God and Hillary Clinton (34 page)

19.
King,
Hillary
, p. 124.

20.
For example, Christopher Andersen writes only: “The Methodist marriage counselor apparently worked wonders; Hillary emerged after several emotional sessions to proclaim that she and Bill had recommitted themselves to the marriage.” It is not totally clear if the “Methodist minister” is Ed Matthews, and Andersen does not list a source. Andersen,
American Evita
, p. 101.

21.
Martin Walker,
The President We Deserve: Bill Clinton: His Rise, Falls, and Comebacks
(New York: Crown Publishers, 1996), pp. 113–14.

22.
Ibid.

23.
Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
, p. 189.

24.
Ibid., p. 190.

25.
Warner,
Hillary Clinton
, pp. 275–76.

26.
Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
, p. 189.

27.
Walker,
President We Deserve
, p. 114.

28.
Milton,
First Partner
, p. 194.

29.
Warner,
Hillary Clinton
, pp. 274–75.

30.
Interview with Pastor Ed Matthews, October 25, 2005.

31.
Interview with Pastor Ed Matthews, October 25, 2005.

32.
Interview with Pastor Ed Matthews, October 25, 2005.

33.
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
It Takes A Village
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 151.

34.
On this, also see: Roxanne Roberts, “16 Candles for Chelsea,”
Washington Post
, February 27, 1996; and Roxanne Roberts, “Life with Father,”
Washington Post
, January 27, 1998.

35.
See: Andersen,
American Evita
, pp. 92–93.

Chapter 7: Taking Power

1.
Norman King,
Hillary: Her True Story
(New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993), p. 7.

2.
Interviews with Pastor Ed Matthews, October 25 and 31, 2005.

3.
Donald Baer, Matthew Cooper, and David Gergen, “Bill Clinton's Hidden Life.”
U.S. News & World Report
, July 20, 1992.

4.
Peter Flaherty and Timothy Flaherty,
The First Lady
(Lafayette, La.: Vital Issues Press, 1995), p. 155.

5.
Frank Bruni, “Senior Bush's Loss Set Course for Son's Candidacy,”
New York Times
, December 26, 1999.

6.
Flaherty and Flaherty,
First Lady
, p. 152.

7.
See: Meredith Oakley,
On the Make: The Rise of Bill Clinton
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1994), p. 97. Author cites an interview with Jones published by
People
magazine, January 25, 1993.

8.
Bill Clinton,
My Life
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 474.

9.
On this, see: George Weigel,
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001), p. 715.

10.
Kenneth L. Woodward, “Soulful Matters,”
Newsweek
, October 31, 1994.

11.
B. Clinton,
My Life
, p. 563.

12.
K. L. Woodward, “Soulful Matters.”

13.
Interviews with Philip Wogaman, October 13 and 24, 2005. On where the first family sat, the source is K. L. Woodward, “Soulful Matters.”

14.
Interviews with Philip Wogaman, October 13 and 24, 2005.

15.
Interviews with Philip Wogaman, October 13 and 24, 2005.

16.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Address to the 1996 United Methodist General Conference, April 24, 1996.

17.
K. L. Woodward, “Soulful Matters.”

18.
Senator Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
(New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1992), pp. 163, 238–65, 269, 272–74, 282–83, 293–94. Also see: Paul Kengor,
Wreath Layer or Policy Player? The Vice President's Role in Foreign Policy
(Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2000), pp. 241–45.

19.
Susan K. Flinn, ed.
Speaking of Hillary
(Ashland, Ore.: White Cloud Press, 2000) pp. 79–88; speech given as part of Liz Carpenter Lecture Series, 1993.

20.
Michael Kelly, “Saint Hillary,”
New York Times Magazine
, May 23, 1993.

21.
Hillary said this. See: Ibid.

22.
Gail Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
(New York: Random House: 1999), p. 234.

23.
“The Rodham Family Biography,” CNN.com.

24.
Kelly, “Saint Hillary.”

25.
Ibid.

26.
Ibid.

27.
Gail Sheehy, pp. 234–35.

28.
Ibid.

29.
Martha Sherrill,
Washington Post
, “Hillary Clinton's Inner Politics,” May 6, 1993.

30.
Ibid.

31.
Joyce Milton,
The First Partner
(New York: William Morrow, 1999), p. 284.

32.
Kelly, “Saint Hillary.”

33.
Henry Allen, “A New Phrase at the White House,”
Washington Post
, June 9, 1993.

34.
Ibid.

35.
Ibid.

36.
Michael Lerner, “Hillary's Politics, My Meaning,”
Washington Post
, June 13, 1993.

37.
See: Barbara Olson,
Hell to Pay
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1999), pp. 312–13; and Milton,
First Partner
, p. 283–84.

38.
Allen, “New Phrase at the White House.”

39.
Ibid.

40.
Ibid.

41.
Ibid.

42.
Ibid.

Chapter 8: The Clintons, the Pope, and Mother Teresa

1.
George Weigel,
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001), p. 681.

2.
Transcript of August 12, 1993, remarks by Pope John Paul II. Also see: Weigel,
Witness to Hope
, p. 681.

3.
Evangelium Vitae
was issued in March 1995.

4.
For the record, some, like George W. Bush, would later see Communism's ugly successor as radical Islam, marked by a “turning point,” as Bush called it, on September 11, 2001. In fact, both the pope and Bush could be correct, in that radical Islam and uncontrolled abortion and liberalization of embryonic research and euthanasia could all have the effect of killing innocents—all create a Culture of Death, whether in a skyscraper in Manhattan, a café in Tel Aviv, or the white rooms of a laboratory, hospital, or abortion clinic. Later, Haynes Johnson, a sympathetic voice, would castigate Clinton for not seizing the moment, for, in essence, wasting his chance in the 1990s to grab this transition by the horns and define a new era. Of course, Johnson, being a liberal, did not have in mind what the pope was talking about. And he could not have had in mind what Bush was talking about; neither did Bush nor anyone else, as no one expected September 11, 2001, an event that not only transformed the course of world history but the entirety of what otherwise would have been a fairly mundane Bush presidency focused on a few domestic issues stemming from his “compassionate conservatism.”

5.
Weigel,
Witness to Hope
, p. 684.

6.
See: Robert P. Casey,
Fighting for Life
(Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 1996), p. 175.

7.
Raymond Hernandez and Patrick D. Healy, “The Evolution of Hillary Clinton,”
New York Times
, July 13, 2005.

8.
Weddington said that he was “not proposing that you send federal agents armed with Depo-Provera dart guns to the ghetto. You should use persuasion rather than coercion.”

9.
This information, including a full copy of the Weddington letter to Clinton, was exposed in a special report by the legal watchdog Judicial Watch. The report is titled “The Clinton RU-486 Files,” and is available
on the Web site of Judicial Watch.

10.
Clinton notes that he attended each one of them. I was not able to determine if Hillary attended each, and Bill did not say so. On Bill, see: Bill Clinton,
My Life
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 558.

11.
Kathryn Spink,
Mother Teresa, A Complete Authorized Biography
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), p. 272.

12.
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Living History
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), pp. 417–18.

13.
A text of the speech is available on the Web site of Eternal Word Television Network, EWTN.

14.
Henry Allen, “A New Phrase at the White House,”
Washington Post
, June 9, 1993.

15.
Peggy Noonan, “Still, Small, Voice,”
Crisis
, February 1998, pp. 12–17.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Spink,
Mother Teresa
, p. 272.

18.
Hillary spoke later that afternoon at the National Prayer Luncheon.

19.
H. R. Clinton,
Living History
, pp. 417–18.

20.
Spink,
Mother Teresa
, p. 272; and Mary McGrory, “Allies for the Children,”
Washington Post
, June 20, 1995.

21.
McGrory, “Allies for the Children”; and H. R. Clinton,
Living History
, p. 418.

22.
H. R. Clinton,
Living History
, pp. 417–18.

23.
McGrory, “Allies for the Children”; and H. R. Clinton,
Living History
, p. 418.

24.
H. R. Clinton,
Living History
, pp. 417–18.

25.
Ibid., p. 418; and Spink,
Mother Teresa
, pp. 283–84.

26.
Gail Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
(New York: Random House, 1999), pp. 234–35.

Chapter 9: The Debacle of November 1994

1.
Michael Lerner, “Hillary's Politics, My Meaning,”
Washington Post
, June 13, 1993.

2.
The only major news story I could find on this issue was a February 23, 2001, report by Andrea Peyser in the conservative
New York Post
, reprinted on the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com.

3.
See: Alan Cowell, “Vatican Says Gore Is Misrepresenting Population
Talks,”
New York Times
, September 1, 1994, p. A1.

4.
Georrge Weigel,
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001) pp. 724–25.

5.
Kenneth L. Woodward, “Soulful Matters,” Newsweek, October 31, 1994.

6.
Ibid.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Ibid.

9.
Ibid.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Her husband states: “Most ardent pro-lifers are all for prosecuting doctors, but grow less certain when their argument that an abortion is a crime is carried to its logical conclusion: prosecuting the mother for murder.” See: Bill Clinton,
My Life
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 229. Former California Supreme Court justice William P. Clark, who in 1981 declined Ronald Reagan's offer of a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, notes that no woman in the history of American jurisprudence has been prosecuted for having an abortion—doctors have been, as have midwives, but not the mother. “And pro-lifers don't want that now,” says Clark, today a major player in California's Propositions 73/85 ballot initiative for parental notification for abortion laws. “Compassion has always been shown to the mother.” Interview with William P. Clark, July 3, 2006.

12.
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Living History
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. 418.

13.
K. L. Woodward, “Soulful Matters.”

14.
Gail Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
(New York: Random House, 1999), p. 244.