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5
Florida State University football player
Christina Wilkie, “Glory Days: Altmire Recalls His Season with FSU Football Coach Bobby Bowden,”
The Hill
, December 16, 2009.

6
endorsed Barack Obama
Josh Drobnyk, “Patrick Murphy Backs Obama,”
Morning Call
, August 21, 2007,
http://bit.ly/17Q696b
.

7
packed with more than four hundred people
Timothy McNulty, “Bill Clinton Appears at Fund Raiser for Ravenstahl,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, November 26, 2008.

T
WO
: “B
E
G
RACIOUS IN
D
EFEAT

1
$4 million–plus redbrick home
Zillow.com
, accessed August 22, 2013.

2
he did not intend to ask her
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin,
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
(New York: HarperCollins, 2011), p. 251.

3
memorial to “the built environment”
National Building Museum,
www.nbm.org
.

4
nearly an hour late
Dana Milbank, “A Thank-you for 18 Million Cracks in the Glass Ceiling,”
Washington Post
, June 8, 2008.

5
“about time” for a woman
Shailagh Murray, “Pool Report from the Clinton-Obama Event at Mayflower,”
Washington Post
, June 26, 2008.

6
“I’m going to need Hillary”
Ibid.

7
“root canal”
Heilemann and Halperin,
Game Change
, p. 263.

8
more than $22 million
July 2008 monthly report of Hillary Clinton for President, Federal Election Commission,
http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do#2
, accessed August 22, 2013.

T
HREE
: C
ALCULATED
R
ISK

1
in late October
Jonathan Alter,
The Promise: President Obama, Year One
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), p. 68.

2
“who I had tea with”
Amy Chozick, “Obama, Clinton Tea Off,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 28, 2007.

3
$6.4 million debt
December 2008 monthly report of Hillary Clinton for President, Federal Election Commission,
http://bit.ly/15O7mqD
.

4
Obama had offered her the job
Nico Pitney, “Officials: Obama Offered Clinton Secretary of State,”
Huffington Post
, November 14, 2008.

5
He came to see the political benefits
Bob Woodward,
Obama’s Wars: The Inside Story
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), p. 30.

6
He had suggested Hillary
Alter,
The Promise
, p. 67.

7
“I mean to make it hard”
Hillary Clinton, “townterview” by Suttichai Yoon and Veenarat Laohapakakul of
World Beat
, July 22, 2009, U.S. Department of State.

F
OUR
: U
S AND
T
HEM

1
mock-cupping the breast
Al Kamen, “One More Question …,”
Washington Post
, December 4, 2008.

2
“Senator Clinton is pleased”
Ibid.

3
“voice of reason”
Amie Parnes, “Gatekeeper: Cheryl Mills,”
Politico
, April 24, 2009.

4
“And she gets exactly that from Cheryl”
Ibid.

5
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen
, October 14, 2005.

6
Bush’s numbers were pathetic
2008 Pew Global Attitudes Project, December 18, 2013.

7
“the willing suspension of disbelief”
John Bresnahan, “Clinton: Believing Petraeus and Crocker Requires ‘Willing Suspension of Disbelief,’ ”
Politico
, September 11, 2007.

8
“Smart power is neither hard nor soft”
Joseph S. Nye Jr.,
Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
(New York: Public Affairs, 2004), p. xiii.

9
limited the former president’s international activities
Memorandum of Understanding between the William J. Clinton Foundation and the Office of President-Elect Barack Obama, December 18, 2008,
http://on-msn.com/16ia6A0
.

10
every living secretary of state
Glenn Thrush and Amie Parnes, “Land Mines Ahead for Hillary,”
Politico
, January 12, 2009.

11
issued an invitation
Helene Cooper, “Clinton to Dine with Condoleezza Rice,”
New York Times
, December 8, 2008.

12
“the vanguard of our foreign policy”
Hillary Clinton, Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “Nomination Hearing to Be Secretary of State,” January 13, 2009, U.S. Department of State,
http://1.usa.gov/18N3YP2;
video at
http://bit.ly/189okWl
.

13
“She can’t show up the president”
Thrush and Parnes, “Land Mines Ahead for Hillary.”

14
the
Times
begged the committee
“Bill Clinton’s Donors,” editorial,
New York Times
, January 10, 2009.

15
“multimillion-dollar minefield”
“Vitter to Vote Against Clinton Nomination,” Office of Senator David Vitter, January 15, 2009,
http://1.usa.gov/19ENSrV
.

16
“This is not goodbye”
Amie Parnes, “Clinton Bids Colleagues Farewell,”
Politico
, January 14, 2009.

F
IVE
: “B
LOOM
W
HERE
Y
OU

RE
P
LANTED

1
Marshall’s problem was less
Alison Leigh Cowan, “Pick for Protocol Post Corrects Failure to File Taxes in 2 years,”
New York Times
, June 18, 2009.

2
guaranteed a $1.3 million loan
Adam Nagourney, “With Some Help, Clintons Purchase a White House,”
New York Times
, September 3, 2009.

3
a tacit acknowledgment
“McAuliffe Defeat Deals Latest Blow to Clinton Legacy,” Associated Press, June 11, 2009.

S
IX
: F
IRST
A
MONG
E
QUALS

1
Orszag had children by three different women
“Peter Orszag, Just Engaged, Acknowledges New Baby with Ex-Girlfriend Claire Milonas,”
Washington Post
, January 6, 2010.

2
Young Republicans
“U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates (’65) to Address William and Mary Graduates During Commencement Exercises, May 20, 2007,” College of William and Mary, March 30, 2007,
http://bit.ly/1anYn3P
.

3
the unlikely pair
Amie Parnes, “Cabinet Members Pile on the Love,”
Politico
, October 6, 2009.

4
“the dilemma you face”
Bob Woodward,
Obama’s Wars: The Inside Story
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), p. 222.

5
McDonough confronted Holbrooke
James Mann,
The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power
(Viking: New York, 2012), accessed via excerpt on
Slate.com
.

6
McDonough shot Rothkopf a terse e-mail
Helene Cooper, “The Adviser at the Heart of National Security,”
New York Times
, July 9, 2010.

7
wrote a letter
Rajiv Chandrasekaran,
Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
(Random House: New York, 2012), pp. 1160–61 (e-book).

S
EVEN
: “W
E
D
ID
I
T
, B
UDDY

1
a nearly comprehensive ban
Larry Margasak, “Gore Employee May Have Misused Fund,” Associated Press, October 2, 1999.

2
A former adviser to both Clintons
Clinton Foundation Donor List, Fox News, December 18, 2008,
http://fxn.ws/15hpyMU
.

3
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi
Louisa Lim, “U.S. Exhibit at World Expo Opens to Mixed Reviews,” National Public Radio, May 3, 2010.

4
Chevron, General Electric, Honeywell
Frederik Balfour, “U.S. Pavilion in Shanghai Expo Confirmed,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, July 11, 2009.

5
Harman’s company gave
State Department report on Shanghai Expo, appendix XCVI.

6
Boeing, the host of her earlier session
“Clinton Appeals for Sponsorship for US Pavilion,”
China Daily
, November 16, 2009.

7
Two days before
“President Hu Visits Shanghai World Expo Park,” Chinese Government’s Official Web Portal,
http://bit.ly/1eAVuPI
.

8
The reviews were fair
John Pomfret, “Hillary Clinton Takes Break from International Issues, Visits World’s Fair in China,”
Washington Post
, May 23, 2010.

9
But Reines had sidestepped
Ben Smith, “Reines Storm: Clinton Conflict Brews,”
Politico
, March 24, 2009.

10
During a classic photo-op moment
Jill Dougherty, “Clinton Reset Button Gift Gets Lost in Translation,”
Political Ticker
, CNN, March 6, 2009.

11
One Russian newspaper
“Button Gaffe Embarrasses Clinton,” BBC News, March 7, 2009.

12
as she walked from an elevator
Ken Bazinet, “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Recuperating—Trying to Text—After Spill That Broke Her Elbow,”
New York Daily News
, June 18, 2009.

13
a two-hour early morning surgery
Mark Landler, “Clinton Will Undergo Surgery for Broken Elbow,”
New York Times
, June 18, 2009.

14
She also missed out on
Tina Brown, “Hillary, Take Off Your Burqa,”
Daily Beast
, July 13, 2009.

15
The week after her fall
Ben Smith, “Hillary Clinton Toils in the Shadows,”
Politico
, June 23, 2009.

E
IGHT
: “U
SE
M
E
L
IKE AN
A
PP

1
They had even invited him
Steven Lee Myers, “Twitter Meets Cuneiform,”
New York Times
, April 22, 2009.

2
On the very same day
Mark Landler and Brian Stelter, “Washington Taps into a Potent New Force in Diplomacy,”
New York Times
, June 16, 2009.

3
At a forum later that day
Jeffrey Gettleman, “Clinton Presents Plan to Fight Sexual Violence in Congo,”
New York Times
, August 11, 2009.

4
In January 2010
Josh Rogin, “Clinton Dines with Top Executives,”
Foreign Policy: The Cable
, January 8, 2010.

5
A few months after the dinner
John Poirier, “Tech Companies Seek Business in Syria,” Reuters, June 24, 2010.

6
But that was a smokescreen
Elise Labott, “Diplomats Blaze Uneasy Trail Along Digital Highway,” CNN, July 1, 2010.

N
INE
: O
BAMA
G
IRL

1
“The clearance and vetting”
Jill Dougherty, “Clinton: Vetting Process for Administration Jobs a Nightmare,”
Political Ticker
, CNN, July 13, 2009.

2
“It’s my secretary of state calling”
Sheryl Gay Stolberg and David M. Herszenhorn, “Bill Clinton Urges Fast Action by Senate Democrats,”
New York Times
, November 10, 2009.

3
“news watchers”
“Clarus Poll: Obama’s Inner Circle,” PR Newswire, December 16, 2009; Gallup Poll.

4
“the whole eight”
Tavis Smiley, “One on One with Hillary Clinton,”
Tavis Smiley Reports
, January 27, 2010.

5
He cut radio ads
Eric Kleefeld, “Bill Clinton Records Radio Ad for Blanche Lincoln,”
Talking Points Memo
, June 1, 2010.

6
campaign for Mark Critz
Genaro C. Armas, “Dems Keep Murtha Seat During Special Pa. Election,” Associated Press, May 19, 2010.

7
and even auctioned off
Chris Gentilviso, “Hillary Raffles Bill to Ease Campaign Debt,”
Time
, May 13, 2010.

8
Obama’s aides had tried and failed
Chris Cillizza, “Administration Officials Used Job to Try to Dissuade Senate Hopeful in Colorado,”
Washington Post
, June 3, 2010.

9
After he fired
Lloyd Grove, “Inside Obama’s Tense Meeting,”
Daily Beast
, June 23, 2010.

10
“Don’t take that picture”
“State Dinner Slip-up,” CBS Video,
http://bit.ly/bBfnFU
.

11
like a sister to her
Maggie Haberman, “Anthony Weiner Explained Self to Bill Clinton,”
Politico
, June 7, 2011.

12
Bill, embracing Chelsea
Reliable Source, “Clintons Celebrate Wedding of Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner,”
Washington Post
, July 1, 2010.

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