A Woman in Charge

  “a very strange…ideas”: Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech.

  “the one word…distrusted?”: Ibid.

  “that mutuality of…for people”: Ibid.

  “In many ways…as mine”: Clinton, Living History, p. 40.

  “My entrance into…bygone age”: Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech.

  Chapter 3: Love and War at Yale

  “both passionately share…each other”: Connie Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”

  “sharing of values…of them”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.

  “Hillary was interested…change most of the world”: Ibid.

  “ultimately Hillary…1970s”: Ibid.

  “The political…married him”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “In fact…to run”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “with Bill…zeal”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”

  “Well, first…any more women”: Clinton, Living History, p. 38.

  “We were awed…our class”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 248.

  “knew she wanted…recognition”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”

  “You had an…impressive”: Author’s interview with Peter Edelman.

  “was at war with its own people”: Clinton, Living History, p. 44.

  “This, the first issue…problems”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 28.

  “for too long…possible”: Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech.

  “were not…of people”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 28

  “the grim Connecticut…ghetto”: Ibid., p. 30.

  “University and the…Campus”: Ibid., p. 32.

  “Lawyers and Revolutionaries…Justice”: Ibid.

  “I personally…in U.S.”: Ibid., p. 30.

  “Come to New…Day”: Ibid., p. 31.

  “All power to…peace”: Ibid.

  “far more…to the left”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 92.

  “There was a…young woman”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 78.

  “Burn Yale…police state tactics”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 31.

  “the largest assemblage…witnessed”: Yale Daily News, May 2, 1970.

  “illegal and unconstitutional”: Clinton, Living History, p. 46.

  “not disruption or ‘revolution’”: Ibid.

  “the unconscionable expansion…waged”: Ibid.

  “Here we are…run us?”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 95.

  “You really…for them”: www.womenshistory.about.com.

  “starving, hungry…a person”: Mission of the Children’s Defense Fund Action Counsel.

  “Of course”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 96.

  “Women administer…politics”: http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/First_Woman_Both_Houses.htm.

  “I always liked…done”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 96.

  “a personal turning point”: Carole Bass, “Rights of Passage,” Connecticut Law Tribune, October 12, 1992.

  “I began to…play”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 98.

  “a more suitable family”: Clinton, Living History, p. 49.

  “child citizens”: Clinton, “Children Under the Law,” Harvard Educational Review, 1974.

  “believes that twelve…slavery”: Patrick Buchanan, Speech, Republican National Convention, Houston, August 17, 1992.

  “one of the…decades”: Garry Wills, “H. R. Clinton’s Case,” The New York Review of Books, Vol. 30, No. 5 (March 5, 1992).

  “I want to…children”: Clinton, “Children Under the Law.”

  “Falling in…. Clinton”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 76.'

  “was the wild…existence”: Ibid., p. 83

  “He was the…of me”: Ibid., p. 76.

  “I was afraid of us”: Ibid.

  “It is always…voice”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 232.

  “I’d never seen…on me”: Author’s interview with Nancy Bekavac.

  “While law school…a while”: Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 181.

  “One day…woman”: Ibid.

  “And Hillary came…didn’t take”: Author’s interview with Robert Reich.

  “looking more…scholar”: Clinton, Living History, p. 52.

  “little by little…acquaintance”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 100.

  “politely excused myself”: Ibid.

  “chicken coop”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 71.

  “went for a long walk…your friends”: Clinton, Living History, p. 53.

  “was much more…suggest”: Ibid.

  “I remember begin…was going”: Author’s interview with Nancy Bekavac.

  “They were very…Bill!”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 247.

  “he cared deeply…disconnected”: Ibid.

  “My response…charming”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.

  “looked like a hippie”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 248.

  “Their values are…quick”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.

  “I just liked…thing”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”

  “The Bill Clinton…the tactician”: Gergen, Eyewitness to Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 297.

  “He can astonish…surgeon”: Clinton, Living History, p. 53.

  “The reason she…McCarthy era”: Author’s interview with Robert Treuhaft.

  “two were…communists”: Ibid.

  “All I can…wasn’t”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 33.

  “at Treuhaft…California”: Clinton, Living History, p. 54.'

  “fierceness…the room”: Author’s interview with Stan Greenberg.

  “she has a…he has”: Author’s interview with Dick Morris.

  “But is that…someone?”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 263.

  “Hillary was…Mockingbird”: Ibid., p. 264.

  “We were…high-mindedness”: Author’s interview with Sara Ehrman.

  “Fearless”: Ibid.

  “I’d call it…her side”: Ibid.

  “Bill Clinton tapped…she’s free”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 85.

  “You really saved our relationship”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 277.

  “more focused…questions”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 114.

  “Bill and I talked…to Bill”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 277.

  “women were…force”: Ibid.

  “It was a nascent…world”: Ibid.

  Chapter 4: Making Arkansas Home

  “There are…infidelity”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “I never doubted…friends”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Good Marriages Are More Than a Piece of Paper,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, October 8, 1995, p. 2.

  “Yankee”: Clinton, Living History, p. 63.

  “What are you…Oh, you know…her here”: Author’s interview with Max Brantley.

  “When I learned…something”: Ibid.

  “the perfect place to live”: Clinton, My Life, p. 202.

  Clinton had always…for them: Clinton, My Life, p. 202.

  “would be a high-wire operation”: Ibid., p. 209.

  “head and…more experience”: Ibid.

  “disapproved of what…Little Rock”: Ibid., p. 211.

  “you have to…small pond”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 316.

  “besotted…light up”: Ibid., p. 313.

  “come in some…someday’”: Ibid.

  “You don’t understand…It’s not”: Author’s interview with Bernard Nussbaum.

  “She started calling…to fill”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 319.

  “I was very…women”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.

  “about broke down…miserable”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 321.

  “There were girls…our lives”: Autho
r’s interview with Betsey Wright.

  In Washington…their work”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 312.

  “Hillary came dressed…Arkansas”: Ibid., p. 317.

  “She didn’t care…great time”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 125.

  “Well, how long…you out”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 319.

  “Clinton for Congress”: Ibid., p. 320.

  “the Yankees in the Cadillac”: Ibid.

  “least [because]…wanted”: Norman King, Hillary: Her True Story (New York: Carol, 1993), p. 46.

  “But you know…not to”: Martha Sherrill, “The Rising Lawyer’s Detour to Arkansas: At Wellesley, She Found Her Calling; At Yale, She Met Her Future,” Washington Post, January 12, 1993.

  “chiefs”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 307.

  “evil”: Maraniss, Ibid., p. 310.

  “With the unexpected…a chance”: Clinton, Living History, p. 69.

  “brilliant and dazzling”: Author’s interview with Sara Ehrman.

  “You are crazy”: King, Hillary: Her True Story, p. 53.

  “at sea about…to be”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 316.

  “Why on earth…future?”: Clinton, Living History, p. 69.

  “Are you sure…no…anyway”: Ibid., p. 63.

  “My friends and…. as well”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 136.

  “I was just appalled”: Ibid., p. 137.

  “He’s not home…camping”: Clinton, Living History, p. 71.

  “She was moving…twenty”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.

  “All business”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 328.

  “If you were…laid-back”: Author’s interview with Woody Bassett.

  “unusual ability…. bottom line”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 328.

  “We walked over…impressed me”: Author’s interview with Diane Blair.

  “somebody like me…the smallest…We both…dress code”: Ibid.

  “We’d go out…ground”: Ibid.

  “There would be…done that”: Ibid.

  “There is a…insult”: Author’s interview with Max Brantley.

  Though Hillary became…walking down the road: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 335; author’s interview with Betsey Wright.

  “They would constantly…each other”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 113.

  “Send John Paul…own”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 333.

  “the Boy”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 135.

  “Our organization went…entire staff”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 335.

  “No! You don’t…[to Washington]”: Ibid., p. 336.

  “It was the goddamn money”: Ibid., p. 337.

  “oddly elated”: Author’s interview with Nancy Bekavac.

  “We know how…time”: Ibid.

  “Sit down. We sit here”: Ibid.

  “This is Australia…it’s not me”: Ibid.

  “She’s the one that…they did”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “They’re not whole…be doing”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.

  “I went into a funk”: Clinton, My Life, p. 228.

  “Well, Bill has…again”: Author’s interview with Jim Blair.

  “happier with Bill…right direction”: Clinton, Living History, p. 70.

  “Oh hell…get divorced”: Author’s interview with Jim Blair.

  “Whether I wanted…want that”: Author’s interview with Ann Henry.

  “She wouldn’t call…disrupted”: Ibid.

  “That’s right…the marriage!”: Ibid.

  “I had lost…Arkansas”: Clinton, My Life, p. 236.

  “wasn’t Mars…foolishness”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 344.

  “All we ever…argue”: Ibid., p. 342.

  “run Hillary…go”: Ibid.'

  “He was surprised…he isn’t”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.

  “pray that it’s…for me”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 119.

  “Don’t worry…support you”: Ibid., p. 120.

  “That’s not to say…found her”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “Well, I bought…by myself”: Clinton, “Good Marriages Are More than a Piece of Paper,” p. 2.

  “I really started…like her”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.

  “I think she…her heart”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.

  “holding hands…in love”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 122.

  “looking more at life…itself”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 344.

  “This will be fine”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 122.

  “Who will give…Mr. Rodham”: Clinton, Living History, p. 75.

  “It was like…district”: Author’s interview with Ann Henry.

  “Hillary Rodham will be your Waterloo”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 122.

  “a person in my own right…sacrificial wife”: Quote confirmed by Anne Henry. Appeared originally in Roger Morris, Partners in Power, p. 188.

  “significantly improve the…Arkansas”: Ernest Dumas, The Clintons of Arkansas(Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1993).

  “minimum prison sentences…office”: Ibid., p. 10.

  “fair utility…privacy”: Ibid., p. 9.

  “Character, Competence, and Concern”: Ibid.

  “she was to…to women”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.

  “a pilgrimage”: Clinton, Living History, p. 77.

  “slipped into…water”: Author’s interview with Jim Blair.

  “an insulated big town…careers”: Webb Hubbell, Friends in High Places (New York: William Morrow, 1997), p. 49.

  “she not only…here”: Author’s interview with Woody Bassett.

  “She could recite…absorbed it”: Author’s interview with Richard Stearns.

  “It was Hillary…doesn’t care”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”

  “[Vince] came back…for a job”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 46.

  “How will we…pregnant?”: Ibid., p. 50.

  The atmosphere…made her more attractive: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 81.

  “At first, she…about her”: Ibid..

  “She was on…all day”: Ibid.

  “Hillary won their…like them”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 4.

  “In our morning…to others”: Ibid., p. 53.

  “But if she…to shreds”: Ibid., p. 64.

  “The real secret…either”: Ibid., p. 65

  “rat’s ass”: Clinton, Living History, p. 80.

  “amazingly nervous”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 60.

  In December, a month…of the restaurant: Clinton, My Life, p. 246.

  “get on board early”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 351.

  “our prevailing acquisitive corporate life”: Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech.

  Even before Hillary…talked politics: James B. Stewart, Blood Sport, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 69.

  “best person”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 370.

  “I made my…trader”: Author’s interview with Jim Blair.

  “I was watching…going on”: Ibid.

  “I thought I…unreal”: Ibid.

  Finally, Hillary got…through Smith: Stewart, Bloodsport, p. 84; author’s interview with Jim Blair.

  “that all you…nation” Clinton, My Life, p. 255.

  “A short trip…graveyard”: Ibid.

  “I’d like to be…Washington”: Dick Morris, Behind the Oval Office (Los Angeles: Renaissance, 1999), p. 46.

  “She had a…politics”: Author’s interview with Dick Morris.

  Morris perceived…accomplishments”: Dick Morris, Rewriting History (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 73.

  “She has much…defensive”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”:

  “She did not do…speeches”: Ibid.

 
“People thought…name”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 81.

  Despite the name issue…for only two days: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 356.

  Frank Lady…maiden name: Clinton, My Life, p. 255.

  “the ArkoRomans”: Ibid., p. 73.

  “Talk about the…ERA!”: Clinton, My Life, p. 257

  “Okay…noted later: Ibid.

  “the 31-year-old…politics”: Howell Raines, “New Faces in Southern Politics: Women, Young and ‘Outsiders,’” New York Times, July 3, 1978, p. 4.

  “be perceived…backward”: Ibid.

  “Diamonds and Denim”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 118.

  “The whole theme…sophisticated”: Ibid.

  “Our vote was…state”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 89.

  “among the most…my life”: Clinton, Living History, p. 82.

  “Hillary was very…wife”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”

  “She thought…speak”: Ibid.

  “no concessions to…distant”: Ruth Marcus, “Now, ‘A Different Kind of First Lady,’” Washington Post, January 20, 1993, p. 20.

  “she didn’t want…irritant”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.

  “For as long as I…help them”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 359.

  “He was left…it all”: Ibid., p. 439.

  “Think about who…stage”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 133.

  “Bill was like a…advantage”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”

  “appearances were more…on”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 425.

  “a quiet humiliation” Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “I don’t think…child”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 132.

  Since very early…in Bermuda: Clinton, My Life, p. 272.

  He would have discovered…getting pregnant”: The description and footnote is taken directly from http://medpics.findlaw.com.

  “Think of a baby…tight”: Clinton; It Takes a Village, p. 8.

  Fifteen minutes…Bill to hold: Clinton, My Life, p. 273.

  “I never wanted…end”: Ibid.'

  “designated worrier”: “Clinton at Yale,” New York Times, October 14, 2001, p. 7.

  “mystified”: Clinton, Living History, p. 85.

  “Chelsea, this…we can”: Ibid.

  “We may…wise”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 375.

  “The feminist I…heroic”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 133.

  “had assumed…baby’”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 78.

  “Hillary began…due to her”: Ibid., p. 79.

  “I must say…election”: Walter Isaacson, “‘We’re Hoping That We Have Another Child,’” Time, June 3, 1996.