When out on the stump, in cafes, churches and rallies across the country, Clinton talks of the adversity she has faced down over the course of four decades in public life. But consider some other titles from over the years: Lady Macbeth.
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Panetta said that when he took over as Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, he made a point of meeting with Hillary Clinton to fill her in about his activities – a gesture he said would be beneficial when dealing with her husband. “And she won’t reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, tax financial transactions or break up the biggest banks at this stage”. My mother was out on her own working as a house maid at the age of 14.
Schroeder thinks not. “I say to people, ‘What more do you want to know?'” the former congresswoman says.
A 1994 photo of then-president Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary ClintonSource: J.
However the Clintons arrange their roles in the White House, Bill Clinton has secured the job of first-ranking surrogate in the campaign to get them there.
“If a guy is described as ambitious, it’s a noble attribute”, says Verveer. They may not know all the details of her advocacy work as a young woman, but they have seen her smash-mouth partisanship, her grating insincerity, her gross money-grubbing, her serial dishonesties, her cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof caution, and her grind-out ambition that has lacked a light touch or any poetry. She delighted many classmates when she delivered an on-the-spot rebuke to the previous speaker, a US senator whose comments the grads found condescending to women.
“With respect to my own husband, I am probably still going to pick the flowers and the china for state dinners and stuff like that, but I will certainly turn to him, as prior presidents have, for special missions for advice”, Hillary Clinton said in the ABC News democratic debate in December.
A key moment in Clinton’s journey came in 1995, with her famous Beijing declaration: “Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights”.
Clinton’s image as a champion for women has been complicated by her, well, complicated marriage – she’s been an object of both sympathy and blame for staying with her husband post-Monica Lewinsky.
“Her proposed policies would do little to change (the wealth gap), compared with Bernie Sanders’ proposals”, said Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, who endorsed Sanders but who knew Hillary Rodham as a college student.
But those who’ve watched her up close say she’s an excellent communicator; Friends always call her relaxed, funny, witty.
On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook hopefully maintained that a lot of Americans simply “don’t understand” Hillary’s devotion to others, and the convention aims to give them this “fuller picture”.
At their 35th reunion, Nancy Herron performed a standup routine skewering Clinton – even her famous pantsuits. Mrs. Roosevelt was “sometimes laughed at and sometimes bitterly resented” for her outspokenness during her 12 years in the White House, according to The New York Times, and Clinton retreated from the public eye after her health care effort failed. “Afterward, she gave me a hug, and said, ‘We need to take you on the road!'”
Writer Gail Sheehy attributes that difficulty to years of fending off attacks.
“You could call it denial”, says Sheehy, author of “Hillary’s Choice”.
But Schweizer has laid out quite a bit of information and the Clinton campaign, while calling it a “smear project” can not ignore the fact that it all looks so very shady when a big deal goes through and there are foreign ties and special interests and the Secretary of State’s name is attached.
Again. Hillary has made more reintroductions than should be allowed for a person who has never gone away.
“What matters now that I’m a mom myself is that my mom has been fighting for, making progress on, issues that really matter to me”, she said. “Do they want some kind of a confession?”
Herron feels that we don’t subject male candidates to the same scrutiny.
“Hillary gets to decide which type of role she lets Bill fill, and that’s going to be critical to her legacy”, says Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, a political scientist at the University of Rhode Island.
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“You know what, she’s not like that!” He sparred with Black Lives Matters protesters who interrupted his campaign speech in Philadelphia in April and sparked outrage for dropping in for a private chat with Attorney General Loretta Lynch while her Justice Department was investigating his wife’s email server.
