God and Hillary Clinton (35 page)

Chapter 10: New Agers and Eleanor's Ghost

1.
Marian Wright Edelman, “Protect Children from Unjust Policies,”
Washington Post
, November 3, 1995.

2.
Peter Edelman, “The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done,”
Atlantic Monthly
, March 1997, pp. 43–58.

3.
Peter Flaherty and Timothy Flaherty,
The First Lady
(Lafayette, La.: Vital Issues Press, 1995), p. 212.

4.
Text of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's remarks at the Annual
National Prayer Luncheon, February 2, 1995.

5.
Bob Woodward,
The Choice
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), pp. 55–57.

6.
Ibid., p. 56.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Remarks for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women,” Beijing, China, September 5, 1995.

9.
This seems to have been misreported in a ZENIT story four years later, titled “Hillary Clinton Calls Abortion a ‘Human Right,'” published by ZENIT on February 9, 1999.

10.
B. Woodward,
Choice
, p. 271–72.

11.
Ibid., p. 129.

12.
Ibid.

13.
Ibid., pp. 130–32.

14.
Ibid., pp. 132–33.

15.
Ibid.

16.
Ibid., p. 412.

17.
Barbara Olson,
Hell to Pay
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1999), pp. 313–14.

18.
Jon Klimo,
Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources
(Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1987), pp. 188–200.

19.
Claire Osborne,
The Unique Voice of Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Portrait in Her Own Words
(New York: Avon Books, 1997), p. 121.

20.
Gail Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
(New York: Random House, 1999), p. 262. For the quote, Sheehy cites the
Los Angeles Times
of June 25, 1996.

21.
I was not able to ascertain if she had sought out this speaking opportunity or had been invited without prompting.

22.
H. R. Clinton, Address to the 1996 United Methodist General Conference, April 24, 1996.

23.
Osborne,
Unique Voice of Hillary Rodham Clinton
, pp. 89–90.

Chapter 11: Surviving the Second Term

1.
Polling data posted by
Meet the Press with Tim Russert
, NBC, June 28, 1998.

2.
For example, see: Lois Romano and Peter Baker, “Another Clinton Accuser Goes Public,”
Washington Post
, February 20, 1999, p. A1. Broaddrick herself would confront Hillary with a letter to the sitting first lady
demanding an explanation, a letter excerpted in the press. See, among others: Steve Miller, “Broaddrick Confronts First Lady in Angry Letter,”
Washington Times
, October 17, 2000.

3.
Barbara Olson saw something deeper in Hillary's warnings of a dark conspiracy against her husband, something rooted in the moral absolutism of her religious worldview. “It became the root of her worldview, one in which it is never enough to attack an opponent's actions,” wrote Olson. “One must also expose his motives, and use that perspective to destroy both the action and its proponents. For the natural companion of a doctrine of perfectibility is a conviction in the existence of evil—and immorality—of one's enemies. Hillary's America is a starkly Manichean universe, one in which she perceives the enemies of progress as numerous, powerful, and clever.” Olson,
Hell to Pay
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1999), p. 30.

4.
Jonathan Alter, “Why Hillary Still Holds On,”
Newsweek
, August 31, 1998.

5.
Maraniss interviewed by Tom Brokaw, NBC coverage of the speech, August 17, 1998.

6.
Beschloss and Stephanopoulos provided commentary on ABC immediately after the speech, August 17, 1998.

7.
Chris Matthews speaking on MSNBC's
Hardball
, February 12, 1999.

8.
See: Robert D. McFadden, John Kifner, and N. R. Kleinfeld, “10 Days in the White House: Public Acts and Secret Trysts,”
New York Times
, September 14, 1998; and Nancy Gibbs, “The Starr Report: We, the Jury,”
Time
, September 21, 1998.

9.
The show aired on ABC's
20/20
on March 3, 1999. Also see: Editorial, “It's Fun!”
Washington Times
, March 5, 1999.

10.
Alter, “Why Hillary Still Holds On.”

11.
Ibid.

12.
Ibid.

13.
Ibid.

14.
Ibid.

15.
Christopher Andersen,
Bill and Hillary: The Marriage
(New York: William Morrow, 1999), p. 32.

16.
The fact that Jackson invited himself has been widely reported in the various biographies of Hillary.

17.
Jesse Jackson, “Keeping Faith in a Storm,”
Newsweek
, August 31, 1998.

18.
Gail Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
(New York: Random House, 1999), p. 311; and Andersen,
Bill and Hillary
, pp. 24–25.

19.
Andersen,
Bill and Hillary
, pp. 24–25.

20.
Ibid.

21.
Jackson, “Keeping Faith in a Storm.”

22.
Ibid.

23.
See, among others, Christopher Andersen,
American Evita: Hillary Clinton's Path to Power
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004), pp. 167–68.

24.
Jackson, “Keeping Faith in a Storm.”

25.
Andersen,
Bill and Hillary
, pp. 24–25.

26.
Jackson, “Keeping Faith in a Storm.”

27.
Ibid.

28.
See: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
, p. 311; and Andersen,
Bill and Hillary
, pp. 24–25.

29.
Andersen,
Bill and Hillary
, pp. 24–25.

30.
Of the three, only MacDonald did not respond to requests to be interviewed. The request was made through his receptionist on October 18 and November 2, 2005.

31.
On this, see: Bob Woodward,
Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
(New York: Touchstone, 1999), p. 324.

32.
Andersen,
Bill and Hillary
, p. 31.

33.
Bill Clinton,
My Life
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 810.

34.
Interviews with Philip Wogaman, October 13 and 24, 2005.

35.
Interview with Tony Campolo, March 22, 2006.

36.
Interview with Tony Campolo, March 22, 2006.

37.
Interviews with Philip Wogaman, October 13 and 24, 2005.

38.
Andersen,
Bill and Hillary
, p. 32.

39.
Interviews with Philip Wogaman, October 13 and 24, 2005.

40.
Interview with Tony Campolo, March 22, 2006.

41.
Andersen,
Bill and Hillary
, p. 31.

42.
Interviews with Philip Wogaman, October 13 and 24, 2005.

43.
See: “Chronology of Clinton's Apologies,”
New York Times
, September 11, 1998.

44.
Ibid.

45.
B. Clinton,
My Life
, pp. 810–11.

46.
As Hillary attended Immanuel Baptist, Hillary sat in her regular pew at First United Methodist when the head usher whispered to her asking if she would be willing to receive the offering, and she happily agreed. The offering comes after the sermon, at the end of the service. Says Matthews: “She knew her cue as to when she was supposed to do that, and moved back to the end of the church. Security people [the Secret Service] had no idea what she was doing, and actually, neither did I! But she loved being able to do that for her church. To be a servant.” Interview with Pastor Ed
Matthews, October 25, 2005.

47.
Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice
, pp. 322–23.

48.
Interviews with Pastor Ed Matthews, October 25 and 31, 2005.

49.
Vincent Morris, “First Churchgoers Get That Old-Time Religion,”
Washington Post
, September 21, 1998.

50.
B. Clinton,
My Life
, pp. 811, 846.

51.
On that, Judith Warner states that “Hillary has repeatedly stressed that her religious beliefs, as much as anything else, have borne her through her marriage.” But was there something more than her religion? How about her politics? Warner asks, “Is religion really the key behind Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision to stay with Bill Clinton? In an abstract sense, yes.” Warner explains that Hillary's faith demands that she “sublimate” her personal feelings to a greater, abstract ideal. “Life can have some transcendent meaning,” Hillary once said in a graduation speech at Hendrix College. “Work toward the achievement of a universal human dignity, not just your own personal security.” Warner speculated that Hillary appears to have made a conscious effort to focus on the transcendent aspects of her marriage. She says that Hillary has always had faith in Bill Clinton's larger political mandate, that she “passionately” believed in the good he could do for the country. To accomplish that mandate, reported Warner, Hillary concluded that Bill needed her beside him, both as a “wifely presence” and as a political adviser. Warner is quick to add that politics was not Hillary's only consideration: “She also, by all accounts, has always loved him.” See: Judith Warner,
Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story
(New York: Signet Books, 1993), p. 276.

52.
Quoted in Zev Chafets, “When It Comes to Faith, This Senator's Full of It,”
Daily News
, June 9, 2003.

53.
Laura Ingraham,
The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places
(New York: Hyperion, 2000), p. 197.

54.
Ibid.

55.
Howard Kurtz, “A Reporter with Lust in Her Hearts,”
Washington Post
, July 6, 1998.

56.
Cited in L. Brent Bozell III, “Bigwigs of ‘Primary Colors' Offer Insights on Libido and Leadership,”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
, March 26, 1998.

57.
Ibid.

58.
Dana Gresh speaking on James Dobson's
Focus on the Family
daily radio broadcast, December 18, 2006.

59.
Cited in Charles E. Dunn,
The Scarlet Thread of Scandal
(Lanham, Md.: Rowman-Littlefield, 1999), p. 1.

60.
See: B. Woodward,
Shadow
, pp. 451, 474–75; and Woodward inter
viewed on
Tim Russert
, CNBC, June 20, 1999.

61.
Quoted in B. Woodward,
Shadow
, p. 475.

62.
Andrew Johnson, the other president to be impeached, had come into office as Lincoln's successor after Lincoln was assassinated. Johnson had been Lincoln's vice president.

63.
For a complete list, see: “Cincinnati Paper Blasts Clinton,” MSNBCNews.com, September 17, 1998.

64.
On this, see: George Weigel,
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001), pp. 740, 776–77.

65.
Julia Lieblich, “Pope Arrives in U.S.,” Associated Press, July 27, 1999; and “Pope Arrives in St. Louis and Warns of ‘Time of Testing,'” CNN. com, July 27, 1999.

66.
Ibid.

67.
“President Clinton's Meeting with His Holiness Pope John Paul II,” Statement by the Press Secretary, the White House, January 26, 1999.

Chapter 12: Transition

1.
Her comments, said the
New York Times
, were the first time she had publicly discussed her views on this issue. Adam Nagourney, “Hillary Clinton Faults Policy of ‘Don't Ask,'”
New York Times
, December 9, 1999.

2.
Ibid.

3.
Ibid.