A Woman in Charge (100 page)
“They are peelingâ¦issue”: John King, “While Defending Clinton, Democrats Have Whitewater Jitters,” Associated Press, March 11, 1994.
“they can't standâ¦attack”: Richard L. Berke. “Party Attacking Clintons' Critics,”
New York Times,
March 13, 1994, p. 25.
“to have aâ¦reverse”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“I swear to God, it didn't happen”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 255.
“I begged him andâ¦her”: Author's interview with Jim Blair.
“Impeach Hillary”: Lloyd Grove, “It Isn't Easy Being Right: At the Conservative Confab, Out of Sorts About Who's in Power,”
Washington Post,
February 14, 1994.
“The whole sceneâ¦before”: Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human,
p. 266.
“It's wrong that a womanâ¦to me”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 389.
“a cheapâ¦trick”: Ibid.
“Only after Mr. Clintonâ¦relief”: Ibid., p. 390.
“she was beggingâ¦D.C.”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“tolling agreement”: Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human,
p. 272.
“distinguishing characteristics”: Neil A. Lewis, “Material Hints of Assistance in Jones Case,”
New York Times,
October 27, 1998.
“After a reviewâ¦investigation”: Text provided by the Associated Press, June 30, 1994.
“essentially those expectedâ¦probe”: Douglas Jehl, “First Whitewater Report Pleases Clinton Advisers,”
New York Times,
July 1, 1994, p. 16.
“really fucking crazy”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“the Republican and theirâ¦Justice”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 243.
“eat his hat”: Ibid., p. 244.
“appoint a newâ¦remain”: Jerry Seper, “Reno Seeks a Change in Fiske's Status,”
Washington Times,
July 2, 1994. '
“It is notâ¦conflict”: Michael J. Sniffen, “Fiske Replaced as Whitewater Prosecutor by Starr,” Associated Press, August 5, 1994.
“Western wearâ¦problems”: Jeffrey Toobin,
A Vast Conspiracy
(New York: Random House, 1999).
“Everybody else hasâ¦done”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 270.
“Our competitiveness, ourâ¦care”: Drew,
On the Edge,
p. 302.
“Every American wouldâ¦companies”: Ibid., p. 303.
“I find herâ¦self-righteousness”: Author's interview with Bob Boorstin.
“In the veryâ¦husband”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 183.
“I am pleasedâ¦last”: Ibid., p. 184.
“I'm here asâ¦nation”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“Kevorkian prescription forâ¦women”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 185.
“Her thoughts soundâ¦Marxists”: Ibid.
“as exciting as possibleâ¦I'm sure⦓We'll do⦓You andâ¦I haveâ¦understated”: Ibid.
“Not since Eleanorâ¦easily”: Ibid., p. 184.
“I hope my mother is listening”: Mike Feinsilber, “She Made Her Case in a Lawyerly Manner,” Associated Press, September 28, 1993.
“Hillary Rodham Clintonâ¦solution”: Adam Clymer, “The Clinton Health Plan Is Alive on Arrival,”
New York Times,
October 3, 1993.
“It's a longâ¦superstar”: Mary McGrory, “Capital Hillary,”
Washington Post,
October 3, 1993.
“It was, in a wayâ¦they were”: Maureen Dowd, “First Lady Takes Stage, Ending Era on the Hill,”
New York Times,
September 29, 1993.
“If Ira Magazinerâ¦destroyed”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 186.
“My colleagues who haveâ¦at it”: Karen Tumulty, “Health Care Math Leaves Critics Puzzled,”
Los Angeles Times,
September 11, 1993.
“fantasy”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 351.
“I can't believe they'reâ¦unprecedented”: Karen Ball, “Sorting Through the Competing Health Care Bills: A Primer,” Associated Press, October 11, 1993.
“until the legislation is complete”: David S. Broder and Dana Priest, “As Momentum Slows, Clintons Said to Be Eager to Submit Health Care Bill,”
Washington Post,
October 14, 1993.
“I don't rememberâ¦happen”: Author's interview with Roger Altman.
“you to getâ¦sit down”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 132.
“It's certainly possibleâ¦common”: Paul Richter and Edwin Chen, “Clinton, Aides Hit the Road to Push Health Care Plan,”
Los Angeles Times,
September 24, 1993.
“The Government mayâ¦all”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 205.
“The Government caps howâ¦way”: Adam Clymer, “Hillary Clinton Accuses Insurers of Lying About Health Proposal,”
New York Times,
November 2, 1993.
“thousands of pages”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 192.
Once the Clintonsâ¦health care reform: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 234.
“Whitewater and Health Care”: Ibid., p. 276.
“The administration, the Democrats inâ¦Washington”: Harris,
The Survivor,
p. 149.
The decision toâ¦buses rerouted: The account of the Reform Rider campaign is based on
The System
and
Living History,
p. 245.
“to use theâ¦House”: David E. Rosenbaum, “A Republican Who Sees Himself as a Revolutionary on the Verge of Victory,”
New York Times,
July 24, 1994.
“It is timeâ¦bill?”: Gergen,
Eyewitness to Power,
p. 302.
“willingness to compromiseâ¦Government”: Judy Keen, “Health-Plan Backers in GOP Targeted,”
USA Today.
June 1, 1994.
“impossible”: Ibid.
“to win conservativeâ¦1996”: Ibid.
“Foley said absolutely notâ¦through”: Klein, “Eight Years.”
“schizophrenic”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“a creative pollsterâ¦strategist”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 251.
“how the Clintonsâ¦defeat”: Morris,
Rewriting History,
p. 96.
“This guy is terribleâ¦crawl”: Author's interview with Robert Reich.
“she had beenâ¦'80”: Ibid.
“I cut the deficitâ¦Arkansas”: Morris,
Rewriting History,
p. 97.
“confirmed”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 256.
“fighting to getâ¦agenda”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 516.
“Solid South”: Ibid., p. 552.
“deflated and disappointed”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 257.
“My view is Hillaryâ¦unforgivable”: Author's interview with Lawrence O'Donnell.
“When your purposeâ¦opposition”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 615.
“campaign-think”: Ibid.
I don't knowâ¦spiral”: Author's interview with David Gergen.
“I was profoundlyâ¦public”: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 630.
“it was a matterâ¦that”: Author's interview with David Gergen.
“We weren't moving afterâ¦incoherent”: Author's interview with Donna Shalala.
“My friends (closestâ¦I thinkâ¦Morris replacedâ¦deferential”: Author's interview with David Gergen.
“he pushed herâ¦anything”: Author's interview with Dick Morris.
“she literally withdrewâ¦staff”: Author's interview with Harold Ickes.
“She didn't trustâ¦wicked witch”: Ibid.
“I had aâ¦her”: Author's interview with Dick Morris.
“[A]s Clinton withdrew fromâ¦Morris”: Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human.
“To help getâ¦loss”: Morris,
Rewriting History,
p. 98.
“I told theâ¦weak”: Ibid.
“draft avoidance, theâ¦prone”: Ibid.
“There was nothingâ¦him”: Ibid.
“her outspokenness beforeâ¦start sendingâ¦1970s”: Ibid., p. 99.
“miracle deck”: Marianne Williamson Web site.
“humanistic psychology”: www.jeanhouston.org.
“the Mystery Schoolâ¦potential”: Ibid.
“scholarâ¦Capacities”: Ibid.
“For the Healing of Americaâ¦equally”: Colleen O'Connor, “Prayers for the World: Marianne Williamson Writes About Making Amends,”
Dallas Morning News,
January 7, 1995, p. 1.
“positiveâ¦negative”: Author's interview with Jean Houston.
“low point”: Ibid.
“did the major guidingâ¦visions”: Ibid.
“psychologistâ¦types”: Ibid.
“experts in twoâ¦me”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 264.
He responded thatâ¦for the country: Author's interview with Jean Houston.
“He respected himâ¦Republicans”: Ibid.
“batteredâ¦tormented”: Ibid.
“I thought aboutâ¦life”: Martha Sherrill, “Eleanor Roosevelt, in Bronze: Hillary Clinton Joins in Benefit for N.Y. Statue”:
Washington Post,
February 22, 1993, p. 1.
“conversations”: Ibid.
“How did you putâ¦way?”: Author's interview with Jean Houston.
“I was essentiallyâ¦books”: Ibid.
“My whole lifeâ¦capacity”: Joseph Berger, “Performing Séances? No, Just âPushing the Membrane of the Possible,'”
New York Times,
June 25, 1996, p. 13.
“design for theâ¦Christ life”: www.jeanhouston.org.
“act as if”: Author's interview with Jean Houston.
“hostile messages”: Ibid.
“convention of New Age guru authors”: Ann Devroy, “New Age âGuru to the Glitterati' Advised Clintons,”
Washington Post,
January 11, 1995, p. 4.
“personal growth guruâ¦thinking”: Ibid.
“lacks a senseâ¦go”: Ibid.
“could be evaluatedâ¦mischaracterized”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 263.
“My first responsibilityâ¦to do”: Kenneth T. Walsh, “Being There for Bill,”
U.S. News & World Report,
February 27, 1995, p. 36.
“I wished I wasâ¦Department”: “First Lady to Spend 2 Weeks in S. Asia,”
USA Today,
March 20, 1995.
“some of the lastâ¦childhood”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 268.
“my conviction thatâ¦globe”: Ibid., p. 269.
“being rocketed forwardâ¦abandoned: Ibid., p. 271.
“The first ladyâ¦nuts”: Ibid., p. 287.
“Washington just can'tâ¦power”: Ann Devroy and Charles R. Babcock, “Gingrich Foresees Corruption Probe by a GOP House; Party Could Wield Subpoenas Against âEnemy' Administration,”
Washington Post,
October 14, 1994.
“corruption”: Ibid.
Not long beforeâ¦anything better: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 367.
“You're supposed toâ¦Presumablyâ¦But thenâ¦And Iâ¦silence”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“He and his motherâ¦things”: Ibid.
“I never talkedâ¦point”: Ibid.
“In his handwritingâ¦up'”: Ibid.
“Why did youâ¦anymore?”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 260.
“That was inâ¦Butâ¦Whatâ¦He controlsâ¦police”: Ibid.
“David Maraniss isâ¦up”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“Well, there wasâ¦that'”: Ibid.
“I felt I wasâ¦him?'”: Ibid.
“Are they comingâ¦Yepâ¦are”: Ibid.
“Bill Bennett, Billâ¦it”: Ibid.
“I ended upâ¦since”: Ibid.
“She was madâ¦race”: Author's interview with Dick Morris.
“I would talkâ¦empty”: Ibid.
Chapter 16: Truth or Consequences (2)
“not for anyone elseâ¦it”: Author's interview with Mark Fabiani.
“centralize”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 222.
“Hillary was clearlyâ¦disadvantage”: Author's interview with Mark Fabiani.
“was another iterationâ¦changed”: Ibid.
“we talked aboutâ¦it”: Ibid.
“like him veryâ¦meeting”: Ibid.
“instincts are horribleâ¦mind”: Ibid.
“The president wasn'tâ¦her”: Ibid.
“She is so torturedâ¦today”: Ibid.
“never seemed toâ¦about”: Ibid.
“keep your eyeâ¦forward”: Ibid.
“very later inâ¦McDougal”: Ibid.
“personal”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 282.
Fabiani and Sherburneâ¦shouldn't open.”: Author's interview with Mark Fabiani; Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 285; Senate Committee Report; and Michael Isikoff, “The Night Foster Died,”
Newsweek,
July 17, 1996.
“bobbing and weavingâ¦bored”: David Maraniss, “The Hearings End Much as They Began,”
Washington Post,
June 19, 1996.
“irrational hope thatâ¦there”: Susan Schmidt and Sharon LaFraniere, “Senators Hear 2 Stories on Foster Office Search: Officer, First Lady's Aide Differ on File Removal,”
Washington Post,
July 27, 1995.
“personal files”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 282.
“very little sense”: Schmidt and LaFraniere, “Senators Hear 2 Stories on Foster Office Search.”
“Everything that happenedâ¦plot”: Ibid.
“burn bag”: Ibid.
“after a fewâ¦staff”: Ibid.
“I had assuranceâ¦covered”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“I had approachedâ¦embarrassing”: Ibid.
“the Tom and Daisyâ¦be'”: Joe Klein, “The Body Count,”
Newsweek,
August 7, 1995, p. 34.
“China's hospitality”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 303.
“push the envelope”: Ibid., p. 302.
“shaping up asâ¦sentiment”: Ibid., p. 299.
“It is a violationâ¦. will”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1995.
“may have beenâ¦life”: “Mrs. Clinton's Unwavering Words,” editorial,
New York Times,
September 6, 1995, p. 24.