A Woman in Charge (101 page)
“It kind ofâ¦issues”: Author's interview with Lissa Muscatine.
“insisten[t]”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 294.
“Foster regularly informedâ¦staff”: David Watkins draft memo, “Response to Internal White House Travel Office Management Review,” House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.
“soul-cleansingâ¦possible”: Ibid.
“hell to payâ¦wishes”: Ibid.
“There was a cover-up here”: David Johnston, “Memo Places Hillary Clinton at Core of Travel Office Case,”
New York Times,
January 5, 1996.
“distress”: Ibid.
“The White Houseâ¦discovered”: Susan Schmidt and Toni Locy, “Travel Office Memo Draws Probers' Ire; Ex-aide Contradicts Hillary Clinton on Firings,”
Washington Post,
January 5, 1996.
“troubling pattern thatâ¦Clinton”: Ibid.
“and she saysâ¦over”: Ibid., p. 298.
“Well, let's goâ¦got”: Ibid.
“Madison Guarantyâ¦History”: Ibid.
“Why would weâ¦along?”: Ibid., p. 304.
The records turnedâ¦separate days”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 301.
“confirm what weâ¦rest”: Ibid.
“[It] could haveâ¦records”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“everybody sort of thoughtâ¦her?”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“People are nervousâ¦argument”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“one of herâ¦here”: Martha Brant, “Life in Hillary Clinton's âVillage': In a Shadow of Scandals, First Lady Pursues Her Activism with Zeal of a Missionary,”
Austin American-Statesman,
January 9, 1996.
“It was aâ¦children”: Author's interview with Neel Lattimore.
“Saint or Sinner?”: Martha Brant and Evan Thomas, “First Fighter,”
Newsweek,
January 15, 1996.
“First Fighter”: Ibid.
“congenital liar”: William Safire, “Blizzard of Lies,”
New York Times,
January 8, 1996, p. 27.
“a more forcefulâ¦nose”: “Columnist Strikes Back at President: Snowballs at 40 Paces,” Associated Press, January 10, 1996.
“Mrs. Clinton, insteadâ¦questioned?”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 330.
“Oh, I ask myselfâ¦them”: Ibid.
“You know, a monthâ¦certainly”: Ibid., p. 331.
“every document we had”:
The Diane Rehm Show,
January 15, 1996.
“Oh my God, we didn't”: Ibid.
“mistaken”: Ibid.
“All the workâ¦. goods”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“something deeperâ¦work”: Richard Bernstein, “A Few Hints on Nurture from the First Lady,”
New York Times,
February 5, 1996.
“There is noâ¦children”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, “The War on America's Children,”
Newsday,
March 12, 1995.
The chapter headings: Clinton,
It Takes a Village,
pp. 128, 121, 69, 302, 20.
“strong feelings aboutâ¦quits”: Ibid., p. 43.
“We're lucky weâ¦afterwards”: Ibid., pp. 105â6.
“constructive citizenship”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“civil society”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“generational challenges”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“Raising children, likeâ¦perspectives”: Clinton,
It Takes a Village,
p. 203.
“Safety-minded parentsâ¦reach”: Ibid., p. 131.
“You know, turningâ¦community”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“Give me aâ¦friend?”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“many peopleâ¦might leave someone out”: Clinton,
It Takes a Village.
“I don't think she [Hillary],â¦extent”: Author's interview with Betsy Johnson Ebeling.
“straight out ofâ¦
Best
”: Clinton,
It Takes a Village,
p. 20.
“a visible, dailyâ¦village”: Ibid., p. 26.
“if illness orâ¦family”: Ibid.
“pitching in”: Ibid.
“The adults aroundâ¦consequences”: Ibid., p. 132.
“Parents should beâ¦accidents”: Ibid., p. 133.
“The actual writingâ¦ghostwritten'”: Barbara Feinman Todd, “Ghost Writing,”
The Writer's Chronicle,
September 2002.
“As I wasâ¦to me”:
A Book of Nonsense Verse
(New York: Little, Brown), 1973.
“I can't takeâ¦I?”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 310.
David Kendall reachedâ¦grand jury: Woodward,
Shadow.
Hillary was travelingâ¦against her: Author's interview with Melanne Verveer.
“discouraged and embarrassedâ¦retained”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 334.
The presidential electionâ¦before then: Author's interview with Mark Fabiani and confidential source.
As she prepared withâ¦an indictment: Author's interview with confidential source and Mark Fabiani. Kendall never directly told the other lawyers he believed Hillary would be indicted. Rather, Hillary confided his assessment at various points to others.
“When I sayâ¦that”: Author's interview with Mark Fabiani.
“Hillary had runâ¦this”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“It was noâ¦matter”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“Carolyn Huberâ¦important”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“This really goesâ¦on”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“The billing recordsâ¦crude”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“that she wasâ¦work”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“The biggest mistakeâ¦cared”: Author's interview with confidential source.
Her intentâand effectâ¦over and over”: Author's interview with Mark Fabiani, confidential sources; Clinton,
Living History.
“mystified”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 316.'
“after all these years”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 336.
“Some people madeâ¦forthright”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“I, like everyone elseâ¦efforts”: Francis X. Clines, “Hillary Clinton Tells Grand Jury She Cannot Account for Records,”
New York Times,
January 27, 1996.
“angry, agitated, worried”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“It was herâ¦basically”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“She became veryâ¦media”: Author's interview with Mark Fabiani.
“Starr wasn't theâ¦stuff?”: Ibid.
“Every morning atâ¦enough”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“The rest ofâ¦investigation”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“She just gotâ¦that'”: Author's interview with Mark Fabiani.
“And Kendall wasâ¦say”: Ibid.
“What she's very goodâ¦awful”: Ibid.
“went fairly far downâ¦hand”: Ibid.
“âYou can takeâ¦Go ahead'”: Ibid.
“Mostly she wasâ¦happened”: Ibid.
“Well, okay, goâ¦shake”: Ibid.
Kendall had told herâ¦stop at nothing: Author's interview with confidential sources.
“We had allâ¦nothing”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“damaged goods”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“I would meetâ¦there”: Author's interview with Dick Morris.
“There was aâ¦election”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“it was understoodâ¦it”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“Why didn't Billâ¦well”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“college night”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 340.
“push millions ofâ¦accountability”: Marian Wright Edelman, “Say No to This Welfare âReform,'”
Washington Post,
November 3, 1995.
Hillary had neverâ¦of the welfare system: Clinton,
Living History
.
“with minimal changes”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 368.
“Why should a hugeâ¦to”: Author's interview with Lynn Cutler.
“I was in favorâ¦street”: Author's interview with Carl Anthony.
“final decision meeting”: Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human,
p. 419.
“after the failureâ¦pushy”: Ibid.
“critical first step”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 369.
“principles and values”: Ibid.
“a bridge to the future”: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 723.
“brilliant engineering of Clinton's comeback”: Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human,
p. 422.
“Dick's gone badâ¦down”: Ibid.
“like a robot”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 375.
“raising our daughterâ¦And itâ¦It takesâ¦It takes Bill Clinton”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Speech, Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August 26â29, 1996.
Hubbell had beenâ¦Asian firms: Hubbell had known James Riady and his father Moctor Riady since another Rose Law Firm's partner had made an investment with the Lippo Group in the early 1980s. Upon resigning from the Justice Department and before publicly acknowledging any wrongdoing, Hubbell became a consultant to a number of clients who gave him retainers for advice on how to deal with Washington business.
“You take, you take”: Harris,
The Survivor,
p. 270.
“like a subwayâ¦gates”: Ibid.
“no one around here”: Ibid., p. 269.'
“You never feltâ¦horrors”: Author's interview with Melanne Verveer.'
“was out to get the Clintonsâ¦There's a lotâ¦But do youâ¦obvious?”:
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,
September 23, 1996.
“They were theâ¦over”: Bob Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 336. 469 “social meetings”: Ibid., p. 341.
“Here we had madeâ¦relief”: Ibid.
“unburdening”: Author's interview with Melanne Verveer.
“a real sense of liberation”: Ibid.
“I would notâ¦better”: Lois Romano, “The Win Blows in Little Rock: Dancing in the Streets for City's Favorite Son,”
Washington Post,
November 6, 1996.
“Now that I'mâ¦worst”: Author's interview with William Styron.
“this was theâ¦they did”: Ibid.
“despised”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 396.
“extreme conservatives”: Ibid.
Clinton later saidâ¦the words: Clinton,
My Life.
“You're nearly as prettyâ¦mama”: Ibid., p. 395.
Gingrich seemedâ¦she suggested: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 395.
“help shape”: Ibid., p. 380.
“about how sheâ¦years”: Author's interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin.
“felt a certainâ¦embattled”: Ibid.
“This was notâ¦covered”: Ibid.
“She thought theâ¦second term”: Ibid.
“I thought, Oh, myâ¦that”: Ibid.
“During the '92â¦goes up”: Ibid.
“She was talkingâ¦efforts”: Ibid.
“Why not getâ¦image”: Ibid.
“If theyâ¦personally”: Ibid.
“Because Eleanor wasâ¦deserved”: Ibid.
“Your departure willâ¦investigation”: Woodward,
Shadow,
p. 351.
“Deep down insideâ¦now”: Ibid.
“As Fiorelloâ¦mistakes”: Ibid.
Bill said later he didn't know: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 746.
Hillary was traumatizedâ¦a sitting president: Author's interviews with confidential sources on the Independent Counsel's staff. And Woodward,
Shadow
.
All the timeâ¦he said: Author's interview with Betsey Wright, Webb Hubbell, and confidential sources among Clinton's lawyers.
In mid-Septemberâ¦second term: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 393; confidential sources on the White House staff.
“our share of problems”: Ibid.
Chapter 17: The Longest Season
“Clinton Accusedâ¦Lie”: Susan Schmidt, Peter Baker, and Toni Locy, “Clinton
Accused of Urging Aide to Lie: Starr Probes Whether President Told Woman to
Deny Alleged Affair to Jones' Lawyers,”
Washington Post,
January 21, 1998, p. 1.
“news reports”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 440.
She also knewâ¦motivated attacks: Author's interview with Diane Blair, Jim Blair, Deborah Sale, confidential White House sources. Blumenthal,
The Clinton Wars,
p. 339; Clinton,
Living History
p, 441.
“Lewinsky imbroglio”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 441.
Later that morningâ¦his resignation: Author's interview with confidential sources.
As the pressureâ¦at stake, too: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 442, and author's interview with confidential sources.
“Well, this girlâ¦not?”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“I will never trulyâ¦day”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 441.
“why he feltâ¦stupidity”: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 774.
“When the factsâ¦understand”: Erskine Bowles testimony from Independent Counsel Report.
Around the same timeâ¦events: Clinton,
Living History;
Blumenthal,
The Clinton Wars.
But, as Clintonâ¦matter altogether: Author's interview with confidential White House sources and Clinton friends.
“You poorâ¦through”: Independent Counsel Report.
“I didn't doâ¦up”: Ibid.
“forgiveness”: Author's interview with Dick Morris.
“ashen”: Author's interview with Mark Penn.
David Kendall reached herâ¦closets: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 442.
“Absolutely”: John F. Harris, “FBI Taped Aide's Allegations: Clinton Denies Affair, Says He âDid Not Urge Anyone' to Lie,”
Washington Post,
January 22, 1998, p. 1.
