter. “[Republican Senator Bob] Dole will support me,” he told Branch. “Carter will probably criticize me. Carter always criticizes, but he doesn’t have much positive to say.”

   * In 1997, when Senate Republicans were opposing Clinton’s pick for CIA chief, Anthony Lake, Clinton told Branch he considered Senator Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican (who had once been a Democrat) and a leading Lake detractor, to be a dogged and spiteful man. Clinton added that Shelby was supported by two GOP “know-nothings” on his Senate committee, Jon Kyl of Arizona and Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma.

   * In 1996, Esquire magazine was looking for a writer to contribute a pro-Clinton article to its election issue. After Clinton hit snags with Texas columnist Molly Ivins, Harvard professor Thomas Patterson, and bestselling crime author John Grisham, Branch took on the assignment.

   * In 1994, after Bob Woodward’s book on the budget battles of Clinton’s first year in office, The Agenda, came out, Clinton told Branch he suspected that the major sources for Woodward were George Stephanopoulos, Paul Begala, and Alan Greenspan.

   * In 1994, Hillary Clinton told Branch that a year earlier she had been at a dinner party where Henry Kissinger had whispered to her that if her health care plan became law he would never be allowed to see his personal physician again. Hillary had tried to explain to Kissinger why this was not true. But, Branch writes, “she said Kissinger merely scowled and growled behind his ‘game face’ of impregnable secret knowledge.” Hillary also disclosed to Branch that she had dreamed of being at a banquet with Kissinger and telling him that her health care reform effort was not dead and “there’s always light at the end of the tunnel.”

   * In 1995, Clinton predicted to his confidantes that Colin Powell would challenge him in 1996, while Hillary and Gore contended that the retired general would not. After Powell declared he would not run, Branch writes, the president did not call Powell, fearing this would “advertise his relief.” Clinton’s “mistaken prediction about Powell,” Branch adds, “seemed to gnaw at Clinton.”

   * Toward the end of 1995, when Japan was in the midst of political and economic crises, Gore urged Clinton to visit Japan. Clinton, though, nixed the dates Gore suggested, saying, “Al, I am not going to Japan and leave Chelsea by herself to take” her junior-year midterm exams. This caused a big fight between the two.

   * Following his 1996 reelection victory, Clinton was mad about revelations of Democratic Party campaign finance irregularities. He feared—after Whitewater—that this could be a legitimate scandal. He was annoyed that Democratic Party officials could not provide him answers about what had gone wrong. But, Branch writes, “he thought fund-raiser Terry McAuliffe vaguely knew.” Referring to antagonism toward him within the press at this time—especially at The Washington Post and The New York Times—Clinton declared, “I am bitter about it.”

   * In 1997, after New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote an acerbic column about Clinton and golfer Tiger Woods—maintaining that the the two green-eyed hucksters deserved each other—Clinton told Branch, “She must live in mortal fear that there’s somebody in the world living a healthy and productive life.”

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   • on July 28, 2010 at 10:26 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

     It’s a good book. I laughed at this bit.

     Hillary walked in from the bedroom and froze. She was wearing her bathrobe, a head towel, and a layer of grayish face cream with a few white spots. Neither she nor the President spoke, but I said “Excuse me,” as she retreated.

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     • on July 28, 2010 at 10:30 pm | Reply still4hill

       I’m glad she had the robe on!

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       • on July 29, 2010 at 6:40 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

         I’m sure she was too. 😉

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   • on July 29, 2010 at 12:12 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

     LOL, Boris.
     

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     • on July 29, 2010 at 12:27 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

       The most famous BilLOL.

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     • on July 29, 2010 at 12:31 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

       BTW, sorry for posting a video instead of a link. Curse you, YouTube!

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       • on July 29, 2010 at 12:37 am | Reply still4hill

         NONONO!!!! I PREFER the video. I’d have gone back and made it visible. It’s easier this way.

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     • on July 29, 2010 at 12:32 am | Reply still4hill

       LMAO! Awwww Boris! He loved Hillary. Kept a picture of her in his office.

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       • on July 29, 2010 at 12:38 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

         Is it just me or is it just not possible to not end up laughing with them?

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         • on July 29, 2010 at 12:46 am | Reply still4hill

           True! But only for people with a sense of humor. They are so funny, both of them. (I really need a funny POTUS.)

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           • on July 29, 2010 at 3:15 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

             Me too, but not just any funny POTUS. I laughed at Dubya for eight years, but I wouldn’t want him back.

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10. on July 28, 2010 at 10:11 pm | Reply jillforhill

    This the interview with taylor branch

    It has been nearly forty years since three young Democratic activists named Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham, and Taylor Branch moved into a small apartment together in Austin, Texas, to wage a presidential campaign for George McGovern. In the decades since, the Clintons have taken that political fire to the center of American political life, while Branch has chosen a quieter course, writing three definitive volumes on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and winning both the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur “genius” grant. Yet at the height of Bill Clinton’s ascent—for the full eight years of the presidency—the historian and the politician reunited for a secret project, hidden from even Clinton’s closest aides. Meeting late at night and sometimes through the night, Clinton and Branch embarked on a series of seventy-nine conversations about politics, the presidents, the Whitewater investigation, and yes, even Monica—recording every word for posterity. Acutely aware that their tapes could be subpoenaed at any moment and desperate to avoid making them public, Clinton squirreled away the cassettes in his sock drawer and has never spoken of them nor made them public. But this month, Branch releases a 670-page mammoth tome, The Clinton Tapes, that mines those conversations and delves into Clinton’s presidency and state of mind through a tumultuous and historic eight years. Branch sat down on the sprawling porch of his Victorian home in Baltimore to discuss the project, the experience, and the book.—WIL S. HYLTON

    Let’s start in the fall of 1992. Out of nowhere, the president-elect calls you up and invites you to a dinner party at Katherine Graham’s house. What happened?
    It was bizarre. When we were kids, we were buddies down in Texas, trying to get McGovern elected. We lived together, but I hadn’t seen him in twenty years, and I had no idea why he asked me to dinner. I had kind of reprocessed him out of my friendship, into being a politician. This is a guy who’s run off to run for Congress in Arkansas, when all the rest of us were very alienated, and had this pile-driver political career, and so I had reprogrammed him away from somebody that you could know as a regular person. This is a president of the United States! He may just be all greed and selfishness. I was definitely tamping down my expectations.

    Had you been a supporter in the campaign?
    No! I thought his “forgotten middle class” sounded like Nixon’s “silent majority.” It was a formula—part of being a member of this species called “politician.” But within twenty seconds, I completely reconnected with him. He just knocked me over intellectually. He comes up and out of the blue asks me all these questions about historic preservation, saying, “I read your footnotes, and I want to make sure there are things like that for historians in fifty years.” Even if I hadn’t known him, even if it had been Richard Nixon or George W. Bush, I would have been floored that he was thinking about that already. This guy who hadn’t even taken office yet is thinking about raw material for historians fifty years later.

    Within weeks, you were swept up in a whirlwind with him—staying up all night to write the inaugural address, being onstage during the ceremony, and then actually entering the White House for the first time with Bill and Hillary.
    The day before, I thought I was going down to hear a final reading of the inaugural and wound up working all night, then being onstage with no seat or anything, just crouched down. And after the parade, he said, “Come on, let’s go to the White House!” So it was just the three of us walking in, he and Hillary and me! I mean, he literally didn’t know where the Lincoln Bedroom was. We were wandering around, poking in closets.

    How did you decide to begin recording interviews for history?
    He was angling to get me to move into the White House as house historian. But I responded more to the notion of preserving his thoughts. I only realized later on what a tremendous commitment that meant for him. Because the only time he could fit me in was when he was tired. There were stunning moments; I would be talking to him late at night and his eyes would go up, just roll back in his head. He would fall asleep in the middle of a sentence.

    At the end of each session, sometimes late at night or even early the next morning, you would drive home to Baltimore and talk into a tape recorder the whole time. It must have been exhausting for you as well.
    I would do those dictations until I dropped. I would sit here outside the house and dictate notes until I fell asleep in the truck. Because I felt that it was a significant experience that I should preserve. But on the tapes, there are a few times where it’s amazing: I would yawn involuntarily four times a minute! Because my workday on the King books always started at five in the morning, and sometimes I wouldn’t know I was going to go down to the White House until six at night. They would call up and say, “Can you come down at eight?” And I’d scramble and go down there, have this session with him, and it’d be two o’clock in the morning, and I’d be driving and dictating, then wake up the next morning again. But having that drive home to Baltimore for dictation was a forced habit that turned out to be very good.

    The level of detail in your conversations is overwhelming. You discuss the most minute foreign-policy details, political calculations. Did you need to expand your reading habits to keep up with him?
    Not really, because I actually didn’t know a lot of that stuff! I would just set a subject out there and say, “This seems to be a significant topic.” I didn’t know the background and the parameters; he would explain those. And sometimes I would set a subject out there and he would give me what was already in The New York Times. Sometimes he would say, “We’re going to appeal. End of story.” And we’d move on.

    The Bill Clinton in this book is very different than the version we came to know in the press. You describe a guy who was steadfast and idealistic, very different from the wishy-washy, flip-flopping caricature who let Dick Morris tell him what to do.
    It was almost like a credential for old liberals to look down on Clinton, because if you looked down on Clinton, you could say, “He’s betrayed liberalism,” but you didn’t have to uphold anything yourself. All you had to do was talk about what a shit he was or what a sellout he was and you could get this cheap credential.

    Meanwhile, you’re seeing this guy whose face is red with allergies, he’s so tired that his eyes are rolling back in his head.… He’s the last fighting baby boomer.
    Well, yeah. For example, I admire Obama greatly, but if you compare Clinton and Obama on the National Rifle Association, Obama said, “It’s not worth it.” Right from the get-go. “You can’t win.” And Clinton was going after the NRA and assault weapons and cop-killer bullets the whole time. And he paid for it, and maybe it was a mistake, because it certainly hurt him in the 1994 congressional elections. But he did stick to his guns, as it were. He took risks. On Haiti—restoring Aristide. I would hear him say it: “This is going to hurt my presidency.” Or, “I could go down the tubes for this.”

    In all the Kennedy and Johnson tapes you’ve listened to, do you hear the same resolve?
    In some ways, Kennedy was just the opposite. People would idealize him, but then on the tapes, you hear him trying to kill Castro and all this other stuff. It’s disillusioning. And Johnson does the Civil Rights bill, but then he does the Vietnam War—and you hear them saying essentially, “We know this is not going to work, but we’re going to do it anyway.” Then Nixon promises to end the war, and four years later the war is still going. Then you have Watergate. So it was kind of like we had this post–World War II optimism about politics that was yanked out of our generation by hard experience. In some ways, Hillary and I were more typical of our generation than Bill. We were bruised and disillusioned with politics. We had more in common with each other politically than either of us had with Bill. He seemed to be on automatic pilot: “I’m going to run for office!” At the time, I didn’t connect that to idealism. I connected it to ambition. The notion that it came from a sense of idealism didn’t rear up for me until I was able to watch him in the White House, seeing why he would do things.

    How did you contain that for eight years, listening to people say the opposite about him?
    I couldn’t communicate with people, because I felt like I was in a different galaxy. I just dropped out. I didn’t see a way of fighting it that didn’t endanger the project. I couldn’t challenge my friend [Washington Post critic] Jon Yardley, who would sit around and bitch and moan about Clinton: “He’s no good, he doesn’t care about anything, he doesn’t believe in anything.” I couldn’t say, “Jon, I know that’s not true.” I couldn’t start that conversation, because the only way I could combat it would be to say, “I’ve been around Clinton a lot, and my experience is totally different.” And then some story would come out that he had these tapes, and they would get subpoenaed. So I just basically had to be quiet and not talk to people.

    There are several parallels between Clinton and Martin Luther King—both are southern, same generation, men of faith, orators. But then there’s adultery. How did you process that?
    Very painfully. I can’t say I’ve got any great answers. I think King got something good out of it, in a perverse way. He was driven to seek penance by public sacrifice for private failings. He would preach about the mystery of evil: Why could we not cast out this demon? But you know, with Clinton, I just had this assumption that when you hear all this, some of it’s true. I assumed that he had resolved to make it true no longer. Which is pretty much what King did. He resolved openly to his aides, “There’s too much at stake here. I’ve got to stop this.” And some of the greatest regret in King’s life was that he couldn’t do it. With Clinton, what he said was that it was a real lapse of feeling sorry for himself. He said it had to do with politics. Now, most people think that these compulsions have to do with more fundamental human things. I don’t know whether that’s true. All I know is that he said it happened when he thought he was doing a good job and got sucker punched. I didn’t read the Lewinsky stuff until I was working on the book. It was so tawdry. It was depressing to me. It’s fervid and tormented and brief. There were two bookends to it: He had these trysts with her during the shutdown and then banished her to the Pentagon or wherever the hell she went, and then she came back in that period right after the ’96 election, when he thought [the Whitewater investigation] was going to go away and it didn’t. He says he was feeling sorry for himself because of what was going on in politics, and that he just lost it. That’s what he said.

    Was he a Lothario in 1972?
    No, and I was sharing an apartment with he and Hillary. I had just separated from my wife, had virtually no social life, and they were all over each other. The only story was that we were having a hard time getting this woman politician to endorse McGovern, and the McGovern campaign sent in a guy who had worked for Jack Kennedy. So he met her, and came back and said, “She just needs to get laid. I know just the guy.” We were stunned. And then we realized he was serious! He went to the phone to call this guy in Boston and bring him down to Texas! And Clinton took the phone from him and said, “We’re not gonna do that, and if you do that, we’re leaving.” I didn’t do anything. I was paralyzed. And in retrospect, if Clinton was cynical about women, I would think he would have been more like that guy. Now, maybe he developed it later. I really don’t know.

    It was interesting to read your descriptions of Bill and Hillary. Halfway through the impeachment trial, the doorman at the White House refused to let you in because they were making out in a hallway.
    Well, that only happened once. I don’t know if their relationship is romantic, but it’s not cold. Sometimes when I tell people that they finish each other’s sentences, people say, “That’s because it’s a power alliance.” Like a medieval marriage between the prince of Spain and the queen of Austria. But there’s warmth there. There’s communion. They would hold hands. How much eroticism is in there, I have no idea. But it was striking.

    Have you shown them the book?
    I just took two copies up to Chappaqua last week. Hillary has it in Africa now, and he’s been off on this North Korea thing. But he did call. He’s called a couple of times to fuss about things. But he has enormous tolerance for honest criticism. I think he can take it raw, as long as he doesn’t detect that it’s done for malice. I was trying to show him the way he really is, and I think he respects that.”

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11. on July 28, 2010 at 10:21 pm | Reply still4hill

    Thanks for those posts, jillforhill! I know I have read the second one and might have bookmarked it. The first I have not seen.

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12. on July 28, 2010 at 10:35 pm | Reply jillforhill

    1. Gore is a jackass
    2. Hillary is the best
    3. Bill is a great dad

    I love that they were making out in the hallway and that hillary knows who her friends are and does not kiss butt

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    • on July 28, 2010 at 10:41 pm | Reply still4hill

      Look what Gore did to Tipper! Making out in the hallway … so cute.

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      • on July 28, 2010 at 11:08 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

        What did he do (aside from leave her after 40 years)?

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        • on July 28, 2010 at 11:15 pm | Reply still4hill

          That! Preceded by screwing around! Shame on him! (& I VOTED for him and for Edwards – Well. Kerry/Edwards).

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13. on July 28, 2010 at 10:41 pm | Reply rachel

    now I remember that chick. Who was it that wrote that Bill started balling after he found out Chelsea read the star report?

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14. on July 28, 2010 at 11:08 pm | Reply jillforhill

    Exactly still4hill. Bill did not owe gore anything. It was between him,hillary, and chelsea. I also liked that helping chelsea studying was important to them.

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    • on July 29, 2010 at 3:20 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

      Al Gore – the only man in the world that can believe Bill cheating on Hillary was really about him.

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      • on July 29, 2010 at 6:34 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

        To clarify, the ‘him’ I was referring to is Al.

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15. on July 28, 2010 at 11:26 pm | Reply jillforhill

    I think the old saying “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” to gore,the edwards,the kerrys and the republicans like newt,barr, and others.

    The one I dislike more than gore is edwards,he went to the senate floor during impeachment and said bill was a bad dad and brought up chelsea’s name. That crossed the line with me because you do not bring up the children.

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    • on July 28, 2010 at 11:46 pm | Reply still4hill

      Yes – the worst ones are Edwards and Gingrich – impeaching Bill WHILE screwing around!

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      • on July 28, 2010 at 11:50 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

        Weren’t several of them guilty of that?

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        • on July 29, 2010 at 12:21 am | Reply still4hill

          Probably – he’s the one stuck in my mind.

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          • on July 29, 2010 at 2:27 am | Reply rachel

            add mark sanford to that list.

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            • on July 29, 2010 at 10:34 am | Reply still4hill

              Yes!

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16. on July 29, 2010 at 12:58 am | Reply villager4ever

    I’d like to chime in, jillforhill. Your ‘dissertation’ is simply amazing and quite enlightening. I’ve been an avid fan of the Clintons from the time I saw them on TV in 1992, a young couple with such high level of accomplishments bringing the most memorable times of economic prowess to our country.

    Reading through, I became reflective of how I watched Starr on his daily briefings on the steps of the hill and it was mind-boggling how determined he was to destroy a human being, his eyes and body showing the determination. The only reasoning I can think of at the time and to the present is pure jealousy – jealous of seeing this accomplished person rise to power, with charisma and intelligence we haven’t seen for a long time. As I look back, spending millions of dollars to go after someone like he did was not the way to right a wrong. But then, who am I to judge?

    Today, we celebrate the Clintons for their parenting skills in bringing their daughter Chelsea Victoria to the world for all of us to love and admire and be inspired. God bless them.

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    • on July 29, 2010 at 1:03 am | Reply still4hill

      Well said, villager4ever! I propose a toast: To the Clintons!

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17. on July 29, 2010 at 1:30 am | Reply pcfs

    Villager4ever, How gracious to see a lovely comment of the Clintons. Yes their parenting skills does show the world how very much we admire them. God Bless them always.

    Thanks Jillforhill for all your insight on the Clintons. They are amazing. This is the happiest time of their life right now.
    I pray that they enjoy and love every moment this weekend.

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18. on July 29, 2010 at 1:42 am | Reply still4hill

    You are all so sweet. I have never in my life heard of an MOTB Party, but that is what you all made tonight. It’s a new tradition, begun around our fav MOTB, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

    I wish she could have been here with us, but that would have subtracted from her time with her family. Luckily it is archived. Some day, maybe, she will see this party we threw for her. The first ever MOTB Party!

    I have to credit all of you, because it was unplanned, spontaneous, and both nostalgic and fun.

    Great job! Party on those who are still up. Me? I am closing for the night. great party!

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19. on July 29, 2010 at 8:00 am | Reply jillforhill

    Thanks for the kind comments. I want to say thanks to still4hill for starting this great blog.

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    • on July 29, 2010 at 10:21 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

      Agreed. Thank you, Still4Hill.

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20. on July 29, 2010 at 10:36 am | Reply Maria Dizon

    Awww. I missed the party!! LOL

    Love Hillary’s pic.. shes just sooo classy! Thanks Stillfor Hill

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21. on July 29, 2010 at 10:47 am | Reply still4hill

    I love all of you, and thank you! Seems Hillary never had a bridal shower or bachelorette party, so thank you for the spectacular surprise MOTB party you all put together for her last night!

    🙂

    See this. Very sweet.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/opinion/29collins.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

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22. on July 29, 2010 at 5:00 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

    I missed this. It’s been on Politico for an age. Thought you’d like it.

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0710/Clinton_heads_to_NY_ahead_of_wedding.html?showall

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    • on July 29, 2010 at 6:24 pm | Reply still4hill

      That’s where I got the picture on Tuesday! LOL!!! The circle closes!

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      • on July 29, 2010 at 7:42 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

        Teeny tiny mention of the GMOTB, Mrs. Rodham.

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        • on July 29, 2010 at 9:19 pm | Reply still4hill

          But a BIG member of the wedding! Dorothy ROCKS! She gave us Hillary! I love her!

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23. on July 29, 2010 at 6:54 pm | Reply footsoldier

    GLAD SHE IS PICKING VERA – OSCAR OVERDRESS HER AND SHE NEED TO LOOK SLIMS. SEE HUMA DID NOT GO ON HER HONEYMOON YET.

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    • on July 29, 2010 at 9:14 pm | Reply still4hill

      Chels picked Vera. Hillary picked Oscar and I am VERY WORRIED about his penchant lately for lace overlay (Hillary’s 2009 Inaugural *ihateit* and Huma’s wedding gown). It MIGHT work on Huma because she’s so slender. It’s way too busy for Hillary, who IS the show. The dress should just be ON her. It should not distract from her pretty self. She’s petite. Monochromatic is best per Elizabeth Arden.

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24. on July 29, 2010 at 7:09 pm | Reply birdie

    i luvr Hillary so much! thank you for your pics still4hill and your wordpress blog here!
    🙂

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25. on July 29, 2010 at 9:28 pm | Reply jillforhill

    Oscar will do great,chelsea may have got final say. Chelsea asked hillary to let her hair grow long so she could wear it up. They will both look beautiful.

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    • on July 29, 2010 at 10:17 pm | Reply still4hill

      I hope you’re right about Chelsea. I saw the “hair requirement.” Fingers are x she will look SMASHING! I need her to, to help her become POTUS! 😉

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      • on July 29, 2010 at 10:29 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

        … to help her become POTUS!

        The race for the presidency has officially become a beauty contest. (Be honest, you know it was practically one already.)Considering what our politicians look like I’m afraid of the swimsuit competition – especially since Gingrich is thinking about running in 2012. Yuck!

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        • on July 29, 2010 at 10:41 pm | Reply still4hill

          It IS! It is lookism, but it is true. Right now, Hillary looks beautiful, brave, and powerful. So, GO HILLARY!

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26. on July 29, 2010 at 9:36 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

    Huma looked amazing, IMO, but she’s already gorgeous, young, and very slender. If you can’t make someone like that look good, you need to find another profession. The MOTB is about double Huma’s age, a minimum of four inches shorter, and… well… not as slim and not lacking in the curve department, so dressing her well takes more effort. She’s also a very conservative dresser overall, so it’s hard to come up with something flattering that’s modest enough to meet her standards.

    Madame Secretary is a very forgiving woman. I wouldn’t hire someone who said of my body “from the waist up she really looks great” and then proceeds to make me a dress that looked like it had been borrowed from the Queen of England.

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    • on July 29, 2010 at 10:21 pm | Reply still4hill

      Yes, that’s the thing. Huma CAN wear (and SHOULD) ovelays. She is so slender and the lace picked up her hair and enhanced her curves. On Hillary, overlays are a distraction. She is the show – her face, skin, neckline, and cleavage. The dress does not need to add anthing to Hillary. Just cover the necessary parts artfully.

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      • on July 29, 2010 at 10:31 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

        I just hope he doesn’t make her look like she’s in her 90’s like her mother (who looks fabulous for what? 92?)

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