A Woman in Charge (100 page)

“They are peeling…issue”: John King, “While Defending Clinton, Democrats Have Whitewater Jitters,” Associated Press, March 11, 1994.

“they can't stand…attack”: Richard L. Berke. “Party Attacking Clintons' Critics,”
New York Times,
March 13, 1994, p. 25.

“to have a…reverse”: Author's interview with confidential source.

“I swear to God, it didn't happen”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 255.

“I begged him and…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 scene…before”: Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human,
p. 266.

“It's wrong that a woman…to me”: Stewart,
Blood Sport,
p. 389.

“a cheap…trick”: Ibid.

“Only after Mr. Clinton…relief”: Ibid., p. 390.

“she was begging…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 review…investigation”: Text provided by the Associated Press, June 30, 1994.

“essentially those expected…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 their…Justice”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 243.

“eat his hat”: Ibid., p. 244.

“appoint a new…remain”: Jerry Seper, “Reno Seeks a Change in Fiske's Status,”
Washington Times,
July 2, 1994. '

“It is not…conflict”: Michael J. Sniffen, “Fiske Replaced as Whitewater Prosecutor by Starr,” Associated Press, August 5, 1994.

“Western wear…problems”: Jeffrey Toobin,
A Vast Conspiracy
(New York: Random House, 1999).

“Everybody else has…done”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 270.

“Our competitiveness, our…care”: Drew,
On the Edge,
p. 302.

“Every American would…companies”: Ibid., p. 303.

“I find her…self-righteousness”: Author's interview with Bob Boorstin.

“In the very…husband”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 183.

“I am pleased…last”: Ibid., p. 184.

“I'm here as…nation”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”

“Kevorkian prescription for…women”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 185.

“Her thoughts sound…Marxists”: Ibid.

“as exciting as possible…I'm sure…“We'll do…“You and…I have…understated”: Ibid.

“Not since Eleanor…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 Clinton…solution”: Adam Clymer, “The Clinton Health Plan Is Alive on Arrival,”
New York Times,
October 3, 1993.

“It's a long…superstar”: Mary McGrory, “Capital Hillary,”
Washington Post,
October 3, 1993.

“It was, in a way…they were”: Maureen Dowd, “First Lady Takes Stage, Ending Era on the Hill,”
New York Times,
September 29, 1993.

“If Ira Magaziner…destroyed”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 186.

“My colleagues who have…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're…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 remember…happen”: Author's interview with Roger Altman.

“you to get…sit down”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 132.

“It's certainly possible…common”: Paul Richter and Edwin Chen, “Clinton, Aides Hit the Road to Push Health Care Plan,”
Los Angeles Times,
September 24, 1993.

“The Government may…all”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 205.

“The Government caps how…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 Clintons…health care reform: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 234.

“Whitewater and Health Care”: Ibid., p. 276.

“The administration, the Democrats in…Washington”: Harris,
The Survivor,
p. 149.

The decision to…buses rerouted: The account of the Reform Rider campaign is based on
The System
and
Living History,
p. 245.

“to use the…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 time…bill?”: Gergen,
Eyewitness to Power,
p. 302.

“willingness to compromise…Government”: Judy Keen, “Health-Plan Backers in GOP Targeted,”
USA Today.
June 1, 1994.

“impossible”: Ibid.

“to win conservative…1996”: Ibid.

“Foley said absolutely not…through”: Klein, “Eight Years.”

“schizophrenic”: Author's interview with confidential source.

“a creative pollster…strategist”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 251.

“how the Clintons…defeat”: Morris,
Rewriting History,
p. 96.

“This guy is terrible…crawl”: Author's interview with Robert Reich.

“she had been…'80”: Ibid.

“I cut the deficit…Arkansas”: Morris,
Rewriting History,
p. 97.

“confirmed”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 256.

“fighting to get…agenda”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 516.

“Solid South”: Ibid., p. 552.

“deflated and disappointed”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 257.

“My view is Hillary…unforgivable”: Author's interview with Lawrence O'Donnell.

“When your purpose…opposition”: Johnson and Broder,
The System,
p. 615.

“campaign-think”: Ibid.

I don't know…spiral”: Author's interview with David Gergen.

“I was profoundly…public”: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 630.

“it was a matter…that”: Author's interview with David Gergen.

“We weren't moving after…incoherent”: Author's interview with Donna Shalala.

“My friends (closest…I think…Morris replaced…deferential”: Author's interview with David Gergen.

“he pushed her…anything”: Author's interview with Dick Morris.

“she literally withdrew…staff”: Author's interview with Harold Ickes.

“She didn't trust…wicked witch”: Ibid.

“I had a…her”: Author's interview with Dick Morris.

“[A]s Clinton withdrew from…Morris”: Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human.

“To help get…loss”: Morris,
Rewriting History,
p. 98.

“I told the…weak”: Ibid.

“draft avoidance, the…prone”: Ibid.

“There was nothing…him”: Ibid.

“her outspokenness before…start sending…1970s”: Ibid., p. 99.

“miracle deck”: Marianne Williamson Web site.

“humanistic psychology”: www.jeanhouston.org.

“the Mystery School…potential”: Ibid.

“scholar…Capacities”: Ibid.

“For the Healing of America…equally”: Colleen O'Connor, “Prayers for the World: Marianne Williamson Writes About Making Amends,”
Dallas Morning News,
January 7, 1995, p. 1.

“positive…negative”: Author's interview with Jean Houston.

“low point”: Ibid.

“did the major guiding…visions”: Ibid.

“psychologist…types”: Ibid.

“experts in two…me”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 264.

He responded that…for the country: Author's interview with Jean Houston.

“He respected him…Republicans”: Ibid.

“battered…tormented”: Ibid.

“I thought about…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 put…way?”: Author's interview with Jean Houston.

“I was essentially…books”: Ibid.

“My whole life…capacity”: Joseph Berger, “Performing Séances? No, Just ‘Pushing the Membrane of the Possible,'”
New York Times,
June 25, 1996, p. 13.

“design for the…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 ‘Guru to the Glitterati' Advised Clintons,”
Washington Post,
January 11, 1995, p. 4.

“personal growth guru…thinking”: Ibid.

“lacks a sense…go”: Ibid.

“could be evaluated…mischaracterized”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 263.

“My first responsibility…to do”: Kenneth T. Walsh, “Being There for Bill,”
U.S. News & World Report,
February 27, 1995, p. 36.

“I wished I was…Department”: “First Lady to Spend 2 Weeks in S. Asia,”
USA Today,
March 20, 1995.

“some of the last…childhood”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 268.

“my conviction that…globe”: Ibid., p. 269.

“being rocketed forward…abandoned: Ibid., p. 271.

“The first lady…nuts”: Ibid., p. 287.

“Washington just can't…power”: Ann Devroy and Charles R. Babcock, “Gingrich Foresees Corruption Probe by a GOP House; Party Could Wield Subpoenas Against ‘Enemy' Administration,”
Washington Post,
October 14, 1994.

“corruption”: Ibid.

Not long before…anything better: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 367.

“You're supposed to…Presumably…But then…And I…silence”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.

“He and his mother…things”: Ibid.

“I never talked…point”: Ibid.

“In his handwriting…up'”: Ibid.

“Why did you…anymore?”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 260.

“That was in…But…What…He controls…police”: Ibid.

“David Maraniss is…up”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.

“Well, there was…that'”: Ibid.

“I felt I was…him?'”: Ibid.

“Are they coming…Yep…are”: Ibid.

“Bill Bennett, Bill…it”: Ibid.

“I ended up…since”: Ibid.

“She was mad…race”: Author's interview with Dick Morris.

“I would talk…empty”: Ibid.

Chapter 16: Truth or Consequences (2)

“not for anyone else…it”: Author's interview with Mark Fabiani.

“centralize”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 222.

“Hillary was clearly…disadvantage”: Author's interview with Mark Fabiani.

“was another iteration…changed”: Ibid.

“we talked about…it”: Ibid.

“like him very…meeting”: Ibid.

“instincts are horrible…mind”: Ibid.

“The president wasn't…her”: Ibid.

“She is so tortured…today”: Ibid.

“never seemed to…about”: Ibid.

“keep your eye…forward”: Ibid.

“very later in…McDougal”: Ibid.

“personal”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 282.

Fabiani and Sherburne…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 weaving…bored”: David Maraniss, “The Hearings End Much as They Began,”
Washington Post,
June 19, 1996.

“irrational hope that…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 happened…plot”: Ibid.

“burn bag”: Ibid.

“after a few…staff”: Ibid.

“I had assurance…covered”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.

“I had approached…embarrassing”: Ibid.

“the Tom and Daisy…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 as…sentiment”: Ibid., p. 299.

“It is a violation…. will”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1995.

“may have been…life”: “Mrs. Clinton's Unwavering Words,” editorial,
New York Times,
September 6, 1995, p. 24.