Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine (39 page)

 
24
. Kevin Hassett, “Hillary Clinton Reigns as Queen of Federal Pork,” Bloomberg, October 8, 2007, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXWIZU3DOyr4.

 
25
. Michael R. Blood, “McCain Says He’ll Fight Clinton’s ‘Pork,’” Associated Press, June 14, 2007.

 
26
. Charlie Savage, “A Donor’s Gift Soon Followed Clinton’s Help,”
New York Times
, January 3, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/washington/04clinton.html.

 
27
. Ibid.

 
28
. Leslie Wayne, “From Campaign Trail to Celebrity Circuit,”
New York Times
, April 18, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/us/from-campaign-trail-to-celebrity-circuit.html.

 
29
. Ibid.

 
30
. “Excerpts from the Deposition of L. D. Brown,” March 13, 1998, WashingtonPost.com, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/pjones/docs/brown031398.htm.

 
31
. http://lencolasullivan.com/about.html.

 
32
. Accessible on Roel P. Verseveldt’s LinkedIn profile: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/roelpverseveldt.

 
33
. Thomas M. DeFrank,
Write It When I’m Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007).

 
34
. John M. Broder and Patrick Healy, “How a Billionaire Friend of Bill Helps Him Do Good, and Well,”
New York Times
, April 23, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/nyregion/23burkle.html.

 
35
. Alisson Clark, “The Gator Behind Bill Clinton,” Gainesville.com, February 4, 2009, http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090204/MAGAZINE01/902040257.

 
36
. Alec MacGillis, “Scandal at Clinton Inc.: How Doug Band Drove a Wedge Through a Political Dynasty,”
New Republic
, September 22, 2013, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114790/how-doug-band-drove-wedge-through-clinton-dynasty.

 
37
. Ibid.

 
38
. Carol Felsenthal,
Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House
(New York: William Morrow, 2008).

 
39
. William Jefferson Clinton,
My Life
(New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 11.

 
40
. Martin Kasindorf, “Reagan’s Fall From Grace: The $2-Million Japan Tour, Nancy’s Vengeful Memoirs and Legal Battles Over the Iran-Contra Affair Have Made His Retirement Anything but Restful,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 4, 1990, http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-04/magazine/tm-2327_1_nancy-reagan-foundation.

3: Charm Offensives

  
1
. Peter Baker,
The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton
(New York: Scribner, 2000).

  
2
. Raymond Hernandez, “Not the Mrs. Clinton Washington Thought It Knew,”
New York Times
, January 24, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/24/nyregion/not-the-mrs-clinton-washington-thought-it-knew.html.

  
3
. Josh Green, “Take Two: Hillary’s Choice,”
Atlantic
, November 2006, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/11/take-two-hillarys-choice/305292/.

  
4
. Robert M. Gates,
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
(New York: Knopf, 2014).

  
5
. Josh Delreal, “Bill Clinton Recalls Lessons from Nelson Mandela,”
Politico
, December 6, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/bill-clinton-nelson-mandela-lessons-100810.html.

  
6
. “Gingrich Attacks Clinton on Lewinsky Matter, Foreign Policy,” CNN, May 18, 1998, http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/05/18/gingrich.clinton/index.html.

  
7
. Ibid.

  
8
. Baker,
The Breach
.

  
9
. Phil Gramm, “Announcement of Candidacy,” CNN, February 24, 1995, http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/republican/withdrawn/gramm.announcement.shtml.

 
10
. Hudson Union Society, “Senator Trent Lott on President Clinton,” video, YouTube, February 19, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQH24KqHYyg.

 
11
. Josh Gerstein, “Bill Clinton: Spec. Prosecutors ‘All Got Waxed,’ ”
Politico
, February 23, 2010, http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0210/Bill_Clinton_spec_prosecutors_all_got_waxed.html.

 
12
. Bill Richardson,
How to Sweet-Talk a Shark: Strategies and Stories from a Master Negotiator
(Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2013).

 
13
. Ray Paulick, “Clinton with Stronachs at Preakness: Funny Cide ‘No Fluke,’ ” Blood-Horse.com, May 17, 2003, http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/15869/clinton-with-stronachs-at-preakness-funny-cide-no-fluke.

 
14
. Robert Fife, “Rumours Abound as Clinton ‘Befriends’ Billionaire Socialite: Former U.S. President Seen Frequently with Magna CEO,”
Vancouver Sun
, CanWest News Service, June 12, 2003, p. D1.

 
15
. Patrick Healy, “For Clintons, Delicate Dance of Married and Public Lives,”
New York Times
, May 23, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/nyregion/23clintons.html.

 
16
. Ibid.

 
17
. Ibid.

 
18
. Ronald Brownstein, “Old Divides Growing in Dean, Centrist Rift,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 24, 2003, http://articles.latimes.com/2003/dec/24/nation/na-dlc24.

 
19
. Maggie Haberman, “Hillary Clinton’s Shadow Campaign,”
Politico
, January 5, 2014, http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=F9AE51A4-3E0D-4604-B08F-2E63DE4F600A.

4: Seducing the Bushes

  
1
. Tony Freemantle, “Bush, Clinton Form Unlikely Bond on Tsunami Tour,”
Houston Chronicle
, March 7, 2005, http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Bush-Clinton-form-unlikely-bond-on-tsunami-tour-1931175.php.

  
2
. Kevin Bohn, “George H. W. Bush on Bonding with Bill Clinton,” CNN, March 5, 2013, http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/05/george-h-w-bush-on-bonding-with-bill-clinton/.

  
3
. Charles Green and R. A. Zaldivar, “Bush, Clinton Trade Insults, Ignore Perot While Perot Made His Only Appearance of the Day on CNN, Bush Called the Democrats ‘Bozos,’ and Clinton Warned That the President Lacked Conviction,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, October 30, 1992, http://articles.philly.com/1992-10-30/news/25996985_1_democrat-bill-clinton-clinton-and-bush-ross-perot.

  
4
. Doro Bush Koch,
My Father, My President
(New York: Grand Central, 2006).

  
5
. George W. Bush,
Decision Points
(New York: Crown, 2010), p. 50.

  
6
. Ibid
.

  
7
. Freemantle, “Bush, Clinton Form Unlikely Bond on Tsunami Tour.”

  
8
. Barbara Bush,
A Memoir
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994), p. 457.

  
9
. Koch,
My Father, My President
.

 
10
. Herbert S. Parmet,
George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2000).

 
11
. Koch,
My Father, My President
.

 
12
. Robert Draper,
Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush
(New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 91.

 
13
. Taylor Branch,
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009).

 
14
. See, e.g., President Clinton’s Remarks at a Luncheon for Representative Patrick J. Kennedy in Barrington, Rhode Island, July 28, 2000, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=1512&st=gay&st1.

 
15
. Tom Raum, “Bush Snaps Back at Clinton Barbs,” Associated Press, August 2, 2000.

 
16
. Karl Rove,
Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2010), p. 220.

 
17
. Lanny Davis, “Book Discussion on Crisis Tales,” video, C-SPAN, April 17, 2013, http://www.c-span.org/video/?312719-1/book-discussion-crisis-tales.

 
18
. “President Bush Welcomes President Clinton and Senator Clinton,” June 14, 2004, transcript, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040614-2.html.

 
19
. Davis, “Book Discussion on Crisis Tales.”

 
20
. Simmie Knox, “Painting Clinton’s White House Portrait,” NPR, June 14, 2004, http://www.simmieknox.com/press2.asp.

 
21
. “Transcript from Portrait Unveiling Ceremony,” June 14, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40670-2004Jun14_3.html.

 
22
. Rove,
Courage and Consequence
, p. 467.

 
23
. See, e.g., Eliana Johnson, “Clinton’s Fixer,”
National Review
, May 10, 2013.

 
24
. Jonathan Lemire, “Barbara Bush Gushes About Bill Clinton, Says He Treats George H. W. Bush Like a Father,”
New York Daily News
, July 13, 2012, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/barbara-bush-gushes-bill-clinton-treats-george-h-w-bush-father-article-1.1113917.

 
25
. “Clinton Criticizes Bush’s Hitler, Lenin Analogy,” CNN, November 2, 2007.

 
26
. Patrick Gavin, “Bush: ‘Clinton and I Are Buddies,’ ”
Politico
, November 14, 2010, http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1011/bush_clinton_and_i_are_buddies.html.

 
27
. Koch,
My Father, My President
.

 
28
. Taylor Berman, “Hacker Exposes Bush Family Emails, Photos, and George W. Bush’s Amazing Self-Portraits,”
Gawker
, February 7, 2013, http://gawker.com/5982694/hacker-exposes-bush-family-emails-photos-and-george-w-bushs-amazing-self-portraits.

 
29
. Marie Loiseau, “At Georgetown, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush Urge Continued Support for Afghan Women,”
Georgetowner
, November 18, 2013.

5: Death Defiers

  
1
. Bob Herbert, “Hillary Can Run, but Can She Win?”
New York Times
, May 18, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/opinion/18herbert.html.

  
2
. Ibid.

  
3
. John F. Harris, “Policy and Politics by the Numbers; For the President, Polls Became a Defining Force in His Administration,”
Washington Post
, December 31, 2000.

  
4
. Gail Sheehy, “Hillaryland at War,”
Vanity Fair
, August 2008, http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/clinton200808.

  
5
. Mike Allen, “Clinton Told to Portray Obama as Foreign,”
Politico
, August 10, 2008, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12420.html.

  
6
. “Clinton’s Lead in Historical Perspective,” Gallup.com, October 22, 2007, http://www.gallup.com/poll/102265/clintons-lead-historical-perspective.aspx.

  
7
. Maureen Dowd, “Obama’s Big Screen Test,”
New York Times
, February 21, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/opinion/21dowd.html.

  
8
. Patrick Healy, “Clinton Deputy Campaign Manager Quits,”
New York Times
, February 12, 2008.

  
9
. Paul Steinhauser, “Poll: Obama Opens Double-Digit Lead over Clinton,” CNN, January 7, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/06/nh.poll/index.html?eref=rss_topstories.

 
10
. Ibid.

 
11
. Ed Quillen, “Are Politicians’ Kids Off-limits?”
Denver Post
, September 7, 2009, http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_10384065.

 
12
. Joshua Green, “Take Two: Hillary’s Choice,”
Atlantic
, November 1, 2006, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/11/take-two-hillarys-choice/305292/.

 
13
. Ben Smith, “Clinton Campaign Kills Negative Story,”
Politico
, September 24, 2007, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5992.html.

6: Out of Control

  
1
. John R. Emshwiller, “Bill Clinton May Get Payout of $20 Million,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 22, 2008, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB120097424021905843.

  
2
. Michael Luo, Jo Becker, and Patrick Healy, “Donors Worried by Clinton Campaign Spending,”
New York Times
, February 22, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/us/politics/22clinton.html.

  
3
. Andrea Mitchell, “Hillary’s $5 Million Loan,” NBC News, February 6, 2008, http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2008/02/06/4424720-hillarys-5-million-loan?lite.

  
4
. Peter Nicholas, “Tug of War Among Staffers Is a Drag on Clinton Candidacy,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 3, 2008, http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/03/nation/na-clintoncamp3.

  
5
. Patrick Healy, “In S. Carolina, It’s Obama vs. Clinton. That’s Bill Clinton,”
New York Times
, January 22, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/us/politics/22clinton.html.

  
6
. Jason Linkins, “
L.A. Times
Captures Clinton Camp In-Fighting, Fingers Bill, Penn,”
Huffington Post
, March 28, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/03/la-times-captures-clinton_n_89555.html.

  
7
. Jason Horowitz, “Four Key Hillary Clinton Staffers from 2008 Unlikely to Sign On for 2016 Bid,”
Washington Post
, May 19, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/four-key-hillary-clinton-staffers-from-2008-unlikely-to-sign-on-for-2016-bid/2013/05/19/c9e43908-be4a-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.html.