Unlikeable: The Problem With Hillary (20 page)

CHAPTER 6: “I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A YANKEES FAN”

During Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign
:
Alana Goodman, “The Hillary Clinton Papers: Archive of ‘Closest Friend' Paints Portrait of Ruthless First Lady,” Washington Free Beacon, February 10, 2014,
http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-hillary-papers/
.

“I know that no matter what I did”
:
Michael Kelly, “Saint Hillary,”
New York Times Magazine
, May 23, 1993,
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/23/magazine/saint-hillary.html
.

Two years later
:
Dan Friedman, “Secret Pointers Hillary Clinton Received as First Lady Revealed in Newly Released Documents,”
New York Daily News
, February 28, 2014,
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hillary-clinton-advice-likeable-secret-memos-article-1.1706886
.

“The outreach would be enormous”
:
Peter Nicholas, “Clinton Campaign's Challenge: Make Her ‘Likable,'”
Washington Wire
(blog),
Wall Street Journal
, April 12, 2015,
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/04/12/clinton-campaigns-challenge-make-her-likeable/
.

“I'm a proud woman”
:
William J. Clinton Library Archives.

In 1999, Hillary's staff sent her
:
Ibid.

“She's duplicitous”
:
Edward Klein,
The Truth about Hillary
(New York: Sentinel, 2005).

Female participants in the campaign's
:
Elizabeth Kolbert, “The Student,”
New Yorker
, October 13, 2003,
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/the-student
.

By her third year in the Senate
:
Jennifer Senior, “President and Mr. Clinton,”
New York
magazine, February 21, 2005.

“Hillary told [Obama]”
:
Robert Gates,
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
, reprint ed. (New York: Vintage, 2015).

CHAPTER 7: A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE

“Queen of All Media”
:
“Is Oprah the Queen of All Media?,” National Public Radio, transcript, May 24, 2011.

A study by two Maryland economists
:
Brian Stelter, “Oprah Worth a Million Votes to Obama?,”
New York Times
, August 11, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/business/worldbusiness/11iht-11oprah.15161325.html
.

On May 7, 1999, two of President Clinton's
:
ARMS E-mail System, William J. Clinton Presidential Library, memo dated May 7, 1999.

“People in the Clinton administration”
:
Interview with a close Oprah associate who requested anonymity.

On display in the 13,600-square-foot mansion
:
Private Wealth
, June 6, 2012.

“It's not a very big thing to say”
:
Maureen Dowd, “Obama's Big Screen Test,”
New York Times
, February 21, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/opinion/21dowd.html
.

“Americans of all political persuasions”
:
William Safire, “Blizzard of Lies,”
New York Times
, January 8, 1996,
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/08/opinion/essay-blizzard-of-lies.html
.

“Mrs. Clinton has embarked this week”
:
Patrick Healy, “After Delay, Clinton Embarks on a Likability Tour,”
New York Times
, December 19, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/us/politics/19clintons.html
.

“Maybe they just don't like me”
:
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin,
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
(New York: Harper Perennial, 2010).

“The feminist debate that raged two decades ago”
:
Timothy Noah, “The Politics of Weeping,” Slate, January 7, 2008,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2008/01/the_politics_of_weeping.html
.

“I get really tough”
:
Heilemann and Halperin,
Game Change
.

“Elizabeth Warren, I could enjoy”
:
Reid J. Epstein and Peter Nicholas, “Top Iowa Democrats Slow to Rally around Hillary,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 4, 2015,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/top-iowa-democrats-slow-to-rally-around-hillary-clinton-1420418121
.

PART III: A PANTSUIT-WEARING GLOBETROTTER

CHAPTER 8: THE PRAETORIAN GUARD

“like the capo di tutti i capi”
:
Interview with a Foreign Service officer who requested anonymity.

As the
Wall Street Journal
reported
:
Laura Meckler, “Clinton's Staff Kept Tight Rein on Documents,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 20, 2015,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clintons-state-department-staff-kept-tight-rein-on-records-1432081701
.

“Important policy papers”
:
Interview with a Foreign Service officer who requested anonymity.

“She clearly didn't think”
:
Ibid.

Jarrett wouldn't let Hillary get a word in edgewise
:
Ibid.

And she did a wicked impersonation of Bill Clinton
:
Ibid.

CHAPTER 9: SHAFTED

“I've been at State since the mid-1980s”
:
Interview with a Foreign Service officer who requested anonymity.

“I don't want to be a pantsuit-wearing globetrotter”
:
Interview with a Hillary Clinton friend who requested anonymity.

In her confrontations with Hillary
:
Susan B. Glasser, “Was Hillary Clinton a Good Secretary of State?,”
Politico
magazine, December 8, 2013,
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/was-hillary-clinton-a-good-secretary-of-state-john-kerry-2016-100766.html
.

He defined her role
:
Glenn Thrush, “John Kerry: The Un–Hillary Clinton,”
Politico
, February 21, 2013,
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/john-kerry-the-un-hillary-clinton-87891.html
.

“Don't expect to get your real marching orders”
:
Edward Klein,
Blood Feud
(Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2014).

CHAPTER 10: DOUBLE DIPPING

“extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood”
:
Frank J. Gaffney Jr., “Huma Abedin's Private Emails, Muslim Brotherhood,”
Washington Times
, March 6, 2015,
https://news.brown.edu/articles/2013/03/warcosts
.

“For all intents and purposes”
:
Annie Karni, “Hillary's Shadow,”
Politico
, July 2, 2015,
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-2016-campaign-huma-abedin-119671.html
.

CHAPTER 11: “I LOVE YOU, BILLY”

Their conversation took place
:
Interview with a State Department aide who requested anonymity.

CHAPTER 12: TOP TEN

“The Washington consensus”
:
Susan B. Glasser, “Was Hillary Clinton a Good Secretary of State?,”
Politico
, December 8, 2013,
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/was-hillary-clinton-a-good-secretary-of-state-john-kerry-2016-100766.html
.

I refused to put Boko Haram on a list
:
Adam Nossiter, “Boko Haram Militants Raped Hundreds of Female Captives in Nigeria,”
New York Times
, May 18, 2015,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/world/africa/boko-haram-militants-raped-hundreds-of-female-captives-in-nigeria.html
.

I received a report
:
Jeff Gerth and Sam Biddle, “Private Emails Reveal Ex-Clinton Aide's Secret Spy Network,” ProPublica and Gawker, March 27, 2015,
https://www.propublica.org/article/private-emails-reveal-ex-clinton-aides-secret-spy-network
.

PART IV: THE FLOODGATES OPEN

CHAPTER 13: “GET CAUGHT TRYING”

Chelsea's overbearing, I-know-better attitude
:
Richard Johnson, “Staff Quit Clinton Foundation over Chelsea,”
New York Post
, May 18, 2015.

IAC/InterActive paid Chelsea $50,000 a year
:
Amy Chozick, “Chelsea Clinton to Leave Well-Paid NBC News Job,”
New York Times
, August 29, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/30/us/politics/chelsea-clinton-to-leave-nbc-news.html
.

Business Insider calculated
:
Hunter Walker, “It Looks Like Chelsea Clinton Made $26,724 for Each Minute She Appeared on NBC,” Business Insider, June 13, 2014,
http://www.businessinsider.com/it-looks-like-chelsea-clinton-made-26724-for-each-minute-she-appeared-on-nbc-2014-6
.

“[Chelsea's assignment] raises the obvious question”
:
Michael Hiltzik, “Why Did NBC Reportedly Pay Chelsea Clinton $600,000 a Year?,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 16, 2014,
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-why-did-nbc-pay-chelsea-clinton-20140616-column.html#page=1
.

“The Clinton Foundation [has] become a sprawling”
:
Nicholas Confessore and Amy Chozick, “Unease at Clinton Foundation over Finances and Ambitions,”
New York Times
, August 13, 2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/us/politics/unease-at-clinton-foundation-over-finances-and-ambitions.html
.

“Inexcusable incompetence!”
:
Interview with a close Clinton friend who requested anonymity.

“Whenever Hillary gave Bill holy hell”
:
Interview with a source who spoke directly with Hillary.

“Bill was so rocked by their attack”
:
Ibid.

Not long afterward, Chelsea got her wish
:
Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein, “The Insider Who Opened the Door for Bill,”
New York Post
, June 21, 2015.

It was a saying
:
Heather Wilhelm, “The Clinton Family's Telling Mantra,” RealClearPolitics, May 28, 2015,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/28/clinton_familys_telling_mantra_126753.html
.

“Since marrying Chelsea”
:
Matthew Goldstein and Steve Eder, “For Clintons, a Hedge Fund in the Family,”
New York Times
, March 22, 2015,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/business/dealbook/for-clintons-a-hedge-fund-in-the-family.html
.

“Bill and Hillary were never enthusiastic”
:
Interview with a close Clinton family friend who requested anonymity.

“Rock Creek Group”
:
Goldstein and Eder, “For Clintons, a Hedge Fund.”

He lost his shirt
:
Ibid.

“Investing in Greece is stupid”
:
Author's interview with Larry Kudlow, March 26, 2015.

CHAPTER 14: IMAGINING “HILLARY 5.0”

“It is easy to forget”
:
Amy Chozick, “Campaign Casts Hillary as the Populist It Insists She Has Always Been,”
New York Times
, April 21, 2015,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/us/politics/hillary-clintons-quest-to-prove-her-populist-edge-is-as-strong-as-elizabeth-warrens.html
.

“For more than a decade”
:
Maggie Haberman, “Could Another Democrat Beat Hillary Clinton? Strategists Offer a Blueprint,”
New York Times
, March 31, 2015,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/us/politics/could-another-democrat-beat-hillary-clinton-strategists-offer-a-blueprint
.

“Given that [Hillary] has been in public life”
:
Nia-Malika Henderson, “Hillary Clinton Has Made Millions on Speeches. But She's Still Not a Great Speaker,”
Washington Post
, December 9, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/12/09/hillary-clinton-has-made-millions-on-speeches-but-shes-still-not-a-great-speaker/
.

“Her speaking style hasn't improved”
:
Sean Trende, “Why Clinton's Emails Matter,” RealClearPolitics, March 11, 2015,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/11/why_clintons_emails_matter_125899.html
.

“I decided I had enough with the camera”
:
Interview with a Clinton friend who requested anonymity.

“People familiar with Clinton's preparations”
:
Philip Rucker and Anne Gearan, “The Making of Hillary 5.0: Marketing Wizards Help Reimagine Clinton Brand,”
Washington Post
, February 21, 2015,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-making-of-hillary-50-marketing-wizards-help-reimagine-clinton-brand/2015/02/21/bfb01120-b919-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html
.

“I'm just not entirely sure”
:
Darren Samuelsohn, “Design Experts Trash Hillary Clinton's New Logo,”
Politico
, April 17, 2015,
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/design-experts-trash-hillary-clintons-new-logo-117100.html
.

Kristina Schake, Michelle Obama's former communications chief
:
Amy Chozick, “This Woman's Job Is to Recast Hillary Clinton's Image,”
New York Times
, April 3, 2015,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/style/this-woman-is-in-charge-of-shaping-hillary-clintons-image.html
.

“A reputation for disingenuousness”
:
Elizabeth Kolbert, “The Student,”
New Yorker
, October 13, 2003,
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/the-student
.

CHAPTER 15: WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA

“The same time everybody else learned it”
:
“President Obama with CBS News' Bill Plante: The Full Interview,” CBS News, March 8, 2015,
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/president-obama-with-cbs-news-bill-plante-the-full-interview/
.