God and Hillary Clinton (33 page)

2.
Alinsky,
Rules for Radicals
. This feature quote from Alinsky appears after the dedication page and title page and immediately before the table of contents.

3.
Roger Morris,
Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their Administration
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1996), pp. 133–34.

4.
Ibid., p. 48.

5.
Ibid.

6.
David Maraniss,
First in His Class
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 35.

7.
Bill Clinton,
My Life
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 30.

8.
Maraniss,
First in His Class
, p. 35.

9.
B. Clinton,
My Life
, p. 39.

10.
Ibid.

11.
R. Morris,
Partners in Power
, p. 49.

12.
B. Clinton,
My Life
, p. 67.

13.
By his own admission, Bill had not been a regular churchgoer since he left home for Georgetown in 1964, and had stopped singing in the church choir a few years before then. “After I went off to college,” he confessed, “I became an erratic churchgoer.” See: Ibid., p. 294; and Donald Baer, Matthew Cooper, and David Gergen, “Bill Clinton's Hidden Life,”
U.S. News & World Report
, July 20, 1992.

14.
Judith Warner,
Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story
(New York: Signet Books, 1999), p. 68.

15.
Ibid., p. 31.

16.
At the time, Medved was becoming interested in religion, and even attended some Quaker meetings. Yet he did not personally observe “any interest in religion on her [Hillary's] part, or any conversation, or any expression of religiosity at all.” Medved says that “for months” he had initially thought that Hillary might be Jewish. Interviews with Michael Medved, June 8 and 9, 2006.

17.
Paul Lewis, “Robert Treuhaft, Lawyer Who Inspired Funeral Expose, Dies at 89,”
New York Times
, December 2, 2001.

18.
See: Ibid.; Rick DelVecchio, “Robert Treuhaft, Crusading Bay Area Lawyer, Champion of Leftist Causes for Decades,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, November 12, 2001.

19.
DelVecchio, “Robert Treuhaft.”

20.
Andersen reports it as a menorah. It would have been a mezuzah instead of a menorah; a menorah is a candelabrum, whereas a mezuzah is an enclosed scroll to mark the doorpost of a home. Christopher Andersen,
American Evita: Hillary Clinton's Path to Power
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 50.

21.
Ibid.

22.
There was speculation to this effect by several Arkansas pro-life leaders interviewed for this book.

23.
See: Hillary quoted in Claire G. Osborne, ed.,
The Unique Voice of Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Portrait in Her Own Words
(New York: Avon Books, 1997), p. 18; and Norman King,
Hillary: Her True Story
(New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993), p. 60.

24.
I am not familiar with a single source that documents the churches (or homes) in which all first couples were married. Research on more recent presidents, however, confirms that the Trumans, Kennedys, Fords, Carters, and all the Bushes were married in churches, with information on the others requiring more research. The Eisenhowers, however, appear
to have been married in Mamie's family home, which was probably the result of frictions over the denomination of Ike's mother. In short, nearly all the more recent first couples were married in churches.

25.
B. Clinton,
My Life
, p. 370; and King,
Hillary
, p. 60.

26.
Andersen,
American Evita
, p. 60.

27.
Peter Flaherty and Timothy Flaherty,
The First Lady
(Lafayette, La.: Vital Issues Press, 1995), pp. 75–76.

28.
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Living History
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), pp. 72–73.

Chapter 5: The First Lady of Arkansas

1.
Peter Flaherty and Timothy Flaherty,
The First Lady
(Lafayette, La.: Vital Issues Press, 1995), p. 139.

2.
Ibid., p. 141.

3.
Joyce Milton,
The First Partner
(New York: William Morrow, 1999), p. 140.

4.
David Maraniss,
First in His Class
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), pp. 432–33.

5.
Maraniss agrees, seeing a similarity in the Clintons' religious evolutions, reflective of a broader generational trend: Both saw churchgoing as an essential part of their early adolescent years, less apparent in their twenties, and then, as Maraniss describes it, “more vital again” as they moved into their thirties and into parenthood and middle age. Ibid.

6.
Ibid.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Information taken from the Web site of the First United Methodist Church of Little Rock.

9.
Bishop Richard B. Wilke said this in his introductory remarks on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton in her April 24, 1996, speech to the United Methodist General Conference. Also see: Maraniss,
First in His Class
, pp. 432–33.

10.
During a July 2006 phone call placed to the church in the course of researching this book, a church secretary said that services had been televised since at least the late 1960s. According to the timeline posted on the church Web site, services began to be televised in 1973.

11.
The perception is so commonplace that there is no need for a citation. In addition to Nigel Hamilton,
Bill Clinton: An American Journey: Great
Expectations
(New York: Random House, 2003), among the more careful biographers who at least note the perception is Milton,
First Partner
, p. 140.

12.
This is according to the Web site of the Southern Baptist Convention.

13.
Bill Clinton,
My Life
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 294.

14.
Donald Baer, Matthew Cooper, and David Gergen, “Bill Clinton's Hidden Life,”
U.S. News & World Report
, July 20, 1992.

15.
B. Clinton,
My Life
, p. 294.

16.
Hamilton,
Bill Clinton
, pp. 379–80.

17.
Baer, Cooper, and Gergen, “Bill Clinton's Hidden Life.”

18.
B. Clinton,
My Life
, p. 294.

19.
Baer, Cooper, and Gergen, “Bill Clinton's Hidden Life.”

20.
Maraniss,
First in His Class
, p. 434.

21.
Ibid.

22.
Ibid., pp. 434–35.

23.
Interview with William F. Harrison, January 10, 2007.

24.
Maraniss,
First in His Class
, pp. 434–35.

25.
Ibid.

26.
Ibid.

27.
Depending, of course, on the translation, some Bibles use the words “spirit” or even “wind” rather than “breath of life,” and some use the word “formed” instead of “fashioned.”

28.
Some other sources, including Norman King,
Hillary: Her True Story
(New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993), date the visit in 1980. Clinton himself says December 1981.

29.
King,
Hillary
, pp. 84–85.

30.
B. Clinton,
My Life
, p. 294.

31.
Ibid.

32.
Ibid.

33.
King,
Hillary
, pp. 84–85.

34.
Ibid.

35.
Milton,
First Partner
, p. 139.

36.
Yet their sudden appearances in church, concedes Milton, “may not have been as calculated as it appeared.” Milton, too, noticed other aspects of the Clintons' religious life that suggest sincerity rather than politics. Milton,
First Partner
, pp. 139–40.

37.
Maraniss does not provide the date or place or occasion for the speech, though Hillary gave the speech when her husband was governor. Maraniss,
First in His Class
, pp. 432–33.

38.
Ibid.

39.
Interview with Pastor Ed Matthews, October 25, 2005.

40.
Maraniss,
First in His Class
, pp. 432–33.

41.
Interview with Pastor Ed Matthews, October 25, 2005.

42.
Though Lewis recalls Hillary teaching, he does not recall her attending, though he says that his wife's memory is “infinitely better” than his, and that she recalls Hillary also attending as well as teaching.

43.
Interview with Willard Lewis, November 3, 2005.

44.
Interview with Willard Lewis, November 3, 2005.

45.
Others from Hillary's Sunday school class refused to respond to requests for interviews, and advised Lewis thereafter to do the same. When asked on November 7, 2005, if there was anyone else in the class that he suggested be contacted for this book, Lewis said that he forwarded the request to Craig and Nancy Wood, both longtime members of FUMC and the Bowen-Cabe Sunday school class, of which Craig is now president. Nancy, a former teacher, had served as a trustee of Hendrix College and as a member of the state board of education. Lewis that said both were “very substantial and civic-minded individuals in whose word you can have absolute trust.” Neither of these individuals responded. In response to a follow-up inquiry made directly to Lewis on February 14, 2006, Lewis wrote: “I had mentioned to Nancy Wood that I had had some inquiries about Hillary. Her response, and a rather emphatic one too, was that she scrupulously avoided responding to any inquiries about the Clintons, out of concern that the information thus accumulated might be put to some negative use. Sorry I couldn't be of more help!”

46.
Wilke, introductory remarks, April 24, 1996.

47.
Attendees in this class did not want to be interviewed for this book, with the exception of Willard Lewis.

48.
Interview with Willard Lewis, November 7, 2005.

Chapter 6: Hillary's Causes and Bill's Demons

1.
Nigel Hamilton,
Bill Clinton
(New York: Random House, 2003), p. 467.

2.
Ibid.

3.
Joyce Milton,
The First Partner
(New York: William Morrow, 1999), p. 158.

4.
Ibid.

5.
See: Herbert J. Gans, “The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All,”
Social Policy
(July/August 1971): 20–24.

6.
Milton,
First Partner
, pp. 158–60.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Ibid., p. 159.

9.
Ibid., p. 158–60.

10.
Judith Warner,
Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story
(New York: Signet Books, 1999), p. 270.

11.
Gail Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
(New York: Random House, 1999), p. 173.

12.
Ibid.

13.
The source for this anecdote is Christopher Andersen,
American Evita: Hillary Clinton's Path to Power
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 60. Norman King says that the reception took place the next day at Ann Henry's “place.” King,
Hillary: Her True Story
(New York: Birch Lane Press, 1995), p. 60. In
My Life
, Bill Clinton seems to imply that the reception took place the evening following the ceremony, where he says “a couple hundred of our friends” gathered at Ann Henry's house before they shifted to “Billie Schneider's place in the Downtown Motor Inn” where they all “danced the night away”; Clinton,
My Life
(New York: Random House, 2004), pp. 233–35.

14.
Interview with Pastor Ed Matthews, October 25, 2005.

15.
Interviews with Pastor Ed Matthews, October 25 and 31, 2005.

16.
Interviews with Pastor Ed Matthews, October 25 and 31, 2005.

17.
Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
, p. 190.

18.
Ibid.